America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - GRAND OLD TRANNY? Don Jr SWEARS ALLEGIANCE To TRANNIES, HORRIBLE | America First Ep. 1146GRAND OLD TRANNY? Don Jr SWEARS ALLEGIANCE To TRANNIES, HORRIBLE | America First Ep. 1146

00:00:00.000 Now looking more like it's out of dependency that the Europeans are allied with the United States.

00:00:07.000 They rely on and depend entirely on the United States nuclear umbrella and on the United States power projection capability.

00:00:16.000 They as an independent entity do not have even the capability to operate individually or collectively as an entity that you could say is European separately from Washington.

00:00:32.000 And that's a big problem, especially as the United States is now refocusing on and shifting towards China.

00:00:40.000 So it's a huge speech today.

00:00:42.000 Macron is speaking on how Europe needs to break away from the American defense industry, the American officers, policymakers, and they need to exert themselves as their own European entity.

00:00:56.000 And so this brings to light

00:00:58.000 Potentially a conversation about a European Army, a European Centralized Command, something like NATO without America, NATO that's just Europe.

00:01:11.000 And it's a complicated subject because, as you know, the United Kingdom broke away from the European Union seven years ago.

00:01:21.000 And there's all kinds of questions concerning what this would even look like.

00:01:25.000 There's only one country now within the European Union that has nuclear weapons.

00:01:30.000 Does that nuclear umbrella extend to Poland? 0.83

00:01:33.000 Does it extend to the Balkans?

00:01:36.000 Who makes the decisions?

00:01:39.000 Will France or Germany be able to send people from Croatia into a war someplace else?

00:01:44.000 It's a very complicated situation because unlike the United States, these are all sovereign, independent countries.

00:01:52.000 So many of the European nations want to be sovereign from America, but how many of them want to submit their sovereignty to Brussels, or Paris, or Berlin, or some other capital?

00:02:06.000 It's a very tricky subject.

00:02:08.000 So we'll talk about all that tonight, and there's not too much going on in America.

00:02:13.000 It's a pretty slow news day, but this speech is a pretty big deal in light of everything that's been happening in the world.

00:02:19.000 So it's going to be a little bit of a foreign policy show tonight.

00:02:23.000 We'll talk about the FBI, but that's not a huge story.

00:02:26.000 To me, the more interesting story, the bigger story, is what's happening with France, and this new vision articulated by Macron.

00:02:34.000 It's been a long time coming, it's a very big deal, and it goes hand-in-hand with what we've been talking about lately, which is how the world order is realigning, especially in the wake of the Ukraine crisis, and now, in particular, in the last month, all these developments with China. 0.63

00:02:53.000 So we'll talk about all that.

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00:04:11.000 The other thing I wanted to cover before I get into the news, not a huge deal but I do just have to bring it up.

00:04:20.000 I don't know if you saw this but, I don't know if this was today, yesterday, but Don Jr., Trump's son, was on the Full Send podcast.

00:04:30.000 And they ask him about the transgender thing.

00:04:33.000 And I said yesterday, I've been saying for a long time that I don't like the transgender issue because this is like becoming an obsession for the conservatives. 0.93

00:04:44.000 And as I've said, this is on the fringe.

00:04:48.000 It is the tip of the spear right now for the left.

00:04:51.000 That's the frontline issue.

00:04:53.000 That's the furthest extent of their

00:04:57.000 Of their forward advance with the social progress.

00:05:01.000 So I get why that is the confrontation.

00:05:05.000 But I've always said that we have to push further than just trans.

00:05:08.000 We've got to talk about the whole enchilada.

00:05:11.000 We have to talk about feminism. 1.00

00:05:13.000 We have to talk about homosexuality. 1.00

00:05:15.000 We have to talk about contraceptives, abortion. 0.96

00:05:18.000 You cannot just say that we're going to disallow

00:05:23.000 Some types of transgenderism for some groups.

00:05:28.000 As many conservatives, that seems now to be their position.

00:05:32.000 I've said this for a long time.

00:05:34.000 But the other day I said, well, I don't know.

00:05:36.000 Because it seems like that's an easy one.

00:05:39.000 You got even guys like Aiden Ross going out there and saying there's two genders.

00:05:45.000 But I saw this interview, and I didn't watch the whole thing, but I saw this clip where Full Send, and these are very popular guys, and they're actually seen as conservative.

00:05:55.000 They're pro-Trump, they have appeared with Trump in the past, they interviewed him.

00:06:00.000 And these guys are very mainstream, they're very popular, millions of subscribers, young people, college kids love them.

00:06:08.000 And so they are considered nominally in the mainstream discourse to be right-leaning conservative types.

00:06:17.000 They just had Tucker Carlson on the other week.

00:06:20.000 Well they have Don Jr.

00:06:21.000 on and they say, well what do you think about the transgenders?

00:06:24.000 And Don Jr.

00:06:25.000 says, I'm a liberal.

00:06:27.000 I'm a liberal on this issue, he goes.

00:06:30.000 And he says that if adult people want to be transgender, that's fine.

00:06:36.000 But it's just these kids that we have to protect.

00:06:39.000 And everybody, understandably, flips out.

00:06:41.000 They said, what?

00:06:42.000 You're liberal?

00:06:42.000 How could you be liberal on this issue?

00:06:45.000 This is like the one issue where you're allowed not to be a liberal, right?

00:06:49.000 That's my whole contention.

00:06:52.000 It is so weird and it's so offensive to any normal person's conscience that anybody, even famous people, can afford to not be liberal on this issue.

00:07:05.000 You cannot afford to be liberal on, or rather conservative is what I mean.

00:07:11.000 You cannot afford to be conservative on feminism. 0.98

00:07:15.000 You cannot afford to be conservative on homosexuality. 0.77

00:07:19.000 You cannot afford to be conservative on even abortion, as the last few elections are evidence of.

00:07:25.000 You can't afford to be conservative on any of it, on any of the social agenda.

00:07:30.000 Transgenderism is the one thing that famous people can be conservative on, and do not have to be liberal on.

00:07:38.000 Even somebody like J.K.

00:07:39.000 Rowling, who's a hardcore feminist, liberal British woman, even she is conservative on this issue. 0.94

00:07:48.000 But Don Jr., son of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee who's supposed to be the guy, says, well, I'm actually quite liberal on it.

00:07:58.000 And I think it's just about protecting kids, but if you want to be trans, that's your prerogative. 1.00

00:08:03.000 And so understandably, these guys like Matt Walsh and others are saying, hey, what's the story?

00:08:10.000 We've been working so hard for all this time to consolidate and to make it possible for people to be conservative on this issue.

00:08:20.000 Why are you saying you're liberal?

00:08:21.000 Here's where it gets better.

00:08:22.000 I mean, that's bad enough, but then it gets better.

00:08:24.000 Charlie Kirk weighs in.

00:08:27.000 And this is in response to everybody who's been attacking Don Jr.

00:08:30.000 for this.

00:08:31.000 Pedro Gonzalez tweeted today, Donald Trump Jr.

00:08:35.000 says he supports transgenderism and is liberal on the issue.

00:08:39.000 What's especially insane about this is that it comes after the Nashville shooting.

00:08:43.000 The right has invested so much effort into arguing transgenderism is a threat to families and sanity.

00:08:49.000 Then the Trump family comes in and smashes it by legitimizing transgenderism. 0.97

00:08:54.000 Biden himself couldn't do better to undermine opposition to the left than these people.

00:09:00.000 Charlie Kirk comes in, he replies to Pedro, defending Trump, and says, knowing Don, this is an unfair mischaracterization of his position.

00:09:11.000 Few people have been more vocal about fighting back against the radical trans movement than Don Jr. 0.56

00:09:16.000 The issue is not that some dude wants to wear a dress in his living room, it's that they're indoctrinating kids.

00:09:25.000 And I said this on Telegram, yeah, that's the liberal position.

00:09:30.000 That's by definition the liberal position.

00:09:33.000 What is liberalism?

00:09:35.000 Everyone is an individual.

00:09:37.000 Everyone is free to choose to do with their life what they see fit.

00:09:43.000 Who are we to stand in the way?

00:09:45.000 By what authority?

00:09:48.000 By what knowledge do we presume to be able to tell the sovereign, sacred individual what he ought to or ought not to do in the comfort of his own home?

00:10:01.000 That's liberalism.

00:10:03.000 That's what he's saying.

00:10:05.000 He's saying, you can wear a dress in your living room, just don't touch the kids.

00:10:10.000 Well, that's liberalism.

00:10:13.000 That actually is the liberal position.

00:10:17.000 And it goes further than this.

00:10:18.000 It's not just to say, you're liberal, therefore you're liberal, and that's a problem.

00:10:24.000 But this position, this angle, is deeply flawed.

00:10:29.000 And you hear this on every issue.

00:10:31.000 It's not just transgenderism. 0.75

00:10:33.000 You hear this on gay. 0.57

00:10:34.000 You hear this on feminism. 1.00

00:10:36.000 You even hear this on things that aren't even necessarily social issues.

00:10:40.000 This idea of hiding behind the kids.

00:10:44.000 And I have talked about this on the show at great length.

00:10:47.000 And I don't know if people thought I was purity spiraling or if they thought I was crazy.

00:10:52.000 If you did, here's why I say this.

00:10:57.000 For example, recently there was a bill in Utah

00:11:00.000 And it was about technology.

00:11:04.000 I forget the specifics, but it said we are gonna ban, maybe it was, screen time on social media for children under the age of 18.

00:11:13.000 And I said, this is great, but in principle there's a problem with this kid stuff.

00:11:19.000 Same thing with in Florida.

00:11:22.000 In Florida, Governor DeSantis signed a bill, the famous Don't Say Gay Bill, that banned discussion of gender and sex issues in the public school classrooms for children before the fourth grade.

00:11:37.000 It's everywhere.

00:11:38.000 It's always about age. 0.80

00:11:41.000 You can't teach them about gay until the fourth grade.

00:11:44.000 You can't promote transgenderism until they're a legal adult. 0.99

00:11:48.000 You can't have pornography in the society until they're at least 18 years old or if there are not abusive practices in the production of the pornography.

00:11:58.000 And then there's this.

00:11:59.000 You can be trans all day. 1.00

00:12:01.000 When he says you can wear a dress in your living room, do you know what that means?

00:12:05.000 It means you can be trans.

00:12:07.000 Because guess what?

00:12:08.000 People don't live in their living room.

00:12:10.000 They live in the world.

00:12:13.000 Obviously.

00:12:15.000 They live in their living room.

00:12:16.000 They live in their bedroom.

00:12:17.000 They live in their kitchen.

00:12:19.000 Then they get in their car and then they go and they live at work.

00:12:22.000 And sometimes they go and live at schools.

00:12:25.000 And sometimes they go and live with other people in relationships and they bring kids into the mix.

00:12:31.000 So what happens when you're in your living room wearing a dress as a man believing you're a woman and you also happen to be a person that has children in the home?

00:12:40.000 Well then what?

00:12:42.000 Well you can wear a dress in your living room but just not indoctrinate the kids.

00:12:47.000 Well it seems like those things are not mutually exclusive.

00:12:51.000 It seems like those things, the idea that you can have one but not the other, it seems totally incompatible.

00:13:00.000 And what I'm getting at here is that there is no such thing as the individual in privacy.

00:13:08.000 There is only the society in public.

00:13:12.000 Which is to say that no matter what decisions you make and what you think about them, whether they're only affecting you or they're only taking place within a certain boundary, we are all connected.

00:13:27.000 It is impossible to not be connected.

00:13:29.000 To not be connected is to not be in the society.

00:13:33.000 It's to be in some other country, or it's to be in the wild.

00:13:37.000 In which case, it's not even a conversation.

00:13:39.000 I don't think anybody's arguing what

00:13:42.000 A person does in the woods and no one's there to see it, we're talking about people that are in the society.

00:13:49.000 And insofar as you're in the society, you've got parents, you've got siblings, you've got a boss, or you've got employees, you've got neighbors, you've got people that you see on a daily basis.

00:14:02.000 And so this distinction that liberals, that's what this is, it might be right liberalism as opposed to left liberalism,

00:14:12.000 We're good to go.

00:14:23.000 Which is that you can separate and segregate out individuals and their choices don't affect everyone around them.

00:14:31.000 That they don't ripple horizontally in the current time, and that they don't ripple vertically across the generations.

00:14:39.000 And what do I mean by that?

00:14:41.000 If you're a transgender person and you go outside, this, yes, this affects and impacts everyone around you. 1.00

00:14:49.000 Everyone currently alive.

00:14:51.000 Maybe not everyone in the whole world, but it affects people in the here and now.

00:14:56.000 Everybody that looks at that, everybody that sees that, everything that has to change to accommodate this is affected.

00:15:06.000 Here's a perfect example.

00:15:07.000 If you're a transgender person and you're at work, what does every human being have to do at home, in their living room, or at work? 0.97

00:15:15.000 They gotta go to the bathroom. 0.94

00:15:17.000 Starting to see the issue?

00:15:20.000 And what happens when one of these adult consenting individuals who decided to do with their body what they wanted to do, leaves the living room and goes in public and has to use the bathroom?

00:15:31.000 Well, now we've got a problem.

00:15:34.000 Which bathroom are they going to use?

00:15:36.000 The boys' bathroom?

00:15:37.000 The girls' bathroom?

00:15:38.000 This guy in a dress?

00:15:39.000 Because if the guy in a dress goes into the girls' bathroom, which inevitably he will do in his life, he is going to scare and intimidate, probably harass, the women there.

00:15:53.000 And they're going to go and complain and protest.

00:15:56.000 So for him to be able to be a guy in a dress in his living room, he also has to be a guy in a dress in his living room who is able to use a girl's bathroom in public anywhere he goes. 0.76

00:16:07.000 Or else we're not really respecting his individual right to do to his body what he wants to do or to self-identify.

00:16:16.000 So now the society has to change to accommodate this.

00:16:20.000 It's the same thing in sports.

00:16:22.000 It's the same thing in all these areas.

00:16:24.000 It's like I've always said.

00:16:25.000 There is no such thing as a private, individual, moral decision that doesn't affect society.

00:16:32.000 Doesn't exist.

00:16:33.000 And when you see these issues like the bathroom, or sports, or even for that matter when we talk about indoctrinating children,

00:16:43.000 These are just the areas where this revolutionary attitude conflicts with the society.

00:16:51.000 If you believe that people have a right to be transgender, in other words, then it's just a matter of society changing to accommodate that. 0.99

00:17:00.000 If you think that people have a right to be transgender, they have to have a place to go to the bathroom. 1.00

00:17:05.000 So, you're either gonna let them in the girls' bathroom, or you gotta make a gender-neutral bathroom, if you think they have the right. 1.00

00:17:11.000 Because if they have a right to be transgender, if they change genders, then that means that they're a girl. 0.98

00:17:17.000 They get to use a girl's bathroom. 1.00

00:17:20.000 Or, if you think that they didn't really become fully a girl, they're just a transgender, but we recognize that, then you gotta have a transgender bathroom to accommodate. 0.88

00:17:31.000 And the same goes for sports, and the same goes for the rest of it.

00:17:35.000 We just have to get used to people liberally expressing their individual rights.

00:17:42.000 Moreover, when you make the argument about indoctrinating... So that's with regard to this idea of privacy of your own home.

00:17:51.000 We're okay with it in the privacy of your own home.

00:17:53.000 No such thing.

00:17:54.000 That's first of all.

00:17:56.000 Second of all, when it comes to the children, think about it this way.

00:18:00.000 We can let people be transgender if they want, just don't tell the children to be transgender.

00:18:06.000 What's the problem with that idea?

00:18:08.000 Which, by the way, I don't think that a lot of transgender people, maybe they don't even have a problem with that.

00:18:15.000 I think there are a lot of agreeable ones, and they present as non-threatening, like a Caitlyn Jenner, or even this Chris from Mr. Beast.

00:18:23.000 And their reasonable argument goes something like, I'm just doing what I want to do.

00:18:28.000 It's not your business.

00:18:32.000 So I think that that's actually a position that even a lot of left-wing people might have.

00:18:36.000 Although there are radical people that say that kids need to be indoctrinated with this gender ideology.

00:18:43.000 Point is, there's a lot of discussion on the topic.

00:18:46.000 Here's what I would have to put forward about this.

00:18:49.000 Children are exposed to a lot of things that we would not necessarily permit them to do.

00:18:55.000 Like, for example, alcohol.

00:18:58.000 Do adults refrain from drinking alcohol in front of children?

00:19:04.000 Is there alcohol in TV shows and commercials that children watch?

00:19:08.000 How about a young person watching a football game?

00:19:11.000 How many beer advertisements during the Super Bowl?

00:19:15.000 Nobody would say that a child should drink beer.

00:19:20.000 But then again, children are exposed to advertisements for alcohol, and they're expected to enjoy that responsibly when they're 21.

00:19:28.000 Why?

00:19:29.000 Because there's nothing intrinsically wrong with alcohol.

00:19:34.000 There's nothing intrinsically, there's nothing in itself that's wrong with alcohol.

00:19:39.000 There's problems with using it and driving.

00:19:42.000 There's problems with using it in excess.

00:19:45.000 There are problems with using it if you're not of the appropriate age.

00:19:49.000 But the reason why we don't care if kids see drinking is because there's nothing inherently wrong with it.

00:19:55.000 It's just not for kids.

00:19:57.000 Same thing with marriage or intimacy or sex.

00:20:01.000 Children can't get married, but yet they watch in Disney cartoons princes and princesses, and they watch in all kinds of shows, girlfriends and boyfriends and that kind of thing, for the same reason.

00:20:15.000 When they become adults, we fully expect them to partake in that, because there's nothing intrinsically wrong with it.

00:20:21.000 It's just not their time yet.

00:20:23.000 The problem with this argument about transgenderism is you want to have it both ways, which is we're going to abdicate the conviction, the moral conviction, which says it's wrong, it should not be allowed, but at the same time we want to allow people to do it and protect the children from it. 0.99

00:20:44.000 While you can't have things in society be permitted that are intrinsically wrong and immoral like transgenderism, 1.00

00:20:52.000 But then expect that children are not going to be exposed to it.

00:20:55.000 You can't have those both ways.

00:20:58.000 If transgender people are out there in the world, children are going to see a glimpse of that. 1.00

00:21:04.000 They're going to see it in the school.

00:21:05.000 They're going to see adults this way.

00:21:08.000 It's going to be out there.

00:21:09.000 And what would be the argument for covering that up?

00:21:12.000 Other than to say it's wrong, in which case it shouldn't be here.

00:21:17.000 So this line about it's about the kids, it just doesn't square.

00:21:22.000 The reason why we don't want kids to see it is because it's wrong.

00:21:28.000 It's intrinsically wrong.

00:21:29.000 It is wrong in itself.

00:21:31.000 It's not wrong because kids do it. 0.99

00:21:32.000 It's not wrong because kids want to cut their balls off. 0.99

00:21:36.000 It's wrong that anyone would want to cut their balls off. 0.99

00:21:38.000 That's why we don't want it anywhere. 0.98

00:21:40.000 That's why we don't want it promoted anywhere in the public square or in a family.

00:21:47.000 We're good to go.

00:22:09.000 And if it shocks everyone's conscience, it's such a transgression against the natural law, why would we say that anybody should be up to this and doing this?

00:22:20.000 That is the liberal position.

00:22:22.000 The liberal position is to believe in morality, but to defer any kind of moral pronouncement or any kind of moral conviction or decision out of fear of conflict.

00:22:35.000 That is liberalism.

00:22:36.000 That's where liberalism comes from.

00:22:39.000 Is the idea that these bigger issues, life and death issues, issues of God and morality and the natural law, are so contentious that people kill over them.

00:22:52.000 And rather than fight and die for what's right, we'll defer any moral pronouncement.

00:22:58.000 And we'll permit everyone to do what they can, with the exception of one immutable law, which is nobody wants to die.

00:23:06.000 Or rather, I should say, nobody wants to be killed.

00:23:09.000 Some people want to die, in which case you have euthanasia becoming popular in Canada and Europe.

00:23:16.000 Nobody wants to be harmed without their consent, I think is the new language.

00:23:21.000 Which is a logical conclusion that they've worked it out to.

00:23:27.000 Harm and consent.

00:23:28.000 Nobody should be harmed without their consent.

00:23:31.000 People can self-harm,

00:23:34.000 And people can harm each other, I suppose, with consent, but nobody can be harmed without their consent.

00:23:45.000 That's the only moral pronouncement anymore that can be made in a liberal society, and that's what's being done here.

00:23:53.000 And here's why this is a liberal position because, and this is where it comes from with children,

00:23:59.000 The argument that it cannot be shown to children, lest they be influenced by it, is that children cannot fully consent.

00:24:09.000 Because children are underdeveloped mentally, and so the idea is they cannot become transgender because they cannot consent. 0.97

00:24:17.000 Once they grow up and become an adult, well they can consent to whatever self-harm they want to do.

00:24:24.000 But God has a different idea of morality, which is not about harm and consent.

00:24:28.000 God has an idea of morality which is about our conscience and about a natural law and a moral law.

00:24:34.000 There's a lot more to it than that.

00:24:39.000 But conservatives are no different than liberals.

00:24:44.000 They may be different from progressives, but they're no different than liberals.

00:24:49.000 And I've said this for a long time.

00:24:51.000 All of this opposition against the trans issue, it is a fake.

00:24:56.000 It is a forgery.

00:24:58.000 It is a ruse.

00:25:00.000 It is not about protecting children.

00:25:02.000 It's not about morality.

00:25:04.000 It is not even a true social conservatism.

00:25:08.000 It is about circumscribing an acceptable level of degeneracy.

00:25:13.000 Circumscribing liberalism in a way that they feel comfortable with.

00:25:17.000 It's about moderating liberalism.

00:25:21.000 Transgenderism, fine, with an age limit. 1.00

00:25:24.000 Pornography, fine, with an age limit and some regulations.

00:25:29.000 Drugs, fine, with regulations and an age limit.

00:25:35.000 Abortion, fine, with a limit on how many weeks into the pregnancy before which an abortion is legal.

00:25:47.000 In every case, liberalism advances without any impediment.

00:25:53.000 It's unstoppably moving forward.

00:25:55.000 And conservatives are there not to push back, not to reverse it, not to divert it, not to change course.

00:26:02.000 Conservatives are there to say, hey, let's impose some reasonable regulations on that. 1.00

00:26:08.000 Let's circumscribe this in a way that is acceptable to old sensibilities, which are always evolving, by the way.

00:26:16.000 The sensibilities of the time are always changing.

00:26:19.000 The law is unmovable.

00:26:24.000 The law is an immovable standard.

00:26:26.000 Sensibilities change with time, and they're subjective, and they're relative.

00:26:31.000 So in the 1990s, when there was a social revolution happening, and conservatives said, hey, slow down.

00:26:39.000 Let's make this acceptable based on the sensibility of the time.

00:26:44.000 The sensibility of that time was relative and subjective, just like it is now.

00:26:49.000 And so if in 30 years, conservatism is doing the same thing, what will be the sensibilities of the adults making the decisions 30 years from now?

00:27:00.000 It'd be rooted in the kinds of things that children are being brought up believing today.

00:27:05.000 It would be different.

00:27:06.000 It would be more liberal.

00:27:08.000 This is what we call the slippery slope.

00:27:10.000 So this is why 0.96

00:27:13.000 60 years ago transgender and gay would be unthinkable, but you know women working wasn't so crazy. 1.00

00:27:18.000 And why 40 years before that women working and contraceptive was nuts, but women voting it seemed like this is where things need to go. 1.00

00:27:28.000 And that's why now

00:27:31.000 All those things are a given.

00:27:32.000 Yeah, women voting and working and contraceptives. 1.00

00:27:36.000 But the transgenderism, let's debate a little bit about the implementation of this.

00:27:41.000 What's it going to be in 10 years?

00:27:42.000 Pedophilia? 1.00

00:27:43.000 Well, you can rape kids as long as the kid is 13 and they give their consent. 0.99

00:27:49.000 Is that what it's going to be in 10 years? 0.98

00:27:51.000 Does it have to get there?

00:27:54.000 Where are we going to be in 20 years?

00:27:55.000 Are we going to have full-on euthanasia?

00:27:58.000 And I can only imagine the level of deviancy that'll be possible.

00:28:02.000 You see what goes on today.

00:28:07.000 But this is the problem.

00:28:09.000 It's the subjectivity.

00:28:11.000 It's the relativistic idea of what we ought to be doing as a society.

00:28:17.000 At some point you have to establish that there's rules.

00:28:20.000 There's moral rules.

00:28:21.000 We live in a moral universe.

00:28:23.000 We're moral beings.

00:28:24.000 We have to act in a moral way.

00:28:26.000 And the moral standard has to be fixed and unchanging and immovable.

00:28:31.000 Once you break away from that, you're gone.

00:28:34.000 You're just floating out there.

00:28:35.000 That's what it is.

00:28:38.000 So...

00:28:40.000 Where to even begin with a statement like this?

00:28:41.000 Don Jr.

00:28:42.000 says, I'm a liberal.

00:28:43.000 You can do whatever you like.

00:28:44.000 And Charlie Kirk goes, you're mischaracterizing it.

00:28:48.000 You can do whatever you want in your own home.

00:28:49.000 It's just about the kids that we want to protect.

00:28:52.000 Well, listen.

00:28:53.000 The only reason we want to protect our kids from depictions of this is because it is always wrong.

00:28:59.000 It is wrong when they're kids.

00:29:01.000 It will be wrong when they are adults.

00:29:03.000 Would anybody be satisfied with the idea that children would not be shown transgender propaganda? 0.94

00:29:10.000 But wait patiently to turn 18 and then castrate themselves?

00:29:14.000 Would anybody say that's okay?

00:29:16.000 You want to live in that society?

00:29:17.000 Are you satisfied with that?

00:29:20.000 Oh, well, good thing the child... Don't get me wrong.

00:29:22.000 You would have reduced the harm.

00:29:24.000 But is this the kind of society you want to live in?

00:29:28.000 Oh well, that's good.

00:29:29.000 All these 12 and 13 year olds that are being brainwashed with this gender ideology, they'll have to wait patiently until they're 18 to get their sex change, get castrated, start an OnlyFans, start smoking pot. 0.74

00:29:44.000 Good thing they waited until they were 18 to do all those things.

00:29:49.000 Said nobody.

00:29:52.000 So, we have to protect the kids from these things because we all know we don't want them doing those things when they're 5, 13, 18, 25, 50.

00:30:01.000 We don't want them to be doing it at all because it's wrong.

00:30:06.000 And so if that's the case, we need to have the moral conviction to say, I don't want my kids to see it because it's wrong.

00:30:12.000 And that's why people shouldn't be doing it even in their living rooms.

00:30:16.000 Now here's the thing.

00:30:18.000 You're always going to have people that are immoral.

00:30:21.000 You're always going to have that. 0.97

00:30:22.000 You will always have degenerates, deviants.

00:30:26.000 You will always have that in the society.

00:30:28.000 That will always be in the heart of man because we are fallen.

00:30:33.000 Whatever the sin, you're always going to have stealing, you're always going to have murder.

00:30:37.000 It's always going to be there.

00:30:41.000 And ironically, the question is how do you get people, if they are going to be deviant, to do it discreetly in a way that doesn't impose on anybody, in a way that doesn't scandalize or corrupt children?

00:30:53.000 It's by saying nobody can do it.

00:30:56.000 It'll still be out there, and it'll be quiet, but the only way that you arrive at a society where you minimize it to that level, to that proportion,

00:31:08.000 Where everyone understands that if it's that way, you better shut up about it, is if there is a society with the moral courage to say no.

00:31:19.000 It's wrong.

00:31:22.000 And that's the irony of the whole thing, because it's always going to be there.

00:31:28.000 There's always going to be an element of evil, but it is the role of the state and it is the responsibility of the people in the society to collectively say, that is immoral.

00:31:39.000 We do not tolerate that.

00:31:41.000 We will not have that in our society.

00:31:44.000 That's what you have to do.

00:31:47.000 The benefit, here's what, this is a revolutionary idea here.

00:31:51.000 Watch this.

00:31:54.000 A lot of people say that we are going to reject liberalism, which I do, and they say we're going to reverse it.

00:32:01.000 That's where I disagree.

00:32:02.000 And I said this in my speech at the rally.

00:32:04.000 I don't think we can rewind the clock and go back to where it was before liberalism happened.

00:32:13.000 Because it happened.

00:32:14.000 Liberalism happened.

00:32:17.000 Liberalism grew and expanded and became hegemonic and it has influenced the entire world.

00:32:24.000 There's pushback.

00:32:25.000 There is pushback in places like Russia and China and Iran and North Korea and Syria and Turkey and Hungary and there is pushback against liberalism.

00:32:39.000 But I would argue that

00:32:41.000 The ideas of liberalism are not all bad.

00:32:46.000 I think there are certain things and there are certain ideas which have gotten a hold of people.

00:32:51.000 Although they're not entirely true, they've gotten a hold of people because there is something in them that is true.

00:33:00.000 And so I think the answer is not an anti-liberal or an illiberal trying to undo liberalism.

00:33:08.000 It is going past liberalism.

00:33:11.000 We're never going to stop it and turn it around.

00:33:14.000 But what we can do is transcend it.

00:33:17.000 We can go past it.

00:33:19.000 We can divert it in a direction and assimilate it into something that is good.

00:33:26.000 And here is what I think the application of this is.

00:33:31.000 What makes liberalism appealing is that it is humane.

00:33:37.000 There's, and Fulton Sheen said this, in the Soviet Union, in Nazi Germany, you had the cross without the Christ.

00:33:45.000 You had the sacrifice, you had the individual sacrifice for the collective, you had the idea of mortification, of pain and suffering, but directed towards a higher purpose, which was in communism for the socialist paradise and all that.

00:34:01.000 He said in the West, you had the Christ without the cross.

00:34:03.000 You had the love,

00:34:05.000 Without the pain, without the sacrifice, without the humility.

00:34:09.000 It was just all love and tolerance.

00:34:12.000 And that's the feature that people like.

00:34:15.000 People like the idea that towards sinners, we're not going to decapitate them and we're not going to be cruel towards them or prejudicial, but we're going to understand them.

00:34:25.000 The error was in accommodating them.

00:34:28.000 The error was in this therapeutic solution that if we were just kind and nice and tolerant of sin, that it would make the sinners feel better, but it didn't.

00:34:40.000 Because sin is poison, and it corrupts the vessel that it's contained in. 0.91

00:34:45.000 And so what happened is that all the people in which we tolerated sin, the transgenders, the feminists, the homosexuals, the drug addicts, did that help them? 0.99

00:34:56.000 Were they better off for that? 0.94

00:34:58.000 Was that actually a humane thing?

00:35:01.000 Was it humane to not just be understanding and loving, but to be tolerant of their sins?

00:35:07.000 No!

00:35:09.000 It was the worst thing we could do. 1.00

00:35:12.000 And now you see transgenders, they're all killing themselves. 1.00

00:35:15.000 Many of them regret what they do and they'll live with the regret the rest of their lives. 1.00

00:35:20.000 They've destroyed their bodies.

00:35:22.000 They have wounded their chemistry.

00:35:25.000 We think about the body as being the physical, but they've also wounded their whole system, their endocrine system, all of that. 0.99

00:35:32.000 The homosexuals. 1.00

00:35:33.000 Take a look at the monkeypox epidemic and what that exposed about that sordid lifestyle. 1.00

00:35:38.000 The promiscuity, the drugs, all the rest.

00:35:43.000 Drug addicts.

00:35:44.000 We all know about that situation.

00:35:46.000 Even things like obesity.

00:35:47.000 If you saw that movie, The Whale, I mean we all know what fat people are like, but that's another piece of media which shows what a sick lifestyle that is.

00:35:57.000 People want to tolerate this.

00:35:59.000 People want to enable that.

00:36:02.000 And so I think that the answer is not to say, let's turn back the clock and hate on these people and be cruel towards them and be prejudiced towards them.

00:36:15.000 The answer is to apply what we've learned.

00:36:18.000 Which is that for a lot of these things, we can understand them.

00:36:21.000 Why are people transgender? 1.00

00:36:23.000 It has a lot to do with mental illness.

00:36:26.000 Because there is too high of a coincidence of people experiencing so-called body dysmorphia and autism.

00:36:34.000 Or some other antisocial personality disorder.

00:36:37.000 The same is true of homosexuality. 0.99

00:36:39.000 Drug abuse?

00:36:40.000 We see there's a genetic correlation with that.

00:36:42.000 Same with obesity.

00:36:43.000 There's also a connection with nutrition.

00:36:47.000 And so we could say that the answer is not to, and this is I think the big mistake, what conservatives do because they're unimaginative, and because in some cases there is a legitimate critique that they're prejudiced or that there's ignorance, conservatives say we gotta just act like people used to act.

00:37:09.000 And I don't think that's necessarily the answer.

00:37:12.000 I think the answer is to be as loving and as compassionate and as merciful and charitable as liberals towards these groups, but without tolerating these sins.

00:37:25.000 I think that's the answer.

00:37:28.000 It's to say that for these categories of people,

00:37:32.000 I don't think the answer is to beat them up or to make them afraid or to hurl insults at them or slurs, which I think is popular on Twitter.

00:37:44.000 I think the answer is to, and you know, without throwing pearls before swine, in terms of advocacy, the solution is that these people need to be identified and they need to be helped.

00:37:56.000 And help is not to enable them to persist in these lifestyles which we know are deeply immoral. 0.99

00:38:01.000 We know that it's not good to cut a slice of a person's skin off and roll it up into a penis and sew it on their crotch. 0.99

00:38:11.000 Like, we know that's not good for people. 0.99

00:38:13.000 We should not allow them to do that.

00:38:16.000 Without hating them, with compassion and understanding extended towards them, we should help these people see a better way.

00:38:23.000 And the same goes for all the other groups.

00:38:25.000 But I believe that that is why conservatives have lost the culture war.

00:38:29.000 Because there's no answer for these sinners.

00:38:34.000 There's no answer for them.

00:38:35.000 For liberals, there's this answer in, we're gonna bring everybody in, we're gonna wrap our arms around everyone and make them all feel welcome.

00:38:44.000 Now, they did marginalize one group, which is the intolerant and the moral.

00:38:48.000 They marginalized Catholics and Nazis and racists and so on.

00:38:52.000 But liberalism was able to become hegemonic because it opened its arms to everybody and brought them all in.

00:39:00.000 But people are realizing that liberalism doesn't have all the answers.

00:39:04.000 It was actually Satan, because that's what Satan does.

00:39:08.000 Invites you in with false promises like, you will never die.

00:39:11.000 Or you could become like God, which was the two original lies of the devil.

00:39:18.000 And in this way, the devil said, you can be who you really want to be.

00:39:22.000 You can love who you want.

00:39:24.000 You can feel good all the time.

00:39:25.000 You can do whatever you want and everyone has to be okay with that.

00:39:29.000 There are no consequences from living your truth or something like that.

00:39:37.000 And it's not to say that we should adopt any kind of false promise, but we should embrace the love of Christ towards these people.

00:39:45.000 Just not their

00:39:48.000 Errors.

00:39:49.000 So to me that, I look at this and I get it.

00:39:53.000 I get because, and I said this the other day with the Mr. Beast story, you see this guy Chris on Mr. Beast and he's totally sympathetic in a certain way.

00:40:03.000 A lot of people see this and here's the thing, transgenderism is something that is so intuitively repulsive to people that their disgust overpowers this liberal idea of compassion. 1.00

00:40:17.000 That's what it is.

00:40:20.000 More than anything else, transgenderism, because it is so visibly uncanny and unnerving and weird, people's disgust overpowers the usual programming. 1.00

00:40:32.000 Because any adolescent male, and really I think any adult male, and even a lot of women, just look at that and say, 0.99

00:40:40.000 What the fuck is that? 0.99

00:40:59.000 It's involuntary. 1.00

00:40:59.000 It's instinctual. 1.00

00:41:01.000 So I think that's what happens when you see a guy like Chris from Mr. Beast, there is a lot of pushback because people see it and it's jarring and it triggers their disgust reaction.

00:41:10.000 I'll tell you this though, that guy will win.

00:41:13.000 This transgenderism thing eventually will overpower that. 1.00

00:41:17.000 And it'll overpower that because the message is something like,

00:41:22.000 Hey, why are you attacking me?

00:41:24.000 Why are you being mean to me?

00:41:26.000 I'm just a victim.

00:41:27.000 I'm just a person that... I just want to be who I am and everybody's being mean to me.

00:41:34.000 And it's compelling.

00:41:35.000 It works.

00:41:36.000 That's how it's been for a lot of people.

00:41:38.000 Why can't I just do what I want to do?

00:41:40.000 I just want to do what I love.

00:41:42.000 If it's a woman working or it's whatever. 1.00

00:41:45.000 I just want to be myself.

00:41:46.000 I just want to do what I want to do.

00:41:48.000 And everyone's being mean to me.

00:41:51.000 Eventually that message is going to win. 0.99

00:41:53.000 Nobody wants to be the jerk. 0.99

00:41:55.000 And this is why Don Jr. 1.00

00:41:56.000 says this.

00:41:57.000 Don Jr. 1.00

00:41:58.000 doesn't want to be the jerk that says, I'm telling you, you can't do that because you know you're fucked up and this is at least that's how it's perceived. 1.00

00:42:08.000 You've made irreversible changes like the way you are is wrong. 1.00

00:42:14.000 And the solution is you don't have to be that guy.

00:42:16.000 You could be the guy that says, listen, I love you.

00:42:18.000 I understand you, but this is only going to harm yourself.

00:42:21.000 We know this is wrong.

00:42:23.000 We know it's unnatural.

00:42:25.000 It's only common sense.

00:42:26.000 It's common sense because that's conscience.

00:42:29.000 When people say common sense, wisdom is something that we could tap into.

00:42:34.000 And having a moral sense is also something that we're born with, something that's innate.

00:42:38.000 When you say common sense, it's like we all have knowledge we're born with.

00:42:43.000 Some say that all knowledge is interior.

00:42:45.000 That's another conversation.

00:42:48.000 But it's to say that, you know, we don't hate you, and there's a place for you in society, but it's not doing this.

00:42:56.000 It's just that nobody wants to be the bad guy.

00:42:58.000 Nobody wants to be the cruel, backwards person who's fighting progress, but that's what we have to do in a certain and an attackful way. 1.00

00:43:12.000 So that's the... it's very similar to the story about when Jesus encountered the prostitute and they said, well, hey, you gotta stone her. 0.98

00:43:19.000 You gotta stone her to death. 1.00

00:43:22.000 And Jesus didn't say, alright, hey, listen, bitch! 1.00

00:43:25.000 Hey, listen, whore! 1.00

00:43:26.000 Hey, you're gonna die! 1.00

00:43:29.000 He said, let he who is without sin cast the first stone. 0.66

00:43:32.000 Now that didn't mean everybody can do what they like and don't face the consequences.

00:43:35.000 He said, you can't sin anymore.

00:43:39.000 I'll be merciful, but go and sin no more.

00:43:42.000 It's got to be more that flavor.

00:43:46.000 But anyway, that's my thoughts on the whole situation.

00:43:49.000 So it's got to be, you got to bring together both things.

00:43:53.000 We have to synthesize here. 1.00

00:43:55.000 It can't just be this rabid... and too often, I said this before, when you see that protest in Ohio and they're throwing up Nazi salutes and they're saying, hey fuck you faggot! 1.00

00:44:07.000 You should kill yourself! 1.00

00:44:08.000 It's like, that's just... does anybody think that is a winning message? 1.00

00:44:12.000 Does anybody even really feel good about that?

00:44:14.000 I don't think anybody feels good when they see that.

00:44:16.000 I don't think any good person... I don't think a decent person sees that and has any good feelings.

00:44:24.000 I know people get self-righteous, and I know people get angry about what they see, but if we're all being honest, I don't think that reflects good on anybody.

00:44:34.000 By the same token, we also see the Don Jr.

00:44:37.000 thing, and he says, well, if you want to wear a dress, and we see Alex Stein hanging out with Blair White, we also say, yeah, that's definitely not acceptable either.

00:44:45.000 That's not tough enough.

00:44:47.000 It's not to say that the balance is in the middle, but it is to say that we have to at once have a moral authority, we also have to have compassion.

00:44:57.000 And I think that's what a vision after liberalism looks like.

00:45:03.000 Because let's retain that element of, we don't want slavery, we don't want executions, and we don't want the kind of brutality that defined the old age.

00:45:15.000 And this sort of, um, I don't know what you would call it, but certain attitudes.

00:45:24.000 But by the same token, we cannot permit the degeneracy to go any further.

00:45:28.000 I think that's what it looks like when you go beyond as opposed to trying to go back.

00:45:34.000 So that's... those are just some thoughts.

00:45:36.000 I saw this post and I'm thinking... and it vindicated me.

00:45:40.000 I've been saying this now this entire year.

00:45:42.000 Have I not said this?

00:45:44.000 That this is what conservatives are doing?

00:45:46.000 This is a losing battle.

00:45:48.000 It's not what you think it is.

00:45:49.000 They are just trying to regulate degeneracy.

00:45:52.000 And here it is!

00:45:54.000 Charlie Kirk and Don Jr. 0.93

00:45:55.000 and all of them, even Tucker Carlson, saying, hey, we can have gay all the way.

00:46:00.000 We can have transgenderism up to a point.

00:46:04.000 Well, that's not okay.

00:46:05.000 We don't want transgenderism at all. 1.00

00:46:07.000 We don't want gay at all. 1.00

00:46:08.000 We don't want any of that stuff. 0.86

00:46:10.000 And to take it further, we don't want feminism, and we don't want abortion, and we don't want contraceptives.

00:46:15.000 We don't want any of it.

00:46:17.000 And anything less is just not being consistent.

00:46:20.000 It's not an internally consistent worldview.

00:46:24.000 And the problem without an internally consistent worldview, without a standard that doesn't move, is that it is reactive.

00:46:33.000 And by being reactive, it is relative.

00:46:35.000 And by being relative, it is fluid.

00:46:38.000 And it will always vacillate.

00:46:40.000 It will always defer.

00:46:42.000 It will always capitulate to the forceful march of progressivism.

00:46:47.000 That's what happens.

00:46:51.000 If you start to say, well we could bend the rules a little bit here, just based on reacting to what the left is doing, well the left has a very clear vision.

00:46:58.000 So if we're just reacting to that, we could just join them.

00:47:02.000 We're just joining them.

00:47:06.000 We could just join them at the destination, which is what?

00:47:08.000 Tolerance of necrophilia, pedophilia, incest, cannibalism, euthanasia.

00:47:16.000 Might as well just join them at the destination because that's

00:47:21.000 They put something out, we react and say, a little bit less.

00:47:23.000 They push further, we say, okay, fine, but a little bit less.

00:47:26.000 We're on the same trajectory infinitely going forward, if that is how we're going to play.

00:47:35.000 Anyway, so that's that.

00:47:37.000 But I want to move on.

00:47:37.000 I want to get into the news here.

00:47:40.000 We're out of time.

00:47:41.000 No.

00:47:42.000 We're an hour in, but... That's okay, it'll be a long show.

00:47:49.000 So, our next story.

00:47:52.000 I want to move on.

00:47:53.000 I want to get into strategic autonomy, which is the Macron speech tonight.

00:47:58.000 And so, the French President Emmanuel Macron, embattled over his pension reform, took a trip to China today, or this week.

00:48:07.000 He went to Beijing and met with Xi Jinping.

00:48:10.000 And he returned to Europe this week and gave a speech in the Netherlands.

00:48:14.000 And the timing is very interesting.

00:48:18.000 We covered this all last week.

00:48:21.000 China is now making big moves.

00:48:24.000 They are doing war games and military drills.

00:48:27.000 They've encircled Taiwan. 0.84

00:48:31.000 China brokered a peace deal to normalize ties between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

00:48:38.000 China is now conducting trade in Yuan, the Chinese RMB, with Saudi Arabia, Brazil, even France.

00:48:46.000 And the French President last week made a remark that China should play a role in the peace process in the Ukraine crisis.

00:48:53.000 So, all of this sets the stage for this speech, which is that we are entering a multipolar world order, where the United States is not the only superpower, or a hyperpower, meaning that it's more powerful than all the other countries put together, or so much more powerful than the next most powerful country.

00:49:14.000 Well, we are entering a period where there are multiple polls that are exerting influence which might be Russia and China or maybe Brazil or maybe Saudi Arabia and Iran acting independently.

00:49:27.000 And we talked about this a lot last week.

00:49:29.000 This owes tremendously to the Ukraine crisis, which exposed the United States as a paper tiger.

00:49:37.000 The United States tried to force Russia to stop the war, and they simply could not.

00:49:43.000 They were unable to force Russia to stop. 0.66

00:49:46.000 Russia invaded Ukraine against every threat, every warning. 0.78

00:49:50.000 The United States applied every kind of soft power they could.

00:49:55.000 And the result was that Russia was 0.94

00:49:58.000 Essentially unaffected.

00:50:00.000 Actually, the United States hurt itself and its allies more than maybe it hurt Russia.

00:50:06.000 And not only did the United States not succeed in isolating Russia, but as a matter of fact, the United States isolated itself and its allies.

00:50:14.000 The only countries that ever sanctioned Russia are the U.S.

00:50:18.000 and its handful of solid allies between NATO, Japan, Canada, Australia, South Korea,

00:50:26.000 But not India, not Pakistan, not most of Africa, not the Middle East, not South America, not Central America, not most of Asia.

00:50:36.000 And so as a consequence, the multipolar world order is coming into reality much more quickly than expected.

00:50:42.000 Now that countries see the weakness of the United States,

00:50:47.000 And they see that the United States is abusing its allies that are basically trying to leave.

00:50:51.000 It's only accelerated the process.

00:50:53.000 And so, the big speech today from Macron in the Netherlands was laying out his idea, which he's been talking about for a long time, about something called European strategic autonomy.

00:51:05.000 European strategic autonomy.

00:51:08.000 And the idea is that as it stands, and basically since the end of World War II, all of Europe has merely been a vassal, a subject for the United States.

00:51:19.000 That they just do whatever the United States says, and that they have to.

00:51:24.000 And that status quo came out of World War II, because after World War II, all the European countries, specifically the Western European countries, were destroyed.

00:51:36.000 And they were at risk of being invaded by the USSR.

00:51:41.000 There was a fear that the Soviet Union could keep going after they invaded Germany, and they could take over the entire continent, and nobody could stop them. 0.93

00:51:51.000 In 1949, there were only two nuclear powers in the world, Russia and the United States.

00:51:56.000 And at that time, the Soviet Union appeared unstoppable. 0.55

00:51:59.000 And without the United States, they could have taken over Europe. 0.51

00:52:04.000 And since then, although the European countries recovered and their economies rebounded and they developed industry and the Soviet Union fell, because of that relationship there was a legacy effect that the Europeans never developed their own military capabilities.

00:52:22.000 Because the United States was paying for their defense, in effect, all these other countries never bothered to develop their own defense industries, never developed their own defense capabilities.

00:52:34.000 Why would they?

00:52:34.000 The United States was paying to defend them from Russia.

00:52:37.000 The United States was paying to defend them from every other threat.

00:52:42.000 And other countries were not allowed to militarize like Germany had restrictions.

00:52:48.000 So that brings us to the present day.

00:52:52.000 And the idea behind strategic autonomy is that now Europe wants to chart its own course.

00:52:57.000 It doesn't want to be dependent on the United States because increasingly Europe and the United States have different strategic interests.

00:53:05.000 Europe doesn't want to be bossed around by America. 0.69

00:53:08.000 Before it was somewhat benign because the United States and Europe shared so much of the same interests.

00:53:15.000 Both of their

00:53:18.000 Interest was in defending against Russia or radical Islam. 0.64

00:53:23.000 But now as the United States pivots towards a confrontation with China, Europe doesn't really have the same interest in confronting China.

00:53:31.000 Europe does a lot of trade with China.

00:53:33.000 China is in real terms the biggest economy in the world.

00:53:38.000 It's the United States

00:53:40.000 That has beef with China. 0.68

00:53:42.000 And they have beef with China because the United States is a global hegemon and China is a rising superpower.

00:53:49.000 So it's purely a status competition between the existing superpower and the emerging superpower.

00:53:56.000 Europe doesn't really have any skin.

00:53:59.000 They don't have any stake in that fight at all.

00:54:01.000 They're not the superpower.

00:54:03.000 They're not even a superpower.

00:54:06.000 And so strategic autonomy is about developing

00:54:10.000 A common European defense industry.

00:54:16.000 They want their own factories. 0.99

00:54:19.000 They want their own military.

00:54:21.000 They want their own army.

00:54:22.000 They want to bring together all the European states, which is basically the European Union member states.

00:54:28.000 They want to bring them all together

00:54:30.000 With 450 million people between their countries with 18-20 trillion dollar GDP and they don't want to come together quite like a nation but in the way that the United States is able to combine the powers of its land and people and resources.

00:54:49.000 Some Europeans want to do the same for Europe and bring together all the European states

00:54:54.000 into a consortium, essentially, and form a common European defense in a way that is distinct and separate from the NATO alliance led by America.

00:55:07.000 That's the idea.

00:55:08.000 And if they're able to do that, then they can be autonomous.

00:55:11.000 If they have their own army, if they have their own defense industry, if they have their own resources, then they don't need America.

00:55:19.000 And if America calls them into war, they could say no.

00:55:23.000 And Europe can act independently as its own power.

00:55:26.000 China will be a power exerting its interests, the United States will be a power exerting its interests, and a common, united Europe will be its own superpower, like I said, with close to 500 million people, a massive GDP, massive resources, and they could be their own distinct, independent superpower apart from the United States.

00:55:48.000 Maybe allied with the United States, but not

00:55:51.000 Not a subject of the United States.

00:55:52.000 That's the idea.

00:55:54.000 So Macron gave a speech about this, and this is the article from Russia Today.

00:55:58.000 It says, quote, Speaking at The Hague on Tuesday, French President Macron spoke of his vision for a new era of European sovereignty in which the continent can choose its own partners and shape its own destiny.

00:56:11.000 His address was briefly disrupted by protesters who attempted to shout him down.

00:56:16.000 Macron's speech made during the first state visit to the Netherlands by a French president in 23 years was closely watched by analysts and allies alike as it centered on European sovereignty.

00:56:28.000 It came just days after the French leader sparked concerns among allies after he said in an interview that Europe must not be a follower of either Washington or Beijing on the issue of Taiwan.

00:56:40.000 European sovereignty might have once sounded like a French idea, said Macron, or even wishful thinking.

00:56:47.000 But he pointed to the danger of a Europe that is too dependent on other world powers, saying it places Europe in the position of not being able to decide for itself.

00:56:56.000 European sovereignty should mean that the continent can, quote, choose our partners and shape our own destiny, rather than being a mere witness to the dramatic evolution of this world.

00:57:07.000 He said this means that we must strive to be rule makers rather than rule takers.

00:57:12.000 But Macron also said Europe would maintain robust relationships with its allies.

00:57:18.000 He said we can do this in a cooperative manner in keeping with our spirit of openness and partnership.

00:57:23.000 And he said the pandemic was a wake-up call as Europe discovered how dependent it was on other nations.

00:57:29.000 So this is a pretty interesting speech.

00:57:33.000 And he's talked a lot about this and so has the new German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

00:57:39.000 They've talked a great deal about strategic autonomy and Macron says it's because of the pandemic and that may be partly true, but I think mostly it has to do with the Ukraine crisis.

00:57:51.000 And the reality is that this war in Ukraine is far worse for Europe than it is for the United States.

00:58:01.000 This is a war that the United States wants, because the United States wants to weaken Russia.

00:58:07.000 It's that simple.

00:58:09.000 The United States is all in on defending Ukraine and making sure that it had to go down this way. 0.92

00:58:15.000 They could have negotiated, they could have made a deal for Ukraine to never join NATO, but they wanted this conflict because the decision makers in Washington thought it would isolate Russia and that it would cost the Russian military greatly.

00:58:31.000 And Russia is a competitor, not a peer competitor, but a rival of the United States, so Washington thought that this would come at a tremendous cost to Russia and hurt their relative strategic position in the world.

00:58:46.000 On the other hand, in Europe, they did not want this war.

00:58:50.000 From the beginning, from the very beginning, from 20 years ago, the French in particular, but also the Germans and the Italians,

00:58:57.000 have taken a far lighter stance towards Russia than Washington.

00:59:02.000 And that's because, to some degree, many of the European countries are dependent on Russia for natural gas, for energy, for other trade.

00:59:11.000 And what's more, the Europeans see and are sympathetic to Russia's point of view on the issue.

00:59:17.000 It's the United States that wants to extend NATO to Ukraine.

00:59:21.000 It's the United States that wants to extend its umbrella

00:59:25.000 of security protection but which really means power projection to the throat of Moscow by pushing it to Georgia and Ukraine.

00:59:34.000 But from the beginning France has been pushing negotiation and from the beginning Germany has only strengthened their ties with Russia.

00:59:43.000 Additionally, the sanctions on Russia are hurting the Europeans more than they're hurting the United States.

00:59:49.000 Not only did the Europeans not want this conflict,

00:59:53.000 But they also don't want the conflict because it's hurting them, disproportionately.

00:59:59.000 Germany, as an example, has a massive industrial base.

01:00:02.000 25% of the German economy is industry.

01:00:06.000 In the United States, it's a much lower percentage.

01:00:09.000 America, I think it's 80% service.

01:00:13.000 I think it's something like 5% or 10% industry.

01:00:16.000 So, relatively speaking, Germany has a far bigger productive sector of their economy than the United States.

01:00:23.000 The inflation in energy price, in energy cost, because of the destruction of Nord Stream 2 and the energy sanctions on Russia are catastrophic for German industry, which as a consequence is catastrophic for the German economy.

01:00:38.000 You don't have energy, you don't have industry.

01:00:41.000 You don't have industry, if you're Germany, you don't have an economy. 0.62

01:00:46.000 It's been catastrophic for them.

01:00:48.000 The same is true of the Eastern European countries, the same is true of Italy, and to a lesser extent the same is true with the United Kingdom and with France.

01:00:56.000 What's more, the Europeans have a lot in common with Russia, in that they're dealing with a lot of the same issues, like migration, like terrorism, like Muslims. 0.77

01:01:08.000 They also have a shared identity, they have a shared civilization,

01:01:13.000 Shared religion, to some extent, also.

01:01:18.000 And so Macron can say that it's about the pandemic, it's really about the Ukraine crisis, that America has dragged Europe along into this conflict, even though it's really not in their interest.

01:01:28.000 And they couldn't say no.

01:01:30.000 Because Washington is so thoroughly infiltrated and compromised all these governments, and they're all dependent on Washington, so they couldn't refuse.

01:01:38.000 Now, the United States is pivoting away from both Russia and the Middle East and towards China.

01:01:43.000 Specifically, this big confrontation over Taiwan.

01:01:47.000 Taiwan sent a delegation to the United States.

01:01:50.000 The United States sent a delegation to Taiwan.

01:01:53.000 China is now hosting a series of military drills.

01:01:56.000 They've encircled Taiwan. 0.84

01:01:58.000 They're sending fighter jets and warships into the Taiwan Strait.

01:02:02.000 And as the United States pivots to confront China in what seems like the beginnings of World War 3, Europe is realizing that they do not have any interest in fighting that war.

01:02:14.000 This is about the United States.

01:02:16.000 This is about the U.S. 0.84

01:02:18.000 control over the Pacific Ocean and over shipping routes.

01:02:22.000 This is about the United States insulating and suffocating China with a chain of islands

01:02:31.000 around the sea of China, which is constituted by the Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, and it's about global dominance of the economy, and it's also about, to some extent, global prestige and power in the world.

01:02:47.000 Why would Europe want to fight in that war?

01:02:51.000 Maybe Europe wants to side with China, like many other countries are.

01:02:55.000 India has articulated something similar.

01:02:57.000 Saudi Arabia has articulated something similar.

01:03:00.000 The United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Turkey, they're making moves that indicate that they're feeling a similar way.

01:03:07.000 So are all the African nations. 0.92

01:03:08.000 So are Central American and South American nations.

01:03:12.000 Paraguay is debating on whether or not they'll still recognize the sovereignty of Taiwan.

01:03:17.000 Nicaragua is in talks with China to build a deep water port and allow China to dock its military ships there.

01:03:25.000 The entire world is looking away from the United States and towards China.

01:03:30.000 And so the point of Macron's speech is to say, we want the ability to choose.

01:03:37.000 We don't want to be dragged along by the United States.

01:03:40.000 Maybe we want to side with China. 0.92

01:03:42.000 Maybe we don't want to side with anybody.

01:03:43.000 But we are unable to make any decisions for ourselves.

01:03:47.000 We're unable to be autonomous if we do not have a strategic capability.

01:03:53.000 The reason they can't make these decisions is because they don't have their own arms industry.

01:03:59.000 There is no way for them to be able to mobilize in the same way as the United States because they don't have the troops and they also don't have the same level of coordination.

01:04:09.000 There is no European common defense in the way that there is with NATO or the way that there is within the United States.

01:04:17.000 And so there's a lot of disagreement about how this would be implemented and what steps would be taken, but the general idea is that Europe will begin to spend more on its own military, build their own defense industry, then they've got to bring together and create a shared strategic command

01:04:35.000 They've got to bring together a shared surveillance and intelligence apparatus.

01:04:39.000 They've also got to find a way to share the nuclear deterrent because as it stands there's only one European Union member state that even has a nuclear weapon now that the United Kingdom is out.

01:04:50.000 And then how do you integrate the United Kingdom since they broke away?

01:04:54.000 So, there are a lot of difficult questions, but the general idea after the Ukraine crisis is that Europe has to become its own entity and break away from the United States.

01:05:05.000 And this is just furthering what I said last year, the multipolar world.

01:05:11.000 And the way to look at it is like this.

01:05:16.000 In the 1970s, the United States and the Soviet Union were evenly matched in firepower.

01:05:22.000 The United States fighting the Soviet Union was arguably an even fair fight. 0.96

01:05:28.000 Maybe the Soviet Union was more powerful, actually, at the time.

01:05:32.000 It went back and forth a lot between 1945 and roughly 1986.

01:05:39.000 There was a lot of back and forth where the United States had the upper hand or the Soviet Union had the upper hand.

01:05:45.000 But that is what defined the bipolar world order, was the relative power of the two superpowers.

01:05:53.000 After the Cold War, the United States was more powerful than all the countries put together.

01:05:58.000 The firepower of the U.S.

01:06:00.000 was more than half of the firepower of the whole world.

01:06:04.000 But in the last 20 years, 23 years, Putin became president in the year 2000.

01:06:08.000 He began revitalizing Russia.

01:06:15.000 Brought Russia back under control from the oligarchs and from the United States, made Russia a strong country, lifted millions of people out of poverty, and so on.

01:06:25.000 We also saw the rise of China.

01:06:27.000 Now, the combined firepower of Russia and China, which they're now in an unbreakable alliance, is more than the United States alone.

01:06:37.000 Used to be the case that the United States alone was more powerful than everybody else put together.

01:06:42.000 Now Russia and China are just about evenly matched with the United States.

01:06:47.000 Just about.

01:06:49.000 Maybe more powerful than the United States by itself.

01:06:54.000 For the United States to remain competitive, and to remain, you could say, in the position of primacy in the world, they need all their allies.

01:07:05.000 They need Australia and the UK. 0.71

01:07:08.000 They need Canada.

01:07:09.000 They need the European Union.

01:07:12.000 They need Japan. 0.66

01:07:13.000 They need South Korea. 0.95

01:07:14.000 They need Saudi Arabia.

01:07:15.000 If they don't have these allies, they are, in terms of raw numbers, weaker than their rival powers.

01:07:24.000 They're weaker than China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea.

01:07:28.000 They're weaker than all the axis of enemies put together.

01:07:34.000 And so when Europe decides to become independent and create a central European defense, without its allies, the United States is going to be one among several superpowers.

01:07:47.000 And it's not going to happen tomorrow, and it's maybe not even going to happen by the end of this decade, but in the 2030s, 2040s, the world will meaningfully be a multipolar place, meaning that China will be as powerful as the United States.

01:08:02.000 Europe

01:08:03.000 Maybe as powerful as China or the United States.

01:08:07.000 India may be on par with these other countries, but it's going to look a lot less like the United States telling everybody what to do, and it's going to look a lot less like the United States telling everybody what to do except Russia and China, and it's going to look like more a series of different powerful countries

01:08:28.000 With smaller regional powers lining up based on who's going to offer the best thing.

01:08:36.000 There was a book written in the 90s called The Reluctant Sheriff by Charles Haass, who I think is the current president of the Council on Foreign Relations, and he says that in the future, this was written in the 90s after the Cold War,

01:08:54.000 Instead of these fixed alliances, you're going to see what are called posses, which are informal collections of states that will come together and disintegrate based on mutual interest, based on issues.

01:09:09.000 So regional powers, great powers, coming together for a time for a specific thing,

01:09:15.000 And then separating on other issues, or separating after that thing is resolved.

01:09:19.000 But rather than these types of coalitions like we saw during the Cold War, where you're either communist or you're American, or rather even in the last 30 years where you're with China or you're with America, it's gonna be like you got three or four superpowers and then these smaller powers that'll go between, like Europe, like France as an example in this case, or like Saudi Arabia or Turkey, they would be prime examples.

01:09:45.000 Turkey, which is part of NATO, but will also make deals with Russia and China.

01:09:49.000 Saudi Arabia, which in the last 80 years was the most important ally of the United States, now making deals with China behind the back of Washington.

01:09:59.000 They didn't even know that this was happening.

01:10:02.000 And same with some of these others.

01:10:04.000 And other countries are going to become more important players.

01:10:08.000 India is on track to surpass China in population.

01:10:13.000 Nigeria, Tanzania are expected to become population superpowers.

01:10:18.000 Congo, very relevant with its natural resources, although who knows what kind of agency any of those will have politically.

01:10:25.000 You get it though, you get the picture.

01:10:27.000 Brazil, perhaps, who knows?

01:10:30.000 But that's the future.

01:10:31.000 So that's Macron, that's the speech.

01:10:33.000 Interesting stuff, and it was only a matter of time.

01:10:36.000 That's why we should have been nicer to Europe.

01:10:38.000 We probably should have forged a real foreign policy instead of, like I said last year, hanging on with this death grip to the post-Cold War order.

01:10:48.000 It was always going to be transient, but we acted like it wasn't.

01:10:53.000 Now we're in a sub-optimal position.

01:10:56.000 That's how I would describe it.

01:10:59.000 So that's that.

01:11:01.000 You know, I don't think I'm gonna cover the next story.

01:11:03.000 I think I'm just gonna jump into the Super Chats.

01:11:04.000 It's already late.

01:11:05.000 We're already an hour and 20 minutes in.

01:11:07.000 You got two stories.

01:11:09.000 They just weren't the ones I said I was gonna cover, okay?

01:11:13.000 But we're gonna move on.

01:11:15.000 I'm actually gonna take a look at our Super Chats.

01:11:17.000 I'll change the show title.

01:11:21.000 I'll change the show title.

01:11:22.000 We'll cover the FBI.

01:11:24.000 That was a filler story anyway, to be honest.

01:11:26.000 That was filler anyway, to be brutally honest with you.

01:11:35.000 Let's see, what should the headline be?

01:11:39.000 Total Trans Victory? 0.82

01:11:45.000 Don Jr.

01:11:47.000 swears allegiance to Dylan Mulvaney.

01:12:03.000 I don't like total trend maybe something like um Grand old tranny that's good grand old party more like grand old tranny. 0.99

01:12:15.000 Oh

01:12:50.000 Okay.

01:12:50.000 All right.

01:12:51.000 All right.

01:12:52.000 I like that. 0.97

01:12:52.000 Grand old tranny. 0.97

01:12:54.000 Grand old party? 0.92

01:12:55.000 More like grand old tranny. 0.98

01:12:57.000 That's what I say. 0.85

01:12:59.000 All right.

01:13:00.000 Okay.

01:13:01.000 Let's take a look at our Super Chats.

01:13:02.000 Let's take a look.

01:13:04.000 Uh-oh.

01:13:05.000 Uh-oh.

01:13:06.000 My stream... Seriously?

01:13:08.000 The Super Chat website's down.

01:13:15.000 Come on, man.

01:13:18.000 Sorry, that page is missing.

01:13:22.000 Let me try like this.

01:13:24.000 It's down?

01:13:26.000 Come on.

01:13:28.000 Oh no, I guess there's no super chats.

01:13:30.000 Oh no, that's terrible.

01:13:32.000 No, I hate this.

01:13:34.000 This is terrible and I hate it.

01:13:48.000 Come on.

01:13:52.000 Is it down for everybody else?

01:13:53.000 Let me click my own link.

01:13:56.000 It's down for you too!

01:13:58.000 So it's just down.

01:14:03.000 Well, I'll read whatever I didn't read tonight.

01:14:04.000 I'll read tomorrow, okay?

01:14:09.000 I really don't want to do a third story.

01:14:11.000 Listen, I got 80 minutes of monologue in me, all right?

01:14:15.000 I'm tired.

01:14:16.000 I'm hungry.

01:14:18.000 I'm starving.

01:14:20.000 You know what I had for dinner?

01:14:21.000 I had a cheeseburger and a sad little order of fries.

01:14:25.000 I got these fries and there were like 10 fries in there. 0.98

01:14:28.000 I'm like, I paid four fucking dollars for a side of fries and you put 10 fries in there? 0.99

01:14:34.000 Bone of beef. 0.99

01:14:36.000 Little, this carton of fries and it was like half full.

01:14:40.000 I'm thinking the driver ate some.

01:14:40.000 Really?

01:14:43.000 Thinking the driver stuck his hand in the bag.

01:14:45.000 Maybe.

01:14:45.000 I don't know.

01:14:46.000 Maybe it was black. 1.00

01:14:47.000 I don't know. 0.98

01:14:48.000 Not that you'd have to be black to do something like that, but... Who knows? 0.90

01:14:52.000 They could have been white. 0.99

01:14:54.000 Something tells me they're black. 1.00

01:14:56.000 If they even did, I mean... The bag was sealed shut with the sticker, so... It's probably not possible, but... You know, with these black DoorDash drivers, God only knows what they're capable of. 1.00

01:15:10.000 I don't know.

01:15:11.000 Anyway, could have been white, though.

01:15:13.000 Could have been Chinese. 0.96

01:15:14.000 Who knows?

01:15:17.000 All right, well, let me, let me try it again.

01:15:19.000 Let me see.

01:15:19.000 Otherwise, I'm just gonna call it.

01:15:21.000 I'm gonna, I'm gonna take a little break.

01:15:23.000 You know, I'm gonna give myself a little break.

01:15:25.000 It was a kick-ass monologue tonight.

01:15:27.000 That was pretty good.

01:15:28.000 That was some good stuff.

01:15:29.000 Right off the dome.

01:15:31.000 No prep.

01:15:32.000 I saw that Telegram post today.

01:15:35.000 I posted it.

01:15:36.000 I jumped on the show.

01:15:38.000 I said, I'll say a few words about that.

01:15:40.000 Boom! 0.99

01:15:41.000 20-minute killer monologue off the dome.

01:15:44.000 Hello?

01:15:45.000 Greatest of all time?

01:15:47.000 Hello?

01:15:49.000 Greatest of all time ever speaking?

01:15:51.000 Hi, yeah, you've reached the office of grand old greatest of all time goat?

01:15:56.000 Grand old all time?

01:15:58.000 Greatest all time guy?

01:16:00.000 Yeah, alright, that's it.

01:16:03.000 That's it.

01:16:07.000 I'll play some Phasmophobia with Veda if he's awake. 0.88

01:16:11.000 That'll be my Super Chats, okay?

01:16:13.000 I'll play some Phasmophobia with Veda if he's awake. 0.88

01:16:16.000 I'll jump on his stream.

01:16:17.000 We'll do a quick gaming stream.

01:16:19.000 Otherwise, that's it.

01:16:19.000 I'm done.

01:16:20.000 Ah, too bad.

01:16:22.000 Ah, the Super Chats sites aren't working.

01:16:24.000 That's too bad.

01:16:24.000 Oh, that's terrible.

01:16:26.000 Well, guess we gotta end the show.

01:16:28.000 Listen, I'll be back tomorrow.

01:16:30.000 Then I'm traveling.

01:16:31.000 You'll get your content, okay?

01:16:34.000 But that's it.

01:16:34.000 That's all I got for you.

01:16:37.000 Remember to follow me here.

01:16:38.000 That's so refreshing.

01:16:40.000 You know, maybe this show would be a lot better if it was only like an hour.

01:16:44.000 The Super Chats really grinds me up, but after doing this show, I feel like I'm in a great mood.

01:16:50.000 I'm like, wow, that was easy.

01:16:52.000 It's these Super Chats that are making me want to kill myself.

01:16:56.000 Yeah, that's it.

01:16:57.000 Because I do the show, I do a 60-minute monologue, I feel great.

01:17:01.000 I'm like, yeah, I could go, I could go and do some more stuff.

01:17:07.000 Maybe we'll have to change the model.

01:17:08.000 If I ever get subscriptions back, we'll get rid of Super Chats. 1.00

01:17:11.000 If I ever get a donor, can I get a donor that just gives me like two million dollars, one million dollars?

01:17:17.000 Then I wouldn't have to do the Super Chats for a little bit.

01:17:21.000 And the show would improve dramatically.

01:17:24.000 Because man, I finished that monologue now I feel fine.

01:17:28.000 I do these super chats and by the end of it I'm like, why even live?

01:17:34.000 Why even get up anymore?

01:17:35.000 Because they're just, they really, they really stretch me.

01:17:40.000 So who knows?

01:17:41.000 Maybe, maybe it was a big enlightenment tonight.

01:17:45.000 Maybe it was a big revelation.

01:17:48.000 Maybe it was, it happened for a reason that the site is down.

01:17:52.000 All right, that's it.

01:17:54.000 No offense by the way.

01:17:55.000 I didn't mean to say that you make me want to kill myself.

01:17:58.000 All I'm saying is I don't want to kill myself when there's no super chats like I normally do.

01:18:03.000 That's a joke by the way.

01:18:05.000 Don't feel like that at all.

01:18:06.000 I'm in a perfectly good mental state.

01:18:08.000 Okay, all right.

01:18:09.000 But that's it.

01:18:10.000 That's all I got for you.

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01:18:35.000 Until then, have a great rest of your evening.

01:18:39.000 Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo.

01:18:45.000 It's going to be only America first. 0.99

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01:19:21.000 America first!

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America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - April 12, 2023

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