Tonight on America First: President Trump and Sen. Shelby have a deal in the works to avoid a government shutdown on Friday, Jussie Smollett and the Green New Deal are back in the news, and we discuss why Mitch McConnell is making an epic move, and why we shouldn t be too thrilled about it. America First is the number one political show in America, hosted by Nicholas J. Fuentes ( ) and hosted by Patrick J. Foy ( ), and features the host of America First, Alex Blumberg ( ), as well as host of the morning show on Good Morning America, Rachel Maddow ( ), host of MSNBC's Morning Joe, and host of CNN's "The Situation Room" with John Berman ( ), joins the show to discuss the deal, and the latest on the latest in the latest conspiracy theories surrounding the Jussie Maxwell hoax and the recent attack on the black, gay, black actor on the streets of Chicago. Subscribe to America First to get immediate access to the latest news and discuss all things political and current events, including the latest breaking news, breaking out of Washington, D.C. and around the country! Subscribe and comment below to stay up to date on all things politics and everything else going on in Washington, DC! and throughout the world of politics and social media! Thank you for listening and supporting the show! - Your continued support is so appreciated, we really means the world to us. - NANCY FUENTES and Pat and the crew are looking forward to covering all things DC, politics, business, sports, entertainment, and culture, and sports, food, and much more! P.S. Thank you so much for listening to the show, and thank you for being a good evening! -- PATREON with Pat and Pat for your support. -- Thank you to Pat for all your support and support, and your continued support. -- we really appreciate it greatly appreciated! -- P.J. -- -- -- and we appreciate it. -- THE KEEP ANGRY with all the love, support, respect, support and appreciation, and all the support, love, and respect, and appreciation. -- PAND FOLLOWING. -- - P.E. -- M.A. & P.A., KAVANA -- THE PODCAST -- - - -- & PANDORA & THEMSELVES
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00:17:21.000I am so well rested for the show tonight.
00:17:24.000Have to say the pre-show nap, it ran a little bit
00:17:28.000A little bit later than usual, alright, if you'll pardon my tardiness here, but that's alright!
00:17:34.000But that's alright, I know you guys are just sitting there with bated breath for the number one political show in America, and we've got a great show for you tonight.
00:17:45.000Pat's show, lots to discuss, lots to talk about.
00:17:48.000We're going to be getting into, of course, the border deal.
00:18:02.000Of course, we went over this in great detail last night, so we're not going to spend too much time
00:18:07.000Going over the specifics in the background tonight, we will give you a little update, but of course there is this deal in the works proposed to the president by Senator Shelby, and it is a bipartisan deal to avoid a government shutdown on Friday.
00:18:22.000Remember the money from the three-week continuing resolution passed in January to end the last government shutdown?
00:18:27.000That money runs out Friday at midnight.
00:18:30.000So in order to avert a government shutdown, a second one, second on 2019 by Friday, they're trying to pass this deal which will fully fund that one-third of the government which remains unfunded until September.
00:18:43.000And it will provide a pretty paltry, pretty sad $1.37 billion for 55 miles of wall.
00:18:50.000And so we'll get into where that stands with the President, what his other options are.
00:18:55.000I'm going to go over in this show in pretty great detail, with some specificity, what his other options are to fund the border wall outside of Congress.
00:19:04.000Because, you know, we've been talking about this for a long time.
00:19:07.000I think in not too great a detail, you know, maybe this possibility that if the Congress doesn't allocate enough money, or a significant amount of money, or a sufficient amount of money, well then maybe he could pull funds from elsewhere as the President.
00:19:21.000You know, even though the House of Representatives does have the power of the purse, they say, well, he has certain emergency powers, or certain non-emergency powers also.
00:19:31.000To pull money from the Treasury, to pull money from the Pentagon, to pull money from all kinds of other different sources.
00:20:08.000And again, we talked about this briefly yesterday, because we intended to talk about it, I think, yesterday or Monday, but obviously other things have come up.
00:20:17.000But the story went that there was this hate crime committed against a black homosexual actor from the show Empire in the North Side of Chicago.
00:20:26.000Apparently this guy gets off of a train at like 2 or 3 a.m.
00:20:29.000He gets assaulted by two white guys wearing MAGA hats with some sort of like Neo KKK intimidation tactic and it sounds about it is as about preposterous as it sounds and we'll get into some of the latest evidence and the latest scrutiny about the attack and
00:20:46.000He is going on an interview tomorrow on Good Morning America, so that ought to be interesting.
00:20:51.000We'll keep our eyes peeled for that one.
00:20:53.000And then lastly, we'll be talking about the Green New Deal, which will be headed for a vote in the Senate, thanks to Mitch McConnell.
00:21:00.000We'll explain why that's happening, why that's kind of an epic move, but also why it's a little bit insulting to the GOP.
00:21:07.000There's a good reason for why we shouldn't be too thrilled about that.
00:21:11.000This Mitch McConnell guy, he puts the Green New Deal up for a vote in the Senate.
00:21:18.000And of course the reason they do that is not because there's any chance of it passing, because of course it's a Republican controlled Senate, but the reason being that he'll have Democrats going on record as what they say about this ridiculous Green New Deal.
00:22:24.000This is a real inflection point for the administration.
00:22:27.000There's a big opportunity to turn things around and make things good, make America great again.
00:22:32.000But if we don't take that opportunity it could be a very big disaster for the administration.
00:22:39.000Perhaps some say a disaster which the administration could not recover from.
00:22:44.000That is to say if we don't put our foot down here
00:22:47.000We don't stop kicking the can down the road here and actually finally begin to construct a real physical barrier on the border, then it's dubious that Trump will win support from his base in 2020.
00:23:00.000And so the latest news is from CNN on the deal.
00:23:03.000And I'll give you a little background.
00:23:04.000Like I said, it's $1.37 billion for 55 miles of fence.
00:23:09.000That's a deal that Republicans and Democrats came together on to fund the government.
00:23:13.000And remember, we reopened the government three weeks ago.
00:23:17.000Getting no money for the border wall in doing so, but with the intention that there would be this grand bargain coming together after they had done all this bloodshed, all this bleeding, with a 35-day shutdown, federal workers being hurt, everybody's favorability ratings going down.
00:23:32.000They said, all right, enough is enough.
00:23:35.000Let's get people their back pay, and we will figure out some sort of settlement, some sort of compromise here.
00:23:42.000And to me this was a little bit confusing because the president laid out a pretty good compromise from the beginning during the shutdown.
00:23:49.000If you recall he said that he would have the 5.7 billion dollars for the border wall but he would also have a temporary three-year pause for DACA amnesty and for temporary protected status immigrants.
00:24:01.000Remember he made that opening, he initiated that compromise process by offering
00:24:08.000Pretty significant concessions to the Democrats in the way of, not amnesty per se, but in protecting so-called undocumented people.
00:24:17.000You've got everybody from illegals who are violent criminals all the way to children of illegals who, you know, have to apply and there's some, there are some standards for those programs.
00:24:28.000So they were not insignificant concessions that were made, but the Democrats said, nope,
00:24:32.000We're not giving anything substantial on the border.
00:24:35.000So it's pretty interesting why we came down from that and how we arrived here.
00:25:24.000This funds the government through to September.
00:25:29.000So the next opportunity that we'll have, the next opportunity we will have to leverage the House of Representatives, and I think really there are few opportunities outside of these fiscal battles, outside of the appropriations process,
00:25:59.000So that's the only time when we can really pressure and leverage them is when the government shutdown is looming, when federal workers are going to start hurting, or welfare recipients, and so on.
00:26:09.000So, hypothetically speaking, if the deal passes, there are few opportunities where we'll have really a lot of leverage to make the House pass anything with border money until September.
00:26:32.000At that rate of 55 miles per every government shutdown, at that rate of 55 miles per every opportunity that we take to force the issue, you're not going to get this thing done until 2060.
00:26:43.000You're not going to get this thing done until a century later.
00:26:51.000It's a good thing that he got any money at all because some say, well, the Democrats and their base are saying that it's a betrayal by Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, that they would allow a single dollar to go towards border security.
00:27:04.000And while there might be some truth in that, that really is little consolation for us because we need the border wall completed.
00:27:20.000CNN has reported today, and this is the latest that we have as of about three hours ago, the report reads, quote, President Donald Trump intends to sign the border security deal to avoid another partial government shutdown, according to two sources who have spoken directly with the president.
00:29:08.000My guess, my prediction is he'll probably sign it, but it's not outside the realm of possibility that he actually doesn't sign it, because we've seen a lot of scenarios basically exactly like this, almost identical to this scenario as recently as December.
00:29:30.000Where it came out that he was going to sign some terrible, asymmetrical, one-sided deal and then he just didn't and it turned out it was a total lie.
00:29:38.000We saw that, I believe it was in September or October of 2017.
00:29:43.000There was a report that came out from the office of Chuck Schumer after he and Nancy Pelosi and Trump had a private meeting.
00:29:50.000There was this memorandum that came down that said Trump is going to protect DACA amnesty through congressional legislation, even though it was a Republican-controlled House and Senate, and he was seeking nothing in exchange for that.
00:30:05.000He's going to completely cave on DACA, even though he just rescinded it about a month earlier.
00:30:11.000He's going to protect that with congressional law, and he expects no wall money, no immigration reform, and it turned out to be a total lie.
00:30:17.000Within 48 hours, they said, oh, that's just simply not true.
00:30:21.000In January last year, when there was a government shutdown for, I think, two or three days, it took place over the weekend.
00:30:52.000And everybody said, oh, Amnesty Don, he's going to give away total DACA amnesty and all this other stuff for just $1.6 billion in wall funding.
00:31:03.000In December, two days before the shutdown, the Washington Post, if you remember this, if you have a good memory like I do, the Washington Post ran a headline saying Trump is offering $2 billion to avert a government shutdown.
00:31:16.000And he ended up not signing that, even though they put that bill on his desk.
00:31:19.000It got all the way through to the Senate.
00:31:22.000I think this time is a little bit different.
00:31:24.000I think this time it's probably more likely that he signs it because it appears that the White House and the Congress, both parties, don't want another government shutdown.
00:31:34.000But now what remains to be seen is if he signs it or if he doesn't sign it, what is he going to do to supplement the money?
00:31:41.000Or if there is no money, what is he going to do to take action independently from Congress?
00:31:46.000And he has a number of options here and I'll read them off to you here.
00:31:50.000There is one element of the law called USC 2808 where he would be able to gain access to military construction funds and he would be able to access 3.6 billion dollars.
00:32:04.000Uh, from the military, from the Department of Defense.
00:32:07.000That is using Section 2808 of the law.
00:32:10.000And so, that would be a sizable amount of money.
00:33:31.000I would imagine that if that were the case, if he could really do that, and it was so clean and so easy, he would have done that from the get-go.
00:33:47.000And Darren Beatty said as much, and he was in the White House, he tweeted out today that, you know, a lot of people have been talking about the military emergency option, the national emergency option, but that would probably go nowhere.
00:33:59.000And I've heard similar stories from other White House officials that say, yeah.
00:34:03.000The legal challenges from everywhere, from the Democrats, from the judiciary, from property owners on the border, it would be so obstructive that you probably wouldn't have a good shot of getting the wall built with this money anyway.
00:34:16.000So there's 6.6 billion dollars in a national emergency declaration, again using those two laws, but it's dubious if that would ever be able to get built, if that would see the light of day.
00:34:28.000Now the two measures that he could use that are not using a state of emergency
00:35:26.000And then the last option that he could use is Axis Treasury forfeiture funds, which would be $680 million.
00:35:32.000And again, no national emergency for that either.
00:35:35.000So you round all that together, you'd probably end up with something like $4.5 billion with non-emergency.
00:35:43.000Altogether, something like $10.5 billion with non-emergency, emergency and the deal.
00:35:48.000Uh, but it would probably look closer to that 4.5 because they say the emergency money wouldn't go anywhere.
00:35:53.000And I have to say, look, if we get 1.375 from the Congress, and, and as I said yesterday, if it is signed tomorrow into law, or, you know, by the deadline, by Friday, I don't know if it'll happen tomorrow, or if it'll happen Friday, or if it'll shut down briefly like it did last February,
00:36:11.000But if it is signed into law one after the other, okay, I'm signing 1.375 and I know this isn't what we wanted, but here I've got these other supplemental measures and maybe he does the emergency funds just as a smokescreen, just as, you know, something additional, just so, you know, it gives the appearance that more is happening than there is.
00:36:30.000Then I would say this is an acceptable deal.
00:36:32.000I would say, by all means, sign the bill, get as much money as you can.
00:36:37.000But the problem for me is in the event that he signs a bill and we just kick the can down the road with the state of emergency or the other funds because the executive action many many times throughout the last two and a half years and it never materializes.
00:36:49.000I expressed a lot of doubt about this last night and I stand by my position.
00:36:55.000The president in the administration does not suggest that there's a strong likelihood that the president is really going to come out there strongly with executive action.
00:37:17.000Is it because they're afraid of legal challenges and they're anticipating, you know, a court like the Ninth Circuit just shutting it down and it getting delayed in court for a year?
00:38:10.000And again, that's out of Trump's control.
00:38:12.000But instead of him fighting them, instead of even any kind of fight being put up, he's trying to just sort of finesse definitions and, you know, make all these semantic arguments about, oh, the wall's actually being built and fences wall and we'll just completely liberalize what our definition of a wall is.
00:38:59.000Their record hasn't been really stellar, I gotta be honest, since those two have been put on the court.
00:39:04.000So I don't think anybody would blame him for that if there was some effort being made in the way of presidential action, but it just isn't.
00:39:13.000So that's what's gotta happen for us to continue to be satisfied, because those excuses only go so far.
00:39:17.000Okay, you know, the Congress don't give you the money, but at a certain point, we have to put our foot down.
00:40:14.000I don't know if we can expect that though.
00:40:15.000I would say that if we're being practical the best case scenario is 10 billion and maybe five of that doesn't actually work out or six because the emergency funds don't go anywhere but at least we get four right and at least there's you know if we get four billion dollars
00:40:50.000We would like all 1,000, but there are practical considerations.
00:40:53.000If he gets that much, I would say that's a win.
00:40:55.000You know, I think as long as he breaks ground before 2020, as long as he can say there's hundreds of miles, I think we're in good shape, right?
00:41:02.000So that's where we're at with the border deal.
00:41:41.000That's to me the most ridiculous part of the whole story because the crux of his story, and again he says, this is according to, I believe this is according to the New York Post, Smollett told police on January 29th
00:41:55.000that he was walking in the 300 block of East North Water Street at about 2 a.m.
00:42:01.000when two people walked up to him, yelled slurs like anti-gay slurs, anti-black slurs, hit him in the face, poured what is suspected to be bleach on him, and then put a thin light rope around his neck and they yelled, this is MAGA country.
00:42:16.000And to me, the crux of the story, the most ridiculous part is
00:42:20.000You've got white people and they know what the show Empire is, they know who Jussie Smollett is.
00:42:25.000That's the most ridiculous part to me.
00:42:27.000Maybe, you know, Chicago, okay, it's a city that's pretty segregated, but you've got some racists there.
00:42:34.000Certainly, you've got some based in Redfield people out there, as we like to say in the business.
00:42:38.000So maybe, maybe we'll entertain this idea that you've got, you know, this gang of MAGA terrorists, racial terrorists roaming the streets looking for people to beat up at 2 a.m.
00:42:49.000And remember, this is also a week where it was like sub-zero temperatures the whole time, so what are they doing hanging out at night on a weekday?
00:42:59.000But to me, the crux of the story is, it's 2 a.m.
00:43:02.000and they're like, oh hey, there's Jussie Smollett from Empire!
00:43:06.000Hey, there's that gay actor from that show Empire, from the hit CBS, I don't know what network it's on, from that hit network television show Empire.
00:43:14.000That's the part that, to me, I just don't buy.
00:43:16.000If I'm walking down the street, I don't recognize Jussie Smollett.
00:43:20.000Does anybody who voted for Donald Trump watch the show Empire except for like Diamond and Silk?
00:43:27.000Or, you know, that pastor that always seems to be hanging around, or Sheriff Michael, whatever.
00:43:32.000I don't think anybody else is watching that show.
00:43:35.000So to me, that's the most outrageous part.
00:44:00.000I think I was the first person, one of the only people to put content out about this being a hoax.
00:44:06.000Because at this point, when anybody reports a hate crime, my immediate assumption is that it's a hoax.
00:44:11.000Because every, I think just about every single time you see a hate crime in this country, for the most part, I'm not going to say it's every time because there are some legitimate ones, but just about every single time it turns out to be
00:44:22.000A member of that group, which they purport to be a victim of a hate crime, committing the hate crime in an attempt to solicit sympathy, or money, or attention, or they want to get on television.
00:44:32.000We saw in, I think it was 2017 or 2018, there was a string of bomb threats that were called in.
00:44:54.000And this is the talking point, that this was Trump country, that Holocaust memorials were being desecrated and defaced, and Jewish cemeteries were being attacked, and then they found out that the people placing all these calls, calling in bomb threats to the Jewish daycares and community centers and whatever, was actually a Jewish guy in Israel!
00:45:13.000It was actually a Jewish guy in Israel calling all these in.
00:45:18.000The Jewish cemetery smashed to pieces.
00:45:20.000Another case, Jewish people who did it.
00:45:22.000You know, they talk about swastikas being spray-painted on buildings or synagogues.
00:45:26.000It's always Jewish people, it's always blacks, or you know, whatever group it is.
00:45:30.000There was a report of a hate crime, I think it was in Minnesota, or maybe it was in Canada, but the hate crime was that this girl was wearing a hijab, and two white Trump supporters ran up to her, ripped her hijab off, and they yelled, MAGA!
00:46:52.000Half the people are gay and the other half are black.
00:46:55.000A patron at Lizzie McNeil's Irish Pub, which is about a block away from the scene of the incident, said Smollett's story, quote, doesn't really make sense.
00:47:04.000It's a lie because Chicago is the most liberal city around, said the man.
00:47:11.000And that's to me another piece of the puzzle here.
00:47:13.000This is something that came out even immediately after the attack.
00:47:16.000Chicago's got cameras everywhere, of course.
00:47:18.000And especially in the wealthier neighborhoods, especially in the downtown areas.
00:47:23.000If you've ever been there, they've got cameras everywhere.
00:47:25.000And the reason being is because they don't mess around when it comes to the rich people.
00:47:28.000You know, if people want to shoot and kill each other in the South Side or in the West Side, eh, well, okay.
00:47:35.000But if people are causing a ruckus on the Gold Coast, if people are causing a ruckus where there's high-rent real estate, where there's, you know...
00:47:43.000Big expensive shops and condominiums and things like that.
00:47:48.000And if you know in Chicago, you know that.
00:47:49.000You know that, relatively speaking, if you don't hang around the L, anywhere where there's a transportation hub, because there still are people hanging around saying, Oh, could you buy me a train ticket or something?
00:47:59.000I've gotten shaken down a lot like that.
00:48:02.000But you know that they don't play around when it comes to the wealthier neighborhoods.
00:48:16.000And all the people in the neighborhood said it didn't happen.
00:48:18.000And then the other piece of the puzzle, the other evidence, the only evidence that he had, aside from his own personal account, there's no footage, there's no anything else.
00:48:27.000But he said that he was on the phone with his manager at the time of the attack.
00:48:30.000And his manager said, oh, I heard the whole thing.
00:48:32.000I heard the MAGA country, and I heard the whole attack and everything.
00:48:39.000You know, if you say your only evidence, the only evidence outside of your personal account is that, well, oh, you're on the phone with somebody, and they heard the whole attack, well, that's great.
00:48:50.000That means that there are records that exist to corroborate your story.
00:49:07.000So this is according to another source.
00:49:08.000It says, quote, the actor said he was on the phone with his manager at the time of the attack.
00:49:12.000His manager said that he could hear the attack and was able to hear the phrase, quote, MAGA country, the acronym for President Trump's Make America Great Again slogan.
00:49:20.000On Monday, he gave the police redacted phone records.
00:49:24.000He has declined to turn over his phone.
00:50:21.000Well, if there's so much white privilege going around, why did Elizabeth Warren lie her whole life and say she was Native American?
00:50:28.000If she got all these benefits from being white, why did she hurt herself?
00:50:32.000Why did she take away from and detract from her opportunities, her privileges, the luxuries she could have of being white by identifying as Native American?
00:51:53.000You know, and I live in an area 93% white.
00:51:57.000So, of course, the reason that he called himself that is because if you sound like a minority, you get certain privileges that other people don't.
00:52:04.000And look around on television, the way you could talk about white people.
00:52:07.000Versus the way you could talk about black people.
00:52:10.000It seems to me that black people are afforded all kinds of privileges that white people aren't.
00:52:36.000But for white people, we don't really get allowed that.
00:52:39.000Whenever white people try to be masculine, whenever white men in particular try to capture those traditional masculine virtue strengths to some degree, a little bit of sexism, I think, is in order.
00:52:52.000And the people that are paraded around among white men are homosexuals, people that wear makeup, people that smoke pot, people that are stoned all the time, people that are like, oh, I'm just a stupid, fat, retarded white person.
00:53:04.000So you get all these different privileges they all come together and we've heard this all before we've heard all the the usual stuff the double standards for white people but of course this is just one other component in the larger narrative which is a total lie and and the other double standard here is not just the white versus black but that black people are at once
00:53:22.000The underdog, but at the same time, they're totally in power.
00:53:25.000So you'll have, for example, Kenan Thompson, and he'll go on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and I like Kenan Thompson.
00:53:32.000He's less political than most other people.
00:53:34.000I don't know how many of you guys saw this.
00:53:36.000But this was the same week as the Jussie Smollett hoax, and this guy, Kenan Thompson, black actor on SNL, he goes on Jimmy Fallon, and before the interview gets started, he says, oh, I just want to say we're praying for Jussie Smollett.
00:53:48.000It's terrible that this is happening in America.
00:53:55.000This is what cultural hegemony looks like, when this is an obviously nonsensical story.
00:54:01.000If anybody made the analogous story on the right, like if a MAGA supporter said,
00:54:06.000You know, that they were in... I was in Louisville, Kentucky or, you know, I was in some rich white neighborhood and then this black guy in a Hillary Clinton t-shirt came up to me at 2 a.m.
00:54:18.000I guess it'd be more believable if you look at these statistics, but they ran up to me at 2 a.m.
00:56:10.000And even in Chicago, I guess it's even better that this so-called hate crime happened in Chicago, because they will totally sweep under the rug the obvious and legitimate real violence happening, which is being done by non-whites, and they will scrap that in favor of a narrative about one outstanding, exceptional issue, which is so fantastical it's obviously untrue, whereas a white person committing violence.
00:57:37.000Insane taxes, putting people out of jobs in all these important states.
00:57:41.000You know, it'll be difficult to win over Rust Belt states, states that are reliant on energy.
00:57:46.000You know, even places like Texas, if they hope to pull Texas, and they've been talking about that since 2016, when they said, oh, you know, Texas is a battleground state.
00:57:54.000It's gonna be tough to win Texas if you're talking about getting rid of oil and getting rid of coal and natural gas.
00:57:59.000And it'll be tough to win a lot of these states that Trump was able to flip in 2016.
00:58:04.000They're trying to get them on record for this, and I think that's a good maneuver.
00:58:07.000But to me, and I alluded to this again at the top of the show, what's insulting about this is obviously they know about this kind of a strategy.
00:58:17.000You put up a bill in front of the Senate, and the goal is maybe not necessarily to get it passed, but to pressure people to vote a certain way, to force them to make a tough decision, to alienate somebody.
00:58:28.000Now what they should have done was to do this with the wall money before the midterms.
00:58:34.000Everybody was talking about this in September when we were running out of government money and everybody said put the wall to a vote before the midterms.
00:58:42.000Because what this does is it forces everybody in the Republican caucus to say, are you strong in immigration or are you not?
00:58:50.000Of course, what happens is, if they're strong on immigration, well then we get the border wall, right?
00:58:55.000We get significant legislation passed under that kind of pressure.
00:58:58.000If they don't, well then, they're gonna have a hard time in 2018.
00:59:02.000That means they're gonna get killed, they're gonna get attack ads run against them, the president will campaign against them, and they'll probably lose re-election.
00:59:10.000They go with the former, and they vote for it, even though their donors, even though the people behind them don't support it.
00:59:14.000But this just speaks to how profoundly corrupt the Congress is.
00:59:17.000Mitch McConnell would never put a bill like that to the floor, that actually was one of those votes where it showed where people stand on the issue, because he knows that nobody would pass the smell test on that one.
00:59:28.000He knows that it would be a very tough decision for a lot of these people to vote, either with the people or with the voters, or rather with the donors.
00:59:36.000He knows that probably most of them, people like Rubio, others, they would go with the donors.
00:59:40.000And so I think I see something like that, and it's like, yeah, that's really great, Mitch.
01:00:30.000I don't think that's what compartmentalizing means.
01:00:51.000To me, compartmentalizing means, at least in politics, it means having sort of inconsistent positions on different issues.
01:00:58.000You know, if you compartmentalize one issue, it doesn't have ideological consistency with another.
01:01:03.000And a lot of people sort of form these hodgepodge opinions where they're like, well, I'm fiscally conservative but socially liberal.
01:01:10.000Or, you know, they support some positions that, you know, they think it's like, I just have this diverse opinion, I'm actually right down the middle, when in actuality it's just like, no, you just have no idea what you're talking about.
01:01:21.000You know, your opinion is based on a very cursory analysis of, you know, news articles that are probably three or four degrees of separation away from an actual scholar, philosopher, thinker, anything like that.
01:01:49.000So I've done that a lot of times when I talk to
01:01:52.000People who are more liberal, people who are resistant to having their minds changed.
01:01:56.000You know, I'll start out very moderate and agree even on things that I don't agree with for the sake of, you know, getting people on board with the general principle as opposed to getting them 100% on everything.
01:02:07.000You know, for example, we look at Jewish power.
01:02:09.000This is a tough thing for a lot of people to talk about.
01:02:12.000If you get people on Israel, well that's a great thing to talk about because it's so obvious what's happening there.
01:02:17.000You don't have to get them to agree to understand what's happening everywhere else with the lobby that is not totally the Zionist lobby, but some might describe it as the Jewish lobby, but you get them started on Zionism and then, okay, at least we have a start there.
01:02:33.000At least that's, you know, we have a foundation there.
01:03:35.000How could you be right-wing conservative in any sense of the word if you believe in such a ridiculous governing principle that we are not a nation but a union of states?
01:03:46.000Who among us can say that they would prefer a loose confederation of independent localities as opposed to a strong nation?
01:08:24.000I think people are starting to understand that because Steve Bannon, I think he understood the score about economic nationalism and about immigration.
01:08:32.000And we now just have one less fighter on the populist America First agenda in the White House.
01:08:38.000The only person we have really that I can think of is Stephen Miller.
01:09:28.000Nobody's... Maybe that sounds defeatist, maybe that sounds nihilistic, but, you know, well, things have to change, things better... You know, people get online and they get real bent out of shape.
01:09:38.000They get real militant, posting online, this has got to stop!
01:11:31.000They said it would come to an end before the election and then they said it would come to an end immediately after the election and now it's February and it's been going on now for well over two years and just when is it going to stop?
01:11:45.000How many resources are going to be expended?
01:11:47.000They already found in all the major reports have been compiled by the House Committee, by the Senate Committee, they found there was no evidence of collusion so what's the holdup?
01:12:56.000I'm sure it's well-intentioned, but you've just got to understand the kind of position I'm in.
01:13:01.000When strangers message me off the internet and they're just like, hey, let's hang out.
01:13:07.000Do you understand why I might say, well, is that a great idea?
01:13:11.000Is that the best thing for me to be doing?
01:13:13.000I come on the air and I talk about Israel and I talk about all this other stuff and people are like, wow, great points about the most powerful lobby.
01:13:22.000Great critique about the most powerful lobby in the history of America.
01:14:18.000I thought Jay Leno was sort of the best.
01:14:20.000I didn't like him when I was a kid, because I thought he was kind of cheesy and lame, but now I miss him.
01:14:25.000Now I think he was really one of the last great ones, because he was just... I mean, he was political, but when he was political, he was fair.
01:14:31.000He would hit both sides, and it was not...
01:15:45.000We had just had the slinger and we were so full and sort of delirious and then we saw this guy and we said, all right, Liam Neeson, you got the bleach.
01:17:50.000I think he tried to consolidate support in the party on the more establishment agenda items first and then pursue the more controversial ones later on.
01:17:58.000I think he was led to believe that'd be a good idea by the Congress and by his own personnel which was selected by the RNC during the transition in 2016 and 2017.
01:18:09.000That's my belief, why it took him so long.
01:18:12.000John Smith says, thoughts on Hungary's new pro-family laws.
01:19:14.000Again, a lot of these same people say, oh, Marx was... Marx was actually epic, or were more Knosbel, or whatever, and then there's just, oh, Lincoln was a pen pal of Marx.
01:20:26.000Future Gadget says, would love for you to read Father Dennis Fay's book, The Kingship of Christ and the Conversion of the Jewish Nation, and discuss it on the show.
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