00:00:08.000My name is Nicholas J. Fuentes, and we have a great show for you tonight.
00:00:13.000Despite many things going on in the world, despite many things going on in my world, we are here as we are every night with a great show for you.
00:00:42.000And of course, no fake news awards today.
00:00:45.000The president tweeted about two weeks ago that they were going to happen, and then he rescheduled them for today, a little bit longer than a week ago.
00:00:54.000We never heard of time for it, and now here we are.
00:00:57.000I was asking about it on Twitter, and people are telling me, no, it's going to start at 6 Central, and I don't know, maybe it'll start during the stream.
00:01:04.000But I was getting all excited for that.
00:01:19.000Of course, there is the announcement about South and North Korea, who will both march under the same United Korean banner in the 2018 Olympics, a very big development.
00:01:29.000And I think somebody was asking on Twitter for kind of a rundown on 2017 year in review on Trump with regards to foreign policy.
00:01:37.000I think that would be a good place for it.
00:01:57.000The Lauren Southern stream, where me and Theron Meyer, this tranny, got into it a little bit about the trans issue.
00:02:04.000I challenged her to a debate today, and she told me that she wasn't going to do it unless it was for charity.
00:02:11.000She said she didn't want to do it unless Andy Worski donated 100% of the money to the something project, the Trevor Project or something, some LGBTP suicide prevention thing.
00:02:24.000And that's LGBTP, some suicide prevention charity.
00:02:28.000And when Andy said, no, I can't do that, you know, we have to make a living, we have to pay JF and so on, she said she didn't want to do it.
00:04:21.000And you know what would be really interesting, Andy Worski debate, would be me and James.
00:04:26.000I think that would be, you know, I was thinking about that when Theron turned me down and Worski said, you know, if you'd like to debate anybody else, let me know.
00:04:33.000And let me know in the comments who you would like to see me debate on the Worski stream while we have his attention, while that's still hot.
00:04:40.000Who would you like to see me go after on any issue?
00:05:14.000But to get back to the news, I think the thing we have to talk about, because we've been talking about government shutdown and DACA so much, makes me want to do all kinds of things.
00:05:24.000But the really big development today was this announcement that South and North Korea will be marching under the same banner in the 2018 Olympics.
00:05:33.000And you understand why this is a big deal, given what's been going on in the Pacific and on.
00:05:39.000The Korean Peninsula, more specifically, this entire year.
00:05:42.000I think it's a fitting time to do a little year in review.
00:05:45.000When we consider that Donald Trump took office and North Korea was as aggressive as it had ever been more missile tests, more nuke tests, Kim Jong un finally coming into his own after his father passed away and really becoming militant and aggressive and pushing the boundaries of the United States, testing the waters with Donald Trump.
00:06:08.000And so President Trump took office with a situation that looked like war was inevitable.
00:06:13.000It took office where there were nuclear tests, there were these missile tests, North Korea refused to negotiate.
00:06:18.000It seemed like there was nowhere else to turn.
00:06:20.000It seemed like, or at least Barack Obama made it out, that all the sanctions possible had been levied against North Korea.
00:06:29.000And basically, short of war or short of just waiting on North Korea to decide to come to the table, there was not much we could do.
00:06:37.000And over the course of 2017, we saw this very strategic game being played by Donald Trump, this kind of This game of chicken, this game of brinksmanship with North Korea, in the sense that obviously there were many more sanctions to be levied against North Korea, many more things he could do.
00:06:53.000I think the introduction of China into the equation is probably the chief, probably the paramount achievement of President Trump's doctrine on North Korea, in the sense that the past administrations, the George W. Bush administration,
00:07:08.000the Barack Obama administration, was simply varying degrees of strategic patience, in the sense that More focused on the theater in the Middle East, and therefore they were simply waiting for North Korea inevitably to come to the table as sanctions bled their country dry.
00:07:25.000Well, Donald Trump, I think, really brilliantly saw the opportunity there, and he talked about it on the campaign trail, which was to involve China, to enter China into the equation.
00:07:35.000And so while maybe he couldn't leverage North Korea any further, but he could leverage China to leverage North Korea further.
00:07:42.000And that was a totally unexplored thing.
00:07:44.000So, talking about tariffs on China, talking about possibly war in the Korean Peninsula, the war games with a three carrier military drill, and so on, the introduction of the THAAD missile defense system forced China's hands to implement more stringent, more strict sanctions against North Korea to the point where really the only consequential thing that has not been sanctioned is the oil.
00:08:07.000And you understand that the oil is the number one thing, but we haven't gotten to that.
00:08:12.000It seems like if North Korea stopped getting oil, they would.
00:08:16.000So that's probably why China hasn't budged on that.
00:08:19.000But I think we look at this year in review of 2017 on the North Korea question.
00:08:24.000And this is where Trump really shines on the art of the deal, where we saw where we were on January 20th.
00:08:28.000And a year later, remember these recent talks between South Korea and North Korea, the bilateral negotiations that took place last week, those were credited to Donald Trump.
00:08:39.000These two countries marching under the same banner in the 2018 Olympics, which is an incredible show of diplomacy.
00:08:46.000And trust and really a great step in the right direction is the result of these talks, which have been credited to Donald Trump.
00:08:54.000And so I think that's a really sound achievement.
00:08:57.000This is something that's demonstrable or demonstrative, rather, of how President Trump has really been more efficient than any of his predecessors.
00:09:05.000I know people kind of give him a bad rap on foreign policy, particularly in our circles, because they say he's a warmonger, he's a hawk, and so on.
00:09:15.000And I think North Korea is really a fantastic example of unequivocal, uncontested.
00:09:20.000Not debatable success here, where we really have seen forward momentum like we haven't seen in many years.
00:09:25.000And then, in addition to that, if we're going to do more broadly his achievements in foreign policy, you look at our relationships in the Middle East.
00:09:33.000You look at ISIS, which has been completely defeated.
00:09:36.000You look at Saudi Arabia, which I think is finally stabilizing in the sense that Saudi Arabia, I don't think many people understand this about this country.
00:09:45.000People look at the Arabian Peninsula, or maybe they don't.
00:09:47.000Maybe people aren't looking at maps, and maybe they're not thinking about these things so much about what's happening in Saudi Arabia.
00:09:54.000But For the longest time, really for the past 10 years, Saudi Arabia has been in a position of crisis, silently, but it has been in a position of crisis in the sense that their economy is wholly dependent and wholly invested in one resource, in one industry, in one sector of the economy, which of course is energy.
00:10:15.000And they understand that very soon oil will be depleted.
00:10:19.000The oil reserves in Saudi Arabia will be depleted, or at a different point, you will have alternatives to oil.
00:10:27.000And when you know that Saudi Arabia's economy, their budget, and basically the domination of their population by the royal family is dependent on oil being priced pretty expensively, and you know that fracking, for example, or alternative means of energy are becoming cheaper as a result, it creates an incentive to look into alternative forms of energy when oil is so expensive.
00:10:49.000If oil passes $100 per barrel, it suddenly becomes lucrative to explore more expensive options as opposed to if oil was under $50 or something like that.
00:11:00.000So, you looked at Saudi Arabia where their population was restless.
00:11:34.000There was also this problem of succession thrown in the mix as well.
00:11:37.000And then you look at what the Trump administration's response to that was.
00:11:41.000With Barack Obama, they kind of gave up on Saudi Arabia.
00:11:45.000There wasn't a whole lot of cooperation.
00:11:46.000There wasn't really a reinventing of that alliance.
00:11:49.000We didn't really leverage that alliance as best we could.
00:11:52.000And under Trump, we had Jared Kushner go down there.
00:11:55.000And I know people are not wild about Jared Kushner, but I guess serving the Trump administration, and Trump went down there and visited as well, I believe we negotiated a new alliance, and one that is vastly different from the original alliance as dictated as far back as the 1940s.
00:12:13.000People always ask me, Nick, why are we in an alliance with Saudi Arabia?
00:12:32.000Well, the initial contract between our country and Saudi Arabia in the 1930s and 40s was that in exchange for us getting their oil, us getting their oil and getting it cheaply, we would provide them with protection and security and help them shore up their government.
00:12:46.000Well, Donald Trump really renegotiated that fundamental contract that has existed between the United States and Saudi Arabia since the 1930s and 40s, where I think, and this is my speculation, but I believe that when Trump came down there to Saudi Arabia and he met with King Salman, it's a great fanfare, I think they really determined what the next 50 years would look like.
00:13:08.000And so you see Saudi Arabia modernizing socially, you see them diversifying their economy, you see them taking a little bit more aggressive action against Iran, standing up against Iran a little bit more.
00:13:19.000And I think this was at the behest of Trump.
00:13:21.000I think Trump went down there and sat down and said, look, this is what needs to happen.
00:13:26.000And maybe that was in exchange for a $300 billion arms contract.
00:13:29.000Who knows what role that played into it.
00:13:31.000But that really has reshaped the Middle East in the sense that you saw for a long time, or at least under Barack Obama, the United States concede our hegemony in the region and the hegemony of our proxies and our allies conceded to Russia.
00:13:45.000Where in, for example, the Syrian Civil War, Russia became the predominant peace broker or power broker.
00:13:51.000Where you saw the influence of Iran spread across the region from Yemen with the Houthi rebels to Qatar and Bahrain, where they fomented revolution, and Qatar, there's some influence to Iraq, where they sent the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps to Syria, where they had the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps as well, Lebanon, where they had Hezbollah.
00:14:10.000And so you saw in the Middle East, whether you agree with it or not, America was losing its strategic position, it was losing its grip, it was losing its hegemony at the expense, or rather to the benefit of Russia, Iran, and Syria, this kind of other axis.
00:14:27.000And so under Trump now, you have an emboldened Saudi Arabia that is competitive, that is combating Iran.
00:14:33.000That you saw the play that happened in Lebanon, you saw the play in Yemen when they blockaded all the ports, and it's a disastrous humanitarian thing, but strategically it might be smart.
00:14:44.000Where you saw what happened in Qatar with the blockade and things that are happening in Syria and Iraq with the shoring up of ISIS and consolidating control of Iraq again, the troop surge in Afghanistan, which increases our position there.
00:14:56.000So I think what you're seeing across the world in both the Pacific.
00:15:00.000And the Middle Eastern theater is a return to American power, but in a very different way.
00:15:05.000To summarize, you look at these two examples where I think it's undoubtedly beneficial in both, but if we look at the prevailing thesis, the prevailing idea here, it's really, I think, interesting and new in the sense that this is not the same American empire that we saw in the aftermath of the Cold War.
00:15:25.000This is not the same American empire that we saw even during the Cold War.
00:15:29.000Really, since the 80s, we've been operating off of the Reagan Doctrine.
00:15:33.000Which is everyone, everywhere, all the time.
00:15:35.000The Defense Department has its command posts in every corner of the globe, military bases everywhere.
00:15:42.000And under Donald Trump, we're really seeing kind of a substitution of direct American power for indirect American power.
00:15:49.000It really is a peace through strength, really is a speak, I guess, softly and carrying a big stick.
00:15:55.000Maybe it's, you know, speaking very angrily and carrying a big stick.
00:15:59.000But you're really seeing a transformation of America's foreign policy slightly and gradually back, I think, to a position pre World War II in many ways.
00:16:08.000You know, and I know people would argue.
00:16:14.000They might add that we have a troop surge happening in Afghanistan.
00:16:18.000But I think if you look at the bigger picture, if you look at Afghanistan in particular, this wasn't his war.
00:16:24.000This is to wrap up what's been going on, to stabilize the country and leave.
00:16:28.000You know, the Defense Department says that they're not focusing on nation building at all.
00:16:32.000You look at Syria and Iraq, where they buttoned up the ISIS issue very nicely.
00:16:36.000I think what you'll see in the next three years, if we're looking at 2017 as an example, Or maybe an insight into what the Trump doctrine will look like going forward into really a new American foreign policy.
00:16:47.000And maybe those are not even the best examples.
00:16:49.000Maybe the best example is with the European Union and NATO.
00:16:54.000I think Trump's break with France and with Germany has not been explored enough in the sense that, I mean, it was, since the end of World War II, basically not disputed that the United States and Europe had this kind of symbiotic relationship led by the United States.
00:17:10.000And whatever happened, the United States led the way.
00:17:13.000With few exceptions, maybe with Charles de Gaulle leaving NATO temporarily and some other things, some other bumps along the way, it really had been that model of Europe and the United States basically moving at the end of history in this alliance of liberal democracy.
00:17:30.000And what you're seeing now is this rift between continental Europe, Britain, and the United States in a way that we haven't seen really in a long time, where Europe, the powers of the European countries, are finally becoming unchained.
00:17:44.000And asserting themselves independently in different ways, where certainly you have different political climates now in the United Kingdom than you do in France or in Germany.
00:17:52.000And albeit it's happening gradually, but it is happening.
00:18:18.000I think that's probably the best way to describe it Nixoni and kind of this detente with Russia, our greatest rival, and also kind of this balancing around the world in different theaters.
00:18:30.000So, really something to watch, really interesting.
00:18:32.000For anybody that says that Trump is the same old neocon, they're not watching closely enough.
00:18:37.000They're really not watching closely enough.
00:18:47.000Foreign policy is a very important thing.
00:18:50.000It's an underrated thing that I don't think people talk about enough in the movement.
00:18:54.000I think there's this tunnel vision on like one thing in the far right, and we kind of ignore things like the economy, things like foreign policy, which really do play an important role.
00:19:04.000So that's a very solid development today with North Korea and more broadly over the course of the year.
00:19:09.000So we have that coming up next, rolling right along on the show, moving right along on the America First program.
00:20:00.000Now, we've been talking about this a lot this week, but I promise today it's a little bit different because there are some new developments.
00:20:07.000So we know that the government runs out of money on Friday, right?
00:20:10.000January 19th, that's the date that we're supposed to remember.
00:20:13.000January 19th, the government runs out of money and they have to pass some kind of a funding bill.
00:20:19.000And this is what happens when the government doesn't pass budgets.
00:20:22.000I think it's kind of funny that we're all talking about, well, what happens when the government shuts down?
00:20:27.000How are they going to pass a bill in time?
00:20:29.000And nobody stops and wonders, like, gee, What if we passed a budget for once?
00:20:33.000I mean, we haven't passed a budget, I think, in like seven or eight years.
00:20:37.000And if you pass a budget, the House can allocate money for the government to function for a whole year.
00:20:43.000But what we've been doing since kind of this breakdown in cooperation in Congress, and this really happened under the presidency of Barack Obama, now we have this policy of just ad hoc spending bills continue funding the government through this many months, continue funding the government's activities until this.
00:21:01.000Debt limit is reached and kicking the can down the road.
00:21:04.000So, you know, all this talk about government shutdown, this government, or is Trump shutting it down?
00:21:09.000Is the Democrats, are the Democrats shutting it down?
00:21:12.000The question is, why don't we have a budget?
00:21:16.000That's the question we have to start off by asking.
00:21:18.000And, you know, why is this allowed to continue?
00:21:19.000But on the government shutdown, which will happen on Friday, government runs out of money.
00:21:24.000They have to pass something to continue funding.
00:21:27.000And people have commented, and rightly so, that the government shutdown is kind of this hyperbolic.
00:21:33.000Misnomer in the sense that the government really doesn't shut down.
00:21:37.000It's just the non essential functions that get suspended temporarily.
00:21:42.000So, of course, you know, obviously you still have the military, you still have the police, you still have all kinds of things.
00:21:46.000It's just that, you know, like the national parks, I think, stop getting paid or, you know, they get to stay home.
00:21:53.000But Social Security checks are still cashed, Medicare checks, and, you know, all the rest, that still goes on.
00:21:58.000So it's not totally a government shutdown.
00:22:00.000But regardless, government runs out of money on Friday.
00:22:04.000And so, what you have here between the Republicans and Democrats is this Republicans have offered to fund the government, and in exchange, they will give the Democrats CHIP, which is the Children's Health Insurance Program that provides health insurance subsidies to 9 million children.
00:22:19.000And this is something Democrats really want.
00:22:21.000But Democrats are holding out, of course, on funding the government because they want to force Trump's hand on DACA.
00:22:27.000They say, we will not give you the votes in the Senate to fund the government unless you protect the DACA recipients.
00:22:34.000And people might say, well, Republicans have majorities in both houses.
00:22:40.000Why aren't we seeing illegals being rounded up in plastic handcuffs and all the rest?
00:22:45.000Well, you understand that the Democrats can block any vote in the Senate unless the Republicans get 60 votes.
00:22:53.000So, unless nine Democrats and all Republicans come over to vote to fund the government, no bill gets passed.
00:23:00.000So, people think that it works this way where you get a simple majority in the Senate.
00:23:04.000They should take a Constitution class because, correct, the House Republicans could pass a bill that would fund the government, and that might be a very smart play.
00:23:13.000They might put their bill to the floor, which funds the children's health insurance programs as a concession to the Democrats and fund the government and force the Democrats' hands, put a bill in front of them in the Senate and dare them to shut down the government and say, look, we're giving you a concession.
00:23:34.000Senators that are going to be up for re election, that we need to get this through and we can avert the government shutdown that neither side really wants.
00:23:41.000But of course, the Democrats want to force the president's hand.
00:23:45.000They think that this will hurt him and force his hand in negotiating on DACA, giving the DACA recipients legal protections so they'll give him the funding.
00:23:55.000And you understand that the Democrats' play here has actually been pretty smart.
00:23:59.000I mean, if you've been watching this back and forth, if you haven't been autistically screeching about Trump cucking on DACA, you've seen the back and forth.
00:24:07.000In the sense that the Ninth Circuit Court overruling Trump's rescinding of DACA was kind of the passing the ball back to Trump, putting the ball back in Trump's court.
00:24:18.000Because Trump was counting on, in my estimation, the DACA recipients' legal protections running out.
00:24:24.000He rescinded DACA, I believe it was in August or September.
00:24:27.000And every day since then, DACA recipients have been losing their legal protections and they can't renew them.
00:24:34.000And so at the height of these negotiations last week, you had 1,000 recipients losing their protections every day until.
00:24:41.000The Ninth Circuit judge filed an injunction, I believe it was, and said, You can't rescind that for some nonsense reason, and forced Trump's cabinet to begin accepting renewals for DACA applications again.
00:24:53.000And so that brought the Democrats a little bit of time, because now Trump will have to appeal that injunction to the Supreme Court so that he can start denying those again.
00:25:02.000And until then, Democrats face really no penalty in the sense that the DACA recipients still get their legal protections, and Democrats can bleed the government dry as long as they want.
00:25:11.000Well, that really gives credence to the idea that Trump.
00:25:14.000And his DHS yesterday talking about arresting leaders of sanctuary cities is kind of another play to put the pressure back on the Democrats.
00:25:22.000And you see how this power dynamic is playing out here.
00:25:50.000This is textbook what happened in 2011 or 2012 with Ted Cruz when the government shut down and the Democrats said, well, you're forcing the Obamacare issue, you're being obstructionist, and so on and so forth.
00:26:02.000The reason I think this will work out in Trump's favor is because Donald Trump has pretty nice approval ratings right now.
00:26:08.000The ratings on the economy are like you wouldn't believe.
00:26:11.000They are record numbers on the economy.
00:26:14.000The Dow Jones Industrial Average just hit 26,000 points today for the first time ever, which, you know, people who follow finance, Might have a problem if that's really a good thing.
00:26:23.000We don't really know where all the growth is coming from.
00:26:26.000But regardless of that fact, 66% of people say that the economy is in good or excellent condition, which is the best in recorded history, which is as long as they've been keeping records on these kinds of numbers.
00:26:41.000And so they have a very strong economy, or Trump has a very strong economy going into the midterms.
00:26:46.000I think Trump has a very good record in terms of the tax cuts and the North Korea thing, which looks like it's resolving itself.
00:26:52.000And the Democrats have pigeonholed themselves over the course of the year into being the reflexively anti-Trump, anti-progress party.
00:27:00.000And Trump has done a really good job of portraying them in that light, in the sense that I think even regular Democrats and moderates see that you turn on Colbert, you turn on Jimmy Fallon, you turn on any news network, and it's just anti Trump.
00:27:18.000He watches a Gorilla Channel, you know?
00:27:20.000And so that's why this might be a really genius thing, because maybe, just maybe, the Democrats who are up for re election in 2018, who would not be looked on favorably in swing states as being reflexively anti Trump, Forcing the government shutdown might break for Trump, might break for a deal.
00:27:37.000That would be unprecedented because for the past eight years, really even longer, the Democrats have been lockstep, unified basically as a monolith, you know, as an individual organism.
00:27:50.000No better example of that than Hillary Clinton in the 2016 primaries and then the general.
00:27:54.000So that would really be unprecedented.
00:27:56.000But if Trump could do that, if he could crack the Democrat coalition, if he could break away nine or ten votes, People that are up for re election in these swing states from the Democrat side to vote on a bill that funds the government.
00:28:10.000I mean, that would be the masterstroke.
00:28:21.000We're playing for the midterms, and that's a very good thing.
00:28:24.000But regardless of how it turns out, I think the broader takeaway that people should really just be mad about is this idea that the government just messes with our money.
00:28:37.000In the sense that we pay all this money and there's no budget, there's no accountability, we're racking up debt like crazy.
00:28:44.000And I understand there's other considerations going on and we have other priorities, but I just think it's downright inexcusable if you like your congressman, if you like your politician, that there is not only not a balanced budget, but there's no plan for a balanced budget.
00:28:58.000We don't have a plan for how to balance the budget in 100 years or 50 years or 10 years or 5 years.
00:29:04.000There's no plan to get us back on track.
00:29:10.000I was, I served in this like local government board when I was a youngster, when I was a youth.
00:29:17.000And basically, what we did, I was in like middle school and we would go in and we'd review the minutes for the, you know, whatever, the local government meetings the next day.
00:29:25.000And so we'd talk about potholes and streets, you know, when they clean the streets up and how they buy salt for the winter for when it snows and rebuilding the public work center and all that kind of stuff.
00:29:37.000And so we would go in and we'd review the minutes and we'd kind of give our discussion on it.
00:29:40.000It was supposed to be like this informative thing for, People that are interested in civic affairs.
00:29:46.000And so I recall I got into this organization, I think in 2008 or 2009, right when the recession happened.
00:30:55.000This is happening at the national level, where the excuse was in 2009 when we passed the TARP Act, when we passed the bailout thing, that, well, we have a $1 trillion deficit because, you know, desperate times call for desperate measures.
00:31:09.000And when it happened again, the same thing.
00:31:11.000But we're still running these massive deficits, and you have to ask yourself when is the situation going to be rectified?
00:31:18.000This is probably the worst possible time in American history for us to be running debts like this, for us to be running deficits like this.
00:31:26.000When you look at the rise of China, As a world power and a world power institutionally, if you look at how they're challenging America for institutional control, for monetary control of the world, you look at this is a very troubling thing.
00:31:40.000It's a small thing, but it's a sign of things to come where Pakistan and China have started doing their trade based not on the United States dollar, but based on the yuan, which is a very, a very stark departure from when, uh, you know, all world transactions, all currency transactions were done in US dollars, and that was the standard.
00:31:59.000And so the US dollar is the world reserve currency right now.
00:32:02.000And that's why we can rack up as much debt as we want.
00:32:05.000That's why we can print as much money as we want for now.
00:32:09.000But in 25 years and 50 years, when China's economy surpasses us or comes to equal ours, I know people say that a lot of their growth is just flat out lied about in the sense that they forged the documents and a lot of it is built on credit spending.
00:32:23.000It's built on a bubble and debt, and a lot of that's true.
00:32:26.000But an economy of a billion people rapidly growing, they will come to match our power or exceed it in the next century.
00:32:33.000And the question becomes what kind of fiscal position will we be in?
00:32:37.000When they challenge us for that institutional and financial control of the world.
00:32:42.000Will we have $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities like we do now?
00:32:46.000Will we have $20 some trillion in debt like we do now?
00:32:49.000Will we still have these uncontrolled deficits, no budgets and everything else?
00:32:54.000It's only going to get worse from here, folks.
00:32:56.000The entitlement spending only grows from here.
00:32:59.000The interest on the debt only grows from here.
00:33:06.000But all of these things become deadly if not treated.
00:33:10.000You know, sure, we might, let's say hypothetically we solve the demographic question.
00:33:13.000Let's say hypothetically, best case scenario, we deport all the illegals, we end immigration, white birth rate goes up, we get back to 70% white population.
00:33:23.000What good is that going to be when the dollar becomes worthless one day?
00:33:26.000You know, I mean, that's going to be a very devastating thing.
00:33:29.000And not like I wouldn't prefer that reality over a reality where we have a good dollar and it's AmeriCoA.
00:33:51.000And it just should be offensive to anybody.
00:33:53.000Like, regardless of what your civic engagement is, regardless of what your political engagement is, everybody works, except for me, because I do the shell.
00:34:02.000But everybody works, everybody pays taxes, and that pisses everybody off.
00:34:07.000The fact that, you know, you go to work five days a week, eight hours a day, you work your fingers to the bone.
00:34:13.000To pay for ever increasing amounts of debt, ever increasing expenses, ever increasing taxes.
00:34:18.000And you do this for 60 years in the hopes that at some point you could be a little bit comfortable.
00:34:24.000At some point you could be a little bit secure in your position.
00:34:26.000At some point you could stop work, finally, and just relax, right?
00:34:32.000And all the while the government is taking, they're taking ever more, ever greater percentages.
00:34:37.000And we're going to tax you here, we're going to tax you on your soda, we're going to tax you on your gas and your car and your home, and we'll jack this up and that up.
00:34:44.000And we'll print more money so your income will be less and we'll raise the cost of other things so your expenses will be more and your money will decrease.
00:35:27.000We're just the stupid assholes that we go to work and we submit our money, we give our tithe to the new idol, the state, and what do we get?
00:35:38.000We get the mismanagement, we get illegals, we get terrorists, we get wars that we don't need or want, we get our jobs taken, and so on.
00:35:47.000This is not the way it's supposed to be.
00:35:49.000This is not the way it's supposed to be.
00:35:52.000So while all the circus is going on, Trump, Democrats, the strategy.
00:37:00.000I know it's very depressing to look at the situation, but we have to look at this like an opportunity.
00:37:06.000This is a real opportunity in the country to remake this country in our image, to really rethink the American experiment in the context of the 21st century because it's not working.
00:37:18.000And I don't know how anybody will expect it to work when you have the government controlled by the Congress, and the Congress is controlled by the donors.
00:37:26.000This is not a controversial thing to say that.
00:37:28.000You look at the Constitution, and Article 1 of the Constitution lays out the powers of Congress.
00:37:33.000This is the longest article in the entire Constitution.
00:37:37.000The Constitution delegates the most powers to the Congress, to the House of Representatives and the Senate.
00:37:44.000Now, the founders intended that the Senate would have gained its members by selection by the state organizations, right?
00:37:55.000Because of the 17th Amendment, you had the direct election of senators.
00:37:59.000It was originally intended that the states, And really, a federalist move, the states would have control of the Senate.
00:38:04.000The grand compromise to form the Constitution, to get it ratified, was between two different plans for what the Congress would look like to form a bicameral Congress, where you have the House of the People, the House of Representatives, which is members are determined by population, and the House of the States, the Senate, which every state would send a delegation of two senators chosen by the state legislatures.
00:38:27.000And that's how it was intended to function, so that the House of Representatives, maybe that could get bought.
00:38:32.000Maybe that could become corrupt, but the Senate would be much harder to buy because you would have to buy all the state legislatures.
00:38:37.000And that would be a lot more money, that would be a lot more of a hassle, it would be more difficult to overcome.
00:38:42.000Well, with the passage of the 17th Amendment, what we have is basically the usurpation of sovereignty, the usurpation of these checks and balances by the Congress.
00:38:58.000And the problem with the Congress, the problem with the Congress in this era is money.
00:39:03.000Because, of course, take the example of Lyndon Johnson.
00:39:06.000He needed maybe $50 million to win a campaign in Texas for Senate.
00:39:12.000When he was running for Senate, and I think it was 1948, He had to have $50 million, one of the most expensive campaigns in history at the time to win the state of Texas.
00:39:20.000And he lost anyway, but these are minor details.
00:39:24.000So he goes to a major contracting company, and this was while he was in the House of Representatives, while he was running his House race, he needed something, you know, a much smaller figure.
00:39:33.000But when he was in the House of Representatives, and that's when he was running for Senate, he was writing contracts for these massive contracting companies, for these massive, um, construction companies for billions of dollars.
00:39:45.000So you understand the asymmetry there, where if a congressman can write a check, Through a contract, through a deal, if they can leverage something through the bureaucracy, through the cabinet, through whatever, if they can get a certain company a contract worth a billion dollars and it only costs 20 to 50 million dollars for that person to get elected, do the math.
00:40:07.000Because these major contractors, these major financial interests, they buy the congressman for pennies on the dollar, for whatever it costs to run a campaign, and the congressman writes the check using the taxpayers' money far greater.
00:40:26.000And so, all these people, all these libertarians, that's why I kind of move to a more authoritarian position, is because systematically it cannot work.
00:40:36.000The incentives are built in such a way that it is impossible.
00:40:40.000It will never happen, barring a miracle, barring like mass consciousness.
00:40:46.000You know, all these, what do they call them, theosophists who talk about Thule and about Loth and all of that, or Thoth, you know, barring.
00:40:55.000Barring that kind of thing, where the Peruvian woman goes down and she decipheres all of that, maybe some people get these very esoteric references, but barring a miracle, it won't happen.
00:41:06.000It's governed by the money, and the money, they will build it in such a way that they bleed us dry.
00:41:11.000It's really made it in such a way that the government is essentially a conduit from which money flows from the citizens to these banks and these companies and these interests.
00:41:22.000And until we choke the Congress, until we push back against populism, not necessarily populism, but against Against democracy in a certain sense.
00:41:31.000So we go back to more of a Republican system.
00:41:34.000We look at how voting was originally intended to be, how the bicameral Congress was originally intended to be, how federalism was originally intended to function, and maybe we may arrive at an answer.
00:44:09.000I'll debate anybody on the Andy Worski program.
00:44:13.000So if that's you, if you want to spar with me on any subject, Israel.
00:44:18.000Catholicism, Christianity, race, I mean, really, whatever it is, the budget, the economy, I will meet you there and we'll do it.
00:44:27.000But it has to be a challenger who is worthy.
00:44:30.000I have this one guy, this Jewish guy with 30 followers who I've never met in my life, who's like, why won't you debate me?
00:44:37.000It's like, because I don't know you, because nobody knows you.
00:44:40.000And not like his ideas don't have any merit, but it's like, if I were to debate any just schmo who came up, I mean, that'd be a lot of debate challenges.
00:47:38.000Not have a problem with some of these people.
00:47:40.000You understand that by virtue of association, you, whether you like it or not, take on their baggage and share their optics, share the decisions they've made with their image.
00:47:50.000And I've made it a point to very carefully construct and deliberately construct an image, a brand, a message which serves a very specific function.
00:48:00.000You may not understand it, you might not agree with it, but that is the case.
00:48:04.000And so in an ideal world, in an abstract world, We could have on a conversation and debate ideas on their merits, and nobody would face any unjust consequences.
00:48:14.000But, I mean, we know that's not how it works in the real world.
00:48:16.000So, E. Michael Jones, I've watched his content.
00:49:12.000Really, just not my cup of tea, and people know this.
00:49:15.000In the throwing contest, it's Demarcus Denarius versus from Chicago, Illinois, Tyrone Jackson, who's going to be able to grunt and throw each other around.
00:49:44.000Football today is the perfect neoliberal hell where you sit down, you know, you sit down on your cotch and you just let it wash over you, stuffing your face, drinking your beer.
00:49:56.000And look, not that there's anything wrong with like watching the game with your buddies, but not only is it this very sedentary, and I'm talking about people that obsess over it, that it's like the game, the game, the statistics, they know all the statistics.
00:50:07.000And you sit there and you watch the game and you let it wash over you.
00:50:11.000And then on top of it, if it wasn't enough that it's football, on top of it, it's black athletes that hate you.
00:50:17.000You're watching them, you're wearing their names on the back of your clothes, and they hate you.
00:50:23.000They think your heroes are genocidal maniacs.
00:50:26.000I mean, they hate your country and your flag.
00:50:29.000And you sit there with their names on your back of your jersey, which you paid $60 for, and you watch them on television, stunting around, throwing each other around.
00:50:38.000And then, if that's not good enough, on top of that, then it's interrupted every five minutes, like Harrison Bergeron, with the noises in the ear, with the commercials.
00:51:21.000So, I'm very, again, maybe it's not anti football, it's anti NFL, it's anti the sports industrial complex, if you will, which is just the epitome of what's going wrong here.
00:54:30.000You got to support Christian, a Helleno Christian, I guess, nationalism, maybe a more Western flavor of, a Faustian flavor of Christian nationalism.
00:54:39.000Pirate Falago says Worski debate proposal topics, statehood for Puerto Rico.
00:55:28.000You know, black people are subhuman, and you want to know, no, Destiny, you're not listening to what I'm saying, so that's why we can't have a repeat of that.
00:55:36.000I did say, though, I would play that game.
00:55:38.000There's this game called Bomb Diffuser, and somebody suggested that me and Destiny play it together on like a live stream, which I think would be hilarious, so I would be down to do that.
00:55:51.000LC 1707, you missed a super chat last night from Rick.
00:55:54.000I'll go back and I'll get that once I finish these.
00:55:59.000John Shepard Smith, alleged Chinese mole in the CIA.
00:57:21.000I liked Jordan Peterson when nobody knew about him, and then when he blew up, I was like, yeah, if this many people like him, he's probably not that great.
00:57:28.000The reason I believe this is because to have mass appeal, for the most part, for the most part, few exceptions, but there are exceptions.
00:57:36.000To have mass appeal, to have that kind of a thing, you can't say anything really controversial.
00:57:41.000You can't really say anything that may be true, but people would not want to hear.
00:57:46.000And so that's generally my wisdom on that.
00:57:49.000Generally speaking, there are exceptions.
00:58:12.000So we got to go back to the 16th with Rick Smith, who says, James said your title was offensive, but he's the one who wasn't smart enough to follow the rules on Twitter and got himself banned.
00:58:25.000And that wasn't even the reason why he stated that he wanted the title changed initially.
00:58:30.000He texted on the Flock channel at 5 a.m., and I was sleeping like a little baby.
00:58:36.000He texted, Oh, by the way, I changed the title of the video because I didn't want it to hurt Paul Nealon's reputation, which is a fair suggestion if he had suggested it.
00:58:44.000But what he didn't know is that I asked Paul Nealon what he thought of the title, and he said it was fine.
00:58:48.000I said, Paul, we titled the video Paul Nealon on the Tribe.
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