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00:04:20.000Swarming on everybody who dared to approach.
00:05:10.000And people don't realize what they have.
00:05:16.000And then nowadays, I am so upset that the things we did and the things we fought for and the boys that died for us, it's all gone down the drain.
00:05:29.000Our country's gone to hell in a handbasket.
00:05:35.000We haven't got the country we had when I was raised, not at all.
00:07:13.000This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
00:07:18.000We're being slowly poisoned and in some cases quickly murdered and assassinated.
00:07:25.000And we're killing ourselves every day, inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
00:07:32.000People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.
00:07:40.000People have got to start to get courageous.
00:07:43.000And this is the time for everybody to turn and look to God.
00:07:48.000And to pray and to ask for strength and to ask for wisdom to get through this time and to transform and sanctify this country.
00:07:57.000And the alternative is that there will be no country.
00:08:00.000Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
00:08:04.000Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
00:08:11.000It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.
00:08:15.000It's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.
00:08:44.000My own narrative is not one of some sudden, booming bolt of lightning out of the blue.
00:08:50.000It was a slow and steady, unrelenting stream of blips and blinks, glimmers and glares, low beams and high beams of light, some of which I did not want to see.
00:09:04.000And then finally, a point of no return reckoning.
00:09:14.000I think it was because I fiercely came out during the Greupel Wars of 2019 when so many of these brave young men were on college campuses challenging the likes of Zio Schill, Dan Crenshaw, questioning him about his undying loyalty and, of course,
00:09:30.000defending Nick Fuentes and so many of the stars of the burgeoning America First movement who, through an increasing amount of activism, are really going to ensure the future and the success of that movement.
00:09:44.000America is a nation of believers, dreamers, and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics, and cynics.
00:09:56.000These interests have rigged our political and economic system for their exclusive benefit.
00:14:51.000Because if there are thousands and millions and tens of millions and hundreds of millions of Christians ready to meet their final destiny, then nothing can stop us and nothing will.
00:15:17.000The more that a broken system tells you that you're wrong, the more certain you should be that you must keep pushing ahead.
00:15:28.000Because it's the outsiders who change the world and who make a real and lasting difference.
00:26:11.000Years from now, some of them may look back and ask themselves whether they've made the right choice, whether they've made the most of the opportunities they've been given.
00:29:32.000Today, each of you begins a new chapter as well.
00:29:37.000When your story goes from here, it will be defined by your vision, your perseverance, and your grit You will build a future where we have the courage to chase our dreams no matter what the cynics and the doubters have to say.
00:29:56.000You will have the confidence to speak the hopes in your hearts and to express the love that stirs your souls.
00:30:05.000As long as you have pride in your beliefs, courage in your convictions, and faith in God, Then you will not fail.
00:30:17.000As long as America remains true to its values, loyal to its citizens, and devoted to its creator, then our best days are yet to come.
00:31:07.000May God bless the United States of America.
00:31:11.000And I just want to let you know that God blesses you.
00:31:16.000And I want to just say you are special in every way.
00:31:35.000Can I just say, are you trusting Brian?
00:31:53.000Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American people.
00:32:04.000The Washington establishment and the financial and media corporations that fund it exist for only one reason, to protect and enrich itself.
00:32:15.000The establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election.
00:32:19.000For those who control the levers of power in Washington, and for the global special interest, they partner with these people that don't have your good in mind.
00:32:30.000Our campaign represents a true existential threat, like they haven't seen before.
00:32:38.000This is not simply another four-year election.
00:32:41.000This is a crossroads in the history of our civilization that will determine whether or not we the people reclaim control over our government.
00:32:53.000The political establishment That is trying to stop us is the same group responsible for our disastrous trade deals, massive illegal immigration, and economic and foreign policies that have bled our country dry.
00:33:12.000The political establishment has brought about the destruction of our factories and our jobs as they flee to Mexico, China, and other countries all around the world.
00:33:23.000It's a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth, and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities.
00:33:41.000This is a struggle for the survival of our nation and this will be our last chance to save it.
00:33:49.000This election will determine whether we're a free nation or whether we have only the illusion of democracy but are in fact controlled by a small handful of global special interests rigging the system and our system is rigged.
00:34:46.000You've been put on notice, if you fuck around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before.
00:37:22.000As long as we are led by politicians who will not put America first, then we can be assured that other nations will not treat America with respect,
00:41:39.000The more that a broken system tells you that you're wrong the more certain you should be that you must keep pushing ahead Because it's the outsiders who change the world and who make a real and lasting difference.
00:43:16.000My own narrative is not one of some sudden, looming bolt of lightning out of the blue.
00:43:21.000It was a slow and steady, unrelenting stream of blips and blinks, glimmers and glares, low beams and high beams of light, some of which I did not want to see.
00:43:36.000And then finally, a point of no return reckoning.
00:43:46.000I think it was because I fiercely came out during the Greupel Wars of 2019 when so many of these brave young men were on college campuses challenging the likes of Zio Schill, Dan Crenshaw, questioning him about his undying loyalty and, of course,
00:44:01.000defending Nick Fuentes and so many of the stars of the burgeoning America First movement who, through an increasing amount of activism, are really going to ensure the future and the success of that movement.
00:49:03.000And yes, together, we will make America great again.
00:49:12.000Why wouldn't you dedicate yourself to public service?
00:49:16.000Because I think it's a very mean life.
00:49:17.000I would love and I would dedicate my life to this country, but I see it as being a mean life.
00:49:23.000And I also see it as somebody with strong views.
00:49:26.000And somebody with the kind of views that are maybe a little bit unpopular, which may be right, but may be unpopular, wouldn't necessarily have a chance of getting elected against somebody with no great brain but a big smile.
00:49:38.000And that's a sad commentary for the political process.
00:55:21.000Warming on everybody who dared to oppose.
00:56:10.000And people don't realize what they have.
00:56:16.000And then nowadays, I am so upset that the things we did and the things we fought for and the boys that died for us, it's all gone down the drain.
00:56:30.000Our country's gone to hell in a handbasket.
00:56:35.000We haven't got the country we had when I was raised, not at all.
00:58:14.000This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
00:58:18.000We're being slowly poisoned and, in some cases, quickly murdered and assassinated.
00:58:25.000And we're killing ourselves every day, inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
00:58:32.000People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience.
00:58:38.000And tell the truth and do the right thing.
00:58:40.000People have got to start to get courageous.
00:58:43.000And this is the time for everybody to turn and look to God and to pray and to ask for strength and to ask for wisdom to get through this time and to transform and sanctify this country.
00:58:57.000And the alternative is that there will be no country.
00:59:01.000Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
00:59:05.000Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
00:59:11.000It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.
00:59:15.000It's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.
00:59:45.000My own narrative is not one of some sudden, looming bolt of lightning out of the blue.
00:59:50.000It was a slow and steady, unrelenting stream of blips and blinks, glimmers and glares, low beams and high beams of light, some of which I did not want to see.
01:00:05.000And then finally, a point of no return reckoning.
01:08:57.000And he has withdrawn his name from the running, And not only will he not be the Attorney General, even though he's eligible, he will also no longer be returning to Congress.
01:09:13.000And we'll talk about the details on that, because there's some speculation.
01:10:50.000He couldn't get the votes in the Republican-controlled Senate that has a 53-vote majority with the tiebreaker which comes from Vance.
01:11:02.000So technically it's like a 54-vote majority.
01:11:07.000And Gates, after Trump won with this unbelievable mandate, a landslide election, and the popular vote, Trump couldn't get the Attorney General confirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate.
01:11:25.000That tells you everything you need to know.
01:11:28.000And so for all these people that thought Trump was going to win this election, and now suddenly the rules are different, for anybody that thought that Trump is unchained, that Trump is going to come in and things will be different this time,
01:16:33.000And then they said, well, he'll adjourn Congress under Article 2 of the Constitution or Article 3. He will adjourn Congress and force a recess.
01:20:12.000Either way, I don't think she's going to make a difference.
01:20:16.000But Gates, as Attorney General, I mean, that really could have been a big deal, and that really, I think, would have been a good, excuse me, a good selection.
01:20:27.000And it got just ripped away, ripped right out of your hands.
01:21:03.000We're going to talk about Gates and the whole situation.
01:21:07.000I think it was actually clear from the very beginning exactly how this was going to wind up.
01:21:13.000The day that he was nominated and resigned, it was very clear this was the trajectory.
01:21:20.000So anyway, so we'll talk all about that.
01:21:23.000We'll also be talking tonight about the International Criminal Court and their arrest warrant they have issued for the Prime Minister of Israel, Bibi Netanyahu, and the former Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant.
01:21:38.000Sort of interesting, you know, these guys, they can't fly to the United States anymore.
01:21:45.000I read this, that now that there's an arrest warrant out for them, and there's 120 member states, 120 sovereign nations that recognize the ICC, If they set foot in any of those member states,
01:22:01.000they will be arrested and turned over to the International Criminal Court at The Hague.
01:22:07.000So they say that if Netanyahu travels to the United States, he would have to fly over Europe.
01:22:14.000And in the event that they had to make an emergency landing, he might get arrested.
01:22:21.000So it's just another major rebuke of the state of Israel today.
01:23:01.000I really shouldn't be happy about it because it's sad.
01:23:06.000But it does feel a little bit satisfying because...
01:23:12.000For two years, two whole years, not even just the past year through the general election, but really for two years, I was very critical of Trump and the movement, and I told you precisely what the problem was, which is personnel and capture by lobbyists.
01:23:46.000This is one of the reasons why you have to watch this show.
01:23:50.000And listen, not to break my arm patting myself on the back or anything, but the difference between this show and every other show, among other differences...
01:24:20.000Based on what is happening in the country and based on events as they unfold.
01:24:25.000In other words, you're not just getting the same talking points because that is really what you get from Shapiro, Crowder, really any other show.
01:24:35.000And I do watch them from time to time.
01:24:37.000You get talking points day in, day out.
01:24:40.000The same set of Republican talking points about small government, individual freedoms, the Second Amendment, pro- Pro-life, whatever.
01:24:50.000You get the same handful of arguments.
01:24:55.000And this show is really fleshing out kind of an all-encompassing worldview.
01:25:03.000But two, the other thing is I've never rested on my laurels.
01:25:09.000You know, I could have just done the show about Jews for eight years.
01:25:13.000A lot of people think that's what I do.
01:25:15.000But if you watch the show, it's really not.
01:25:17.000You know, there are some people, and no hate on them, but there are some people like Candace Owens and others, and they're playing the greatest hits.
01:25:25.000You know, they're talking about the JFK assassination, or they're talking about the Israel lobby in very vague terms.
01:25:32.000They're kind of relitigating, like, how they were responsible for the Iraq war and the blood libel and things like that.
01:25:41.000But what I did on the show and what I do on the show is it's topical and relevant.
01:25:47.000You know, we're not talking about yesterday's red pills about neocons.
01:25:50.000We're talking about today's red pills about Peter Thiel and Vance and Curtis Yarvin and this emerging national conservative skin suit operation, how they've totally hijacked the succession of Trumpism and How they are creating this intellectual framework for Trumpism in a very subversive way.
01:26:14.000And not only was I vindicated on a lot of these things like white identity and race and IQ and the Jewish thing, which was really a hot, cutting-edge issue 10 years ago, but also I was right about the election too.
01:26:48.000But I know a lot of people in politics, young people, people that I'm friends with, people that like me, people I'm acquainted with vaguely.
01:26:57.000And there are a lot of people that get caught up We're good to go.
01:27:22.000And what has been proven consistently true over eight years is that none of these politicians, none of these other organs that are getting funding from a billionaire, from some pro-Israel person, one,
01:27:38.000none of them go the distance and none of them really have the answer.
01:27:43.000They don't really contain within them We're good to go.
01:28:17.000Talking about those things, bringing people to a place where they understand them, that actually is transforming America.
01:28:35.000Trying to climb the ladder in Republican politics, okay?
01:28:39.000Doing other knick-knack, like whatever work for movement conservatives doesn't transform anything.
01:28:48.000You know, when I knew people that were telling me Marjorie Greene was going to be the vice president and she's great, I said, you know what?
01:28:56.000Marjorie Greene was useful because at a time...
01:29:38.000But people are telling me she's going to be the vice president.
01:29:40.000I said the only value, the only benefit she served was she would be useful in conferring legitimacy upon us by going to our conference or retweeting us or whatever.
01:30:38.000But it was very clear from the very beginning that the Trump movement would always be insufficient, a necessary first step, but insufficient to Let's be honest.
01:30:54.000The Trump movement when it was launched was based on good things, you know, building a wall, mitigating illegal immigration, ending the wars in the Middle East, and reshoring manufacturing.
01:31:09.000But those are not the end-all, be-all objectives of this generation and this political movement.
01:31:53.000That seed planted in the consciousness of the Republican electorate prefigured a future political movement that could live up to that idea.
01:32:04.000The Trump movement never would because from the very start, as people pointed out, the Trump movement was totally infiltrated and backed by Israel.
01:32:12.000And so it never could be America first.
01:32:14.000It was totally infiltrated and filled up with pro-Israel spies, lobbyists, and took a pro-Israel stance.
01:32:23.000And frankly, the political reality right now was such that, you know, maybe that was unavoidable.
01:32:30.000But the, again, the germ of the idea, which actually carries with it the potential for transformation, was America first.
01:32:40.000And so I was always a believer that whether the Trump administration lived up to it was sort of irrelevant.
01:32:48.000It was probably, and well, frankly, it just was, unrealistic that That the Trump administration would live up to it for many reasons.
01:32:57.000Trump is not our Caesar, just isn't competent enough.
01:33:23.000So, he wasn't the guy to do it, and the political realities as they are right now wouldn't have allowed for it.
01:33:31.000But if that idea could take root, and if some other battles could be won, for example, against the credibility of the media, and again, some specific ideas like skepticism of the war machine and skepticism of the political establishment or the Republicans,
01:33:49.000these are the kinds of fundamental ideas that could create a different political reality in the future.
01:33:57.000Which might allow for a transformative political movement, unlike this one.
01:34:02.000That was always my understanding of the Trump movement.
01:34:04.000And so, fundamentally, that is really where my opposition to Trump 24 came from, is telling people, this, do not get too caught up.
01:34:14.000And this is actually your white pill, by the way.
01:34:17.000The white pill is, do not get too caught up in the Trump movement.
01:34:42.000Maybe I've been paying attention longer or deeper than you have.
01:34:46.000And I'm kind of joking there, but also it's kind of true.
01:34:50.000But the good news is it was never supposed to be the end-all be-all.
01:34:54.000The good news is there is another far more important longer-term vision.
01:35:00.000And right now, we are probably the biggest faction that is developing it from an intellectual point of view, from a propaganda point of view, building a network.
01:35:14.000So if you look at the Trump movement and see vaporware, you're right.
01:35:20.000The good news is we're still here and what we're doing still matters.
01:35:26.000What we're doing is actually, as I said, maybe the most important thing that matters in American politics right now.
01:35:33.000Although it's small and although that might be hard to believe, the idea is that we're talking about, hey, that's the reason why I'm the most canceled person.
01:35:42.000If that wasn't the case, you know, maybe I would have had a different fate.
01:37:49.000But it's like, you know, a lot of people saw the path we were going down with Ye 24, even with Andrew Yang in 2019, and the criticism of the past year.
01:37:59.000And they said, yeah, people threw me under the bus to appease the Trump campaign like Laura Loomer.
01:38:05.000And a lot of people were jumping ship.
01:38:08.000You know, that was a bridge too far for them.
01:38:10.000Well, you know, we're here because we're revolutionaries.
01:38:13.000We're not here to glaze the fucking Republican nominee.
01:39:16.000I don't care if he's talking about legal immigration.
01:39:18.000These people that were paid to make excuses, these people that were paid to lie, these paid apologists, these shills that covered up that the Trump campaign was being subverted, they need to be absolutely guilty.
01:39:52.000You were either too stupid to see what was going on, in which case no one should ever listen to you again, or you were paid, in which case you're a fucking traitor sellout and people should never listen to you ever again.
01:40:05.000So, it's not even just about, yeah, it's about my enjoyment.
01:41:11.000If you feel like a cheated, suckered loser, totally impotent to affect outcomes while machinations are happening at Mar-a-Lago to appoint people like Rubio, I want you to internalize how that feels and I want you to feel it deeply for four years.
01:41:29.000Because that's how it feels to be outmaneuvered for being stupid.
01:43:04.000And I told you that from the beginning.
01:43:06.000They say that every year, and every year it's a lie, and every year they give you the same slop in the trough, and every year people eat it up.
01:43:15.000And we're going to keep getting fucked until we know better.
01:43:20.000So, how many times do you want to keep playing this game over and over and over?
01:43:57.000So, you know, not everybody's going to hear this, but the smart people need to hear this.
01:44:02.000The smart people need to get wise and get networked and get organized and get a little clever and Because this kind of screw job that we're seeing right now, hey,
01:51:12.000So our featured story tonight, Matt Gaetz, as you know, was nominated by Donald Trump to be the Attorney General.
01:51:21.000Super controversial pick and really a strange pick.
01:51:25.000On one level, it makes sense because Donald Trump is seeking to fill the Justice Department with loyal allies.
01:51:35.000And it makes sense because in Trump's first term, he was relentlessly persecuted by the DOJ. So Trump has appointed loyalists and Matt Gaetz is a MAGA loyalist.
01:51:52.000But it is a bit of a strange pick because typically the Attorney General is a super high-powered lawyer.
01:52:02.000What's more, Matt Gaetz is extremely unpopular in the GOP. He's unpopular because last year he led the charge to get the Speaker of the House, a fellow Republican, removed through a vote of no confidence.
01:52:18.000So there were immediate doubts about his competence and whether he was qualified for the job.
01:52:29.000And there were also doubts about whether he would even be able to be confirmed.
01:52:34.000So it's a very strange appointment from the very beginning.
01:52:39.000And yet, this was probably one of the best appointments.
01:52:42.000As you know, and we covered it in detail on Monday...
01:52:47.000Trump has basically filled out the administration.
01:52:50.000There's only a few key positions that do not have a nominee yet or an appointee.
01:54:43.000This is really what has characterized all the appointments.
01:54:46.000And so right out of the gate, we knew what we were, well, we knew from the beginning what we were getting.
01:54:52.000But after the election, it became clear as the appointments rolled out that this was going to be a pretty center-right administration, a pretty moderate administration, and very predictable selections.
01:55:05.000That is, other than maybe three appointments.
01:55:08.000Like I said, Tulsi Gabbard as the Director of National Intelligence, Robert Kennedy at Health and Human Services, and Matt Gaetz as Attorney General.
01:55:17.000And maybe Matt Gaetz is the most out-there selection.
01:55:22.000And by the way, that is the selection that got the most attention from the media.
01:55:27.000Because Matt Gaetz would probably be the most loyal, the most MAGA, arguably one of the most right-wing members of the Trump government.
01:55:37.000And Attorney General is a very powerful position.
01:55:41.000So, Gaetz, being extremely loyal and ideologically aligned with MAGA, as well as acceding to a very high-level and critical position...
01:55:52.000Became, very quickly, the best appointment.
01:55:55.000And the one that the base was the most excited about.
01:55:58.000Probably the one that I was the most excited about.
01:56:11.000In a position like attorney general, that would be a true game-changer.
01:56:18.000For that reason, he was assailed by the media.
01:56:22.000Very quickly, the media came down hard and they said Matt Gaetz, they brought up allegations of sexual assault and human trafficking against Matt Gaetz, which the FBI declined to prosecute him for,
01:57:18.000Then came the Republicans, and the Republicans in the Senate, who are notoriously moderate in establishment, Senate Republicans come out very strongly against this election, too.
01:57:30.000And it looks like Matt Gaetz, who would have to pass confirmation in the Senate, does not nearly have enough votes, despite Republicans having a 53-vote majority with a tiebreaker, and despite Trump having an historic mandate After his landslide election and popular vote victory.
01:57:49.000So the Republicans come out and say, we won't nominate him.
01:57:54.000And this pattern, I want you to pay very close attention to because this is exactly what I said would happen with policy.
01:58:01.000And this is also exactly what happened with Project 2025. And the process goes exactly like this.
01:58:11.000Donald Trump, I think the media and political establishment recognizes, is something like an inevitability at this point.
01:58:23.000He was de facto and now is formally the head of the Republican Party.
01:58:28.000He is an entity they have to deal with.
01:58:32.000It is also true that That certain factions of the elite have found Trump to be useful.
01:58:38.000Specifically, some of the more disruptive elements in Silicon Valley, like David Sachs and Peter Thiel and Elon Musk and Sean McGuire and Marc Andreessen, as well as Wall Street.
01:58:50.000Wall Street sees Trump as useful because he is a pro-business conservative and friendly towards the market.
01:59:00.000So Wall Street executives like Bill Ackman And Howard Lutnick and Ken Griffin saw Trump as useful.
01:59:09.000So there is kind of this general consensus within the elite, both the hostile elite, which is the left, as well as a more friendly faction of the elite, which is this emerging faction in Silicon Valley and Wall Street,
02:02:03.000And something similar is now happening with Matt Gaetz.
02:02:08.000Matt Gaetz, like Project 2025, represents this kind of efficacy.
02:02:14.000He represents someone ideologically aligned with MAGA, loyal to the president, and if he got that position, would competently carry out that agenda.
02:02:26.000Now, that's unacceptable for the elite.
02:02:28.000Trump wants to cut the taxes, that's fine.
02:02:30.000Trump wants to go to war for Israel, that's fine.
02:02:34.000Trump wants to put a MAGA extremist in charge of the Department of Justice.
02:02:54.000We're told all these kinds of things about how it's really different this time.
02:02:58.000And And it is different in some ways, but not entirely different.
02:03:02.000Yes, the media seems to have accepted Trump, but they haven't accepted MAGA. They haven't accepted Trumpism.
02:03:08.000They haven't accepted a very right-wing agenda.
02:03:12.000They've accepted a moderated form of Trump.
02:03:15.000But when the more extreme element rears its head, once again you see the full focused power of the Death Star.
02:03:24.000Just like how the media went after Project 2025 and you had like 15-year-old girls on TikTok talking about the Heritage Foundation Project 2025. How do they know what that is?
02:03:35.000Because the media is still powerful and they're still out to get the right wing.
02:03:40.000If they're not out to get Trump, it's not because Trump changed their minds and he won.
02:03:55.000Part two is the Republicans, who are one wing of the uni party, They betray Trump.
02:04:04.000And even though Trump won the election, even though Trump has filled the RNC with his family, you know, Laura Trump is running the RNC and the Republicans have appeared to bend the knee.
02:04:16.000He enjoys a super high popular approval rating.
02:04:19.000He won the popular vote, historic mandate.
02:04:23.000filled out a stadium at Madison Square Garden in spite of all that and in spite of the fact that Republicans have a comfortable majority in the Senate they still felt comfortable not approving Trump's nominee not approving Trump's appointment and I told you from the start this is also how it will work with policy what did I say the other day about mass deportations?
02:04:50.000I said, the day that Trump starts mass deportations, the media will attack it.
02:04:56.000And then the Republicans are going to pick up the phone and say, we're going to block it.
02:05:04.000The establishment Republicans, and we thought were on our team, are not going to back him up.
02:05:10.000And that is because, again, they have allowed Trump to win.
02:05:15.000On the agreement, it's really sort of, maybe it's written somewhere, but what we know is it's an unspoken agreement that the media is sort of allowing Trump to be popular, allowing Trump to be president, allowing Trump all these things.
02:05:30.000They're sort of affording him a lot of things.
02:05:34.000And the unspoken agreement is that in return, he's not that radical.
02:05:39.000And they're conditioning him to not be radical.
02:05:42.000The things that are radical, they're going to ferociously and viciously attack.
02:05:46.000Things like being very pro-life, Project 2025, being in favor of mass deportations, picking MAGA loyalists.
02:07:02.000Matt Gaetz, who faced a torrent of scrutiny over allegations of sex trafficking and drug use, abruptly withdrew his bid to become Attorney General on Thursday in the first major political setback for President-elect Donald Trump since his election.
02:07:16.000Yeah, it's been two weeks since the election and a major appointee just got shot down by the media in his own Senate.
02:07:28.000Mr. Gates has consistently denied the allegations, but his prospective nomination ran into trouble in the Senate, where Republicans were deeply reluctant to confirm someone to run the same Justice Department that once investigated him on suspicion of sex trafficking an underage girl,
02:07:49.000What remained unclear on Thursday was whether Mr. Gates' withdrawal would embolden Senate Republicans to challenge other contentious cabinet choices.
02:08:11.000Gates wrote on social media, quote, While the momentum was strong, it is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump-Vance transition.
02:08:23.000There is no time to waste on a needlessly protracted Washington scuffle.
02:08:28.000Thus, I will be withdrawing my name from consideration to serve as Attorney General.
02:08:35.000Trump's DOJ must be in place and ready on day one.
02:08:39.000Mr. Gates told people close to him that after conversations with senators and members of their staff, he had concluded that there were at least four Republican senators in the next Congress who were implacably opposed to his nomination.
02:08:51.000Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and the newly elected John Curtis of Utah.
02:13:02.000Because whether you have a 51-vote majority, or a 52-vote majority, or a 53-vote majority, somehow there will always be just enough to make it 50-50.
02:13:14.000No matter what, no matter how big your majority is, there always be just enough defections People that are down the middle, people that are moderate, to really make it like 50-50.
02:13:27.000To make you lose by one vote on something that actually makes a difference.
02:13:32.000Isn't it interesting that even when conservatives have a majority on the Supreme Court, they uphold things like gay marriage or the individual mandate.
02:13:50.000No matter how big your majority is on the court, in the Senate, in the House, someone's always going to be in the middle and maybe go the other way.
02:14:01.000We should have shut down the gay marriage, should have shut down the individual mandate, should have shut down the illegal change in the voting laws in Pennsylvania, North Carolina in 2020. But Amy Barrett recused herself and Roberts went the other way.
02:14:19.000It always works out that way, doesn't it?
02:14:22.000And then when it comes to H.R. 2, you know, it's like five congressmen that are the fulcrum and sometimes are there.
02:14:28.000And now in the Senate, oh, well, you know, this time we shouldn't have to worry about that.
02:14:34.000Oh, well, the Mitt Romney successor from Utah and Mitch McConnell, who hates Trump, and the two bitches from the moderate states, Maine and Alaska, well, they all say no.
02:15:12.000So for all those people that said, oh, it's going to be an imperial presidency, it's going to be different, you're going back.
02:15:18.000But again, it's like, do you really believe what you're saying?
02:15:23.000For all these people that said, when Trump went out and said, we're going to staple green cards to diplomas, they said, that's a throwaway comment.
02:15:30.000Now that throwaway remark is being repeated endlessly by the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, by Trump's closest confidant, Elon Musk, by Trump himself, repeatedly at Mar-a-Lago.
02:15:43.000We're going to bring in a lot of people.
02:17:07.000There was this flowchart of all the payments that were made about Matt Gaetz, sex trafficking, and New York Times published it and it got out there and the media just piled on the administration.
02:17:45.000You think they're going to confirm Tulsi Gabbard?
02:17:51.000Do you think that Mitch McConnell and Mitt Romney's successor and Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski are going to vote for Tulsi Gabbard who visited Bashar al-Assad in Syria five years ago?
02:18:05.000Nikki Haley's going on TV and saying, first she shilled for China, then she shilled for Russia, then she shilled for Iran and Syria.
02:18:15.000The most pro-Israel administration in history is going to put Assad's best friend in charge of intelligence.
02:18:50.000The sex trafficking thing was too much to overcome.
02:18:53.000I thought maybe there was a chance, but I'm, you know, I've just been proven right on it.
02:18:59.000And at first people said, oh no, no, he's going to get the votes.
02:19:02.000Then people said, well, if he can't get the votes, it'll be a recess appointment.
02:19:07.000You know what a recess appointment is?
02:19:08.000That means that when Trump's own Republican Senate is in recess, he'll slip it through when they're not in session so that they can't confirm or deny it.
02:19:20.000Trump will have to circumvent his own Senate, his own party-controlled Senate during the recess to get him through and evade the constitutional requirement for the Senate to provide advice and counsel on the nomination.
02:19:36.000Then Mitch McConnell said, no, no, there'll be no recess.
02:19:39.000We will not allow Trump to make a recess appointment.
02:19:41.000That means that even when the Senate is supposed to be in recess, one senator will show up and hold the session just to prevent this from happening.
02:19:49.000So then the Republicans said, well, Trump is going to use this provision that's never been used in the Constitution to adjourn Congress.
02:19:57.000If Mike Johnson wants to adjourn for a recess but the Senate doesn't and there's disagreement, the president has the constitutional authority to send the Congress into a recess.
02:20:08.000He'll force a recess, then he'll appoint Matt Gaetz.
02:20:13.000Trump is going to use something in the Constitution that's never been used before and Mike Johnson's going to go along with it just to get a sex trafficker who's going to get hit by the media for four years?
02:26:10.000So when Trump becomes the president, the political news media, appointments in the administration, access to those people in the administration, the prestigious roles in various think tanks, whatever,
02:26:45.000If Charlie Kirk goes against Trump, Trump's not coming to Turning Point USA conventions anymore.
02:26:51.000If Charlie Kirk criticizes Trump, he knows a lot of the Trump-friendly donors are going to pull the money, etc., etc., See, you can't go against Trump.
02:27:27.000Now, once the election is decided, it's very quickly determined who will have access and who will not.
02:27:33.000That's why now some people are willing to criticize.
02:31:03.000The other MAGA people like Carrie Lake and Joe Kent and Matt Gaetz and Blake Masters and Chris Kobeck, Jeff Sessions, people that claim to be MAGA, they've all been defeated.
02:32:32.000Trumpism destroyed the free trade consensus.
02:32:35.000Trumpism destroyed the credibility of the mainstream media.
02:32:39.000Trumpism has opened up social media and now there is this consensus around free speech.
02:32:44.000Trumpism has made conspiracy theories more credible.
02:32:48.000It has discredited the political establishment.
02:32:51.000Trumpism has opened up the possibility that political outsiders can accede to power.
02:32:56.000So Trumpism has created people like me.
02:32:59.000It has planted the seed of the idea of America first and American excellence and even something like a nascent authoritarianism.
02:33:07.000Trumpism has had a net positive effect.
02:33:12.000I'm not knocking it, not all of it, but it has shortcomings.
02:33:17.000This is sort of like two cheers or one cheer for Trumpism.
02:33:22.000But the real white pill here is that We can still make this a success as long as we see Trumpism as the first step in a longer journey.
02:33:38.000I've been an advocate of that from day one.
02:33:41.000We must see Trumpism as a stepping stone, as a launch pad, a booster rocket into something far more ambitious and totalizing and something completely transformative.
02:33:55.000That is how we have to contextualize it and view it with a mind towards a hundred years of political activism.
02:34:09.000And if we have a mind like that about this situation, well then it's not a black pill because we recognize the benefits, but we also recognize the limitations and we use it for what it is.
02:34:22.000But the reason that it is so essential to be sober about this is to not get caught up with It cannot live and die on Trump and the hollowness of an election because elections are for two years.
02:34:38.000That's really, you know, people think they're for four years.
02:36:21.000It can be translated into a future success for us.
02:36:26.000But that's why you need to really get interested and excited about what is the heart of Trumpism, which is America, the American nation, the American people, American sovereignty, American independence, the American story, Christianity,
02:36:42.000Western civilization, Europeans, who we are.
02:36:47.000You know, Trump, for better, he is a hero.
02:37:03.000But understand what is fundamental and what's deeper and what has to outlive him and what has to live on in us and what we have to do to supplement and build upon his initial sacrifice.
02:39:39.000I guess it's a little late for that, but...
02:39:42.000You know, I've really—I've not only been pushing the same thing for eight years with regard to—I mean, look, the message is America first.
02:40:42.000If you read, because this has been a battle that's been going on for a long time.
02:40:46.000If you read people like Sam Francis, who wrote about the same battle in the 1990s, 30 years ago, it could just as easily have been written today.
02:41:00.000When they talked about Pat Buchanan, when they talked about the middle American radicals, everything they talked about back then.
02:41:10.000You know, what Joseph Sobron, what Russell Kirk, what Sam Francis, Pat Buchanan, what they were saying in the 80s and 90s could just as easily have been written yesterday.
02:43:21.000It's so hard being so right all the time because, you know, when you're right all the time, there's this great temptation to be a total asshole about it, which thankfully I'm not doing that.
02:47:54.000You kind of have a point with judicial appointments, but, you know, it's just bigger than that.
02:47:59.000So, those are all, those are actually valid counterarguments, but, you know, point is, Trump administration, like I said from the beginning, let me put it this way.
03:05:31.000On both sides, they have to corral people back into the middle.
03:05:45.000Yeah, well, I mean, there's a difference between being wrathful and being just.
03:05:50.000You know, it's important that justice is meted out in a way that is dispassionate and not cruel.
03:05:59.000But it does, look, I mean, I don't know if you're talking about, like, my vindication, but people do need to forcefully understand that they were wrong.
03:06:08.000And it's not, yeah, I mean, I'm taking a little, I'm indulging myself a little bit also, but it is really important that people know With the full weight of the argument that they were wrong.
03:09:40.000I mean, it matters, but you know what I mean.
03:09:43.000Isn't it weird to think everything you know is this world and then one day you're going to be outside of it?
03:09:51.000You know, that freaks me out to think about, you know, because you think about leaving your house, leaving your country, your state, your city.
03:10:01.000You think about things being unfamiliar, but then you think about leaving your body, leaving the world.
03:10:52.000Like the idea of something with no beginning and no end is sort of terrifying in a way.
03:11:00.000And then you kind of think, well, you know, but God, the analogy, because it's beyond our understanding, is that, well, it'll be like a never-ending feast.
03:11:06.000It'll be like, and you say, well, that sounds pretty good.
03:15:15.000I mean, I think that, um, look, I have a very strong will and I obviously have this political genius.
03:15:23.000But, um, no, I think the Caesar is going to be somebody who is probably a military person, probably a little bit taller, um, probably a little more normal presenting, um, And probably a little bit more disciplined.
03:16:33.000A lot of the people that don't like the picks voted for Trump.
03:16:36.000But Scott, like Amron, I met Scott at Amron, I think.
03:16:40.000Or no, I met him at some other thing that was similar.
03:16:44.000Scott, like Amron, like Vidar, they don't care about Israel's wars as long as the administration, in their mind, is moving the ball down the field on shutting down some of the civil rights laws.
03:17:01.000And closing the border, but I don't even think they'll really be successful at that.
03:20:27.000You can't go up, like, I don't know who you are, I don't know what the setting is, I don't know the information, but like, you know, You're playing with fire here, okay?
03:20:38.000Me giving you this stuff about Israel, if you're uninitiated, it's like giving a nuclear bomb to a toddler.
03:20:44.000You're going to walk up on stage, you're going to trip and fall and blow up the whole place.
03:20:49.000You can't just go up in front of a general audience and start red-pilling them on Israel.
03:21:05.000Now, if you want them to like you, and that's really what you want, is you want them to relate to you, you want to persuade them, maybe you want to kind of get them on your side and nudge them a little bit in your direction, you have to meet them where they are.
03:24:24.000Because if the audience is like stridently Zionist, if they're a super Zionist audience, you're never going to get them to support criticism of Israel, no matter how subtle you are.
03:24:35.000Sometimes the only way to play is to give them a rap in the beak.
03:24:40.000And you got to preview it and you got to say, listen, you know, agree to disagree, but this is how I see it.
03:24:48.000And that may be more persuasive, but it really depends on the context.
03:24:51.000But if I were you, I'd just avoid it altogether.
03:24:54.000The older generation, they don't get it.
03:25:20.000I had been a doomer neat for three years, but when I heard you say that there's a sense of internal guilt when someone is unproductive, it hit me hard.
03:25:25.000Got a job that week, and I'm happier than I've been in a long time.
03:26:04.000Working is, even if it's not, you don't make a ton of money, even if it's not like important work, like in the grand scheme of things, it's still good just to not be idle.
03:26:15.000Idleness is one of the worst things for you.