00:00:37.000What's a more romantic date than cuddling up on the couch, having a bag of sour cream and onion lays or ruffles, and watching America First with Nick Fuentes?
00:02:45.000On the docket, I'm going to be debating R.C. Maxwell on Baked Alaska stream sometime this week.
00:02:52.000I believe Friday, we'll be debating about civic nationalism and ethnic nationalism.
00:02:57.000I'll be debating Sticks and Hammer sometime in the coming weeks on religion versus atheism or Christianity versus atheism more specifically.
00:03:06.000That's going to be set up with somebody named Al, a good friend of mine, longtime follower.
00:03:11.000And then somebody said the Tree of Logic was interested in an Israel debate sometime.
00:03:49.000The first and the biggest thing that's happened so far today is the tragic school shooting in Florida, which started this morning, this afternoon.
00:03:59.00017 people are dead so far, something like between 40 and 50 injured, and 17 dead.
00:04:05.000The suspect was named as somebody named Nicholas Cruz, who went to the high school that he shot up, or he's the suspect in the case, but I think they're pretty much convinced that it was him.
00:04:16.000He went to that high school and he was expelled.
00:04:24.000He pulled the fire alarm, which is one of these nefarious things, creative, but obviously a very terrible thing, where.
00:04:30.000You know, typically they go in and they start shooting, but he actually went into the school, pulled the fire alarm to cause a panic, to cause a big commotion, and that's when he opened fire and killed a lot of people.
00:04:44.000And it's tough, again, we were just talking about a school shooting pretty recently.
00:04:49.000It's tough to deliver any kind of sincerity when you talk about these things.
00:04:54.000I mean, there's only so many times that you can say, thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers, never again.
00:05:00.000Prayers are with the family, but as much as it may be difficult for us to keep at it with that refrain, you got to imagine for every one of these cases, lives are altered irreversibly.
00:05:12.000So while we can look at each of these school shootings and we can address it maybe from an impersonal point of view and we can say, this is about politics or this is about guns or this is about something, there has to be a reasonable, I think, coming to grips among people that we can look at this and we turn it off.
00:05:31.000Phone notification, well, there's more people dead.
00:05:34.000And the suspect is named, and we can follow what happened and we can debate about it politically.
00:05:38.000But the people involved, they don't get to move on.
00:05:46.000That's their lives forever until the day they die, forever altered by another senseless act of violence.
00:05:52.000So I think it is worth stating, no matter how many times it happens, the human cost, the real moral tragedy that happens when you see these things.
00:06:00.000But, you know, that said, it was another shooting.
00:06:02.000And already, already people are calling for gun control.
00:06:06.000Already, number one or one of the major trending hashtags on Twitter is hashtag gun control now.
00:06:13.000And on CNN, this is the most disgusting thing.
00:06:17.000It's bad enough you have one of these killers and a real evil satanic killer out there murdering innocent people.
00:06:23.000But then maybe this is up there in terms of despicable.
00:06:28.000You have one of these people get on CNN, and I think this is the same guy who went off the handle about the shithole controversy, who gets on CNN and he breaks down crying.
00:07:00.000But to act about it, to throw in the waterworks, to put on this theatrics, to push a political agenda, to push a political agenda to support a political party so that.
00:07:11.000What, the Democrats can seize your guns?
00:07:13.000What, so that Democrats can win this news cycle?
00:07:43.000But before the bodies are even cold, they're already trying to politicize it, trying to mobilize for gun control.
00:07:48.000And on the subject of gun control, I usually don't talk about it from this aspect because I've always maintained on this show and in our episode, Why School Shootings Happened, we went into Evola, we went into Dostoevsky, and the historical legacy, the historical antecedent, the ideological antecedents and trends of why these things happened.
00:08:07.000I've always maintained that it's about nihilism, it's about a lack of community why these things happen.
00:08:12.000And we'll get back into that a little bit in a moment.
00:08:15.000But on the gun control subject, I don't so much talk about that because we do get into the broader things.
00:08:32.000I mean, obviously, it's a big high school.
00:08:33.000You pull a fire alarm, and there's a lot of people concentrated in a small space.
00:08:38.000And there's simply nothing you can do to stop somebody who's motivated to have that kind of bloodshed, who has a firearm, to go out and do something like this.
00:08:47.000There are simply no solutions in terms of laws, in terms of maybe arming teachers, in terms of arming students.
00:08:55.000There are no precautions you can take that will eliminate 100% these kinds of things.
00:09:00.000When you have people that congregate, when you have 300 million firearms in the country, and you have a lot of sick people that are motivated to do these things, there are precautions you can take.
00:09:10.000There are things you can do that can mitigate these things, but you'll never get rid of all of them.
00:09:15.000And that's when the question becomes where is the balance?
00:09:18.000Where is the balance between mitigating any reasonable amount of mitigation and people being able to arm themselves?
00:09:25.000I think the problem starts with the fact that.
00:09:28.000People don't understand what is going to stop killers.
00:09:30.000I don't see any other solution for how to stop bad people with guns than good people with guns.
00:09:37.000And we know this about police officers.
00:09:39.000We know that police officers carry guns because when they go into a drug house, they go into a trap house to bust up a drug deal or drug cartels, when they go into a situation where there's people that are armed, where there's a homicide, where maybe somebody's been killed, when they go into a dangerous situation, when military people, when soldiers go into combat, What do they bring with them?
00:10:06.000It's about the application of physical force, it's the application of coercive power out of the end of a long rifle or a handgun.
00:10:14.000And the only thing that stops that is a more overwhelming force on the side of order and law and justice.
00:10:21.000And so when we see these kinds of things and people talk about gun control, for starters, we have to realize that there are 300 and some million people in the country.
00:10:31.000And there's 300 and some million guns in the country.
00:10:35.000So you have to understand these numbers in the sense that there's a lot of people.
00:10:38.000There's going to be a lot of people congregating, lots of them in small places every day, all the time.
00:10:43.000Subways, airplanes, even traffic stops.
00:10:46.000If you're talking about Manhattan, if you're talking about New York City, concerts, schools, there's simply going to be so many opportunities for that.
00:10:55.000There's so many people in terms of sick people.
00:10:58.000If maybe you have 0.01% of the population is sick and thinks they're doing these things.
00:11:03.000When you have a country of 330 million people, that's a lot of people that have bad ideas.
00:11:08.000So you have to understand the magnitude of the population, the magnitude of the opportunities for these kinds of things, and just the scope and the scale of the problem.
00:11:27.000I think people have it in their heads that, oh, well, Congress passes a law, the House votes on it, and the Senate votes on it, and the president signs it.
00:11:54.000So, you know, on top of the fact that there are just too many people in the country and too many opportunities for a killer to exact that kind of bloodshed, think about it in terms of guns.
00:12:05.000If the problem is guns, tell me how we get 300 million guns under control, how we get them under regulation, how we get them on a list, how we get them out of the hands of the bad and the good people, and tell me how we determine who the bad and the good people are.
00:12:18.000So you have to understand from the start the scale and the scope of the problem, which I don't think people that talk about gun control are thinking about.
00:12:27.000Number two, you imagine that you're going to have these guns in circulation, you're going to have these opportunities, you're going to have these sick people out there who are motivated.
00:12:37.000And then you have the factor of, well, what happens when somebody gets in a school with a gun?
00:12:42.000You have enough people, enough schools, enough guns that you put that combination together, and in a given amount of time, you'll have a certain number of instances.
00:12:51.000Of bad people with bad intentions getting into a school with a gun.
00:13:39.000You lock the door and you hope that nobody comes and shoots you.
00:13:42.000You lock the door, you huddle in the corner, completely vulnerable with tons of other people, and you hope that the shooter doesn't come into your room.
00:13:50.000The shooter doesn't hear you whispering or crying or whatever it is.
00:13:54.000And I say that, and I bring up maybe some of these visceral images to demonstrate that.
00:14:00.000The gun control talk, the gun control solution, this is not a panacea.
00:14:04.000When people say, oh, well, a school shooting happened, we need to have gun control now.
00:14:25.000People that want to carry out a mass shooting, they don't go into places where people have lots of guns.
00:14:31.000Nobody goes into a police station and shoots it up.
00:14:33.000Very few people go into a military installation where people are armed and shoot it up.
00:14:39.000People don't try many things at the White House because there's security all over the place.
00:14:43.000They go to the places where there's lots of people and there's a big fat sticker in the window that says no guns because they know they won't encounter any resistance.
00:14:51.000If you get in the mentality of a mass shooter for a moment, and that may be a troubling thing, but if you imagine you're a mass shooter and you think to yourself, how am I going to kill as many people as possible?
00:15:01.000Well, are you going to go to the place where you know people are going to have guns, where you know that?
00:15:26.000Well, now that people are aware of my presence, I don't know if the next classroom I go into is going to have a gun, if the teacher's going to be sitting there at the door with a shotgun.
00:15:34.000I don't know if the next classroom is going to have a cop in there with a gun drawn.
00:15:38.000I don't know if a student's going to have a gun drawn.
00:15:40.000I don't know if we should, you know, if it's a university, maybe that's more reasonable.
00:15:44.000But you don't know if someone's going to be armed.
00:15:45.000Are you going to go into schools anymore?
00:15:48.000If a workplace is going to be armed, if there's a big fat sign on the door of a workplace or a factory and it says, We are armed here, we carry guns here, are you going to walk in there and willingly enter into a situation where maybe you get a shot in, but once people realize what's going on, you're going to be on your butt bleeding out?
00:16:06.000Are they going to be as willing to go in there if they know their life is going to be cost?
00:16:11.000And so this is the recommendation that was made by, I think it was one of the UN subcommittees, I think it was either.
00:16:17.000Dissec, or it was one of the other ones.
00:16:20.000But this was one of the propositions that was laid out by even people in the United Nations.
00:16:24.000The only long term solution for these kinds of mass shootings is to arm people in these public places.
00:16:53.000Will there be more shootings if people are armed?
00:16:55.000It comes down very simply if you're in a situation where there's a live shooter, do you want to have a gun or do you want to not have a gun?
00:17:02.000And not only that, but do you want it to be legal to protect yourself or not protect yourself?
00:17:06.000Should it be illegal for you to even have the option to defend yourself in that kind of a situation?
00:17:12.000I think if any one of us were in that situation, we would think of it a lot differently in terms of if there's a live shooter, I want to at least have the right, at least have the option.
00:17:21.000To be in a position where I can stand a reasonable chance to live in this scenario.
00:17:25.000You're going to be blaming the government if that's you and you have no firearm.
00:17:29.000But that is, I think, beside the point.
00:17:32.000You wonder how you can achieve mitigation?
00:17:35.000How can you reduce the amount of instances when this happens?
00:17:39.000Once we talk about people that are in a live shooter situation, we are already in the middle of the story where you have a troubled person who has gotten to the point where they're so troubled that not only did they devise a plan, But they got the means to execute the plan, and now they are executing the plan.
00:17:57.000And so we already start in the middle of the story where you have a shooter, you have somebody with a firearm and bad intentions, and they're in the school and they're shooting people.
00:18:05.000We're already in the middle of the story.
00:18:07.000How do you reduce these things from happening?
00:18:08.000You go all the way back to the beginning, and you wonder, how is somebody able?
00:18:12.000How is somebody, you know, this guy Nicholas Cruz, who shot up the school, doesn't strike me as a very intelligent person.
00:18:18.000If you go on his Instagram page, and his Instagram page was up a little bit after the shooting, Here's a guy who posts pictures of himself giving a middle finger to his school in a mask, saying, F everybody.
00:18:29.000Taking pictures of himself with knives between each of his fingers, one with a big knife, one with a pistol.
00:18:36.000One reset shooting range, firing on a piece of paper, saying that, well, this is a great solution.
00:18:41.000Multiple pictures of himself with a mask and with guns.
00:19:43.000I'm not sure the laws in the state of Florida, but in a lot of cases, when you see school shooters, in the case of Adam Lanza, they get it from their parents.
00:20:07.000That's a very difficult question, too.
00:20:09.000If you have this troubled kid, how did he get the means in the first place?
00:20:13.000And I think when you ask those kinds of questions, when you look at the situation and it's like, this did not happen today.
00:20:19.000The shooting happened today, but this did not happen today.
00:20:22.000Here was a person who had a problem, and then he had a plan, and then he carried out the plan.
00:20:27.000And every step of the way, this was happening.
00:20:29.000Every step of the way, we were moving closer towards today.
00:20:32.000And what happened today was a failure.
00:20:34.000I mean, of course, he was responsible for the shooting.
00:20:36.000He was the one that pulled the trigger, and he got the gun, and he had the bad ideas.
00:20:39.000But at the end of the day, there is some culpability, I believe, for all the people who saw what was going on here, and they said nothing.
00:20:47.000And they didn't ask him about it and they didn't reach out.
00:20:49.000Where's the responsibility for the society?
00:20:51.000Where's the responsibility for the society to say, we have these people who are lost, we have these people who have issues, we have these people who are dangerous to themselves and to others, and they are just supposed to fall where they land?
00:21:02.000They're supposed to just be out there, and I guess they're going to be okay.
00:21:06.000We have to stop looking to institutional and legal solutions.
00:21:10.000There is no system we can put in place.
00:21:12.000There is no system where everybody can absolve themselves of responsibility and say, oh, well, you know, The rules will take care of it.
00:21:20.000That's a big problem with the way that we think.
00:21:22.000We believe that if we pass these rules, if we make it so that, oh, well, you can't buy this type of firearm and you can't buy this type of thing if you have this check on your mental health box, and well, there should be this program in place.
00:21:33.000No amount of programs, no amount of rules, regulations, institutions will prevent bad people from doing bad things.
00:22:44.000I get to sit at home, and I get to carry on being a witness, being a bystander.
00:22:49.000I get to carry on being absorbed with myself and concerned with nobody else.
00:22:53.000And that's what the left is about, whether it's about socialism.
00:22:55.000Whether it's about mass shootings, whether it's about anything, they want to take the responsibility for these kinds of problems and they want to put it over there.
00:23:03.000They want to say, Well, I voted for it, I tweeted about it, and therefore I did something about it.
00:23:07.000Therefore I contributed to solving the problem.
00:23:10.000All these people are out there outraged.
00:23:12.000Why hasn't anybody done anything about it?
00:24:21.000And until then, I don't want to hear anything about laws.
00:24:23.000I don't want to hear anything about legislation or voting or politics until people can honestly say, I saw something, I said something, I reached out and I did the best that I could.
00:24:33.000But I mean, this is what happens when you have no community.
00:24:37.000This is what an individualist country looks like.
00:24:39.000This is what individualism looks like.
00:24:41.000This is your country on individualism no community, no church, no family, no friends, no school, no nothing.
00:24:49.000And you have people that are going to do these kinds of things.
00:24:51.000And that's the libertarian country that some of these people want.
00:25:22.000But there is another major white pill here, and this is about tax revenue.
00:25:27.000This is something I was vindicated on, another moment of vindication for Big Nick.
00:25:32.000If you recall, when the tax cuts were being proposed in the House and the Senate, when they were being voted on back in December, me and James had a very contentious debate about this.
00:25:43.000And I said, one of the benefits of the tax plan will be number one, you'll have benefits that will accrue to the workers, to blue collar people, to the middle class.
00:25:52.000They'll get more money, expenses will go down, more jobs will be created.
00:25:58.000That has been vindicated, and then some.
00:26:00.000But I also said there'll be more tax revenue.
00:26:03.000James said, Oh, well, if we're giving tax cuts, if we're doing corporate Gibbs, that's going to cut the amount of revenue that the government takes.
00:26:11.000The Laffer curve says that there is a position in the middle where if you have lower tax rates, sometimes you can bring in more tax revenue.
00:26:18.000Because if the rates are lower, it becomes more cost effective for people to simply pay the taxes than to hide the money with financial instruments, with corporations or offshore accounts, that kind of thing.
00:26:30.000If it costs a lot of money to offshore your money in, like, the Marshall Islands, and it costs more money than it does to simply pay a lower tax rate, they bring that money over here, they pay more taxes, tax revenue goes up, and actually lowering the tax rates increases tax revenue.
00:26:43.000Counterintuitive, but this is a laugh occur.
00:26:46.000And James said, oh, that's libertarian nonsense.
00:26:49.000That's, you know, Jewish tricks or whatever.
00:26:51.000And it turns out today, it was reported today by multiple outlets, no mainstream outlets, by the way, but it was reported that tax revenue, Is the highest in history for the month of January, the highest tax revenue in history for the month of January, thanks to the tax cuts.
00:27:10.000This shows that President Trump's mentality on economy and really broadly the right wing perspective on economy is the right one.
00:27:18.000I think it's a little bit difficult for people to conceptualize these kinds of things when they think, you know, what, somehow we're going to cut taxes and that's going to solve all the problems.
00:27:27.000We're going to cut taxes and get more jobs and get more tax revenue and get more money in our pockets.
00:27:33.000You know, a lot of people are very skeptical.
00:27:35.000And I think you saw a lot of that during the debates in the Congress about the tax cuts, whether those benefits would go to corporations, whether it would go to China or whatever.
00:27:46.000When we see these kinds of numbers, when we see the economic numbers in terms of jobless claims, in terms of unemployment, in terms of the bonuses that are being given out, the infrastructure that's being invested in, the new investment spending by corporations, and these massive tax receipts, it shows that our head is in the right place on economy.
00:28:04.000And this gets back to what we talked about even earlier this week about the government shutdown, about debts and deficits.
00:28:09.000And these systemic problems, these systemic shortcomings in our government financial system, this just goes to show this is the solution.
00:28:17.000If we expand the size of the economy, if we have more people making more money, this is one of the ways that we can solve our problem with the deficit.
00:28:25.000This is one of the ways we can solve our problem with the debt.
00:28:28.000We talked just a couple of days ago about Trump's budget, which is $4.4 trillion, a massive budget, one of the biggest in history, and we're only piling on to a $20 trillion debt, $110 trillion in unfunded liabilities.
00:28:41.000And this is one of those ways where if we're able to grow the pie, if we're able to grow the amount of money that can be taxed and that is being taxed, we can get our way out of the situation without massive spending, without major changes.
00:28:55.000I mean, that will come later, but this is viable for the time being.
00:29:10.000We have a major white pill with the tax revenue, major white pill with polling in a new Politico poll.
00:29:16.000This afternoon, Republicans now have a one point advantage over the Democrats in generic ballot polling for 2018.
00:29:24.000Which, if you recall, in December, the Democrats held a 15 point lead.
00:29:29.00015 point lead for the Democrats in December on generic ballot polling.
00:29:33.000Now, Republicans have a one point lead.
00:29:35.000And this is coupled with another high 40s approval rating for Donald Trump 47% in the political poll, 49% in the Rasmussen poll earlier this week.
00:29:45.000And this combined with the tax revenue and the tax cuts and the DACA stuff we talked about yesterday.
00:29:51.000We are shaping up to have a very successful venture here in 2018.
00:29:57.000I think it's going to be a real win for the Republicans.
00:29:59.000And this, more broadly, I think, points to the fact that electoral politics is still viable.
00:30:04.000I think a lot of people in this movement have given up on politics.
00:30:14.000We look at how, and we talked about it yesterday, how Hispanics, legal and illegal, vote for Democrats.
00:30:20.0009 to 1 against Republicans, or 19 to 1 against Republicans in the case of illegals.
00:30:26.000And people look at the shifting demographics.
00:30:28.000They look at the Democratic Party, how the left wing has a monopoly on news media and Hollywood and culture, and they say, Nick, what is the use?
00:30:35.000Don't you understand that it's all for naught?
00:30:37.000Don't you understand that there is no solution within the system?
00:30:41.000I think a lot of people hear this kind of talk.
00:30:43.000They hear the blackpilling about the president, they hear the blackpilling about the economy and politics, and they check out and they say, you know what?
00:31:08.000And now, if you look at the polling, despite all odds, despite everything that he's been thrown hurricanes, earthquakes, scandals, the mainstream media against him, and he's still coming out on top and coming out on top convincingly.
00:31:23.000Going from a 15 point Democrat lead to a one point Republican lead in a month, in 30 days.
00:32:04.000Go to the meetings, talk to people, connect with people, maybe get in charge of some kind of a committee, maybe get some kind of officer's role there.
00:32:11.000Support a candidate in the next election, volunteer on a campaign, volunteer to knock on doors, make phone calls, maybe run for election yourself.
00:32:19.000I think when you see Donald Trump and the success he's having, I think when you see even to an extent Paul Nealon, although I disagree with the direction he's gone in lately, you look at a guy like that and you look at Donald Trump and you see the headway we're making in electoral politics, how quickly things are changing on a dime with a little bit of effort, with a little bit of strategy.
00:32:37.000With a lot of grassroots support, you can start to see the kind of change that is possible when people are committed to their political goals.
00:32:44.000And so I think that anybody who's feeling down about this stuff, anybody that's feeling, oh, we're not in a great place, I have people all day long emailing me, direct messaging me on Twitter, on Discord, saying, give it up, buddy.
00:32:57.000Why do you still believe in even America?
00:33:00.000It's not enough that they don't believe in politics, they don't even believe in America.
00:33:17.000All we have to do is learn from his mistakes, learn from his successes, and I think we can have a massive political victory for our movement, but we have to get serious.
00:33:26.000That means that all the activism, we have to get away from activism that is counterproductive or that is nonproductive.
00:33:33.000Rallies, you know, the silly kind of stuff, the banner drops are nice, but all activism should now be directed towards getting somebody elected or infiltrating the party.
00:34:53.000I will say on DACA, this was just reported today that Donald Trump will veto anything that does not have his common sense immigration pillars in there, which is the chain migration, diversity visa, and the wall, which is a white pill.
00:35:05.000Paul Ryan said he wouldn't consider anything the president doesn't support.
00:35:08.000So, you know, it looks like, excuse me, it looks like on immigration, we're not going to get a bad deal.
00:35:13.000I think we'll either get a Donald Trump deal, which is debatable, or no deal at all, which is a good thing.
00:35:20.000But I think more broadly on that, there was some research I was doing this morning, which I didn't mention last night.
00:35:24.000Last night, I mentioned the numbers on illegal immigration, and we did kind of a deep dive into the genesis of all this mass immigration, the genesis of the illegal immigration, the why that it's allowed to happen.
00:35:36.000But something that I didn't get into too much last night was the results of this plan that's being discussed in the Senate right now.
00:35:43.000So, DACA is being debated in the Senate right now.
00:35:45.000The only plan that has a chance of passing, because it's the only one that Trump supports and the one that the House supports, is the Grassley bill, which is essentially Donald Trump's proposal that he made at the State of the Union.
00:35:57.000And that proposal, if put into law, I did the research today on the numbers, this would reduce immigration annually by 44%.
00:36:06.000So I know, and people will say the judiciary will expand the definition for DACA illegals that get amnesty, and there is a back catalog of 4 to 5 million immigrants who still need to get visas that will probably be admitted before the immigration cuts go into effect.
00:36:23.000I think there are things in the law that will accommodate for that, but I'm not totally sure.
00:36:28.000But regardless of that fact, the deal that Donald Trump has on the table, it cut legal immigration by 44% over the course of 10 years by 7 million.
00:36:38.000Over the course of the full duration of the bill by 22 million immigrants, 22 million less legal immigrants over the full life of the bill.
00:37:01.000And that's not to say that that's a great deal right out of the gate.
00:37:04.000Whatever it is, we have to look at it.
00:37:05.000And we don't have it right in front of us because nothing right now has enough votes to pass.
00:37:10.000So I think whatever deal comes to pass, whatever deal is discussed as maybe having a chance to be signed, we have to see what's in it.
00:37:18.000We have to see what the amendments are.
00:37:19.000We have to see what the Democrats have inserted in there, what these provisions will actually look like in practice.
00:37:25.000I mean, we have this vague conception of ending chain migration, ending the diversity visa, but.
00:37:31.000What will that actually look like in terms of enforcement, in terms of numbers, in terms of projections, in terms of guarantees that it'll be followed through to the letter?
00:37:39.000We have to see all that before we even consider anything.
00:37:42.000But I think we look at ending chain migration as ending 7 million illegal immigrants, excuse me, 7 million legal immigrants over the course of 10 years.
00:38:05.000I mean, that's all the news that there was today.
00:38:07.000The only other thing that I saw, which was a little bit weird, a little bit weird that nobody was talking about this last one, but there was this infiltration at the NSA headquarters in Maryland.
00:38:18.000Black SUV with three people drives into the NSA headquarters, firing guns, and three people are taken into custody.
00:39:16.000Some people say I'm onto something, but a lot of weird, unexplained stuff, and especially in Maryland.
00:39:22.000Remember, Maryland, one of the sealed indictments turned out to be a truck driver or the owner of a truck company who was indicted in relation to the Uranium One deal.
00:39:31.000He was transporting illegally uranium for Russia, and that was in Maryland.
00:39:35.000And you have a number, a big number of sealed indictments in the state of Maryland.
00:39:56.000But with all that, that's been the news of the day, pretty uneventful.
00:40:00.000You know, the mass shooting, it's difficult to say because, unfortunately, these things happen with such regularity now.
00:40:06.000It was only a week ago that we were talking about a mass shooting.
00:40:11.000And I remember one of the first shows I ever did back when I was on Right Side was about mass shootings, you know, and so this is something that we've been talking about for a year.
00:40:20.000And we've done a number of them, and we've diagnosed the problem again and again and again, and yet it persists.
00:41:40.000Spoiler alert remember, if you see something, say something, unless what you see is an Arab Muslim with something that looks like it might be a bomb.
00:41:46.000In that case, don't open your damn mouth, you racist.
00:44:39.000One holy Catholic and apostolic church, which means one.
00:44:43.000It's unified, holy, meaning it has the protection of Jesus Christ from making errors.
00:44:50.000Apostolic, meaning it has apostolic succession from the times of the apostles, from St. Peter in the case of Rome.
00:44:56.000And Catholic, meaning it is universal, it is for all the believers of Christians.
00:45:00.000And so the difference between a Catholic and a Christian is a Christian, you could be a Protestant, you could be Orthodox, an Orthodox meaning Eastern Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, you could be a Mormon or something like that.
00:45:14.000I wouldn't say that's necessarily Christian.
00:45:17.000But people do say, well, they're all different denominations of Christianity.
00:46:19.000Thing is, Ronald Reagan had a major economic contraction in the first two years of his presidency.
00:46:25.0001983, they had one of the worst recessions since the Great Depression during his time.
00:46:31.000And the reason being, the reason for that during Ronald Reagan, it's worth mentioning, was because his Federal Reserve chairman, Paul Volk, was exercising monetary restraint.
00:46:40.000Whereas there was massive inflation before, whereas there was massive easy credit before, Paul Volk imposed real monetary restraint where they reeled in the credit, they reeled in the interest rates, and.
00:46:54.000That caused the bubble to pop and that caused a real correction in terms of the stock market, and a lot of the speculation had to match the real value in the economy.
00:47:03.000But once that correction happened, and it was very brutal, I mean, people forget how bad it was in 1983, how people thought this was a one term president, this is a disaster, but he stayed the course.
00:47:13.000And by 1984, we were doing better than ever before and won in a landslide.
00:49:47.000How do you explain the fact that while the Europeans were printing books and sailing the oceans and building railroads and cars and landing on the moon, Africans hadn't built a single two story building until we arrived there in the 1880s when we colonized the interior?
00:50:03.000How do you explain that when China was inventing fireworks and firearms and the printing press and all these great things, you know?
00:50:09.000Africa did not invent a single written language with the exception of Ethiopia.
00:51:19.000Once it becomes about a common enemy in the sense that once we are accentuating our similarities versus our differences, when I'm on with J.R. or J. McPheels, Jazz Hands McPheels, and we're talking about how Trump is innocent on Russia, there's a lot of camaraderie because we're fighting against the same leftists.
00:51:42.000We're fighting against the same liberal type people.
00:51:44.000And so there is this thing where, you know, I think McPheels is a smart guy and an articulate guy, and we bounce off of each other and we have good chemistry.
00:51:54.000Talking about Russian influence in the election, another great thing where fighting against the same people, and I think we were totally on the same page on that.
00:52:02.000And I think when we are coming together over those similarities as opposed to accentuating the differences, there is a real great chemistry.
00:52:10.000But then, you know, it's the arrogance of those small differences.
00:52:13.000Or what is the expression when they talk about how the small differences are often the most divisive, maybe because of ego in many cases?
00:52:21.000And admittedly, I think that's on all sides.
00:52:24.000But if we could work more like that together in the future, I think we'd be in a good place.
00:54:10.000Clash of Civilizations by Sam Huntington.
00:54:13.000Great book about post Cold War international relations, but also lays the groundwork for what the world order looks like, how we people our world, how we use units of peoples to describe our world.
00:54:26.000And so he talks about how we divide the world now, after the Cold War, into civilizations Western civilization, Islamic civilization, Sinic or Chinese civilization, and on and on.
00:56:29.000Thankfully, I don't have that much invested in crypto, but I saw it was a real bloodbath for a lot of people going from what 19,000 down to 6,800 in a matter of a month or two.
00:56:40.000Brutal for those people, but much appreciated.
00:56:43.000Glad to see fortunes are changing a little bit there.
00:56:47.000And our last one here, perfect timing here.
00:56:52.000Carl's friend says, Do you think or do you believe in the mark of the beast?
00:56:57.000If so, do you think it could be crypto?
00:57:00.000Well, you know, I mean, the mark of the beast is in the Bible.
00:57:06.000It's tough to cipher out, like, what exactly the symbolism is in the Bible in the sense that you look at the Bible as a book that was written 2,000 years ago.
00:57:14.000And if you believe that it is the revealed word, many of the things in the Bible were written for the audience of the time.
00:57:20.000You know, so, for example, when they talk about how Jesus Christ, when he had the, what was it called, the transconfiguration, or the, maybe I'm butchering that word, the transfiguration, when he met with Moses.
00:57:33.000And Elijah, and his face was transformed into light, and his clothes were white.
00:57:38.000I hear something like that, and I hear, well, there's an imagery that is written by people 2,000 years ago who didn't maybe have the words to describe what was happening.
00:57:48.000And so I think when you hear things like Mark of the Beast and some of the other prophetic type things in the Bible, I think it's really tough to cipher out what exactly that was intended to mean because it was written in the context of 2,000 years ago before we had all these things now.
00:58:12.000I don't think so because I think crypto represents a rejection of the New World Order, which is, in my opinion, the Satanist forces in the world.
00:58:19.000I see the people that are using crypto, and these are the people fighting the Satanic forces.
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