Learn English with Malcolm X. In this episode, Malcolm X speaks on the state of the country, the future, and what it means to be a Christian in a broken America. He also talks about the current state of our country and how we can turn things around.
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00:00:02.000Holy night, the stars are brightly shining.
00:00:09.000It is the night of the dear Savior's birth.
00:00:17.000Long may the world in sin and error piding, till he appeared and the soul felt its word.
00:00:32.000A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices, for yonder breaks a new and glorious war.
00:00:47.000Fall on your knees, O hear the angel voices, O night divine, O night when Christ was born.
00:01:29.000So let my light of the stars, sweetly gleaming, here came the wiser The King of kings laid us in lowly manger, in all our trials born to be our friend.
00:01:58.000Fall on your knees, O hear the angel voices, O night divine, O night when Christ was born.
00:02:23.000O night, O holy night, O night divine.
00:02:49.000Silver bells, it's Christmas time in the city.
00:02:56.000And then nowadays, I am so upset that the things we did and the things we fought for and the boys that died for it.
00:04:58.000This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
00:05:02.000We're being slowly poisoned and, in some cases, quickly murdered and assassinated.
00:05:09.000And we're killing ourselves every day, inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
00:05:16.000People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.
00:05:24.000People have got to start to get courageous.
00:05:27.000And 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.
00:05:41.000And the alternative is that there will be no country.
00:05:45.000Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
00:05:49.000Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
00:05:56.000It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.
00:05:59.000It's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.
00:06:40.000I want a wall, and I want to drill, drill, drill.
00:06:43.000My own narrative is not one of some sudden, looming bolt of lightning out of the blue.
00:07:00.000It 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.
00:07:15.000And then finally, a point of no return reckoning.
00:07:25.000I think it was because I fiercely came out during the Griper 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, defending Nick Fuentes and so many of the stars of the burgeoning America First movement.
00:07:47.000through an increasing amount of activism are really going to ensure the future America is a nation of believers, dreamers, and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics, and cynics.
00:08:07.000These interests have rigged our political and economic system for their exclusive benefit.
00:14:53.000Gaudet, Emmanuel Gaudet, Emmanuel I need that joy,
00:15:21.000joy, joy, joy down in my heart Down in my heart to stay I need that joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart Down in my heart to stay Saying to me is like, this is probably pretty cool for you.
00:19:22.000because 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.
00:25:46.000My love has got no money, he's got his strong beliefs My love has got no power, he's got his strong beliefs My love has got no fame, he's got his strong beliefs My love has got no money, he's got his strong beliefs Want more and more, people just want more and more Freedom and love, what he's looking for
00:26:13.000Want more and more, people just want more and more Freedom and love, what he's looking for What he's looking for.
00:32:45.000The angels did say Was to certain poor shepherds In fields In fields As they lay In fields Where they lay In fields Where they lay They were keeping Their sheep On the fields Where they lay They were keeping Their sheep On the fields Where they lay
00:33:12.000a cold winter's night That was so deep The
00:33:44.000shepherds looked up And they saw a bright star Shining there in the east Beyond them far Thank
00:34:19.000Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Born is the Noel, Born is the King of Israel.
00:34:42.000The King of Israel is the King of Israel.
00:35:12.000I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old familiar carols play And mild and sweet their songs repeat Of peace on earth,
00:35:33.000goodwill to men And the bells are ringing Like a choir they're singing In my heart I hear them Peace on earth,
00:35:59.000goodwill to men And in despair I bowed my There is no peace on earth, I say.
00:36:17.000For hate is strong and marks the song Of peace on earth, goodwill to men But the bells ring in Like a choir singing Does anybody hear this?
00:36:47.000For hate is strong and marks Like a choir singing Does anybody hear this?
00:36:48.000He's taller than a little to man Then ring the bells, no loud and deep God is not dead nor does he sleep The wrong shall fail, the right prevail
00:37:17.000The peace on earth, good will to man Then ring the singing on its way The world revolved from night to day
00:37:39.000A voice, a chime, a chant of life The peace on earth, good will to man And the bell bell ringing Do you hear the bells ringing?
00:38:03.000Like a choir that's the end With our hearts we'll hear them Peace on earth, good will to man Do you hear the bells ringing?
00:41:18.000Years 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.
00:44:39.000Today, each of you begins a new chapter as well.
00:44:44.000When 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.
00:45:03.000You will have the confidence to speak the hopes in your hearts and to express the love that stirs your souls.
00:45:12.000As long as you have pride in your beliefs, courage in your convictions, and faith in God, Then you will not fail.
00:45:24.000But as 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.
00:46:42.000Can I just say, are you trusting Brian?
00:46:46.000Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American people.
00:47:11.000The Washington establishment and the financial and media corporations that fund it exist for only one reason, to protect and enrich itself.
00:47:22.000The establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election.
00:47:26.000For 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.
00:47:37.000Our campaign represents a true existential threat like they haven't seen before.
00:47:45.000This is not simply another four-year election.
00:47:48.000This is a crossroads in the history of our civilization that will determine whether or not we the people reclaim control over our government.
00:48:00.000The 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.
00:48:19.000The 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.
00:48:30.000It'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.
00:48:48.000This is a struggle for the survival of our nation and this will be our last chance to save it.
00:48:56.000This 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.
00:53:20.000A star, a star Dancing in the night With a tail as big as a kite With a tail as big as a kite Said the little lamb to the shepherd boy Do you hear what I hear?
00:53:47.000Ringing through the sky, shepherd boy Do you hear what I hear?
00:53:56.000A song, a song, high above the tree With a voice as big as the sea With a voice as big as the sea Said the shepherd boy to the mighty king Do you know what I know?
00:54:22.000In your palace warm mighty king Do you know what I know?
00:54:31.000A child, a child, shivers in the cold Let us bring him silver and gold Let us bring him silver and gold Said the king to the people everywhere Listen to what I say Pray for peace
00:57:32.000But the very next day, you give it away.
00:57:37.000This year, to save me about two years, I'll give it to someone special.
00:57:44.000Special Last Christmas I gave you my heart, but the very next day you gave it away.
00:57:55.000Please hear, to save me your tears I'll give it to someone special, special Oh, oh, baby
00:58:09.000Crying around friends with tired eyes I'm hiding from you and your soul of ice
00:58:31.000My God, I thought you were someone to rely on Me, I guess I was a shoulder to cry on A face on a lover with a fire in his heart A man in the cover, but you told me a Ooh, ooh, ooh
00:58:52.000ooh, now I've found the real love You'll never fool me again Last Christmas I gave you my heart But the very next day you gave it away For this year to save me from tears I'll give it to someone special Last Christmas I gave you my heart I'll
01:02:22.000My own narrative is not one of some sudden, looming bolt of lightning out of the blue.
01:02:27.000It 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.
01:02:42.000And then finally, a point of no return reckoning.
01:02:52.000I think it was because I fiercely came out during the Griper 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, defending 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.
01:03:22.000Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Donald Trump, were all cut from the same cloth, and that cloth is very, very large.
01:05:49.000Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump. My new game is Trump. The game. Trump. The game.
01:06:02.000This sounds like political presidential.
01:08:15.000- Come to my block, come to see how we live and we chillin' with black.
01:08:19.000wouldn't you dedicate yourself to public service?
01:08:21.000Because I think it's a very mean life.
01:08:23.000I would love and I would dedicate my life to this country, but I see it as being a mean life.
01:08:29.000And I also see it as somebody with strong views.
01:08:32.000And 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.
01:08:44.000And that's a sad commentary for the political process.
01:08:47.000And if you have a minute, why don't we go?
01:10:12.000Hark the herald angels sing Glory to the newborn King Peace on earth and mercy mild God and sinners reconciled Joyful, all ye nations, rise!
01:15:37.000the weather outside is frightful But the fire is so delightful And since we've no place to go Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow My lover's got no money He's got his strong beliefs My lover's got no power He's got his strong beliefs My lover's got no fame He's got his strong beliefs My lover's got no money He's got his strong beliefs One more and more People
01:16:08.000just want more and more Freedom and love What he's looking for One more and more People just want more and more Freedom and love.
01:16:48.000The Courageous Fallen The anguished fallen!
01:17:17.000Their lives have meaning because we, the living, refuse to forget them!
01:17:21.000And as we ride to certain death, we trust our successors to do the same for us!
01:17:27.000Because my soldiers do not buckle or yield when faced with the cruelty of this world!
01:30:14.000Republican-Democrat bipartisan deal that On a continuing resolution to fund the government until March has completely collapsed under pressure from Elon Musk and Donald Trump.
01:30:28.000Now Congress is facing a Friday deadline to pass a bill to fund the government.
01:31:26.000So Trump wants to restart negotiations over the debt ceiling as a part of this CR. That seems to be the big reason so that he won't have to do it in his administration in June 2025. So we're going to talk all about that.
01:31:45.000Pretty boring, but we'll talk about it.
01:31:48.000We're going to get into the politics behind it.
01:31:50.000The big story is how it seems like this is not going to be the same, or I hope it won't be, as the last 10 years.
01:32:00.000This has always been the story, which is that Trump has an initiative, and whether Congress is controlled by Republicans or not, Republicans fold.
01:32:12.000They give Democrats everything they want because the Democrats control the media.
01:32:17.000The Republicans know that without the ability to force a shutdown because they'd be blamed for any shutdown by the left-wing media that they have no leverage.
01:32:28.000So whether they control the House or the Senate or both at the same time, regardless, they will be blamed for any budgetary shortfall.
01:32:41.000And we saw this in Trump's first term repeatedly.
01:32:43.000And we even saw this under the Biden administration when Republicans controlled the House.
01:32:49.000So with the intervention of Trump and Elon, this is like the beginning of the beginning here.
01:32:56.000And it's going to tell us a lot about the relationship between the executive and the legislative in the next four years, if anything changes at all.
01:33:11.000What is interesting is that it seems that Trump and Elon are trying to set the tone going into this second term.
01:33:20.000And by that, I mean they are trying to dictate and set a new precedent in the relationship between this incoming Republican Congress and the executive branch.
01:33:40.000We'll also be talking about a brand new interview with the new apparent leader of Syria, Mohammed al-Julani, who is the leader of Hyatt Tahrir al-Sham, otherwise known as HTS. That is the group which took over Syria last week.
01:33:58.000We don't actually know what this government is going to look like.
01:34:03.000All the questions we asked after the fall of the Assad regime are still unanswered.
01:34:09.000We're getting close to an answer, but we still don't know the fate of the autonomous administration of northeastern Syria.
01:34:17.000We don't know what role Turkey will play in the shaping of the new government.
01:34:23.000We don't know whether Russia will remain at their bases, although it appears they're removing all their assets, which is interesting because some super chatter last week said, of course, Russia is going to stay at the bases.
01:34:44.000And then the biggest question of all is the character of the new regime.
01:34:49.000The previous regime, the Assad government, was a Ba'athist state controlled by the Alawite minority.
01:34:58.000Syria is a nation of Sunni Arabs, which was controlled by a socialist Arab nationalist dictatorship, which was ruled by a dynastic Alawite family, an elite officer class.
01:35:14.000Alawites are a branch of Shiite Islam.
01:35:18.000And they're not technically Shiites, but they are followers of Ali, who is one of the successors to Mohammed.
01:35:27.000So he's considered part of that branch.
01:35:29.000Alawites are considered part of that branch.
01:35:32.000They are in the minority on Syria's west coast.
01:35:35.000And so the previous regime was secular, authoritarian, socialist, and ruled by a dynastic ethnic religious minority.
01:35:46.000This new group, which has taken over the capital, HTS, is Sunni Arab, and they are Salafist, meaning that they are Islamist.
01:35:55.000They believe in Sharia law over the government.
01:35:58.000Therefore, they are not socialist, Arab nationalist, and they are not secular.
01:36:05.000Question is, will the character of the Syrian regime change completely?
01:36:59.000And he says that women are going to be educated, right?
01:37:05.000And this is really interesting because right now the group that he leads is considered a terrorist group by the government of the United Kingdom.
01:37:14.000BBC is state-run media in the UK. The UK government calls them a legally designated terrorist group.
01:39:23.000And in particular, they were embracing a radical perspective on politics in general, denying the elections, rejecting legitimacy of the media, questioning the efficacy of our democratic institutions.
01:39:38.000These are all characteristic of a far more radical politics.
01:39:44.000And maybe the foundation of that radicalism is that it reframed politics.
01:39:50.000The Trump movement reframed politics away from a right-left dialectic altogether and towards a pro-regime and anti-regime politics.
01:40:04.000Trump was considered outside of the ruling elite, outside of the system and And by penetrating the system would transform it and change its fundamental characteristics.
01:41:06.000I pointed out that in this new era where Trump appears to be a de-radicalizing agent, which is actually counterproductive for our movement, I said that we're really the only ones left.
01:41:18.000I and this movement, America First and the Groypers, we're really the only ones that are pushing the envelope.
01:41:23.000We're the only ones that are actually ideologically right-wing.
01:41:33.000We're truly reactionary and that's based on our traditional interpretation of Christianity, specifically Catholicism.
01:41:41.000It is based on our social views regarding gender and sex.
01:41:47.000It's based on our views about race and ethnicity as it pertains specifically to immigration and about the character of the government and whether it should be democratic and whether there should be qualifications for voting or who should be in elected office.
01:42:04.000And anyway, I pointed out repeatedly, this is why we are indispensable.
01:42:09.000This is why we are so valuable, because we're the only right-wing people left.
01:42:14.000Everybody else has totally compromised in order to win this election.
01:46:37.000Then today, we see this advertisement for the party, and from what I understand, this is a white and black backup dancer behind James O'Keefe, dressed up like Michael Jackson, doing a Michael Jackson dance.
01:46:54.000For their rave party in Phoenix, Arizona on Friday.
01:47:31.000When it says it doesn't matter who's wrong or right, and you have James O'Keefe between a white guy and a black guy getting between them saying, hey, break it up, you two.
01:49:39.000The people that are funding youth politics are 100 years old.
01:49:46.000The people that are giving money to Turning Point USA and James O'Keefe, when James O'Keefe goes to the Breakers and Vero Beach every year to raise money from the Jewish donors and the evangelical donors, when James O'Keefe goes to the Breakers every year, when he goes to Vero every year to raise all the money for his group, The donors are a thousand years old.
02:02:47.000Where he reenacted being sued for And being undercover, and it was literally interpretive dance, like these elaborate costumes and sets, and this was a turning point, and the crowd went mild.
02:03:00.000He was doing this, like, dance about being in Project Veritas, and everybody in the audience is like, this is great, James, good stuff.
02:05:14.000And I really don't want to get into it, but we have to.
02:05:21.000So tonight our future story is about the imminent government shutdown.
02:05:25.000There is a deadline on Friday for Congress to pass a spending bill or else the government runs out of money and will be forced to shut down.
02:05:37.000Republicans and Democrats came to a deal earlier in the week to avert the shutdown.
02:05:54.000Omnibus meaning it combines 12 appropriations bills into one super-large bill that will fund the government through March.
02:06:03.000There's three to four months of spending, but it's a lot of money.
02:06:07.000And although initially they were putting together a package that would simply fund the government as part of a continuing resolution, what emerged a few days ago was a deal which included a ton of Totally unrelated provisions.
02:06:22.000In other words, it didn't just fund the government and made a number of other random changes.
02:06:31.000We'll get into all of them, but some quick examples.
02:06:34.000It increases congressional pay by about 4%.
02:06:37.000It appropriates money for the Washington Commanders to have a football stadium in D.C. It criminalizes AI pornography and provides for social media users to be able to take that down on the Internet.
02:06:57.000This is for a large appropriations bill.
02:07:00.000Random things totally unrelated to spending and totally unrelated to each other thrown into the bill at the last minute to get it passed before Congress leaves and ends their session before the winter break and before Biden leaves office and a new Congress is sworn in in the first week of January.
02:07:36.000And then today, Elon Musk makes a big stink and says Republicans should not pass the bill.
02:07:45.000It's filled with unnecessary spending.
02:07:47.000It's filled with Gibbs for the Democrats and And then Trump jumped on the bandwagon and said Republicans should not pass and if they pass it, we will primary them.
02:07:58.000He said instead we should pass a clean CR. Clean CR means a clean continuing resolution.
02:08:06.000Clean means it just funds the government.
02:09:27.000So now everybody is wondering what are the options for Mike Johnson considered passing a clean CR, but that is considered a non-starter in negotiations for the members.
02:09:45.000So if he can't pass the existing bill and if he can't pass a clean bill and if Trump is actually demanding negotiations renew on the debt ceiling, which would require more time, It seems like there's no deal that can satisfy anybody.
02:10:03.000So we might be hurtling towards a government shutdown that Elon and Trump are actually calling for to last through the end of Biden's presidency and into the swearing-in of a new Congress in a couple of weeks.
02:10:15.000And this is a story from the New York Times.
02:10:19.000A bipartisan spending deal to avert a shutdown is on life support today after President-elect Donald Trump condemned it, leaving lawmakers without a strategy to fund the government past a Friday night deadline.
02:10:33.000Mr. Trump issued a scathing statement ordering Republicans not to support the sprawling bill, piling on to a barrage of criticism from Elon Musk, who spent Wednesday trashing the measure on social media and threatening any Republican who supported it with political ruin.
02:10:49.000It was not clear how Mike Johnson planned to proceed as the package, which was stuffed with unrelated policy measures, as well as tens of billions of dollars in disaster and agricultural aid, appeared to be hemorrhaging support.
02:11:04.000Some Republicans suggested he was mulling stripping the bill of everything but the spending extension and putting it to a vote, but the fate of such a measure was very much in doubt.
02:11:13.000It began as a simple spending bill to keep government funds flowing past a midnight deadline into mid-March, but it emerged from bipartisan negotiations with $100 billion in disaster rate and dozens of other unrelated policies.
02:11:30.000The bill appeared doomed when Mr. Trump weighed in late Wednesday afternoon saying lawmakers need to pass a temporary funding bill without Democrat giveaways and said it should be combined with an increase in the debt ceiling, which is the cap on how much money the United States is authorized to borrow to meet its financial obligations. which is the cap on how much money the United Just as conservative Republicans and Mr. Musk were railing against the bipartisan deal for adding too much spending to the national debt, Mr. Trump called for raising the debt ceiling,
02:11:59.000insisting Republicans must increase it as part of the spending package so the borrowing limit would go up while President Biden is still in office. insisting Republicans must increase it as part of the spending The borrowing limit is expected to be reached sometime in January, and a failure to increase it would cause a default on the nation's debt.
02:12:16.000Mr. Trump acknowledged he did not want to shoulder the responsibility for doing so.
02:12:29.000Congress just appropriates money when they start to run out.
02:12:34.000And every time they appropriate money, both sides use it as leverage over the other.
02:12:39.000Without a continuing resolution to keep the money going, the government defaults and the Biden administration doesn't want, or rather they don't default, but they shut down.
02:12:51.000The Biden administration doesn't want to shut down because they might be blamed for it.
02:12:56.000Republicans don't want to shut down because Democrats control the media and there's a good chance they won't make people believe that It's the Republicans' fault.
02:13:05.000And so all the time, this has been the story of the past 30, 40 years.
02:13:10.000We've covered many government shutdowns on the show and close calls.
02:13:15.000Whenever there's a debt ceiling negotiation, an omnibus bill, a NDAA bill, there's always one of these showdowns over appropriations.
02:14:00.000This is what got Kevin McCarthy overthrown back in October 2023. About a week before October 7th, McCarthy was overthrown because the exact same thing happened.
02:14:10.000They were trying to put together these 12 appropriations bills around the same time, roughly speaking.
02:14:43.000Until finally when Iran bombed Israel, Republicans and Democrats gave up both of their demands, although really more the Republicans, and they decided to pass the funding for Ukraine separately, pass the funding for Israel separately, pass the spending bill separately, and then not do anything on immigration.
02:15:04.000And that brings us to where we are now.
02:15:07.000That spending bill from April, when they gave up, that basically brings us to where we are right now.
02:15:16.000Before that, again, it was this six months negotiation going back to October.
02:15:21.000Before that, it was the debt ceiling negotiation in May and June of 2023, when Marjorie Greene and others let us down and they raised the debt ceiling until January 2025. They suspended it indefinitely.
02:15:37.000Until January 2025, when a new president and a new Congress would come in.
02:15:43.000And at the time, we said that was a terrible decision.
02:15:53.000And this time, they're coming out with this bill.
02:15:56.000And the bill ties a few things together for political pressure.
02:16:00.000It says in order to fund the government and critically in order to get hurricane relief to North Carolina, you need all of this pork barrel spending.
02:16:12.000And really what they're doing is holding these things hostage.
02:16:15.000They're saying that if you don't pass our pork barrel spending, then we will deprive North Carolina of disaster relief money.
02:16:23.000And we will also shut the government down, creating a political liability.
02:16:28.000So there's political pressure coming from two places.
02:16:35.000Whoever refuses to relent will be blamed for the shutdown.
02:16:40.000And whoever is blamed for the shutdown will also be blamed for holding up the money to people that need it, to people who are impacted by the hurricanes in Florida and North Carolina earlier in the year.
02:16:53.000So people especially, congressmen especially, don't want to be blamed.
02:16:57.000Again, not only for not voting for it and causing a shutdown, which is already bad PR, but causing the shutdown which stalls or withholds indefinitely relief money for the victims of a natural disaster.
02:17:12.000And that is how they get every member of Congress to pass a bill, which they didn't read.
02:18:27.000You'll be blamed for the shutdown and for withholding the money to people that lost their homes and need medical care because their house got washed away in a river surge in a hurricane, a storm surge in a hurricane.
02:18:44.000And by the way, Maybe the biggest problem is what is not considered in the bill, which Trump pointed out.
02:18:51.000Not only does the bill attach the hurricane relief money to these other things, many of which aren't even good, but it also doesn't address the debt ceiling.
02:19:01.000And what happens in January, what is talked about in this article, what Trump posted on True Social, what I mentioned a moment ago, is the debt ceiling.
02:20:02.000Even though the money has been appropriated, meaning that Congress has authorized the use of the funds, they have not increased the amount of money that we can borrow to meet those obligations.
02:20:19.000So, for example, last year, in 2023, Congress was authorized to spend so many trillions of dollars on But in order to spend them, we would have crossed the threshold of the borrowing limit set by a previous Congress.
02:20:37.000And so we literally could not borrow the cash to pay for the obligations that Congress had already authorized.
02:20:47.000So there had to be a negotiation in the Congress to increase the borrowing limit so we could borrow cash to keep funding or obligations for these appropriations, which had already been approved by the Congress.
02:21:03.000And so they did that last June in May and June 2023.
02:21:17.000If they don't raise the debt ceiling, then the government literally can't borrow money.
02:21:22.000And if it can't borrow money, then it has no money to pay its obligations.
02:21:25.000They have to wait for tax receipts to come in.
02:21:28.000And that doesn't happen until the following April.
02:21:31.000You don't get all the money until the end of the next tax season.
02:21:34.000So what happens is the government defaults on its debt.
02:21:39.000If the government doesn't have the money to pay for interest, if it doesn't have the money to pay for Medicare and Social Security, it starts to default.
02:21:58.000And theoretically, it's argued that it could be solved a monetary policy, but that would be extraordinary.
02:22:06.000So this gives Congress and particularly the House of Representatives leverage.
02:22:11.000The House of Representatives has the power of the purse under the Constitution.
02:22:15.000All spending bills, all appropriations bills must originate in the House, which at the time Republicans controlled.
02:22:22.000So last year during the summer, the Biden administration needed the House to pass legislation.
02:22:29.000A bill to raise the debt ceiling so they could keep borrowing money to meet their obligations to avoid a default to crash the economy, which would be very bad for them.
02:22:41.000This is where Republicans are in the driver's seat, or at least they should be.
02:22:44.000And they should extract concessions and say, well, we were elected to control the House.
02:22:50.000We were elected to control the purse strings.
02:22:53.000And we believe the spending is irresponsible and out of control.
02:22:57.000And if you want us to increase the debt ceiling, then we need a commitment to rein in the deficit spending.
02:23:02.000That is what Republicans should have done.
02:23:05.000Or they should have said, we want to extract other concessions.
02:23:09.000In order for us to raise the debt ceiling, we want the capital tapes released.
02:23:30.000The cities need to be bailed out by the states.
02:23:32.000The states need to be bailed out by the federal government.
02:23:36.000It's not outside the realm of possibility that Republicans say, we're not going to raise a debt ceiling because we have a completely irresponsible illegal immigration policy which is driving the deficit.
02:23:50.000They raised the debt ceiling, meaning that the government could borrow as much as it wanted until 2025, conveniently, when the next government comes to power, when the next Congress is seated in the first week of January, and when the next president, whether it was Trump or Biden, would be inaugurated on January 20th.
02:24:11.000Republicans gave it up for nothing last year.
02:24:14.000And so now that Trump has won the election, guess what happens in January?
02:24:18.000He goes crashing into the debt ceiling.
02:24:21.000The debt ceiling is reasserted in January.
02:24:40.000If you are optimistic about Trump and his second term and what might be possible, consider that there are three branches of government and the other two are not cooperative.
02:24:50.000Honestly, three of them are not cooperative with the president because the executive branch is now a vast bureaucracy made up of departments and agencies which are run by rhinos that Trump will largely appoint and many who will turn over from the last administration.
02:25:06.000And this is one of those battles where you see this on full display.
02:25:13.000Trump is inaugurated in January and six months after his inauguration, he finds himself in a massive appropriations battle where Democrats and moderate Republicans have leverage.
02:25:25.000They're all thinking about the midterm elections in 2026 and they're all thinking about an up and down vote on an appropriations bill.
02:25:34.000And almost certainly the Democrats and moderate Republicans are going to say they oppose Trump's most radical policies or they want certain concessions for the Democrats.
02:25:47.000And certainly they'll say that in the Senate.
02:25:50.000So it puts Trump in a position where he's bent over a barrel here.
02:25:55.000He needs them to raise the debt ceiling because his treasury needs to be able to borrow to meet their obligations.
02:26:02.000But he needs to go through Congress, which is made up of Republican leadership, which is hostile to his agenda.
02:26:07.000And where Democrats still have the power of the filibuster in the Senate and where Democrats still have like nearly 50 percent of the seats in the House.
02:26:18.000Republicans will have the smallest majority in history in the House of Representatives in the next two years.
02:26:23.000So Trump is saying now, hey, let's raise the debt ceiling while Biden is the president.
02:26:31.000Why would we raise the debt ceiling for Biden in June 2023?
02:26:37.000But why would we not do that for the incoming Trump administration in January?
02:26:42.000In other words, why set the administration up to fail in a high-stakes negotiation, which will be bad politics?
02:26:50.000And it's bad politics, one, because he's at the mercy of Congress, and two, it's bad politics because it creates this hypocrisy.
02:27:00.000Trump ran on a platform of fiscal responsibility.
02:27:04.000Well, how does that look if six months into his presidency he's raising the debt ceiling?
02:27:11.000Doesn't that look like he can't get the debt under control?
02:27:14.000Obviously, in practice, no president can undo our structural economic problems in six months.
02:27:58.000And all this does is circumscribe Trump's options as the president.
02:28:03.000If Trump has priorities, this is where Mike Johnson gets to become a fiscal hawk and say, oh, I'm terribly sorry.
02:28:11.000But we can't do what you want us to do because we have to get our spending in control in order to raise the debt ceiling and good conscience.
02:28:19.000In order for us to allow you to borrow more money, first we need to do the responsible thing and make commitments to borrow less money in the future.
02:28:28.000And all that does is handcuff the president.
02:28:30.000That means that Biden got to spend as much money as he wanted.
02:28:34.000He got to print money to give to Ukraine, print money to give to black people as COVID stimulus, and Which prioritize non-whites and women.
02:28:44.000He got to print money for chips, print money for infrastructure.
02:28:47.000He got to print money for all the good stuff and get all the glory and the credit.
02:28:51.000And then when Trump comes into office, suddenly his so-called allies are going to want to tighten the belt and say, hey, not so fast.
02:29:04.000So Trump acutely understands the battle to come and Which is that in just seven months from now, not six months into his presidency, he's going to face this debt ceiling battle.
02:29:18.000And actually in March, he's going to face another appropriations battle, which will come due around the same time, around May or June.
02:29:26.000He's thinking ahead, saying, why would we give the Democrats all this stuff that they want?
02:29:33.000In a continuing resolution when we won the mandate, why will we let Biden get one more victory?
02:29:39.000Why will we let him and the Democrats ride off into the sunset and saddle Trump with this negotiation over the debt ceiling?
02:29:48.000So Trump and Elon have intervened to sabotage the deal.
02:30:20.000Well, since Trump started to launch a revolt and other Republicans started to revolt in the party, Mike Johnson considered invoking a special rule, which requires two-thirds of the vote, but he would get a good percentage of Republicans and then mostly Democrats to bypass the majority of Republicans and get it through the House to get to the Senate.
02:30:43.000So in other words, instead of getting—instead of the Republican-controlled House passing the bill with most Republicans and Democrats, he would discount the objections of most Republicans, get a small fraction of them, and then all the Democrats to basically betray the Republicans, get it past them.
02:31:04.000It requires a higher vote threshold, but if he can combine powers with the Democrats, he could get it through— And he could deliver it to Chuck Schumer, who will then deliver it to Biden for it to be signed.
02:31:17.000That was his plan B. That's exactly what Kevin McCarthy did.
02:31:21.000But with the intervention of Elon Musk and Trump on social media, now they don't even have enough Republican votes to do that.
02:31:28.000Now that Elon is threatening to spotlight every Republican that votes for it, now they don't even have the Republican support.
02:31:36.000With the majority of Democrats or all of them to get it through the House.
02:32:14.000It says, quote, The bill also provides full funding for the reconstruction of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore that collapsed in March.
02:32:42.000Lawmakers set aside $10 billion in direct assistance available to farmers who applied for a federal agricultural funding program.
02:32:51.000In a legislative slate of hand reported by Bloomberg, the spending bill's drafters omitted that provision, this time positioning members for a 3.8% raise Or $6,600 for most members.
02:33:06.000Tucked into the legislation is $250 million in emergency spending to increase access to childcare for working families.
02:33:14.000$250 million for innovations to childcare facilities damaged by natural disasters.
02:33:20.000It allows E15 ethanol to be sold year-round.
02:33:24.000An additional $25 million to protect the residences of Supreme Court justices.
02:33:31.000Requires vendors selling tickets to concert sports and other gatherings to disclose to consumers the total ticket price at the beginning of a transaction.
02:33:40.000Transfers control of the Robert Kennedy Memorial Stadium from the federal government to the District of Columbia, paving the way for a Washington Commanders football stadium.
02:33:51.000Criminalizes the publication of non-consensual intimate visual depictions including deep fake pornography and requiring social media platforms to have procedures in place to remove the content.
02:34:03.000Increases new restrictions on pharmacy benefit managers.
02:34:07.000Throws out a requirement the lawmakers buy healthcare coverage on an insurance exchange established by the ACA. So I actually don't know which of these is a give-me to the Democrats.
02:34:32.000They're going out there and saying, this bill gives all this stuff to the Democrats.
02:34:38.000None of this is really ideologically that bad, as far as I'm aware.
02:34:45.000I understand why maybe Republicans don't want Democrats to get the credit for some of it or why some of it is not ideal.
02:34:52.000People are complaining about the stadium.
02:35:55.000And so Congress delayed and stalled and sabotaged for years until Trump lost the House in 2018.
02:36:03.000And then there was gridlock until the end and he couldn't get any major policy through Congress.
02:36:09.000And so I almost wonder if this is more of a chess move, it's strategy, so that Trump and Elon will be in a stronger position to negotiate with Congress next year to reset that relationship.
02:36:38.000And if there's a government shutdown on Friday, Congress leaves for Christmas.
02:36:42.000They come back and then the new Congress is seated and then maybe the thought process is they'll be able to pass a bill with a Republican House and Senate.
02:37:03.000Wait for a Republican Senate to be seated and With 54 votes in the majority, or 53 plus one, wait for a new house to be seated, they'll retain their majority, then they don't have to negotiate with the Democrats.
02:37:20.000And then they could start off with a huge spending bill, they could address the debt ceiling while Biden is still technically the president.
02:37:59.000And then they could rewrite it and they could have the debt ceiling in there at the beginning or whatever other provision they want.
02:38:06.000Either way, I love to see it because this is exactly the approach that we're going to need.
02:38:14.000If Trump is going to achieve anything in the next four years, he needs to reset the relationship of the executive with the legislative because the biggest unspoken problem of American government is just how much power has been relinquished by the actual elected officials.
02:38:32.000Congress actually has very little power.
02:38:35.000It is the think tanks and the lobbyists and the Congressional staffers that are responsible for most of the legislation.
02:38:45.000It is the departments and agencies inside the executive branch which actually interpret and enforce those laws.
02:38:53.000And so we're at the point now where the president and the actual elected members of the Congress don't do very much.
02:39:03.000And they do a lot, but considering the vast business, the sprawling federal government, they do very little in relation to the actual day-to-day activities of the state.
02:39:15.000We have had the government change hands many times over the years.
02:39:19.000The House, the Senate, the White House, and yet almost everything remains exactly the same.
02:39:32.000And so if Trump can take full control of the executive, and if he can reset the relationship with Congress and exert some leadership there, it will be a true political revolution.
02:41:03.000It does indicate that the Trump administration is at least serious about achieving its priorities in the next term because they're not going to be able to do anything if they're shackled to an uncooperative Republican majority.
02:49:37.000first grow up percent twenty dollars free my nigga raised fist thank you oddfall sent five dollars we love you goat thank you brody unfiltered sent five dollars hi first super chat big fan and your coffee mug looks high quality how much would you sell it for thanks in advance also Dexter is the best show of all time despite how faggy the viewer base is also you mugged the police snowflake thank you Ricoid sent five dollars thoughts on Evan Kilgore disavowing you thoughts leave your thoughts in the replies below do you agree or disagree
02:50:04.000I think he's pathetic and he could go and hang out a Morgan Ariel They could go start their own movement.
02:50:11.000Raise your hand if you became a Groyper because of Evan Kilgore and Morgan Ariel.
02:51:11.000And you only get to put on a show that's entertaining like this if you have a natural ability and if you practice for thousands of hours from a very young age.
02:54:13.000So you had to sit at a table with no cards and a pen, and you'd actually have to bring a physical box of news stories that you had printed out in advance of the tournament.
02:54:25.000You'd actually have to go on the internet, do research, print articles on fucking paper, and put them in a file, in like a filing box, inside of files, by category.
02:54:38.000So one category might be healthcare, one might be the Middle East, one might be the economy.
02:54:44.000And you'd know what your research was.
02:54:47.000You'd have to go and pick these topics and you'd have to evaluate, which topic do I have the most research on?
02:54:54.000And then you have to go and sit and And you get 45 minutes to prepare a seven-minute speech with six sources, meaning you have to pull these clippings and memorize the date, the publication, and the information.
02:55:11.000So you'd have to say, you know, maybe one question was, talk about the rise of the Houthi rebels in Yemen.
02:55:21.000You know, that was going on at the time in like 2014, 2015. You know, one of the questions would be like, what will the effect of the Houthi rebels coming to power in Yemen be?
02:55:32.000And you'd have to say, well, the effect will be, one, this expands Iran's influence in the region.
02:55:38.000Two, this is going to draw Saudi Arabia into the war.
02:55:43.000And three, it's going to have an effect on oil prices.
02:55:45.000And for each point, you need two citations.
02:55:48.000You need to say, according to Associated Press on February 6, 2014, The Houthis gained control of Yemen after they overthrew the government, blah, blah, blah.
02:55:58.000You have to memorize all that, write out a note card, and then memorize the speech.
02:56:03.000And then, boom, you'd have to give the speech.
02:56:06.000And I would literally show up, and I would just...
02:56:58.000I'd write my note card and then I would just sit there and And I would just go over it in my head internally.
02:57:05.000Everybody else would be like talking to the wall.
02:57:08.000Everybody else, it was so fucking cringe.
02:57:11.000Everybody else would be like, they would write out their speech and then they'd stand in the hallway in front of like a locker because it took place at like high schools.
02:57:19.000And they would be giving the speech to the locker.
02:57:22.000You'd literally walk up and down the hall and there'd be 25 people like giving a speech to the locker.
02:57:28.000It's like that gif of the black guy talking to a brick wall.
02:57:30.000They'd literally be there like, And they'd be giving a speech to the wall.
02:59:47.000I forget what the actual topic was, but I came in and said something like, it was like a baseball analogy.
02:59:56.000And I was like, well, Barack Obama could be forgiven for not understanding the rules of baseball, given that he was born in Kenya.
03:00:04.000And you've got to keep in mind, that's not super edgy now, but back in those days, super edgy, and the judges were extremely liberal.
03:00:13.000So I would go in and just say crazy shit like that, and this guy would come in week after week, And kept getting more desperate.
03:00:22.000It was crazy because, you know, the way it works is you would go and you do three rounds, you know, where, you know, you and the other extent people, you go into a room and you give your speech.
03:00:36.000Next guy comes in, gives his speech, sits down.
03:00:39.000Next guy comes in, gives his speech, sits down.
03:01:34.000And then, you know, the best part about it was at the end of the day, you would go to the auditorium for the award ceremony and they would do one event after the other.
03:01:47.000I recognize maybe the story isn't that interesting anymore, but I'm going to plow ahead anyway.
03:01:53.000And so we would go to the awards ceremony, and the way they do it is they talk about the finalists, you know, and then they call out in descending order the top-placed contenders, you know.
03:02:08.000So they'll say, in seventh place, from whatever, so-and-so, come get your award, stand on the stage.
03:05:17.000That's why I tell people not to do content because if you were meant to do content, you would know it because you would love it and you would be doing it your entire life.
03:05:30.000And if you're not, then it's not for you.
03:05:58.000It's about, you know, whether you're born for it.
03:06:02.000And if you're born for it, you love it, you're drawn to it, you do it all the time.
03:06:06.000I mean, I was really doing a show before I was even in front of a camera because I just like the performance and I like the dialogue and I love the subject matter.
03:06:49.000And there's a lesson in that for anybody.
03:06:53.000The sooner you find out, this may sound like super generic advice, but the sooner that you find out that thing that you love, then the sooner you know what to do with your life.
03:08:36.000You know, if you're some dumb idiot, you should be working some job with repeatable, simple tasks and adult supervision.
03:08:44.000But if you have any kind of objectively real skill or aptitude and if you have a passion for something, you just have to decide to do that.
03:08:56.000And I always figured if I just become really, really, really good at something, it will be valuable and people will pay for it.
03:09:03.000That's why I was never hung up on the money.
03:09:05.000I was never hung up on the other shit.
03:11:52.000You know, because most people, the vast majority of people are pathetic subhumans that just want to, and like, no, it's not pathetic, it's fine.
03:12:02.000You know, but a lot of people really do just want a wife, Jack.
03:12:05.000That's why people were so offended by my criticism, because a lot of people, at the end of the day...
03:12:11.000They really are mediocre and they just want a wife, Jack.
03:12:14.000They really just want to watch their stupid entertainment.
03:12:18.000They want to have their stupid wife and they really just want to do their little thing.
03:14:58.000Suddenly they all have the balls to criticize Reagan.
03:15:02.000At the same time, the policies are basically the same.
03:15:07.000Despite all the rhetoric, because that's really all it is, rhetoric about trade, rhetoric about immigration, rhetoric about foreign policy.
03:15:17.000You're getting peace through strength.
03:15:20.000You're getting tax cuts for the rich and corporations.
03:17:42.000genuinely who is he trying to appeal to with that black man polish women tweet his audience is all white guys did he think they'd be hyped up by the tweet what do you think manorino's play was I have no idea That's why I said, I'm like, what the fuck is wrong with you?
03:19:21.000Are posters on public institutions and flyers handed out at government rallies on the ideas of white identity, Jewish subversion, race realism, and gender realism key to its formation?
03:19:28.000The Northwest Imperative by Charles Knight and the Ethnostate by Wilmot Robertson.
03:20:29.000You might call today's topic about the shutdown boring, but if you don't have TikTok brain and can actually pay attention, this is stuff people need to hear and at least try to understand.
03:21:08.000Pierce said in the interview with Candace that he's become more of a journalist and tries to really understand the person I'm interviewing.
03:21:13.000Yet this faggot attacked Dan Bilesarian on his show for Israel points and just cried anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi.
03:22:31.000My favorite clip I've seen this week was Keith and Paul laughing at this black kid whose punishment for acting up in school was his mom making him Fortnite dance on camera while he was crying.
03:22:37.000I kind of feel bad for him, but that shit was so funny.