America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - Gun Control Never | America First Ep. 108

00:00:01.000 Good evening, everybody.

00:00:02.000 We're watching America First.

00:00:04.000 My name is Nicholas J. Fuentes, and we have a great show for you tonight.

00:00:09.000 But first of all, a happy Valentine's Day to everybody watching.

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00:00:34.000 What.

00:00:37.000 What'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?

00:00:46.000 I can't think of anything better.

00:00:47.000 But also, we have to remember, and everybody's talking about Valentine's Day, we have to remember it's Ash Wednesday as well.

00:00:55.000 Ash Wednesday for our Catholic friends.

00:00:57.000 And we like our Catholic friends a little bit more than everybody else.

00:01:00.000 A reminder today that we came out of dust, and from dust we shall return.

00:01:06.000 To dust we shall return. 0.99

00:01:07.000 So, Another great day for the Catholics, the beginning of the Lenten season.

00:01:11.000 And there is much to talk about tonight with our holiday greetings out of the way.

00:01:16.000 Much to get into.

00:01:17.000 I was just watching the Worski stream.

00:01:19.000 I have been watching the Worski stream for a little while.

00:01:22.000 And I don't know.

00:01:25.000 Mike Enoch versus Halsey for Blood Sports on Andy Worski.

00:01:29.000 And, you know, I've been watching it for a while.

00:01:32.000 I think Enoch is doing well, I think he's winning, but it's contentious.

00:01:37.000 It's tough to say.

00:01:37.000 I don't think there's a.

00:01:39.000 A clear winner that's pulled ahead.

00:01:41.000 I think Halsey is using his usual tricks, his usual rootless transnational tricks, and that's to be expected.

00:01:49.000 But I think he's doing a good job of obfuscating, but we'll see who comes out the victor.

00:01:53.000 That's on Andy Worski's stream.

00:01:55.000 And then now, starting actually right now, should be the Baked Alaska stream.

00:02:00.000 And it's Richard Spencer versus Mike Tokes.

00:02:04.000 And that is the alt right versus new right debate.

00:02:06.000 We'll see who comes out on top on that one.

00:02:09.000 But two very prominent debates, obviously, between two very prominent alt right personalities.

00:02:14.000 Enoch versus Halsey.

00:02:15.000 It looks like it's undecided.

00:02:17.000 It looks like it's still contested.

00:02:18.000 And I don't know, maybe you guys are getting a different take.

00:02:21.000 I'll have to go back in and watch the whole thing from start to finish.

00:02:24.000 Maybe that's why.

00:02:25.000 Because I came in right at when Halsey was battering him over his wife.

00:02:30.000 That was pretty effective.

00:02:31.000 I don't think that was fair.

00:02:32.000 I don't think that was right.

00:02:33.000 Pretty subversive, but it seemed to be pretty effective.

00:02:36.000 And then Spencer versus Tokes.

00:02:38.000 We'll see how that one plays out.

00:02:39.000 I'll probably watch that one after the show.

00:02:41.000 But lots going on tonight.

00:02:43.000 I've got a couple of debates.

00:02:45.000 On the docket, I'm going to be debating R.C. Maxwell on Baked Alaska stream sometime this week.

00:02:52.000 I believe Friday, we'll be debating about civic nationalism and ethnic nationalism.

00:02:57.000 I'll be debating Sticks and Hammer sometime in the coming weeks on religion versus atheism or Christianity versus atheism more specifically.

00:03:06.000 That's going to be set up with somebody named Al, a good friend of mine, longtime follower.

00:03:11.000 And then somebody said the Tree of Logic was interested in an Israel debate sometime.

00:03:15.000 So we'll have to set that one up. 0.75

00:03:17.000 And it is just the season of blood sports has arrived.

00:03:20.000 Blood sports is here and it's here to stay.

00:03:23.000 And it seems like there's going to be a lot of fun, lots of debates, lots of people that need to be put in their place.

00:03:29.000 Lots of people need to be corrected by America First.

00:03:33.000 But that's all right.

00:03:33.000 We're looking forward to it.

00:03:34.000 Lots of fun things on the table for the next couple of weeks.

00:03:37.000 But with all that out of the way, with the blood sport talk out of the way, we've got to get to the news.

00:03:43.000 Enough talk about the blood sports.

00:03:45.000 We have to get into what's going on in the world today.

00:03:48.000 And I think the.

00:03:49.000 The first and the biggest thing that's happened so far today is the tragic school shooting in Florida, which started this morning, this afternoon.

00:03:59.000 17 people are dead so far, something like between 40 and 50 injured, and 17 dead.

00:04:05.000 The 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.

00:04:16.000 He went to that high school and he was expelled.

00:04:18.000 And I guess he came back.

00:04:19.000 He's 20 now or something.

00:04:21.000 That's what one of the witnesses said.

00:04:23.000 And he came back.

00:04:24.000 He pulled the fire alarm, which is one of these nefarious things, creative, but obviously a very terrible thing, where.

00:04:30.000 You 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.

00:04:42.000 Obviously, you know, a tragic thing.

00:04:44.000 And it's tough, again, we were just talking about a school shooting pretty recently.

00:04:49.000 It's tough to deliver any kind of sincerity when you talk about these things.

00:04:54.000 I mean, there's only so many times that you can say, thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers, never again.

00:05:00.000 Prayers 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.

00:05:12.000 So 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.

00:05:31.000 Phone notification, well, there's more people dead.

00:05:34.000 And the suspect is named, and we can follow what happened and we can debate about it politically.

00:05:38.000 But the people involved, they don't get to move on.

00:05:41.000 They don't get to put that away.

00:05:42.000 They don't get to put the phone away.

00:05:43.000 They don't get to turn off the television.

00:05:45.000 That's their lives now.

00:05:46.000 That's their lives forever until the day they die, forever altered by another senseless act of violence.

00:05:52.000 So 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.

00:06:00.000 But, you know, that said, it was another shooting.

00:06:02.000 And already, already people are calling for gun control.

00:06:06.000 Already, number one or one of the major trending hashtags on Twitter is hashtag gun control now.

00:06:13.000 And on CNN, this is the most disgusting thing. 0.97

00:06:17.000 It's bad enough you have one of these killers and a real evil satanic killer out there murdering innocent people. 0.98

00:06:23.000 But then maybe this is up there in terms of despicable. 0.92

00:06:28.000 You 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.

00:06:40.000 Over the lives lost.

00:06:41.000 He says, Oh, I have 10 nephews and Wolf Blitzer, I got to tell you, I just can't handle it.

00:06:47.000 And it was just the most phony acting I've ever seen in my life. 0.86

00:06:51.000 And how disgusting.

00:06:53.000 And it's one thing if you have a guy on television who's broken up about it.

00:06:56.000 You know, it's a very sad thing, it's a tragic thing.

00:06:59.000 I'm a little bit broken up about it.

00:07:00.000 But 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.

00:07:11.000 What, the Democrats can seize your guns?

00:07:13.000 What, so that Democrats can win this news cycle?

00:07:16.000 I mean, how rotten can you be? 0.97

00:07:19.000 How despicable can you be? 0.94

00:07:21.000 So that was one of the reactions I saw.

00:07:22.000 But the gun control call, of course, that's the first thing we see.

00:07:27.000 Before the bodies are even cold, before we figure out what firearm was even used, I don't even know.

00:07:32.000 It wasn't on BBC, it wasn't on Fox News what firearm was used.

00:07:36.000 It was probably, I'm sure, a rifle, a semi automatic rifle of some kind.

00:07:40.000 People are saying it's an AR 15.

00:07:42.000 That may be true.

00:07:43.000 But before the bodies are even cold, they're already trying to politicize it, trying to mobilize for gun control.

00:07:48.000 And 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.

00:08:07.000 I've always maintained that it's about nihilism, it's about a lack of community why these things happen.

00:08:12.000 And we'll get back into that a little bit in a moment.

00:08:15.000 But on the gun control subject, I don't so much talk about that because we do get into the broader things.

00:08:21.000 On gun control, it should not be.

00:08:24.000 I don't think it's said enough that there is no gun control solution that will prevent these things from happening.

00:08:30.000 You have a group of people.

00:08:32.000 I mean, obviously, it's a big high school.

00:08:33.000 You pull a fire alarm, and there's a lot of people concentrated in a small space.

00:08:38.000 And 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.

00:08:47.000 There are simply no solutions in terms of laws, in terms of maybe arming teachers, in terms of arming students.

00:08:55.000 There are no precautions you can take that will eliminate 100% these kinds of things.

00:09:00.000 When 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.

00:09:10.000 There are things you can do that can mitigate these things, but you'll never get rid of all of them.

00:09:15.000 And that's when the question becomes where is the balance?

00:09:18.000 Where is the balance between mitigating any reasonable amount of mitigation and people being able to arm themselves?

00:09:25.000 I think the problem starts with the fact that.

00:09:28.000 People don't understand what is going to stop killers.

00:09:30.000 I don't see any other solution for how to stop bad people with guns than good people with guns.

00:09:37.000 And we know this about police officers.

00:09:39.000 We 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?

00:10:00.000 They bring guns.

00:10:01.000 Because the only thing that stops a bad person with a gun is a good person with a gun.

00:10:05.000 We know this intuitively.

00:10:06.000 It'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.

00:10:14.000 And the only thing that stops that is a more overwhelming force on the side of order and law and justice.

00:10:21.000 And 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.

00:10:31.000 And there's 300 and some million guns in the country.

00:10:35.000 So you have to understand these numbers in the sense that there's a lot of people.

00:10:38.000 There's going to be a lot of people congregating, lots of them in small places every day, all the time.

00:10:43.000 Subways, airplanes, even traffic stops.

00:10:46.000 If 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.

00:10:55.000 There's so many people in terms of sick people.

00:10:58.000 If maybe you have 0.01% of the population is sick and thinks they're doing these things.

00:11:03.000 When you have a country of 330 million people, that's a lot of people that have bad ideas.

00:11:08.000 So 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.

00:11:17.000 Number two is in terms of guns.

00:11:19.000 You ban guns.

00:11:21.000 What does that do about the 300 million guns that are in circulation right now that are in private hands?

00:11:21.000 Okay, that's great.

00:11:27.000 I 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.

00:11:34.000 And then what happens?

00:11:35.000 Do all the guns disappear?

00:11:37.000 Did the guns, the 300 million guns, which are not registered, which are not accounted for, many of them are not registered?

00:11:45.000 They're not in the hands of the people they're registered to.

00:11:48.000 What happens to those guns?

00:11:50.000 Did they get turned over?

00:11:51.000 Did they get bought?

00:11:51.000 Did they get seized?

00:11:52.000 What happens to those guns?

00:11:54.000 So, 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.

00:12:05.000 If 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.

00:12:17.000 Right?

00:12:18.000 So 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.

00:12:26.000 That's number one.

00:12:27.000 Number 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.

00:12:37.000 And then you have the factor of, well, what happens when somebody gets in a school with a gun?

00:12:40.000 That's inevitably going to happen.

00:12:42.000 You 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.

00:12:51.000 Of bad people with bad intentions getting into a school with a gun.

00:12:53.000 Well, what happens next?

00:12:55.000 What do we do about that?

00:12:56.000 What's going to stop a person with a gun?

00:12:58.000 The police, no matter how you cut it, they're three minutes away.

00:13:02.000 And that's three minutes away after a call is made.

00:13:04.000 That's after somebody recognizes there's a problem, picks up the phone, dials 911, and they diagnose the problem.

00:13:10.000 And then maybe it's 90 seconds, maybe it's three minutes, maybe it's 10 minutes.

00:13:14.000 Who knows?

00:13:14.000 Maybe there's a traffic jam.

00:13:16.000 Maybe there's not somebody in the area.

00:13:19.000 There's a period of time between when somebody's in the school with a gun and when the police arrive.

00:13:23.000 Well, what do you do in the meantime?

00:13:24.000 How do we solve that problem?

00:13:26.000 Well, the left and the liberals say, you know, it's gun control.

00:13:29.000 Well, once somebody's in the school, you don't have an answer for that.

00:13:32.000 Once somebody's in the school, what's the solution?

00:13:33.000 There's no guns in the school.

00:13:35.000 There's no cops in the school.

00:13:36.000 There's no security in the school.

00:13:38.000 What do you do then?

00:13:39.000 You lock the door and you hope that nobody comes and shoots you.

00:13:42.000 You 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.

00:13:50.000 The shooter doesn't hear you whispering or crying or whatever it is.

00:13:54.000 And I say that, and I bring up maybe some of these visceral images to demonstrate that.

00:14:00.000 The gun control talk, the gun control solution, this is not a panacea. 0.57

00:14:04.000 When people say, oh, well, a school shooting happened, we need to have gun control now.

00:14:08.000 We have to do something.

00:14:10.000 In this idea that we see a tragedy happen and we think, well, what's the first thing we could do?

00:14:13.000 We could go to the government and they can pass a law.

00:14:16.000 That's not going to solve it.

00:14:17.000 It's not going to solve it one bit.

00:14:19.000 The only way to solve it is to arm the citizenry.

00:14:23.000 That's the only way to solve it.

00:14:25.000 People that want to carry out a mass shooting, they don't go into places where people have lots of guns.

00:14:31.000 Nobody goes into a police station and shoots it up.

00:14:33.000 Very few people go into a military installation where people are armed and shoot it up.

00:14:39.000 People don't try many things at the White House because there's security all over the place.

00:14:43.000 They 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.

00:14:51.000 If 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?

00:15:01.000 Well, are you going to go to the place where you know people are going to have guns, where you know that?

00:15:06.000 People are going to have guns.

00:15:07.000 I don't know who's going to have guns.

00:15:08.000 I don't know if there's security there.

00:15:09.000 I don't know if a teacher has a gun, if a principal has a gun.

00:15:13.000 If a shooter goes into school, they break in.

00:15:15.000 Maybe they pass the first, maybe they pass through the office.

00:15:18.000 They get into the school, they break in, and they kill a couple of people.

00:15:22.000 The intercom goes out.

00:15:23.000 You know, there's a lockdown drill.

00:15:25.000 Everybody goes in.

00:15:26.000 Well, 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.

00:15:34.000 I don't know if the next classroom is going to have a cop in there with a gun drawn.

00:15:38.000 I don't know if a student's going to have a gun drawn.

00:15:40.000 I don't know if we should, you know, if it's a university, maybe that's more reasonable.

00:15:44.000 But you don't know if someone's going to be armed.

00:15:45.000 Are you going to go into schools anymore?

00:15:47.000 Probably not.

00:15:48.000 If 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?

00:16:06.000 Are they going to be as willing to go in there if they know their life is going to be cost?

00:16:11.000 And so this is the recommendation that was made by, I think it was one of the UN subcommittees, I think it was either.

00:16:17.000 Dissec, or it was one of the other ones.

00:16:20.000 But this was one of the propositions that was laid out by even people in the United Nations.

00:16:24.000 The only long term solution for these kinds of mass shootings is to arm people in these public places.

00:16:31.000 And we all know this.

00:16:32.000 We all intuitively understand this.

00:16:34.000 Anybody who pretends otherwise is an ideologue or they have a special interest to carry out, we all know it.

00:16:41.000 And it comes down to as simple a question as this There's a mass shooting in your school.

00:16:45.000 Do you want a gun or do you not want a gun?

00:16:48.000 You can say, well, does it give a false sense of security?

00:16:48.000 That's simple.

00:16:51.000 Is it going to solve everything?

00:16:53.000 Will there be more shootings if people are armed?

00:16:55.000 It 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?

00:17:02.000 And not only that, but do you want it to be legal to protect yourself or not protect yourself?

00:17:06.000 Should it be illegal for you to even have the option to defend yourself in that kind of a situation?

00:17:11.000 I think we all know the answer.

00:17:12.000 I 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.

00:17:21.000 To be in a position where I can stand a reasonable chance to live in this scenario.

00:17:25.000 You're going to be blaming the government if that's you and you have no firearm.

00:17:29.000 But that is, I think, beside the point.

00:17:31.000 I think that's beside the point.

00:17:32.000 You wonder how you can achieve mitigation?

00:17:35.000 How can you reduce the amount of instances when this happens?

00:17:39.000 Once 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.

00:17:57.000 And 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.

00:18:05.000 We're already in the middle of the story.

00:18:07.000 How do you reduce these things from happening?

00:18:08.000 You go all the way back to the beginning, and you wonder, how is somebody able?

00:18:12.000 How is somebody, you know, this guy Nicholas Cruz, who shot up the school, doesn't strike me as a very intelligent person.

00:18:18.000 If 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.

00:18:29.000 Taking pictures of himself with knives between each of his fingers, one with a big knife, one with a pistol.

00:18:36.000 One reset shooting range, firing on a piece of paper, saying that, well, this is a great solution.

00:18:41.000 Multiple pictures of himself with a mask and with guns.

00:18:44.000 This is not a subtle person.

00:18:45.000 This is not a subtle person.

00:18:46.000 I don't think anybody could look at that Instagram page.

00:18:49.000 Obviously, people who knew this guy saw the result, and anybody could say, oh, well, you know, that was really surprising.

00:18:55.000 That was really surprising that this guy.

00:18:57.000 Went out and did what he did.

00:18:59.000 And you have to ask yourself, how is this guy able to post these things on Instagram?

00:19:03.000 He's a troubled guy.

00:19:04.000 Obviously, he's not a very smart or a subtle guy.

00:19:06.000 He was giving off cues to his peers.

00:19:08.000 They all said, oh, well, he was a troubled guy.

00:19:10.000 I'm sure he was giving off cues to his parents, to people close to him.

00:19:14.000 And why did nobody say anything?

00:19:16.000 Why did nobody stop him and say, hey, you know, Nick, hey, Nicholas Cruz, what's going on, big guy?

00:19:23.000 What seems to be the problem?

00:19:24.000 Is it a girlfriend?

00:19:26.000 Is it, you know, trouble at school?

00:19:28.000 Is it, you know, was there trauma in your past that's unreconciled?

00:19:31.000 I mean, what's going on with you?

00:19:33.000 Why did nobody stop him from going down this dark path?

00:19:36.000 Why did nobody see the warning signs?

00:19:37.000 That's number one.

00:19:39.000 Number two, how did this guy get a firearm?

00:19:42.000 This guy's what, 20?

00:19:43.000 I'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.

00:19:50.000 They get it from a gun safe.

00:19:52.000 Why was he allowed to get a firearm?

00:19:54.000 Why was he not institutionalized and why was he not barred from owning a firearm because of some kind of a mental health issue?

00:19:59.000 If he took his parents' firearms, why were they not locked up?

00:20:02.000 Why did he know the password?

00:20:04.000 Why did he know how to acquire them?

00:20:05.000 Why did he get firearms?

00:20:07.000 That's a very difficult question, too.

00:20:09.000 If you have this troubled kid, how did he get the means in the first place?

00:20:13.000 And I think when you ask those kinds of questions, when you look at the situation and it's like, this did not happen today.

00:20:19.000 The shooting happened today, but this did not happen today.

00:20:22.000 Here was a person who had a problem, and then he had a plan, and then he carried out the plan.

00:20:27.000 And every step of the way, this was happening.

00:20:29.000 Every step of the way, we were moving closer towards today.

00:20:32.000 And what happened today was a failure.

00:20:34.000 I mean, of course, he was responsible for the shooting.

00:20:36.000 He was the one that pulled the trigger, and he got the gun, and he had the bad ideas.

00:20:39.000 But 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.

00:20:47.000 And they didn't ask him about it and they didn't reach out.

00:20:49.000 Where's the responsibility for the society?

00:20:51.000 Where'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?

00:21:02.000 They're supposed to just be out there, and I guess they're going to be okay.

00:21:06.000 We have to stop looking to institutional and legal solutions.

00:21:10.000 There is no system we can put in place.

00:21:12.000 There is no system where everybody can absolve themselves of responsibility and say, oh, well, you know, The rules will take care of it.

00:21:19.000 That's not going to happen.

00:21:20.000 That's a big problem with the way that we think.

00:21:22.000 We 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.

00:21:33.000 No amount of programs, no amount of rules, regulations, institutions will prevent bad people from doing bad things.

00:21:40.000 Only we can prevent that.

00:21:41.000 And that means that everybody has responsibility.

00:21:44.000 You see this, you say something.

00:21:46.000 Where were the parents?

00:21:47.000 Where were the teachers?

00:21:49.000 Where was the pastor or the priest? 0.98

00:21:51.000 Or, you know, if you're a Muslim, where was the. 1.00

00:21:52.000 Maybe he was encouraging it if it was Muslim. 1.00

00:21:54.000 You know, that's a little off color, but maybe, you know, where's the religious leader? 1.00

00:21:57.000 Where's the community leader?

00:21:58.000 Where's the Boy Scout leader?

00:22:00.000 Where's the best friends?

00:22:01.000 Didn't this guy have any friends?

00:22:02.000 And where were the peers if he didn't have any friends?

00:22:05.000 Isn't there one person in the whole school who was kind enough to say, hey, what's going on with you?

00:22:09.000 Why don't you come over?

00:22:10.000 Why don't we get something neat?

00:22:11.000 Let's talk about this.

00:22:13.000 Not one person in this guy's life who was able to stop him from carrying out this attack.

00:22:18.000 And of course, he was responsible, but if we're talking about preventing these kinds of tragedies, we all have responsibility.

00:22:25.000 And that's what it comes down to.

00:22:26.000 The left, the Democrats, they want to put the responsibility over here.

00:22:32.000 They want to say, I'm doing something by telling my congressman to write a law.

00:22:37.000 And the congressman will write a law, and the politicians will, you know, they'll pass it, and the police will enforce it.

00:22:43.000 And I get to sit at home.

00:22:44.000 I get to sit at home, and I get to carry on being a witness, being a bystander.

00:22:49.000 I get to carry on being absorbed with myself and concerned with nobody else.

00:22:53.000 And that's what the left is about, whether it's about socialism.

00:22:55.000 Whether 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.

00:23:03.000 They want to say, Well, I voted for it, I tweeted about it, and therefore I did something about it.

00:23:07.000 Therefore I contributed to solving the problem.

00:23:10.000 All these people are out there outraged.

00:23:12.000 Why hasn't anybody done anything about it?

00:23:14.000 What have you done about it?

00:23:15.000 What have you done about it?

00:23:17.000 If you were doing something about it, this wouldn't have happened.

00:23:19.000 How many people at that high school or in that community, people who knew that person, tweeted something like gun control now?

00:23:27.000 And how many of those people let something like that happen while they were tweeting?

00:23:30.000 While they were voting, you know, it didn't exactly help.

00:23:32.000 So that's at the core of it.

00:23:34.000 That is at the core of it.

00:23:35.000 We have to take responsibility for the country that we live in.

00:23:39.000 This is a country of men, not a country of laws.

00:23:41.000 We might like to say that.

00:23:42.000 It's nice rhetoric.

00:23:44.000 You know, we pass our laws and we're proud of our legal tradition, and that's great.

00:23:47.000 But at the end of the day, you know, the trains run on time because you have men behind them pulling the levers.

00:23:54.000 Groceries show up to the grocery store because people are driving the trucks and stocking the shelves.

00:23:59.000 And only we can stop these kinds of things from happening, not legislators, not tweeters, not anything like that.

00:24:05.000 So that's a mass shooting.

00:24:07.000 It's another tragedy, entirely preventable, entirely preventable.

00:24:11.000 To an extent, you'll always have these things.

00:24:13.000 There's always going to be ones that slip through the cracks, but.

00:24:16.000 Did everybody involved do everything they could to stop this from happening?

00:24:19.000 The answer is no.

00:24:21.000 And until then, I don't want to hear anything about laws.

00:24:23.000 I 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.

00:24:33.000 But I mean, this is what happens when you have no community.

00:24:37.000 This is what an individualist country looks like.

00:24:39.000 This is what individualism looks like.

00:24:41.000 This is your country on individualism no community, no church, no family, no friends, no school, no nothing.

00:24:49.000 And you have people that are going to do these kinds of things.

00:24:51.000 And that's the libertarian country that some of these people want.

00:24:55.000 But that's the mass shooting.

00:24:57.000 That wasn't the only thing that happened.

00:24:58.000 Kind of a downer.

00:24:59.000 Kind of a downer on Valentine's Day.

00:25:01.000 You know, you're sending people your candy grams.

00:25:03.000 You're sending people your little, you know, your funny little Valentines and, you know, everybody's so great.

00:25:08.000 And then tragedy strike.

00:25:10.000 Kind of a downer.

00:25:12.000 But there are some white pills today.

00:25:14.000 There are some major white pills.

00:25:15.000 Number one, we saw a very nice message from Jacob Sartorius' girlfriend.

00:25:19.000 That was a big white pill for me.

00:25:20.000 That was.

00:25:21.000 Lifting the spirits.

00:25:22.000 But there is another major white pill here, and this is about tax revenue.

00:25:27.000 This is something I was vindicated on, another moment of vindication for Big Nick.

00:25:32.000 If 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.

00:25:43.000 And 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.

00:25:52.000 They'll get more money, expenses will go down, more jobs will be created.

00:25:56.000 Businesses will come here.

00:25:57.000 There'll be more competition.

00:25:58.000 That has been vindicated, and then some.

00:26:00.000 But I also said there'll be more tax revenue.

00:26:03.000 James 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.

00:26:09.000 And I said, No, no, no, no.

00:26:10.000 The Laffer curve.

00:26:11.000 The 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.

00:26:18.000 Because 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.

00:26:30.000 If 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.

00:26:43.000 Counterintuitive, but this is a laugh occur.

00:26:46.000 And James said, oh, that's libertarian nonsense. 0.93

00:26:49.000 That's, you know, Jewish tricks or whatever.

00:26:51.000 And 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. 0.92

00:27:08.000 And this is a great thing.

00:27:09.000 This is a great thing.

00:27:10.000 This shows that President Trump's mentality on economy and really broadly the right wing perspective on economy is the right one.

00:27:18.000 I 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.

00:27:27.000 We're going to cut taxes and get more jobs and get more tax revenue and get more money in our pockets.

00:27:32.000 Yeah, okay.

00:27:32.000 Fat chance.

00:27:33.000 You know, a lot of people are very skeptical.

00:27:35.000 And 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.

00:27:45.000 And we're seeing the benefits.

00:27:46.000 When 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.

00:28:04.000 And this gets back to what we talked about even earlier this week about the government shutdown, about debts and deficits.

00:28:09.000 And these systemic problems, these systemic shortcomings in our government financial system, this just goes to show this is the solution.

00:28:17.000 If 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.

00:28:25.000 This is one of the ways we can solve our problem with the debt.

00:28:28.000 We 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.

00:28:41.000 And 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.

00:28:55.000 I mean, that will come later, but this is viable for the time being.

00:28:58.000 So that's a major white pill.

00:28:59.000 The other major white pill I wanted to talk about is polling.

00:29:03.000 Nobody's talking about this either.

00:29:05.000 A lot of Debbie Downer's talking about the shooting, which is understandable.

00:29:08.000 It was a sad thing.

00:29:10.000 We have a major white pill with the tax revenue, major white pill with polling in a new Politico poll.

00:29:16.000 This afternoon, Republicans now have a one point advantage over the Democrats in generic ballot polling for 2018.

00:29:24.000 Which, if you recall, in December, the Democrats held a 15 point lead.

00:29:29.000 15 point lead for the Democrats in December on generic ballot polling.

00:29:33.000 Now, Republicans have a one point lead.

00:29:35.000 And 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.

00:29:45.000 And this combined with the tax revenue and the tax cuts and the DACA stuff we talked about yesterday.

00:29:51.000 We are shaping up to have a very successful venture here in 2018.

00:29:57.000 I think it's going to be a real win for the Republicans.

00:29:59.000 And this, more broadly, I think, points to the fact that electoral politics is still viable.

00:30:04.000 I think a lot of people in this movement have given up on politics.

00:30:07.000 They say, you know what?

00:30:10.000 They do this face.

00:30:12.000 We look at the demographics in the long term.

00:30:12.000 I say, you know what?

00:30:14.000 We look at how, and we talked about it yesterday, how Hispanics, legal and illegal, vote for Democrats.

00:30:20.000 9 to 1 against Republicans, or 19 to 1 against Republicans in the case of illegals.

00:30:26.000 And people look at the shifting demographics.

00:30:28.000 They 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?

00:30:35.000 Don't you understand that it's all for naught?

00:30:37.000 Don't you understand that there is no solution within the system?

00:30:41.000 I think a lot of people hear this kind of talk.

00:30:43.000 They 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?

00:30:50.000 What's the use?

00:30:51.000 Who cares?

00:30:51.000 Following the stuff every day, voting, volunteering, you know, it's not going to work.

00:30:56.000 And then you see what Donald Trump is doing.

00:30:58.000 You saw what Donald Trump did in 2016, where he beat the odds in the primary.

00:31:02.000 He beat the odds in the election.

00:31:04.000 He came through with this massive tax cut, which is saving us.

00:31:07.000 He came through.

00:31:08.000 And 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.

00:31:23.000 Going from a 15 point Democrat lead to a one point Republican lead in a month, in 30 days.

00:31:29.000 Are you kidding me?

00:31:30.000 And so this says, you know, well, we could say, oh, well, Trump is doing good, and maybe we don't agree with him on everything.

00:31:36.000 I think the broader point to be made here is that electoral politics is still viable.

00:31:40.000 And this just goes to show that you can make a difference.

00:31:43.000 Every single person makes a difference.

00:31:45.000 Everybody who still is on the train for change within the system matters in what they do.

00:31:51.000 And so this should be a white pill.

00:31:53.000 When you see these numbers, when you see that it is possible, this should motivate people to go to their county GOP meetings.

00:31:59.000 Go to your county GOP meeting.

00:32:01.000 Email the guy who runs and say, when are the meetings?

00:32:02.000 Where are they at?

00:32:04.000 Go 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.

00:32:11.000 Support a candidate in the next election, volunteer on a campaign, volunteer to knock on doors, make phone calls, maybe run for election yourself.

00:32:19.000 I 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.

00:32:37.000 With 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.

00:32:44.000 And 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.

00:32:57.000 Why do you still believe in even America?

00:33:00.000 It's not enough that they don't believe in politics, they don't even believe in America.

00:33:03.000 They say, that's a lost cause.

00:33:06.000 Balkanization is coming, regionalization is coming.

00:33:09.000 Look at the movement that's happening in the country.

00:33:12.000 Donald Trump is laying out the prototype.

00:33:14.000 He's doing it right now.

00:33:15.000 All we have to do is imitate him.

00:33:17.000 All 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.

00:33:26.000 That means that all the activism, we have to get away from activism that is counterproductive or that is nonproductive.

00:33:33.000 Rallies, 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.

00:33:41.000 Those are the things you can do.

00:33:43.000 People watching the show, You know, you're concerned about demographics.

00:33:46.000 You're concerned about your people, your race, your family, your job, you know, whatever it is.

00:33:51.000 I get people all day long very concerned in my mentions.

00:33:54.000 If you're really concerned about those things, don't tell me about it.

00:33:57.000 Don't complain about it.

00:33:58.000 Go out and do it and pick one.

00:34:01.000 Support a candidate or infiltrate the local GOP.

00:34:04.000 But there's nothing else in between.

00:34:05.000 You know, maybe start a family.

00:34:07.000 That would be in between.

00:34:08.000 Start a family, go to church.

00:34:09.000 These are more for the self.

00:34:10.000 But if you want to get engaged in politics, that's the challenge.

00:34:13.000 That is the challenge that I'm giving to the people watching the show.

00:34:16.000 You care so much.

00:34:18.000 And I know we all care a lot.

00:34:19.000 Go out, do something about it, and do it in a productive and practical way.

00:34:23.000 So that's the white pill. 0.54

00:34:25.000 That's the Valentine's Day and the Ash Wednesday white pill. 0.57

00:34:27.000 I know it's been kind of a dim day, kind of a dismal, a sad day for a lot of people, but these are the white pills. 0.82

00:34:34.000 There is a future here.

00:34:36.000 The fight goes on every day.

00:34:37.000 Every day is a new day, and there is time left still to make the changes we need.

00:34:42.000 But those are the white pills on polling and tax revenue.

00:34:44.000 The last thing I wanted to get into, the last thing is, well, I don't know.

00:34:49.000 We talked about DACA a lot yesterday.

00:34:50.000 I don't know if I want to. 0.99

00:34:51.000 Reopen that can of worms again.

00:34:53.000 I 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.

00:35:05.000 Paul Ryan said he wouldn't consider anything the president doesn't support.

00:35:08.000 So, you know, it looks like, excuse me, it looks like on immigration, we're not going to get a bad deal.

00:35:13.000 I think we'll either get a Donald Trump deal, which is debatable, or no deal at all, which is a good thing.

00:35:20.000 But I think more broadly on that, there was some research I was doing this morning, which I didn't mention last night.

00:35:24.000 Last 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.

00:35:36.000 But 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.

00:35:43.000 So, DACA is being debated in the Senate right now.

00:35:45.000 The 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.

00:35:57.000 And that proposal, if put into law, I did the research today on the numbers, this would reduce immigration annually by 44%.

00:36:06.000 So 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.

00:36:22.000 I'm not sure how true that one is.

00:36:23.000 I think there are things in the law that will accommodate for that, but I'm not totally sure.

00:36:28.000 But 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.

00:36:38.000 Over 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.

00:36:46.000 So we look at numbers like that.

00:36:48.000 We look at the cuts to immigration that we're talking about, which I think people are skeptical about.

00:36:53.000 They don't know, will this have an effect?

00:36:55.000 Will this have a significant effect?

00:36:57.000 And the answer is yes.

00:36:58.000 The answer is it will have a very large effect.

00:37:00.000 Here on immigration.

00:37:01.000 And that's not to say that that's a great deal right out of the gate.

00:37:04.000 Whatever it is, we have to look at it.

00:37:05.000 And we don't have it right in front of us because nothing right now has enough votes to pass.

00:37:10.000 So 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.

00:37:18.000 We have to see what the amendments are.

00:37:19.000 We have to see what the Democrats have inserted in there, what these provisions will actually look like in practice.

00:37:25.000 I mean, we have this vague conception of ending chain migration, ending the diversity visa, but.

00:37:31.000 What 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?

00:37:39.000 We have to see all that before we even consider anything.

00:37:42.000 But 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. 0.98

00:37:50.000 That's a very solid proposition. 0.73

00:37:52.000 I think a lot of people could get by it as long as the bill is written in the right way and there are those assurances.

00:37:57.000 But those are your white pills on immigration, those are your white pills on polling, on tax revenue.

00:38:04.000 That's about it for today.

00:38:05.000 I mean, that's all the news that there was today.

00:38:07.000 The 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.

00:38:18.000 Black SUV with three people drives into the NSA headquarters, firing guns, and three people are taken into custody.

00:38:26.000 Nobody's talking about this.

00:38:27.000 Nobody's talking about this on the news.

00:38:30.000 Nobody's talking about this on Twitter.

00:38:32.000 And, you know, other things have happened, obviously, since then, a bigger shooting, but.

00:38:36.000 A little bit curious, you know, combined with all the other happenings we've been talking about going back for what, nine months now?

00:38:43.000 Las Vegas, the Atlanta airport, the customs computers going down, plane crashes, house fires, lots of weird goings on.

00:38:52.000 And then you have in Maryland an NSA headquarters being attacked by a black SUV, three guys going in shooting.

00:38:59.000 You know, what was their mission?

00:39:00.000 They said it wasn't terrorist related.

00:39:02.000 Well, what was it then?

00:39:04.000 What did they hope to get by driving into the NSA headquarters?

00:39:06.000 Very weird stuff.

00:39:07.000 So we'll keep an eye on that one.

00:39:09.000 That's the last thing that I just thought doesn't quite add up.

00:39:11.000 Thought I'd throw it in there for people that have been watching these happenings.

00:39:14.000 And some people say I'm crazy.

00:39:16.000 Some people say I'm onto something, but a lot of weird, unexplained stuff, and especially in Maryland.

00:39:22.000 Remember, 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.

00:39:31.000 He was transporting illegally uranium for Russia, and that was in Maryland.

00:39:35.000 And you have a number, a big number of sealed indictments in the state of Maryland.

00:39:39.000 It makes you wonder what's going on?

00:39:41.000 Maryland is right by D.C., some things go on, a lot of missing children.

00:39:46.000 Lots of child trafficking rumors going on there.

00:39:49.000 So, what exactly, what's going on, big guy?

00:39:51.000 What's going on, Maryland?

00:39:53.000 I don't know, but just wanted to throw that in there.

00:39:55.000 There is that weird thing.

00:39:56.000 But with all that, that's been the news of the day, pretty uneventful.

00:40:00.000 You know, the mass shooting, it's difficult to say because, unfortunately, these things happen with such regularity now.

00:40:06.000 It was only a week ago that we were talking about a mass shooting.

00:40:11.000 And 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.

00:40:20.000 And we've done a number of them, and we've diagnosed the problem again and again and again, and yet it persists.

00:40:25.000 But that's the news of the day.

00:40:27.000 We'll get into your super chats here. 0.60

00:40:29.000 Send some love.

00:40:30.000 Send some love my way, some romantic love my way for Valentine's Day.

00:40:35.000 Only a paltry three super chats.

00:40:39.000 I guess it had to run dry at some point.

00:40:41.000 We're having a good day yesterday and the day before.

00:40:44.000 I guess the well has run dry a little bit here.

00:40:46.000 But we have Martin Barnsley who says Are you going to give a kingdom come?

00:40:51.000 Are you going to give Kingdom Come a playthrough?

00:40:54.000 I may do that.

00:40:55.000 I may do that.

00:40:56.000 I'm not really sure.

00:40:57.000 I don't like to stream myself playing video games because I don't really have very many natural reactions.

00:41:03.000 Like, when I play video games, I'm not commentating on it.

00:41:05.000 Like, I'm not sitting there, like, oh, wow.

00:41:08.000 And it's not even funny either.

00:41:09.000 The things I would have to say would be saying things just to say things.

00:41:13.000 So, I don't really like the scrutiny when I'm doing things like that.

00:41:16.000 So, I don't know, but we'll see.

00:41:17.000 Maybe I'll do it.

00:41:18.000 I know it's a very wholesome game.

00:41:20.000 It's from a good time, and the people that made it seem pretty based.

00:41:24.000 So, may have to do that.

00:41:26.000 Radapunks, Nick, check No White Guilt YouTube.

00:41:30.000 Invite him on. 1.00

00:41:32.000 Is that an order?

00:41:33.000 Are you giving me an order?

00:41:34.000 I'll check him out.

00:41:35.000 If he has good optics, maybe I'll have him on the show and we'll check him out.

00:41:35.000 We'll see.

00:41:40.000 Spoiler 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. 1.00

00:41:46.000 In that case, don't open your damn mouth, you racist. 1.00

00:41:49.000 Yeah, right? 1.00

00:41:51.000 Exactly.

00:41:53.000 Well, that's just it.

00:41:53.000 I mean, that's just it, right?

00:41:55.000 I mean, when it's a white shooter, it's mental health, it's gun control. 0.99

00:41:58.000 When it's a Muslim. 1.00

00:42:00.000 We're going to bury that. 1.00

00:42:01.000 We're going to push that under the rug.

00:42:03.000 Remember the New York Halloween truck attack? 0.86

00:42:06.000 It was on Halloween, and some Muslim immigrant drove a truck through a pedestrian sidewalk. 0.59

00:42:13.000 I think he hit a couple of kids as well. 0.97

00:42:15.000 And that was memory hold in a day.

00:42:17.000 We forgot about that one within the week.

00:42:20.000 And so when it's guns used, we blame the guns.

00:42:23.000 Have to pass legislation on guns.

00:42:24.000 Guns are the problem.

00:42:25.000 Ban guns. 1.00

00:42:26.000 When a Muslim does a terrorist attack with a knife or with a truck, or maybe they just go out and they shoot somebody. 1.00

00:42:32.000 It's nothing to do with Muslims. 1.00

00:42:34.000 It's nothing to do. 1.00

00:42:36.000 Let's just forget about it. 0.97

00:42:37.000 Hey, he was a violent extremist. 0.88

00:42:39.000 It doesn't really matter what religion he was.

00:42:41.000 So, isn't that interesting?

00:42:43.000 And then the parallel goes if banning guns solves the problems of shooting, does banning trucks solve the problem of truck attacks?

00:42:50.000 Or does banning knives solve the problem of mass stabbings?

00:42:54.000 No other kind of attack is treated the same way, except with guns.

00:43:00.000 And with guns, it's always the guns that are responsible.

00:43:02.000 Anything else, not so much.

00:43:04.000 And people can say, oh, well, You know, guns are designed to kill people, and that's fair.

00:43:09.000 I mean, I suppose that does make it a different class that differentiates itself with trucks and with knives, which have other purposes.

00:43:16.000 But I would say that even in the case of firearms, there is a practical purpose for it, which is self defense.

00:43:21.000 You know, it doesn't have to be an offensive weapon.

00:43:25.000 Rick Smith says Enoch is so bad, Halsey is actually winning.

00:43:30.000 I don't know.

00:43:30.000 I mean, I saw it and I thought Enoch was doing okay.

00:43:33.000 I thought he was doing his best.

00:43:36.000 The problem with Halsey is he was talking over him and.

00:43:39.000 A lot of the personal stuff makes it difficult.

00:43:41.000 And it looks like Halsey went back and he did his homework, in fairness.

00:43:44.000 I think I'd be able to go in there and chop him up.

00:43:46.000 And I mean, I knew how to counter a lot of that stuff.

00:43:49.000 But in fairness, I think he prepared for that one a little bit better.

00:43:52.000 And I watched it.

00:43:53.000 There wasn't a clear victor, but I still think Edok was pulling out a little bit.

00:43:57.000 But if that's the case, it's been going on for a while.

00:44:00.000 That's pretty rough.

00:44:01.000 That's pretty rough because Halsey, low IQ kind of a guy and very unlikable.

00:44:04.000 So if you're saying that, that's not good.

00:44:09.000 Let's see.

00:44:10.000 Keynes 350, Big Bear says, Catholics versus Christians. 0.59

00:44:13.000 What's the difference? 0.99

00:44:15.000 Well, it's squares and rectangles, right? 0.89

00:44:18.000 All Catholics are Christians, but not all Christians are Catholics. 0.61

00:44:21.000 The difference is that Catholics recognize the authority of the Pope, of the papacy.

00:44:26.000 Catholics, Catholic means universal.

00:44:29.000 And so Catholics recognize the authority of the universal church in Rome.

00:44:34.000 We recognize the one holy and apostolic church.

00:44:37.000 Is there a fourth qualifier?

00:44:39.000 One holy Catholic and apostolic church, which means one.

00:44:43.000 It's unified, holy, meaning it has the protection of Jesus Christ from making errors.

00:44:50.000 Apostolic, meaning it has apostolic succession from the times of the apostles, from St. Peter in the case of Rome.

00:44:56.000 And Catholic, meaning it is universal, it is for all the believers of Christians.

00:45:00.000 And 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.

00:45:14.000 I wouldn't say that's necessarily Christian.

00:45:17.000 But people do say, well, they're all different denominations of Christianity.

00:45:21.000 So that's the major difference.

00:45:23.000 Henry Hollingworth, are you concerned with the economic bubble that will pop before the midterms?

00:45:28.000 That is a major concern of mine.

00:45:30.000 Major concern of mine for 2018 and 2020, because of course, whenever the bubble pops, whoever the ruling party is gets blamed for it.

00:45:37.000 George W. Bush got blamed for 2008, even though the antecedents could be traced back to Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan.

00:45:43.000 You know, you could go back to Bill Clinton, who pressured Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.

00:45:48.000 To give out riskier loans.

00:45:50.000 And that paved the way for the housing bust in 2006.

00:45:52.000 But who got blamed for it?

00:45:53.000 George Bush.

00:45:54.000 And George Bush certainly played a part.

00:45:56.000 I'm not absolving him of sins, but I mean, that just tends to be what happens.

00:46:00.000 Economic bust, ruling party gets blamed.

00:46:02.000 And so any kind of goodwill you might see now would pale in comparison to a real economic correction, to a real recession.

00:46:10.000 So I do worry about that.

00:46:12.000 And many people have forecasted some kind of a contraction this year or in the next two years.

00:46:18.000 And I worry greatly.

00:46:19.000 Thing is, Ronald Reagan had a major economic contraction in the first two years of his presidency.

00:46:25.000 1983, they had one of the worst recessions since the Great Depression during his time.

00:46:31.000 And 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.

00:46:40.000 Whereas 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.

00:46:52.000 That obviously caused a correction.

00:46:54.000 That 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.

00:47:03.000 But 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.

00:47:13.000 And by 1984, we were doing better than ever before and won in a landslide.

00:47:18.000 Won every state except for Minnesota.

00:47:20.000 And Reagan swears that he won Minnesota too, but they stole it.

00:47:23.000 So I do worry about that, but we'll see what happens.

00:47:27.000 We'll deal with that.

00:47:28.000 If or when it happens, David Bowman with the single dollar.

00:47:32.000 Thank you, my guy.

00:47:33.000 Much appreciated.

00:47:34.000 Beautiful man.

00:47:36.000 Keep up the good work, Nick.

00:47:37.000 And this is in pounds.

00:47:38.000 This is five British pounds.

00:47:40.000 So we have to read in a British accent.

00:47:42.000 He says, Oi, bruv.

00:47:44.000 Keep up the good work, Nick.

00:47:45.000 I'd be interested to hear if you've read any Michael Hallebeck novels.

00:47:49.000 No, I have not.

00:47:51.000 He's the one that wrote Submission, correct?

00:47:55.000 Many people have recommended that book to me.

00:47:57.000 I haven't read it.

00:47:58.000 Admittedly, I'm not wild about fiction.

00:48:00.000 I think I read it faster, but.

00:48:02.000 The nonfiction is really where I'm at because, you know, I'm a young guy.

00:48:05.000 There's so much to learn.

00:48:06.000 So it's sort of like, it feels like a crime if I'm reading fiction before I know everything about, you know, the things I talk about.

00:48:12.000 So I haven't read so much fiction, haven't read any Hallebeck, but I am familiar with the name.

00:48:17.000 I am familiar with the general idea.

00:48:19.000 But thanks for the compliment there. 0.73

00:48:23.000 Salim Fortes, Nick, what's the deal with Black Panther's suspiciously insincere over adoration? 1.00

00:48:29.000 Well, it's this pathetic pandering to black people. 1.00

00:48:33.000 And it really is. 1.00

00:48:34.000 I mean, you talk about racism.

00:48:35.000 That's the real racism. 0.89

00:48:37.000 I mean, they have to go to black people and say, oh, look at your little movie. 0.95

00:48:41.000 Oh, you have your little movie. 0.92

00:48:41.000 Oh, look. 0.92

00:48:43.000 Isn't that so special?

00:48:44.000 And how patronizing. 0.99

00:48:46.000 I would be so insulted if I were a black person. 0.97

00:48:48.000 I would be so insulted that people feel the need. 0.96

00:48:51.000 They pity black people so much that we have to create ancient glory.

00:48:57.000 We have to create this, you know, ancestral glory. 0.98

00:49:00.000 It's there for black people.

00:49:01.000 They had the Ghana Empire, they had the Benin Empire.

00:49:06.000 There's a real heritage there I think they could be proud of.

00:49:09.000 Maybe it doesn't compare so much with Britain or with Russia or other countries, but it's certainly there.

00:49:16.000 But the left feels the need.

00:49:18.000 We have to invent these mythologies for black people, we have to invent these past glories, and then we have to fawn and pander over it. 0.99

00:49:26.000 How pathetic, right? 1.00

00:49:28.000 But we all know what that's about. 0.99

00:49:29.000 We all know what that's about. 0.99

00:49:30.000 You have this problem that's persisted for 5,000 years, which is how do you explain black failure and white success? 0.96

00:49:37.000 How do you explain the fact that black people have not created, or Africans have not created, a single great world city in 3,000 years? 0.93

00:49:45.000 How do you explain that? 0.84

00:49:47.000 How 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? 0.57

00:50:03.000 How do you explain that when China was inventing fireworks and firearms and the printing press and all these great things, you know? 0.63

00:50:09.000 Africa did not invent a single written language with the exception of Ethiopia.

00:50:13.000 How do you explain that?

00:50:15.000 And how much scholarship is dedicated to explaining away these differences between peoples is, oh, well, it was geography.

00:50:23.000 It was geography.

00:50:25.000 They didn't have the same terrain.

00:50:27.000 How do you explain that?

00:50:28.000 And people say, oh, well, it's colonialism.

00:50:30.000 It's discrimination.

00:50:31.000 At a certain point, you run out of explanations.

00:50:33.000 And that's the problem liberals are running into.

00:50:36.000 People are waking up to it.

00:50:37.000 They're saying, writing's kind of on the wall here.

00:50:40.000 And it's not saying anything more than it is, which is that people are different.

00:50:43.000 Groups of people are different.

00:50:45.000 They have different aptitudes, different strengths, different weaknesses.

00:50:49.000 Nobody has any problem with the fact that black people are overrepresented in the NFL and the NBA and, you know, all the sporting things. 0.72

00:50:55.000 And nobody has any problem if you said black people are better athletes.

00:50:59.000 You wouldn't be controversial if you said, wow, black people are really tall and athletic and cool and musical.

00:51:05.000 Nobody would have a problem if you said that.

00:51:06.000 But you start to say, well, they have a challenge building great world cities.

00:51:10.000 Suddenly, you know, you're some kind of a bad guy.

00:51:14.000 Empress Finest, do you have good chemistry with those TRS guys on Warski?

00:51:18.000 Yeah, well, I think once it.

00:51:19.000 Once 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.

00:51:42.000 We're fighting against the same liberal type people.

00:51:44.000 And 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.

00:51:51.000 And Enoch, when we were on.

00:51:54.000 Talking 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. 0.55

00:52:02.000 And I think when we are coming together over those similarities as opposed to accentuating the differences, there is a real great chemistry. 0.97

00:52:10.000 But then, you know, it's the arrogance of those small differences.

00:52:13.000 Or what is the expression when they talk about how the small differences are often the most divisive, maybe because of ego in many cases?

00:52:21.000 And admittedly, I think that's on all sides.

00:52:24.000 But if we could work more like that together in the future, I think we'd be in a good place.

00:52:29.000 Canes and Emperor's Finest.

00:52:31.000 I expect some of those oatmeal chocolate chips, by the way.

00:52:35.000 You said you were baking oatmeal chocolate chips.

00:52:36.000 That one didn't slip by the goalie.

00:52:38.000 I expect some of those.

00:52:40.000 If I'm ever in the area, you've got to let me know so I can get in on those cookies.

00:52:45.000 Canes Big Bear.

00:52:46.000 Thank you.

00:52:47.000 Book recommendations for novice readers.

00:52:49.000 Well, I have a book list on my website.

00:52:51.000 It's the most recent blog post on my website.

00:52:54.000 It's a list of my 10 starter books.

00:52:57.000 And I'll give you a couple of them.

00:52:58.000 We have Decline of the West by Oswald Spangler.

00:53:02.000 Really, an excellent work.

00:53:04.000 I would caution that one's not for beginners.

00:53:07.000 A lot of complicated language in there.

00:53:09.000 It's translated from German, so the translation makes it difficult to read in English.

00:53:13.000 He talks about a lot of things which, if you don't have background knowledge, it's going to be hard to follow.

00:53:19.000 He talks a lot about Rembrandt, the artist.

00:53:21.000 He talks a lot about architecture.

00:53:23.000 He talks a lot about mathematics.

00:53:25.000 You should have some kind of a background in those subjects.

00:53:28.000 I would say that if you're going to start decline, you should skim it, go over some of the things he talks about, and then read it.

00:53:33.000 Otherwise, it's going to be dry as a bone and go right over your head.

00:53:36.000 Decline of the West is a great one.

00:53:38.000 Death of the West by Pat Buchanan is a great starter.

00:53:41.000 That one was written 15 years ago, but just as prescient now as it was then.

00:53:46.000 Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam.

00:53:48.000 That one's about community and the decline of it in America.

00:53:51.000 What else is on that list?

00:53:53.000 I'm trying to think.

00:53:54.000 500 Years of Western Civilization Dawn to Decadence by Jacques Barzon, a French historian.

00:54:01.000 That's a really great one.

00:54:02.000 That'll give you a really great overview of the history of ideas in the past half millennium.

00:54:07.000 That's on that list.

00:54:09.000 I'm trying to think what else.

00:54:10.000 Clash of Civilizations by Sam Huntington.

00:54:13.000 Great 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.

00:54:26.000 And 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.

00:54:37.000 Really great one.

00:54:38.000 Another great one that I don't think is on that list is Who Are We by Sam Huntington.

00:54:43.000 That is required reading for anybody in this movement.

00:54:45.000 You can't go wrong with that one.

00:54:47.000 A great writer, erudite writer, and that is solid stuff.

00:54:51.000 And this guy's a liberal, and he's writing Who Are We?

00:54:53.000 It's about immigration, it's about American identity, really great stuff.

00:54:57.000 But you could see the whole book list on my website, and there's an older one too.

00:55:01.000 So, what else?

00:55:02.000 What else?

00:55:03.000 What else? 0.93

00:55:06.000 Raging Papist.

00:55:07.000 Sorry to say, Nick, but no ashes on the forehead is bad optics.

00:55:11.000 No cucking on the Lenten question.

00:55:12.000 Have a good one.

00:55:13.000 You know, that's something I actually debated a lot about because I am a very vain person. 1.00

00:55:18.000 I know it's not Christian, but. 0.74

00:55:20.000 The ashes on the forehead, even in high school, I saw a lot of people walking around the school with the ashes on the forehead.

00:55:27.000 And maybe it's because I'm OCD, maybe it's because I'm weird like that, but I see that and I'm like, oh, it's just distracting to look at.

00:55:34.000 It just kind of rubs me the wrong way.

00:55:36.000 And I know that defeats the whole purpose because the purpose of the ashes is to humble people and say, you're dust.

00:55:44.000 So it's such a hypocrisy that I see it that way.

00:55:46.000 But I did check, I did check actually before I made the choice to not have the ashes, I did check.

00:55:53.000 You are allowed to wash them off after Mass.

00:55:55.000 I did check on many Catholic websites. 0.99

00:55:57.000 They say you can wash them off after Mass, so I'm in the clear.

00:56:00.000 But it's one of those questions Do I get the authenticity points with the ashes, or do I get the.

00:56:06.000 I guess copping out, you get no points.

00:56:08.000 But it was a decision I thought about.

00:56:11.000 Rick M says Litecoin is up, so I decided to give a little more today.

00:56:15.000 Well, thank you, my guy.

00:56:16.000 Much appreciated.

00:56:17.000 And if you're in Litecoin, sorry.

00:56:19.000 Sorry for what you've had to deal with for the past couple of weeks.

00:56:22.000 I know it's been a difficult time for our coiners, for our.

00:56:27.000 People that are holding crypto.

00:56:29.000 Thankfully, 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.

00:56:40.000 Brutal for those people, but much appreciated.

00:56:43.000 Glad to see fortunes are changing a little bit there.

00:56:47.000 And our last one here, perfect timing here.

00:56:52.000 Carl's friend says, Do you think or do you believe in the mark of the beast?

00:56:57.000 If so, do you think it could be crypto?

00:57:00.000 Well, you know, I mean, the mark of the beast is in the Bible.

00:57:03.000 I don't know.

00:57:04.000 It's kind of tough to say.

00:57:06.000 It'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.

00:57:14.000 And if you believe that it is the revealed word, many of the things in the Bible were written for the audience of the time.

00:57:20.000 You 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.

00:57:33.000 And Elijah, and his face was transformed into light, and his clothes were white.

00:57:38.000 I 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.

00:57:48.000 And 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.

00:58:01.000 So some people say it's barcodes.

00:58:04.000 Some people say it's chipping, putting microchips in people.

00:58:08.000 And I guess some people say it's crypto.

00:58:10.000 I never thought of it that way.

00:58:12.000 I 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.

00:58:19.000 I see the people that are using crypto, and these are the people fighting the Satanic forces.

00:58:25.000 But I don't know.

00:58:25.000 I mean, we'll see how it plays out.

00:58:27.000 Things can change.

00:58:28.000 But it looks like that was our last super chat, and we are right here at 8 o'clock.

00:58:32.000 So perfect timing.

00:58:33.000 Going to go check out the Bloodsports now.

00:58:35.000 But that looks to be our show for the night.

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01:00:49.000 No meat.

01:00:50.000 But that's all.

01:00:51.000 See you tomorrow.

01:00:52.000 Have a great rest of your evening.

01:00:56.000 Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo.

01:01:05.000 It's going to be only America first.

01:01:08.000 America first. 0.99

01:01:09.000 The American people will come first once again. 0.99

America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - February 14, 2018

Gun Control Never | America First Ep. 108

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