Learn English with Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles on November 5th, 2020. She is a former first lady of the United States and served as the first female presidential candidate to run for President in 1988 and as Vice President in 1992.
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00:00:14.000And at any moment, I can kick that yay button.
00:00:17.000I said trust no man, I was trying to believe you, Dave was in the bottle, I said change with girls in the bottle, my mama said trust don't hold you, so problem.
00:00:58.000my rules, I just endorse them, all right?
00:01:11.000I said trust no man, I was trying to believe you, Dave was in the bottle, I said trust no man, I was trying to believe you, Dave was in the bottle, I said trust no man, I was trying to believe you, Dave was in the bottle, I said trust no man, I was trying to believe you, Dave was in the bottle, I said trust no man, I was trying to believe you, Dave was in the bottle, I said trust no man, I was trying to believe you, Dave was in the bottle, I said trust no man, I was trying to believe you, Dave was in the bottle, I said trust no man, I was trying to believe you, Dave was in the bottle, I said trust no man, I was trying to believe you, Dave was
00:05:07.000And people don't realize what they have.
00:05:13.000And then nowadays, I am so upset that the things we did and the things we fought for and the boys that died for it, it's all gone down the drain.
00:05:27.000Our country's gone to hell in a handbasket.
00:05:32.000We haven't got the country we had when I was raised.
00:07:11.000This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
00:07:15.000We're being slowly poisoned and, in some cases, quickly murdered and assassinated.
00:07:22.000And we're killing ourselves every day, inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
00:07:29.000People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.
00:07:37.000People have got to start to get courageous.
00:07:40.000And this is the time for everybody to turn and look to God and to pray and to ask for strength and to ask for wisdom to get through this time and to transform and sanctify this country.
00:07:54.000And the alternative is that there will be no country.
00:07:58.000Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
00:08:01.000Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
00:08:08.000It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.
00:08:12.000It's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.
00:08:41.000My own narrative is not one of some sudden, looming bolt of lightning out of the globe.
00:08:47.000It was a slow and steady, unrelenting stream of blips and blinks, glimmers and glares, low beams and high beams of light, some of which I did not want to see.
00:09:02.000And then finally, a point of no return reckoning.
00:09:11.000I think it was because I fiercely came out during the Greupel Wars of 2019 when so many of these brave young men were on college campuses challenging the likes of Zio Schill, Dan Crenshaw, questioning him about his undying loyalty and, of course,
00:09:27.000defending Nick Fuentes and so many of the stars of the burgeoning America First movement who, through an increasing amount of activism, are really going to ensure the future and the success of that movement.
00:09:42.000America is a nation of believers, dreamers, and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics, and cynics.
00:09:53.000These interests have rigged our political and economic system for their exclusive benefit.
00:14:41.000We have got to be willing to die for Jesus Christ.
00:14:45.000We have to want it more than they do because there are thousands and millions and tens of millions and hundreds of millions of Christians ready to meet their final destiny that nothing can stop us and nothing will.
00:16:08.000These niggas gone turn up all night These gon'share my dream, these gon'share my cup, they gon'serve me alright I got the feelings if you got a problem, they make it they trouble, the blocks I'm tweakin'We got the feel so you pull up outside, you out of your mind, you crazy tweakin'Got some bad on my lane, bad in my mind, no really bad out of my tweakin'Know
00:16:23.000that you lovin'these lights, you lovin'this world, you runnin'it back every weekend You ain't in love with me every time I go, you're a split All y'all chalk inside this lights, that world, y'all get runnin'back up every weekend Now you see I'm gone off on the table,
00:16:39.000yeah You say that I'm bad for the waces, yeah Bitch, I'm better, I'm better Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh Lawrence, I found something really interesting *Bitches
00:16:58.000In 2016, Donald Trump vowed that the United States would buy and, more importantly, hire American.
00:17:06.000But in June of 2024, during the All In podcast hosted by his donor, David Sachs, he committed that he would not only expand work visas, but he would staple green cards to them.
00:17:23.000And I will not encourage my followers to turn out in November to vote for this or campaign for this.
00:17:31.000It is not an unreasonable demand to say that we will not vote for a candidate that promises to import more legal immigrants.
00:17:41.000And it is not unreasonable because for the first time in 20 years, it is the majority opinion that there are too many legal immigrants coming into the country.
00:26:17.000Some of them may look back and ask themselves whether they've made the right choice, whether they've made the most of the opportunities they've been given.
00:31:59.000We're replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American people.
00:32:08.000The Washington establishment and the financial and media corporations that fund it exist for only one reason: to protect and enrich itself.
00:32:19.000The establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election.
00:32:24.000For those who control the levers of power in Washington and for the global special interest, they partner with these people that don't have your good in mind.
00:32:34.000Our campaign represents a true existential threat.
00:32:42.000This is not simply another four-year election.
00:32:45.000This is a crossroads in the history of our civilization that will determine whether or not we, the people, reclaim control over our government.
00:32:57.000The political establishment that is trying to stop us is the same group responsible for our disastrous trade deals, massive illegal immigration.
00:33:10.000And economic and foreign policies that have bled our country dry.
00:33:16.000The political establishment has brought about the destruction of our factories and our jobs as they flee to Mexico, China, and other countries all around the world.
00:33:28.000It's a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth.
00:33:37.000And put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities.
00:33:45.000This is a struggle for the survival of our nation.
00:33:50.000And this will be our last chance to save it.
00:33:53.000This election will determine whether we're a free nation or whether we have only the illusion of democracy, but are in fact controlled by a small handful of global special interests.
00:34:04.000We're rigging the system, and our system is rigged.
00:43:50.000I think it was because I fiercely came out during the Greupel Wars of 2019 when so many of these brave young men were on college campuses challenging the likes of Zio Schill, Dan Crenshaw, questioning him about his undying loyalty and, of course,
00:44:06.000defending Nick Fuentes and so many of the stars of the burgeoning America First movement who, through an increasing amount of activism, are really going to ensure the future and the success of that.
00:44:21.000Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Donald Trump, were all cut from the same cloth, and that cloth is very, very large.
00:52:35.000And yes, together, we will make America great again.
00:52:42.000Come to my block, come and see how we living, we chilling with black
00:52:45.000Why wouldn't you dedicate yourself to public service?
00:52:48.000Because I think it's a very mean life.
00:52:50.000I would love and I would dedicate my life to this country, but I see it as being a mean life.
00:52:55.000And I also see it as somebody with strong views and somebody with the kind of views that are maybe a little bit unpopular, which may be rife, but may be unpopular, wouldn't necessarily have a chance of getting elected against somebody with no great brain but a big smile.
00:53:10.000And that's a sad commentary for the political process.
00:53:13.000And if you have a minute, why don't we go?
00:55:01.000And I will not encourage my followers to turn out in November to vote for this or campaign for this.
00:55:09.000It is not an unreasonable demand to say that we will not vote for a candidate that promises to import more legal immigrants.
00:55:19.000And it is not unreasonable because for the first time in 20 years, it is the majority opinion that there are too many legal immigrants coming into the country.
00:55:51.000And Americans need to get used to saying that.
00:55:54.000Native Americans never get what they ask for because they're always telling themselves and negotiating with themselves, telling us, It's good enough.
00:56:01.000We need to hear the words immigration moratorium.
00:57:57.000I should have supported Grape of War 2.
00:58:14.000I'm back up on them, on them diamonds, 30s TD diamonds You see this jet, you know I'm different climbers How I got this damn, got it cause I ain't tryin'Wish it in like family, wish it in their memories, yeah Hold
00:58:35.000Hold them, yeah, pull up by side, yeah, pull up on them Now I got this baby on hats on them I'm straight out of these diamonds, I'm straight out of these lights Yeah, yeah, how you gon'serve these bills, how you gon'serve these lights Yeah, turn up at
00:58:50.000my show, at least just do it right Yeah, yeah, we go out all night You gon'serve me big, gon'serve me big, gon'serve up all night You gon'serve my dream, you gon'serve my cup, you gon'serve me all right I got the feeling that they got the frogs on the back of the truck with the blocks, I'm tweaking
00:59:06.000We got no good city, what about sliding, you out of your mind, you crazy tweaking Got you mad at my lane, bad at my mind, I'm really mad at my drinking Know that you lovin'these lights, you lovin'this world, we runnin'it big every weekend Shut it up with me every time I go Well, it's a bleak, all y'all track inside this life, that world
00:59:21.000Y'all get to run the bed up every weekend Now you see I'm gone off on the table You say that I'm bad, so I'm crazy I wanna be
00:59:40.000dictator And you know why I want to be a dictator?
00:59:49.000Cause I want a wall Cause I want a wall Right?
00:59:53.000I want a wall And I wanna drill, drill, drill Power My love has got no money, he's
01:00:09.000got his strong beliefs My love has got no power, he's got his strong beliefs My love has got no money, he's got his strong beliefs My love has got no money, he's got his strong beliefs One more and more, people just want
01:00:24.000more and more freedom and love What he's looking for, one more and more, people just want more and more freedom and love
01:00:36.000He's looking for Feed from desire Mind and sense is purified Feed from desire Mind and sense is purified Feed from desire Mind and sense is purified Feed from desire Na-na-na-na-na-na-na
01:01:09.000guy I'm a fire guy I'm a fire guy I'm a fire guy I ain't even lying,
01:01:25.000I ain't got no pains, you can fuck with a time This one hater, fuck it with the world, go on This one hater, fuck
01:01:53.000it with the world, go on But as soon as people start playing games, I stop, I stop playing
01:02:08.000games And at any moment, I can hit that yay button I said trust your man, I'm just gonna believe you Take doors and go, I said change with girls like a brother My mama said trust
01:02:23.000don't hold you, so problem I'm at, one, two, stop the track I think I know it first, itch See Ricky said, I'm a little bit, I don't wanna pull you But they wanna pull you, they don't wanna pull you Okay, bro Not
01:07:03.000And people don't realize what they have.
01:07:08.000And then nowadays, I am so upset that the things we did and the things we fought for and the boys that died for us, it's all gone down the drain.
01:07:22.000Our country's gone to hell in a handbasket.
01:07:27.000We haven't got the country we had when I was raised.
01:09:06.000This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
01:09:10.000We're being slowly poisoned and, in some cases, quickly murdered and assassinated.
01:09:17.000And we're killing ourselves every day, inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
01:09:24.000People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.
01:09:32.000People have got to start to get courageous.
01:09:35.000And this is the time for everybody to turn and look to God and to pray and to ask for strength and to ask for wisdom to get through this time and to transform and sanctify this country.
01:09:49.000And the alternative is that there will be no country.
01:09:53.000Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
01:09:57.000Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
01:10:03.000It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.
01:10:07.000It's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.
01:10:37.000My own narrative is not one of some sudden looming bolt of lightning out of the blue.
01:10:42.000It was a slow and steady, unrelenting stream of blips and blinks, glimmers and glares, low beams and high beams of light, some of which I did not want to see.
01:10:57.000And then finally, a point of no return reckoning.
01:11:06.000I think it was because I fiercely came out during the Greupel Wars of 2019 when so many of these brave young men were on college campuses challenging the likes of Zio Schill Dan Crenshaw, questioning him about his undying loyalty and,
01:11:22.000of course, defending Nick Fuentes and so many of the stars of the burgeoning America First movement who, through an increasing amount of activism, are really going to ensure...
01:11:37.000America is a nation of believers, dreamers, and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics, and cynics.
01:11:49.000These interests have rigged our political and economic system for their exclusive benefit.
01:13:57.000i will fight for you with every breath in my body and i will never ever let you down a new droiper war yeah i'm talking bodies on the floor
01:14:12.000i'm with it all i talk to my demons and i see the writings on the wall niggas is dying when it's so i get excited for them calls and no one crying when he's gone because brody was fighting for the cold oh the courageous fallen
01:14:28.000the anguished fallen their lives have meaning because we the living refuse to forget them and as we ride to certain death we trust our successors to do the stand for us
01:14:39.000Because my soldiers do not buckle or yield when faced with the cruelty of this world My soldiers push forward Can't see
01:14:57.000it there Can't see it down Thank you Can't go back to the past That's what people always say
01:16:44.000Because if there are thousands and millions and tens of millions and hundreds of millions of Christians ready to meet their final destiny, then nothing can stop us and nothing will.
01:18:53.000In 2016, Donald Trump vowed that the United States would buy and, more importantly, hire American.
01:19:00.000But in June of 2024, during the All In podcast hosted by his donor, David Sachs, he committed that he would not only expand work visas, but he would staple green cards to them.
01:19:18.000And I will not encourage my followers to turn out in November to vote for this or campaign for this.
01:19:26.000It is not an unreasonable demand to say that we will not vote for a candidate that promises to import more legal immigrants.
01:19:36.000And it is not unreasonable because for the first time in 20 years, it is the majority opinion that there are too many legal immigrants coming into the country.
01:22:14.000I should have supported Grape of War 2.
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01:22:59.000have supported Grape of War 2. I should have supported Grape of War 2. I should have supported Grape of War 2. I should have supported Grape of War 2. I should have supported Grape of War 2. And the reason why is because it's not cool to share a big business.
01:23:16.000It's not cool to share a big business.
01:28:11.000Years from now, some of them may look back and ask themselves whether they've made the right choice, whether they've made the most of the opportunities they've been given.
01:33:53.000is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American people.
01:34:03.000The Washington establishment and the financial and media corporations that fund it exist for only one reason: to protect and enrich itself.
01:34:14.000The establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election.
01:34:19.000For those who control the levers of power in Washington and for the global special interest, they partner with these people that don't have your good in mind.
01:34:29.000Our campaign represents a true existential threat like they haven't seen before.
01:34:37.000This is not simply another four-year election.
01:34:40.000This is a crossroads in the history of our civilization that will determine whether or not we, the people, reclaim control over our government.
01:34:53.000The political establishment that is trying to stop us is the same group responsible for our disastrous trade deals, massive illegal immigration.
01:35:05.000And economic and foreign policies that have bled our country dry.
01:35:11.000The political establishment has brought about the destruction of our factories and our jobs as they flee to Mexico, China, and other countries all around the world.
01:35:23.000It's a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth, and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political
01:35:39.000This is a struggle for the survival of our nation.
01:35:45.000And this will be our last chance to save it.
01:35:48.000This election will determine whether we're a free nation or whether we have only the illusion of democracy, but are in fact controlled by a small handful of global special interests rigging the system, and our system is rigged.
01:45:16.000my own narrative is not one of some sudden booming bolt of lightning out of the blue it was a slow and steady unrelenting stream of blips and blinks glimmers and glares low beams and
01:45:31.000high beams of light some of which I did not want to see and then finally a point of no return reckoning
01:45:45.000I think it was because I fiercely came out during the Greupel Wars of 2019 when so many of these brave young men were on college campuses challenging the likes of Zio Schill, Dan Crenshaw, questioning him about his undying loyalty and, of course,
01:46:01.000defending Nick Fuentes and so many of the stars of the burgeoning America First movement who, through an increasing amount of activism, are really going to ensure the future and the success of that.
01:46:16.000Alexander the Great, Donald Trump, we're all cut from the same cloth, and that cloth is very, very large.
01:55:40.000It involves some very deep inside baseball.
01:55:44.000And all we're really getting is breadcrumbs.
01:55:48.000We're getting some voices from inside.
01:55:50.000We're getting some Pentagon journalists, think tank people, specialists.
01:55:57.000It's a lot of different types of sources, a lot of different information coming in, and it's still not a done deal.
01:56:04.000We may not know exactly what has taken place until maybe months, weeks after the fact, but we're going to try as best as we can tonight to explain what has been going on, because there's a little bit more than meets the eye.
01:56:18.000So our featured story, we're talking about what's happening with Pete Hegseth.
01:56:26.000And if you've been following the show, if you've been following the news, there's been huge personnel changes underway all across the board in the Pentagon, but also elsewhere in the national security apparatus inside the NSA, inside the National Security Council.
01:56:44.000And it's a bit strange because we're only three months in.
01:57:02.000And then the past week, there were three high-level people pushed out of the DOD, allegedly for leaking, and then two additional people resigned or were reassigned following the termination of the three.
01:57:17.000And this has followed two massive scandals involving classified intelligence, which leaked out in signal group chats.
01:57:25.000The most famous scandal was actually one that implicated Mike Waltz.
01:57:41.000So we're going to cover all the developments up until now.
01:57:46.000We'll talk about how that maps on to the emerging conflict with Iran.
01:57:50.000And in particular tonight, we're going to talk specifically about the three people that were fired last week and why that happened and what's really going on in the Pentagon.
01:58:00.000In particular, there were three people terminated last week under Pete Hegseth.
01:58:08.000They've worked with him throughout their career.
01:58:11.000They were allegedly terminated because they were responsible for the second round of signal leaks.
01:58:18.000In addition to actually other leaks, there's accusations about leaking that's related to the Panama Canal, China, Ukraine, in addition to the Yemen strikes, which was the original subject of the leaks.
01:58:31.000So there were three people fired in connection with the leaks last week.
01:58:36.000But what is strange and anomalous about their termination, they are loyal to Hegseth, they're close to him, they've known him throughout their careers.
01:58:46.000It seems that they actually had nothing to do with the leaks at all, which would suggest that they're taking the fall.
01:58:54.000They're either taking the fall for the secretary himself, for Pete Hegseth, and that could be Hegseth that is blaming them.
01:59:03.000It could be someone close to Hegseth who is blaming him.
01:59:40.000Owing largely to his personality, maybe not even for ideological reasons, but because of his leadership style or personality, it's this guy who is using the Signal scandal and other leaks as an excuse to carry out his own personnel agenda.
01:59:58.000He had a personal beef with these three guys.
02:00:02.000He used Signalgate to force them out in addition to the other leaks.
02:00:07.000He used those things to get these three guys to take the fall.
02:00:13.000And now all sorts of leakers and whistleblowers are going to the press and reporting on this personnel feud between the chief of staff, Casper, and the three guys that left.
02:00:26.000There's all sorts of rumors going on about what's animating that, who's really responsible, who's to blame.
02:00:36.000And it all looks like an effort is underway to, one, either purge Hegseth himself, or two, purge his staff, and in particular the members of his staff who are more America first,
02:00:51.000more isolationist, and in particular those that are against the neocons.
02:00:57.000And so that's why I say this is a complex situation.
02:01:34.000And maybe a secondary question is, if he stays in his position, will we see an ideological shift in the Department of Defense more towards the neocons?
02:02:02.000Then the question is, what's their agenda?
02:02:04.000And then whatever the outcome of all of this chaos is, whether Hegseth stays or goes, on the other side of it, if he stays, which way will he be leaning if he survives?
02:02:20.000I've been going through all this information over the past week.
02:02:24.000And like I said, you know, we talked a little bit about it last week, and we talked about it in the context of what is happening between the U.S., Israel, and Iran.
02:02:35.000And it seemed to me, and it seemed to other people last week, that what was happening inside the Pentagon had everything to do with Iran.
02:02:43.000In other words, all the knife fighting, all of the power struggling that was going on in between personnel in the DOD, I believed and other people believed that this was related to, in particular, the war in Iran.
02:03:00.000That power moves were being made to determine the fate of our policy towards Iran.
02:03:06.000This week, it's less clear that that is the case.
02:03:10.000And it seems that maybe it might have nothing to do with Iran at all.
02:03:14.000And it might just boil down purely to incompetence or maybe personal agendas, personal vendetta.
02:03:26.000It's not really clear what's happening.
02:03:29.000So we're going to flesh that out and maybe clarify a little bit of what we covered last week.
02:03:35.000Because like I said, last week it was all about how it pertains to Iran.
02:05:09.000Story about leaking in the Pentagon has a lot to do with Elon.
02:05:13.000They say that Pete Hegseth ordered the Pentagon to bring Elon Musk into the briefings on China.
02:05:20.000And apparently it's no fewer than 20 classified national intelligence briefings were shared with Elon Musk and in particular on matters relating to China.
02:05:35.000So it's interesting that at the same time there's all this...
02:05:39.000Power struggle happening inside the Pentagon, and this is about the leaks and who's going to take the fall for the leaks, and the blame is being shifted around.
02:05:49.000At the same time, there's another major personnel change that's happening completely outside the Pentagon at Doge, where Elon is stepping back.
02:05:56.000The same time, all this is unraveling.
02:05:59.000They say it's because of the cars, and that may be the case, but it's also a bit of a coincidence.
02:06:17.000You know, we could talk about the complexities and the internal machinations of the Trump administration, the various factions, the different agencies and departments, and we will.
02:06:28.000It's a bit tedious, and we're going to sift through all the different sources and evaluate.
02:06:34.000What is true and what might be hearsay.
02:06:37.000The headline in all of it, though, is how is the Trump administration letting it get out of control this badly, this soon?
02:06:48.000He's been in office for three months, and already it seems like the administration's coming off the rails.
02:06:55.000And I put out a post on Telegram this afternoon talking about the state of...
02:07:00.000The union, you know, the state of this administration, it's not looking good.
02:07:05.000On immigration, on FBI and DOJ, how they're handling the Jeffrey Epstein 9-11 files.
02:07:14.000We're supposed to have this big FBI purge.
02:08:09.000And supposedly, there's supposed to be this huge takeover of the executive branch.
02:08:16.000They're supposed to be clawing back all this constitutional power from the other branches so that we could have something closer to a unitary executive.
02:08:25.000And in spite of what we're being told, which is we can just do things.
02:09:04.000You don't have even, I don't think, two years.
02:09:07.000You have a very limited window of time before people start talking about midterm elections, before half of the cabinet is going to start running for the 2028 Republican primary for president.
02:09:52.000The game that the Democrats are playing, maybe it doesn't perfectly compare with the shark analogy, but the game that the Democrats are playing is they're trying to stall and run out the clock.
02:10:05.000So if you're saying, hey man, it's only been three months.
02:10:11.000That is the type of complacency which will lead us to failure.
02:10:16.000That is the type of complacency it plays perfectly into the hands of the left.
02:10:21.000Because I guess the comparison is the left doesn't have to defeat Trump.
02:10:28.000They don't have to undermine him completely.
02:10:31.000They just have to delay him in these intervals where action becomes impossible.
02:10:39.000If they can delay him until the midterms, then all these considerations govern the midterms because they've got to keep their majorities.
02:10:49.000They've got to play to a different audience.
02:10:51.000So the Democrats, it's sort of like they don't have to outlast Trump.
02:10:55.000They just have to outlast him until the midterms.
02:10:57.000They just have to outlast him until the Republican donors and Republicans in the House start to get concerned about whether they'll be reelected.
02:11:08.000And that happens in like a year's time.
02:11:12.000So if this administration is to succeed, got to get their act together like yesterday.
02:11:19.000Anyway, so we're going to get into all that.
02:11:22.000Before we do, I want to remind you to smash the follow button on Rumble.
02:14:32.000Is this an American family or is this an Indian family?
02:14:36.000And the reason it's particularly salient is because J.D. Vance has made a big stink about white Americans and Appalachia, the white working class.
02:14:49.000His claim to fame, what took him from a...
02:14:53.000Yale Law School graduate to a national figure is that he wrote Hillbilly Elegy.
02:15:04.000He was going to these various meetings at Davos, elsewhere, to explain to the elites why all these hicks and hillbillies, why all of the white working class rubes supported Trump.
02:15:23.000And then in his second act, of course, he was anti-Trump when he was doing that.
02:15:28.000He then converted into a full-on Trump supporter.
02:15:31.000He had to do some rehabilitation so that he could get Trump's endorsement, so that he could be a viable candidate after Trump had won the election and cemented his control over the party.
02:15:44.000In J.D.'s second act, he rebranded himself as a populist nationalist.
02:15:52.000He gave speeches at the National Conservatism Conference and at other think tanks and at other venues where he billed himself as a nationalist, as a champion of industrial policy and heritage and legacy Americans.
02:16:08.000All these like soft euphemisms for white Americans, for white revanchist, implicitly white identitarian Republican voters.
02:16:23.000How do you reconcile this construct, which is J.D. Vance, as hillbilly elegy, Trump whisperer, spokesman of the hillbillies?
02:16:34.000How do you reconcile populist nationalist J.D. Vance speaking on behalf of legacy Americans, heritage Americans at NatCon and on Tucker Carlson?
02:16:45.000How do you reconcile that persona and that construct?
02:16:49.000The retconned version of J.D. Vance with the reality, which is that his wife is a liberal bitch.
02:18:16.000The Nationalists, NatCon, Populist Nationalists, Heritage American Vance, why are the kids, why don't they have Heritage American names?
02:18:25.000Why are they not named George, John, Matthew?
02:18:32.000Why are they not wearing Western clothes?
02:18:35.000Why is the wife not wearing Western clothes?
02:18:38.000One, if you're a representative of America, just in general, but two, especially if you claim to be the champion of Heritage America, why then are we embracing our non-white alien ethnic identity?
02:18:52.000Why as a family, are they leaning into it on a private tour at an Indian temple wearing these clothes?
02:19:30.000Let's not pretend we don't know what's going on.
02:19:33.000It is plain as day that basically from the moment J.D. Vance was chosen as vice president, that there is a cadre of right-wing influencers and think tanks and others who have been pushing J.D. Vance actually more than Donald Trump himself,
02:19:48.000promoting him, talking him up, supporting him.
02:19:53.000And not so subtly floating the idea that Vance is going to be Trump's definitive successor, that that's already open and shut.
02:20:20.000As a matter of fact, I'm not attacking them at all.
02:20:22.000I'm saying, how do you reconcile the contradiction of a person who we are being told it's being handed down to us by this teal, little tech network, the PayPal mafia that patronizes him?
02:20:36.000We're being told, this is your new Trump movement.
02:20:39.000This is the face of your new Trump movement.
02:20:42.000This is the heir apparent and the successor of Trump and the Trump movement.
02:20:47.000Get in line and get ready to vote for your new president, J.D. Vance.
02:21:32.000I don't think that he speaks for me as a white person who grew up, as a white ethnic, who grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, a formerly great Rust Belt city, a formerly great industrial city.
02:21:49.000J.D. Vance, who is a fake venture capitalist who went to Yale and married an Indian because he hates his own people so much and then takes them to India to visit Indian temples to an alien religion.
02:22:01.000Wearing alien clothes from an alien culture.
02:23:38.000Vance and Usha, or I should say Hamill, whatever his name is, Bowman, Hamill, Vance, whatever your name is, the point is to take J.D., it's to take J.D., fat, white, Ohio,
02:23:53.000Rust Belt, spokesman of the Trump supporters, and marry him to an Indian immigrant aristocrat, an alien interloper.
02:24:02.000It is to marry these two people, create this blended up family, and present this to the Rubes.
02:24:13.000The point is to make this more palatable to the white people.
02:24:20.000Understand that Trumpism remains the thorn in the side of the globalists.
02:24:26.000Donald Trump and the white revanchist, white identitarian, this nationalist sentiment that he stirred up, all this talk about tariffs, ending foreign wars, American industry, closing the borders, all of these ideas.
02:24:43.000Even though imperfectly implemented or articulated, all that sentiment, all these ideas that Trump stirred up at the time of the election, and the base of middle American radicals that he awakened, that he got animated in 2016 and has kept them animated ever since,
02:25:04.000that remains the thorn in the side of the globalists.
02:25:10.000They realize that they can't control these white people, but 90% of Trump voters that were white in 2016 that put him over the top, they realized they cannot placate these people, that don't believe the elections are valid,
02:25:26.000that won't accept the COVID hysteria and hoax, that won't accept the lies about BLM and Ukraine, all these different things, H-1B visas.
02:25:40.000Their political problem, their political albatross.
02:25:43.000So how do you get these white people back on the plantation?
02:25:47.000How do you get these white people that have all these ideas in their head about tariffs and industry and closing the borders and ending the wars and nationalism?
02:25:57.000How do you get these white people back onto the hamster wheel, back onto the plantation?
02:26:04.000How do you get them watching Fox News again?
02:26:06.000How do you get them back into GOP politics, trusting the plan and voting Republican and doing all the things they used to do?
02:26:13.000How do you get them to calm down and submit to the system?
02:26:18.000Well, you do a handshake with them and you present them, J.D. Vance, saying the right things.
02:26:28.000Meticulously sourced from right-wing Twitter.
02:26:31.000It's like they took ChatGPT and they pumped it full of right-wing Twitter.
02:26:35.000They trained an AI large language model on right-wing Twitter over the past 10 years.
02:26:41.000Every post from right-wing Twitter, the Groypers, the Baphis, the Spencerites, the All Right, they pumped an LLM full of right-wing Twitter.
02:26:51.000And now they've got JD tweeting the greatest hits.
02:26:55.000Earning the allegiance of these radicals.
02:26:59.000Earning the allegiance of the white people.
02:27:02.000But J.D. is also a part of the yuppie internationalist globalist elite.
02:29:38.000And if you don't believe me, you could go back 12 years, and when J.D. Vance was writing for David Frum, a Jewish neocon from the Bush administration, a speechwriter, when Vance was writing on Frum's website, Frum,
02:29:54.000even in 2013, said Vance is going to be the president one day.
02:30:01.000Why does this speech, why does this neocon speechwriter for George W. Bush, this spook, this glowing spook, why does he think that this former Marine, this former journalist that was in the Marines writing press releases,
02:30:18.000why does he think this random fat guy is going to be the president?
02:30:22.000Fromm said his superpower will be his story.
02:30:27.000This neocon groomed Vance and thought Vance could be the president.
02:30:31.000He said, because Vance's story about his Meemaw, this Rust Belt thing, him being white and having to deal with the deaths of despair, culture of despair, drug over, you know, that whole story that's being told about why the white people are angry.
02:30:50.000Frum said that story, that you have your credibility with the white people because you can relate to them, that's your superpower.
02:31:33.000So anyway, so I saw that clip and as always, there's so much more than meets the eye.
02:31:38.000And by the way, when you hear what I just said, they're going to take this clip and they're going to say, oh, Nick called his wife a bitch.
02:31:45.000They're going to say, oh, he's anti-Indian racially because he's a white racist.
02:31:51.000Is anything I just said motivated by, did you hear in what I just said?
02:31:56.000Racial prejudice, hate people because they don't look like me.
02:32:05.000It's about a contradiction in this purported worldview.
02:32:09.000And when you start to pull at that string, You say, how does a guy who represents white identity have a mixed marriage?
02:32:17.000When you start to pull at that string, it unravels the conceit, which is why J.D. Vance is in the position that he's in, which has very little to do, strictly speaking, with the mixed marriage itself or whatever.
02:33:11.000And across three shows out of thousands, they pushed back on some narratives.
02:33:18.000Like, for example, they said Epstein might have been working with Israeli intelligence.
02:33:23.000They said that maybe the World War II narrative isn't what we think it is.
02:33:28.000Because two guests across three shows out of thousands, out of hundreds of guests.
02:33:34.000Because they push back on some of these narratives, we have now suffered through weeks of damage control on Joe Rogan.
02:33:41.000And two weeks ago, it was Douglas Murray, a British neocon, who came on Joe Rogan to lecture Rogan and Dave Smith about how they're being irresponsible.
02:33:56.000They're playing into the hands of extremists and dark elements on the right wing that are anti-Semitic or...
02:34:07.000You can't have opinions on the war in Gaza.
02:34:12.000You can't have opinions on World War II unless you have a degree, unless you've been to Israel, unless you've been to Auschwitz or something.
02:34:32.000If you remember two weeks ago, when that interview first went live, there was a full-blown coordinated effort to push that out everywhere and pretend like it was this big victory.
02:34:44.000Now we have yet another attempt to damage control.
02:34:47.000Today, Jordan Peterson went on Joe Rogan once again to finger wag and lecture Rogan about how there are sociopaths.
02:34:57.000Dark triad narcissists and sociopaths who are conspiracy theorists and they know what they're doing.
02:35:06.000They're pushing anti-Semitism and conspiracies.
02:35:10.000They're cluster B personality types and they're troll demons.
02:35:16.000It's hard to even know exactly what he's talking about because it's so lacking in specificity.
02:35:28.000Really, the fact that for so long, everyone that disagreed with them was censored.
02:35:33.000For 10 years, anyone that was further to the right than Ben Shapiro was banned.
02:35:38.000And so now here we are on the other side of it.
02:35:40.000Now that people like myself and Ian Carroll and Daryl Cooper and a number of others, now that other people also have the opportunity to express our opinions on social media, now Jordan Peterson's sort of at a loss for words.
02:35:53.000There's actually no arguments being made.
02:36:52.000You can't even really articulate exactly what they're talking about.
02:36:56.000But so Jordan Peterson went on Rogan and said, oh, you need to be careful.
02:37:01.000You're a superstar and you're having these people on the show, but they're sociopaths and they're using conspiracy theories to push evil and all this crazy stuff.
02:37:12.000And then he did a drive-by shot at the Groypers.
02:37:16.000Joe Rogan says, oh, okay, I think I get what you're saying.
02:37:36.000Groipers, there's this problem on the right wing.
02:37:39.000The right wing isn't policing its radical element like groipers who are playing a game for their own advancement.
02:37:48.000And they're doing it in a sociopathic way.
02:37:52.000And I see this clip and I just have a hard time believing that anybody that is being honest and anybody that is being fair could watch my show and not know what I'm talking about or not understand where I'm coming from.
02:38:13.000I also find it hard to believe that that same reasonable person, that same honest person that is listening in good faith, Would think that Jordan Peterson is making more sense than me.
02:38:50.000But let's just say, suffice to say, there are people in my life that cannot meet with me in public.
02:39:01.000Friends, friends I've known for years, people I've known from high school, people I've known from college, people I've known through politics, people that I know do not want to have lunch with me because they're terrified that someone might see them.
02:39:20.000Someone might post it on Twitter and they will have their life destroyed.
02:40:38.000I take stories from the New York Times and we talk about them.
02:40:42.000We talk about how this administration is deporting people for criticizing Israel.
02:40:49.000We talk about how this administration wants to go into Harvard and the government wants to dictate what Harvard can teach about the Middle East and make sure it's not critical of Israel.
02:41:01.000We talk about how AIPAC, a foreign lobby, spent $100 million and successfully defeated These are just a few examples.
02:41:17.000And I talk about how these specific concrete things that are happening in our country, which are, again, they're not conspiracy theories.
02:41:24.000That's coming from the New York Times.
02:41:26.000I take clippings from the mainstream media, and we read between the lines, and we supplement with other information.
02:41:43.000It's contrary to national sovereignty, the idea that Americans control what happens in America, to have this kind of influence in our government.
02:41:53.000People should not be deported for criticizing a foreign government.
02:41:57.000Our American universities should be able.
02:42:01.000To have rigorous debate about whether we support that foreign country without the federal government withholding their federal funds.
02:42:09.000We should be able to have American representatives say, I don't think it's a good idea to send foreign aid money to that particular country.
02:42:18.000In other words, nobody could watch those shows.
02:42:22.000Nobody could watch this show and hear those stories and not understand.
02:42:27.000What I'm talking about, why I'm talking about it, why anyone would have a problem with that.
02:42:49.000They're doing it just for fun because they're evil, because they're sociopathic troll demons.
02:42:56.000And it's like, to a reasonable person, which makes more sense?
02:43:01.000You're watching these two movies, you're watching these two shows, which makes more sense?
02:43:07.000That an 18-year-old college dropout, who is animated by the Trump election in 2016, and in reaction to the woke, left-wing, progressive culture that was prevalent at that time,
02:43:31.000And finds out that in the way of America first is this very powerful foreign lobby.
02:43:36.000That 18-year-old stands up authentically and sincerely out of conviction in favor of American nationalism, but stumbles upon an inconvenient discovery, which is that in the way of America first, in the way of America...
02:43:53.000Asserting its interests before all other nations is an unlikely obstacle.
02:44:00.000It's our closest ally, which apparently has this massive lobby, which is exerting its influence in these basically clandestine, secretive ways.
02:44:12.000And when you talk about the ways in which our society is being influenced, clandestinely, covertly, you become a target.
02:44:23.000Is it more likely that that is what took place?
02:44:26.000Or is it more likely that it's like Rosemary's baby, like the devil had a baby with a woman, like Satan had a baby with a woman, and that baby was pure evil from the beginning.
02:44:41.000He was a white ethnic who grew up in a working class family in Chicago, but just hated Jews for no reason.
02:44:48.000And out of pure malevolence, Started using valid information but mixing it with speculation to create a lethal conspiracy theory with no purpose other than malice against the Jews.
02:45:04.000Getting banned from banks, losing favor with friends and associates, getting their name run through the mud, but just persisted in the evil out of malevolence.
02:46:14.000And the puzzle to me is Peterson's obviously a very intelligent guy.
02:46:19.000He's obviously somebody who was very influential and important to the development of a lot of young men from my generation.
02:46:26.000Many close friends of mine were huge Jordan Peterson fans because of his Bible lecture series, because of the work he was doing 10 years ago.
02:46:37.000How does a person who's intelligent and at one point had a lot of credibility...
02:46:42.000How is he now saying things that make no sense like this?
02:47:35.000If I'm a troll demon who doesn't know what I'm talking about, I'm fundamentally dishonest, I'm a sociopath, I have all the stuff to hide, I'm only telling half-truths, if that's the case, why not have a discussion?
02:47:53.000I mean, for the longest time, because they say, they name me.
02:48:18.000Wouldn't embarrassing me, defeating me, you know, showing that there's a solid other side of the argument, wouldn't that curtail the problem?
02:48:29.000If I go in a debate against Peterson and I just get routed, Doesn't that destroy the luster?
02:48:37.000Doesn't that destroy the mythology of the movement, this idea no one will debate him because he's right?
02:48:42.000No one will talk to him because they're afraid of him.
02:48:46.000Wouldn't that at the minimum shatter the allure?
02:48:50.000And if there was a compelling argument, wouldn't that convert many of the people?
02:51:58.000Then they're going to tune into the show and say, oh, this is the greatest thing ever.
02:52:02.000And I'm not saying I'm the greatest thing ever, but compared to all the bullshit that's out there, people are going to tune in and say, oh, this is a great show.
02:55:31.000And there's some fleshing out that needs to be done, some clarifications.
02:55:38.000So if you've been paying attention, there have been some major scandals over at the Department of Defense, the National Security Council, and the National Security Apparatus as a whole.
02:56:08.000The Houthis restart their attacks on Israel and shipping and American naval vessels in the Red Sea.
02:56:16.000So Trump begins the bombing against the Houthis.
02:56:20.000Same week that this happens, there is a major scandal.
02:56:24.000That these strikes against the Houthis in Yemen were being coordinated in a Signal group chat.
02:56:30.000For those that don't know, Signal is an encrypted messaging app.
02:56:35.000The point is, it's not an official government channel.
02:56:38.000This is an unsecured, private, peer-to-peer, third-party messaging service.
02:56:45.000And ostensibly, that means that it could be hacked.
02:56:48.000That means that the information being communicated is not secured, so it could be going out to potentially people who don't have a security clearance.
02:57:16.000The DNI, Secretary of Defense, the Vice President, every relevant person.
02:57:22.000And in this group chat, he's talking about where the strikes will occur, when they will occur, who the targets are, how they're being carried out, all the information's being discussed, coordinated,
02:57:40.000And then it turns out, lo and behold, In addition to all of these national security officials, is also the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic.
02:57:50.000The Atlantic is a major left-wing publication.
02:57:54.000And so the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic was mistakenly added to the group chat by Mike Waltz, along with every other government official.
02:58:02.000And he was quietly listening in on all this discussion.
02:58:05.000So all that information, you know, it's bad enough that it's on signal.
02:58:13.000It's on a third-party messaging app, but then you also have the unforced error that the editor-in-chief of a major publication has been mistakenly added and is documenting all of it, screenshotting and saving and reading all the information.
02:58:28.000So he writes a report about this in The Atlantic.
02:58:32.000He says he left the group chat because even he felt that this was...
02:58:38.000An unacceptable compromise of national security information.
02:58:41.000He left as a good citizen or maybe fearing that maybe he was doing something wrong.
02:58:53.000He was in there the entire time until he left.
02:58:56.000And he reports that it becomes a major scandal.
02:58:59.000And this has turned the entire national security apparatus upside down.
02:59:04.000After that scandal, we have found out that there's a pattern inside this whole thing where I guess Mike Waltz, the National Security Advisor, and Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, this is just how they're running their operations.
03:01:24.000And so I thought that Signalgate and the firings, the personnel shakeups, I thought this was a big power struggle that had to do with policy.
03:01:35.000That there were these leaks going out.
03:01:40.000People were taking the fall, being blamed for scandals in an attempt to get one faction or another faction to be fired or weakened.
03:01:50.000So that one faction could get the upper hand and then they could deliver the war in Iran.
03:01:55.000Or they could save us from a war in Iran.
03:01:58.000In short, I thought all of this was a very complex Machiavellian power struggle between two factions that would determine the course of American policy with Iran.
03:02:09.000And if one side won, if one side got the other side fired, we'd go to war.
03:02:14.000If the other side won and got the first side fired, We would have a deal with Iran and we wouldn't go to war.
03:02:22.000I thought it was a power struggle over policy.
03:02:45.000The more information comes out, the more testimony that we are getting from the people that have been fired, from people in the inside, from people in think tanks, it seems that maybe Pete Hegseth is just extraordinarily incompetent.
03:03:00.000That does not mean that there is not factionalism inside the Pentagon.
03:03:11.000But maybe the power struggle isn't ideological, and maybe the factionalism doesn't map cleanly onto the policy with Iran and what is happening in particular with Iran right now.
03:04:53.000They're a little bit more America first than everybody else in the DOD.
03:04:56.000These guys were blamed for all the leaks.
03:04:59.000Dan Caldwell, one of those three who was fired, He responded to the allegations that he's a leaker and he vehemently denied the allegations.
03:05:25.000He said, and if there was a serious investigation into the leaks, that's the first thing you would do.
03:05:33.000If the inspector general, if the DOJ thought that there were criminal leaks going out of classified defense information coming out of the Department of Defense, if they were being investigated,
03:05:48.000if they were the culprits, if they were being blamed, he said then there would be a serious investigation and that investigation would consist in their devices would be confiscated and analyzed.
03:06:01.000You know, if Dan Caldwell is leaking to Politico, they would take his phone and see if he's been texting the reporters from Politico.
03:06:10.000If Dan Caldwell's leaking to the press, they would put him on a lie detector and say, have you been leaking to the press?
03:10:31.000That says, quote, Dan Caldwell, senior advisor to Pete Hegseth, released a joint statement with the deputy chief of staff Darren Selnick and Colin Carroll, the chief of staff to the deputy defense secretary, on Saturday.
03:10:48.000They said, quote, we are incredibly disappointed by the manner in which our service at the DOD ended.
03:10:54.000Unnamed Pentagon officials have slandered our character with baseless attacks on our way out the door.
03:11:00.000At this time, we will have not been told what exactly we were investigated for, if there is still an active investigation, or if there even was a real investigation of leaks to begin with.
03:11:11.000So they're saying, we're being blamed for this stuff.
03:11:20.000The three men had been put on administrative leave earlier in the week pending an investigation.
03:11:26.000Reports are emerging that Joe Casper...
03:11:29.000Hegseth's chief of staff might have been the antagonist that led to the termination of Caldwell, Selnick, and Carroll.
03:11:36.000According to Politico, some at the Pentagon also started to notice a rivalry between Casper and the fired advisors.
03:11:43.000As of Friday, Casper himself was being shipped out of his role and into another one at the agency.
03:11:50.000Other such realists, besides Caldwell, Carroll, and Selnick, have been the target of smear jobs as isolationists.
03:11:57.000Or anti-Israel in recent months, including Elbridge Colby, who was just confirmed as Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, we talked about on the show.
03:12:06.000Mike D'Amino, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East.
03:12:11.000And Daniel Davis, who did not actually get the job to work for the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, after he was smeared by Jewish Insider Magazine and other neocon voices.
03:12:23.000for his opposition to the war in Gaza and warnings about a military conflict with Iran.
03:12:30.000So in other words, these three guys had a power struggle with Joe Casper.
03:12:36.000Joe Casper forced them out, blamed them for the leaks.
03:12:39.000But this also follows a pattern because these three guys, not only were they fighting with Casper for power, but they were also ideologically against a war with Iran.
03:12:49.000And they were blamed for the leaks in the same way that other people who were against the war with Iran were attacked in the press.
03:12:57.000People like Elbridge Colby, Joe Domeno, who did wind up getting confirmed, and they're safe at the Pentagon.
03:13:04.000So it raises a question, and this is why I said earlier, it's a bit complicated.
03:13:12.000Were they forced out only for personality reasons?
03:13:16.000Was it just a pure personal power struggle?
03:13:18.000Or were they forced out as part of a bigger battle going on in the Pentagon between neocons and restrainers, neocons and America First people?
03:13:28.000Then there's another wrinkle in the story.
03:13:31.000There was a fifth Pentagon official who was fired or resigned, John Olyatt.
03:13:58.000It says, quote, an aide to Pete Hegseth published an op-ed on Sunday in which he was highly critical of his former boss.
03:14:06.000And suggested President Trump might soon remove him after weeks of turmoil, including leaked texts about airstrikes in Yemen and the abrupt firings of those top officials.
03:14:16.000He said it's been a month of total chaos at the Pentagon.
03:14:19.000From leaks of sensitive operational plans to mass firings, the dysfunction is now a major distraction for the president who deserves better from his senior leadership.
03:14:28.000He, who worked in the first administration, noted the firings of several top Pentagon officials in the last several days.
03:14:35.000On Friday, according to him, Hegseth's chief of staff, Joe Casper, was removed from his position following the firings of Darren Selnick, Dan Caldwell, and Colin Carroll.
03:14:46.000He said he was not a part of that purge.
03:14:49.000He opted to leave the Pentagon when he turned down a position that Hegseth offered him.
03:14:53.000He described himself in the piece as loyal to Hegseth, but noted a series of unforced errors by his former boss.
03:15:01.000He said, even strong backers of the secretary, like me, must admit the last month has been a full-blown meltdown at the Pentagon.
03:15:08.000It's becoming a real problem for the administration.
03:15:12.000The op-ed was published within hours of the New York Times reporting that Hegseth used his personal phone to send information about military operations in Yemen to the Signal group chat, including his wife, his brother, and his personal lawyer.
03:17:20.000They want a war with everybody at all times.
03:17:23.000So like I said, the white pill, what's optimistic is that Trump has won.
03:17:27.000And unlike the first term, in the second term, there's a real effort to actually change the guard in the DOD, the Pentagon, the NSC, to change the national security apparatus.
03:17:59.000They're not the only ones, but these are some of the good guys that are being brought in that are going to realign American foreign policy.
03:18:06.000Away from these neocon hawkish tendencies.
03:18:58.000But because Pete Hegseth sucks, because he is so disorganized, because of, like this John Olyatt said in Politico, because he's so disorganized with the signal leaks, not controlling his personnel, it has caused unforced errors,
03:19:16.000which are causing the America Firsters to lose ground.
03:19:20.000There are America Firsters taking over, but because Pete Hegseth is sloppy and bad at managing, We're slipping.
03:19:29.000It's creating an opportunity for the neocons to strike at the America Firsters, case in point.
03:19:35.000Dan Caldwell went on Tucker Carlson, and he's ostensibly tight with defense priorities, with Kurt Mills, with the American conservative people.
03:19:44.000In a word, he's against the war in Iran.
03:19:59.000If Joe Casper, who's an idiot, wasn't the chief of staff and sucking at his job, if Pete Hexeth wasn't running the foreign policy out of signal, there would have never been an opportunity to fire Dan Caldwell in the first place.
03:21:05.000This is when you need every America First voice in the room because we are teetering on the cliff on the brink of war with Iran.
03:21:16.000So maybe this is not—and the point is, maybe the Jews, you know, the Israelis, the neocons, the Jews, they didn't make Pete Hexeth use Signal and get these three guys out.
03:21:29.000These three guys got pushed out because Pete Hexeth is just not doing a good job, which is creating opportunities for the neocons to force these people out and solidify their control.
03:21:41.000Now, the next—the next— Now that the America Firsters that surrounded Pete Hegseth are being pushed out, remember, Caldwell, Selnick, and Carroll were loyal to Hegseth.
03:22:04.000Now that they are out, this opens up a vacuum.
03:22:09.000That could potentially now be filled by neocons.
03:22:12.000Now that the America Firsters are out, Wall Street Journal comes out today.
03:22:17.000Wall Street Journal is the mouthpiece of the hawks of the establishment.
03:22:22.000Wall Street Journal comes out and says, well, maybe Pete Hegseth's problem is that he needs to get all these isolationists out and get the neocons in.
03:22:32.000Tom Cotton, who's like the arch neocon, he's on the Armed Services Committee.
03:22:37.000Or whatever, one of the important committees.
03:22:44.000You know, this guy's synonymous with Ben Shapiro, practically.
03:22:48.000One of the biggest neocons in the Senate.
03:22:50.000Tom Cotton comes out and says, well, actually, I like Pete Hegseth.
03:22:54.000Why does Tom Cotton like Pete Hegseth?
03:22:57.000We were supposed to believe a week ago that Pete Hegseth was against the war in Iran.
03:23:02.000In the factional dispute in the White House, Between Rubio and Mike Waltz, who are in favor of the war, and Wyckoff, Vance, and Trump, who are against the war, we're supposed to believe Hegseth fell on the side of the Restrainers, the Diplomats, the America Firsters.
03:23:45.000Maybe he might be the new Secretary of Defense himself, but maybe he'll have a say in who's going to fill up those positions.
03:23:52.000So what they're now doing, what the neocons in the DOD and the Pentagon are doing, they have taken the opportunity to purge Hegseth's inner circle, get the America Firsters out, and now fill up the DOD with other neocons.
03:24:06.000So they could potentially flip Pete Hegseth and flip the DOD on the side of the Hawks.
03:24:11.000So when they line up, when Trump takes the headcount and says, who's in favor of the war with Iran, you'll have National Security Advisor Mike Waltz.
03:24:22.000Me, Secretary of State Mark Rubio, me, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, me.
03:26:06.000It was people like Mike Pompeo and others in those roles who were not ideologically aligned with the president.
03:26:15.000Very similarly, we knew this was going to be a problem early on.
03:26:19.000Marco Rubio is not America first, never has been.
03:26:23.000Mike Waltz is not America first, never has been.
03:26:26.000These guys were pulled out of Florida.
03:26:29.000Why? Because Trump's chief of staff, Susie Wiles, is from Florida.
03:26:34.000Okay? Trump's chief of staff, who is running his campaign in 2022, Susie Wiles is from the state of Florida.
03:26:43.000And so when Trump won and Trump made his campaign chief of staff, his White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles became the White House chief of staff.
03:26:52.000She presented Trump with options for personnel.
03:26:55.000She filled up the cabinet with Florida creatures.
03:29:02.000Can push back against Rubio and Waltz.
03:29:05.000But if Hegg said running this operation in such a sloppy and disorganized way, it has created opportunities for the holdover neocons that were already in the DOD to strike back, purge the America Firsters due to these unforced errors,
03:29:22.000and now they may surround him and flip him from the right side to the wrong side.
03:29:30.000And the timing seems to be a coincidence, and it may be a big problem for us.
03:29:36.000So that's the story on PDXF, and the lesson in all of this is there is no substitute for political maneuvering, okay?
03:29:49.000For everybody that thinks we're going to win a debate, we're going to win an election, we're going to win over the normies, we're going to move the Overton window, look, at the end of the day.
03:29:59.000What makes the difference is the right personnel maneuvering themselves for a position inside government to make the policy.
03:30:10.000You know, like, how do you close the border?
03:30:12.000You get the right fucking people at DHS, the right people with authority, the right DHS secretary, the right chief of staff, the right ICE director.
03:32:06.000And they need the cabinet chief of staff to be right.
03:32:08.000This is why people work their way up the ladder.
03:32:10.000So when I say people, hey, get into politics, this is what I'm talking about.
03:32:15.000When I say get into politics, I mean strap yourselves in for like a 40-year struggle where you're going to start out as a low-level guy in a congressional office or in the transportation department.
03:32:28.000The transportation department, you know, or one of those departments.
03:32:31.000You know, you're going to start out in one of those departments at a low level.
03:32:36.000And you're going to climb your way up the ladder over many years when your guy's in office, when they're not in office, but you got to keep clean.
03:32:47.000You got to learn how the game is played operationally.
03:32:59.000Your girlfriend isn't a spy for China or Hungary or fucking Israel.
03:33:03.000You know, it's like operational security.
03:33:05.000And you make your career, you make your way up the ladder, and in 40 years, we're going to hope that a Groyper will be in a senior position in a prestigious department, a prestigious federal department.
03:33:40.000And he's going to be doing this shit on signal.
03:33:43.000And he's not going to have total operational control over the department because he's a slob, because he's drunk, because he's out to lunch.
03:33:51.000And then his whole department's going to revolt.
03:33:54.000There's going to be a knife fight, power struggle.
03:34:09.000And you can take them one by one, whether it's Kristi Noem, who's allegedly having an affair with Corey Lewandowski, which is why they don't give a fuck about deportations, whether it's Pete Hegseth, who's too drunk on the job.
03:34:20.000I mean, it's like, it's literally as simple as these people are just compromised.
03:34:38.000I want people that are the smartest, the sharpest, the finest.
03:34:44.000And like, yeah, they got to be operationally sound.
03:34:47.000They have to be total killers because this is the game.
03:34:49.000And I want young people, pause, I want young men, pause, I want young brilliant men to get involved in politics at an early age and be disciplined and be ambitious and be fucking elite and dedicate themselves to this.
03:35:06.000And climb the ladder because guess what?
03:35:11.000And other people are doing it for the wrong reasons.
03:35:15.000Other people are doing it, they'll do and say anything to be president and that involves selling out our country.
03:35:21.000Other people are rising to the top and they're compromised.
03:35:24.000They're slobs, they're sex perverts, they're freaks, they're owned by foreign money or they have some benefactor they need to please and that's why they excel.
03:35:34.000What we need to do is get in the middle of that and basically have like robots for Christ.
03:35:39.000We need like Machiavellian sociopaths for Christ.
03:35:42.000We need to take like people that are doing it for the right reasons, people that have true heart, true gripers, true lovers of God and country, true lovers of America, but that need to steal themselves and be extremely ruthless and extremely clever and exist inside of a high-pressure environment.
03:36:03.000Alongside compromised idiots and slobs and nepo hires as well as pure sociopathic Machiavellians who are doing it to sell out our country or don't mind selling out our country, we need them to get in the middle and exist in that environment so we can actually have good people at the very top because there's none to work with here.
03:37:09.000We'll be watching and we'll see what happens with Hegseth if he gets fired, if he remains, under what conditions, if he remains, what the staff is going to look like.
03:37:26.000More on Iran maybe tomorrow because there's some other developments.
03:37:31.000You know, yesterday we talked a little bit about, so Steve Witkoff, Trump's envoy, and Iran's foreign minister, they had a second meeting on Saturday in Rome.
03:37:45.000They were supposed to have a technical meeting tomorrow.
03:37:47.000There's supposed to be a meeting between specialists, a technical meeting discussing the details of a potential deal.
03:38:57.000Now it appears to be the case that the administration will accept just limitations on Iran's nuclear program, which is a huge breakthrough if that's true.
03:39:06.000That's why the Israelis are now talking about bombing Iran by themselves.
03:39:10.000Because if the administration's ready to accept...
03:39:14.000Iran having a nuclear program and its missile production capability, there's a good chance there could be a deal, and that's the last thing Israel wants.
03:39:23.000So they might strike Iran just to scuttle it and derail the diplomacy.
03:40:32.000Like, that kind of camaraderie and loyalty was such an important part of that social scene in the city.
03:40:40.000I don't want to say my dad was like a gangbanger, but I guess he kind of was in a way.
03:40:46.000He's a little bit of a gangster in some ways.
03:40:48.000Not like a criminal or anything like that, but, you know, it was like The Warriors.
03:40:54.000You ever see that movie, The Warriors?
03:40:56.000That's obviously like a ridiculous movie, but, you know, you had these like social scenes in different neighborhoods and...
03:41:03.000There was like this deep sense of camaraderie if you came from the same neighborhood, if you grew up together, you went to the same high school or whatever.
03:41:11.000It's a very important part of his life.
03:41:15.000And so just, you know, he didn't really like, it wasn't some corny ass thing where he's like, you know, giving me like a life lesson like out of a movie.
03:41:23.000But that was like the context in which I grew up.
03:41:54.000I don't know if that's a city thing, if that's like a neighborhood thing, if you grew up in the neighborhoods in Chicago or it's a city thing, maybe it's an ethnic thing, but that was the kind of ethos I grew up with.
03:42:05.000That's what I grew up with from both my parents.
03:42:08.000That was the idea, is if you have friends, that really means something.
03:43:11.000These are three of my—I'm talking about three in particular of my friends.
03:43:16.000And I don't say that with animosity, but with respect, what the fuck do you care about politics?
03:43:22.000You know, it's like, one of you got a DUI, one of you is a drug dealer, one of you is just a bar-tard, stoned-out, you know, weed-head, like a true, proper pothead.
03:43:36.000You're suddenly mad at me because of the election?
03:43:38.000With respect, what do you care about politics?
03:44:26.000I don't have a lot of friends because of what I do.
03:44:30.000I have no shortage of people that are trying to talk to me, that want to be my best good friend, that want to get me on their show, want me to do something for them.
03:44:38.000I have so few friends, so few friends.
03:44:41.000That are actually with me when it costs them something.
03:44:44.000You know, suddenly when someone gets pictured with me and it's bad for their career, they want nothing to do with me.
03:44:49.000Suddenly when someone gets their sponsorship pulled, oh, now they don't want to be my friend.
03:44:52.000You know, Alex Stein's like a good example.
03:45:39.000I'm not going to disavow someone that I know and that I've met and engaged with and have rapport with because they've said something I disagree with, because they're not a perfect person.
03:48:18.000You realize how few people you can really trust, how few people are really looking out for you, if anybody, how few people are really solid, and you just have to hold those people close.
03:48:33.000The world is so full of people that are full of shit, people that are trying to throw you under the bus, people that are talking shit behind your back.
03:49:19.000People are always going to have something to say.
03:49:20.000People are always going to be gossiping.
03:49:22.000If they're not your people, it doesn't matter.
03:49:24.000What matters are the people you love, the people you admire, the people that are looking out for you in some way or have done something for you, people that have gone out on a limb for you.
03:54:45.000He's a guy like us, deeply flawed, imperfect, and he's just taking on the whole world.
03:54:51.000He's just really fighting the whole world, fighting this political thing for his family, this social thing, all this, and how few people really have any kind of compassion for this person.
03:55:08.000All these people that at one point or another in their life, you know, they loved his music, they loved his fashion, they thought he was a genius, they loved that he wore the MAGA hat, that he said something Christian, that he, you know, did the swastika.
03:55:23.000And how many of them really just love him as a person, you know, love him just because he's a flawed person giving a testimony for his honesty, for his authenticity.
03:55:34.000That's the part that really saddens me, to see how alone he is.
03:56:31.000It's so sad to me to see that, and I remember that during, even before this stuff, I remember during the Hitler thing, it was just like me, him, like three other people in a hotel room at Nobu, and that was the team.
03:56:48.000And I remember Ye just like, he was like looking for a lawyer.
03:58:49.000That's a valid question also, but for people that are piling on with just cruelty, it's like I am not a cruel person, and I resent that it seems the right wing is leaning into cruelty, and I'm not saying that to be like sound a certain type of way,
03:59:10.000like, oh, I'm a good person or whatever, but...
03:59:12.000I really do believe that Catholicism and Christianity and Catholics need to temper where the right wing is going with mercy.
03:59:21.000It's not, yes, we need to be just, but we also need to be merciful.
03:59:26.000You know, justice without mercy is just cruelty, and I feel like there's a...
03:59:34.000Proclivity to lean into that on the right wing if you're not careful, if you're not centered, if your heart's not in the right place.
04:00:47.000I know we talked a lot about it yesterday.
04:00:49.000want to talk too much about it tonight but just some more thoughts on that levi anderson sent ten dollars your show last night was the best show i think you've ever done with your handling of the passing of pope francis and your support of yay i've been watching your show since a little before the half levi anderson sent ten dollars jaden crash out in 2021 and you've consistently
04:01:05.000proven your ability to stand firm on your values and loyalties when it matters the most and criticize the movement when you have the most to lose you are literally the anti-grifter lol w nick praying for you christ is
04:02:08.000And what's more, I could just do the easy thing.
04:02:12.000I mean, do you know how easy it would be for a guy like me to just tell you what you want to hear?
04:02:16.000I could tell you what you want to hear better than anybody else could.
04:02:19.000I could tell you what you want to hear in a way that is more compelling and more inspiring than anybody else, because I'm the best talker.
04:02:26.000I'm the best talker out of any of them.
04:02:28.000So if you're looking for somebody to tell you what you want to hear and hear the basic bitch conservative arguments, I could tell them to you more comprehensively, more articulately, in a funnier way than anybody else that is doing a conservative show.
04:02:43.000And I could shamelessly lie, and a lot of people do.
04:02:46.000I could take an influenceable campaign.
04:02:50.000And I could be a multi, multi, multi-millionaire and super famous and have a great reputation and high status and go to these jag-off parties and whatever.
04:06:29.000And, you know, even people that are not LGBT, but people that have other hang-ups, people that have other, you know, they long for a different kind of life or a different reality.
04:07:50.000Yeah. Yeah, I'd like to think I'm evolving.
04:07:53.000I've done it for eight years, and the thing that I fear the most is just spinning my wheels.
04:08:00.000I never want to be the guy where you check in a year later, and you're like, oh, he's talking about the same thing.
04:08:04.000I know, I mean, there's themes, obviously, but I never want to be the guy where it's like you check in, it's like, oh, he's doing the same shit.
04:08:13.000There's nothing more depressing than that.
04:08:15.000I'm like a 39-year-old live streamer, and I'm still like...
04:08:20.000Doing the shit I was doing in 2018 or whatever.
04:08:49.000I feel like by giving you an authentic testimony from the heart, I should be more educated on the theology, but I feel like that can do more for people if it's just a really sincere testimony than if I gave you a bunch of information or something.
04:09:10.000If I cited a bunch of books or something, maybe that's like a low IQ cope.
04:09:17.000But clearly, you know, some people are convinced by it, so I appreciate that.
04:09:45.000Get, like, a lot of malevolent freaks with, like, weird upbringings.
04:09:49.000I feel like Chicago is, like, the most normal place to grow up because you go anywhere else and you get, like, growing up in a suburb of Chicago, it's, like, Catholic white people.
04:09:59.000There's just nothing more normal than that.
04:10:16.000You go to Vegas, LA, Phoenix, Denver, and you get hippies, crunchy granola people, weird Mormon-type Seventh-day Adventists, a lot of Jews.
04:10:34.000It's like a lot of weird stuff going on out there.
04:11:31.000Maybe Virginia is a little normal, a little bit more normal.
04:11:36.000Everywhere else you get these – it's very international, weird immigrant groups, weird like Native American shit, weird folkways, like very strange Christian offshoots and regionalism.
04:11:54.000I feel like Chicago is just like – To me, this is America.
04:22:01.000I'm a high schooler who recently became involved in the movement.
04:22:03.000There are a few students at my school who also support AF, but I was curious on if you had any advice for increasing support and activism on campus.
04:22:18.000Pause. No, but I do love the young people, and I understand your enthusiasm, and I understand you're excited, but trust me, please, please, please, I am asking you to trust me.
04:23:28.000But read, write, soak in as much as possible, ask effective questions, hypothesize, talk to your friends, talk to experts, reach out to experts.
04:23:39.000But I would at this stage in the game just try to soak in as much as you can more than activism.
04:23:45.000Because activism, if you're not careful, can get you in a lot, lot of trouble and can burn you forever.
04:23:52.000And I've seen it happen to a lot of people.
04:26:40.000You know, he's always had a problem with me.
04:26:42.000I guess recently he doesn't have a problem with me anymore.
04:26:45.000But I just don't—I don't know how productive all that stuff is, going on Omegle and, like, yelling at people and doing the whole shock-shock thing.
04:29:24.000autistic person who's autistically focused on autism like rfk jr or a dog chasing its own tail uh retard antichrist burns forever sent 15 author tim cohenon seems to have identified the antichrist as per rev 13 18 he's kooky on some other topics he discusses imo but his identification of the antichrist appears to be the real thing his spotify podcasts
04:29:39.000with josh monday slash the fact hunter are good places to start this rabbit hole
04:32:22.000We lost a great advocate for the Palestinian cause, Pope Francis, who was advocating and calling even the Palestinian Christians right up until the day he died.
04:32:36.000Brother, just wait till somebody creates an eye that puts Jesus, Muhammad, the Buddha all into one and people start worshipping the Church of Ai.
04:34:05.000So, and I think it's good to send a signal to every other illegal immigrant that if they come here or stay here, they might wind up in jail.
04:34:12.000I don't think that's the worst thing ever.
04:34:30.000You need – basically you need a long-term, whole-of-government, comprehensive industrial policy that makes it competitive to rebuild those industries in America.
04:34:40.000But you also need major, major investment from the federal government.
04:34:44.000You need to put up trade barriers to protect industry in America to make it competitive.
04:34:48.000But then you need a huge investment from the government over the long-term, sustained investment.
04:34:54.000So that we can start to train up a workforce.
04:34:56.000We can start to build the infrastructure, make these capital investments.
04:37:06.000I hope a good amount of the somewhat socially deprived Roy Per crowd watched Myron Gaines at the University of South Carolina tonight.
04:37:10.000He presented direct and confident answers from people asking about the JQ. Important to get out in person and be a part of the conversations to turn the culture.
04:37:16.000Yeah, it's good for e-celebrities to do that.
04:37:21.000I don't know what you mean whenever everybody else is going to be going out and doing JQ-owned compilations.
04:38:13.000I am convinced that true friendship is only a guy thing, but anyways, 100% friendship is an amazing and sacred thing, and very few things made me feel so good like helping out a friend.
04:38:27.000Interesting that a plan to have Israel strike Iran while the U.S. engages in nuclear talks to provide it plausible deniability is spelled out in a Brookings journal
04:45:04.000And the last thing I need is to have all of my vril, all of my semen sucked out of me, all of my metaphorically and literally by some woman taking my vital energy and transmuting it.
04:45:21.000Instead of being transmuted into ambition, it's going to be channeled into some woman's whims.
04:49:11.000In case you missed it, this super chatter earlier in the show is like, Kanye, you know, confessing that that's just like how I got essayed and raped.
04:52:42.000I am a college student considering an internship in Chicago.
04:52:44.000You have really inspired me, and I was wondering if you could use any assistance in building a greater movement while I am in the city this summer.
04:52:48.000If yes, let me know how we can get in touch.