America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - In Defense Of Putin | America First Ep. 116

00:00:05.000 Good evening, everybody.

00:00:06.000 You are watching America First.

00:00:07.000 My name is Nicholas J. Fuentes, and we have a great show for you tonight.

00:00:12.000 Lots to talk about, lots to get into.

00:00:14.000 Finally, something has happened in the country.

00:00:17.000 How long do we have to talk about the Florida school shooting and gun control?

00:00:21.000 I've been doing that for two weeks.

00:00:23.000 Finally, some things have happened.

00:00:25.000 We're going to be talking about the tariffs that President Trump wants to implement on steel and on aluminum.

00:00:32.000 We're going to talk about Russian President Vladimir Putin's State of the Nation speech this afternoon.

00:00:38.000 In Moscow.

00:00:39.000 And first, before we get into any of that, we got to talk about Angela Merkel, the chancellor of Germany, who finally admitted the existence of no go zones, which we talked pretty extensively yesterday about the immigration crisis in Europe, about the migrant crisis in Europe, and why it is a crisis, unlike other forms of immigration, maybe in the past, is because you have this clash between Muslims and Europeans, between Arabs and Africans and Europeans.

00:01:08.000 This tension.

00:01:10.000 You have this distinction between these two peoples that breeds conflict. 0.89

00:01:14.000 When their values and customs and mannerisms overlap, then they fight each other. 0.87

00:01:18.000 And there was no better example of this for the past how many years? 1.00

00:01:22.000 The term was employed the no go zone, where you had entire neighborhoods which were majority Muslim after waves and waves of immigration from the Middle East and North Africa. 0.99

00:01:32.000 And in these communities, you can't have police, you can't have firefighters, pedestrians, tourists can't go there because if they do, they get.

00:01:41.000 Ushered out, and you know, maybe more violently than ushered, they get forced out in many cases by gangs or by local leaders there.

00:01:49.000 And for the longest time, nobody wanted to talk about that.

00:01:51.000 But I guess because the German elections are coming up a little bit later, Angela Merkel suddenly says they're real.

00:01:58.000 So we'll get into that.

00:01:59.000 But we had a big, exciting day today here.

00:02:02.000 Nick the knife, the knife is sharpening.

00:02:05.000 We went to the gym again today, and we're sticking to it so far.

00:02:10.000 Sticking to it, we got our second big workout in.

00:02:13.000 Getting huge, Hulkamaniac rising.

00:02:16.000 I'm a Hulkamaniac, Hulk Hogan rising, HH, brother.

00:02:21.000 And we're getting strong.

00:02:23.000 I don't know if it's giving me more energy or less energy.

00:02:25.000 I got to say, after this one today, I think I'm at less energy.

00:02:29.000 The one on Tuesday, I was feeling good.

00:02:33.000 You know, I skipped some parts of it.

00:02:35.000 We cut some corners here and there because it was my first time.

00:02:38.000 Today, we did the whole thing, and there was a lot of running and there was a lot of lifting.

00:02:44.000 And so I'm a little fatigued.

00:02:45.000 It's going to be a high energy episode regardless because I'm tough, because I'm a very tough person.

00:02:50.000 But I got to say, I was feeling it.

00:02:53.000 I was really feeling it afterwards.

00:02:55.000 There were all these workouts, and then I had to do a mile run.

00:02:59.000 A mile run, really?

00:03:00.000 I haven't done a mile run since I was in high school.

00:03:04.000 So a lot of fun.

00:03:06.000 Another great workout.

00:03:07.000 But with that said, we have to get into it.

00:03:10.000 The first thing we have to talk about to go into a little bit more detail about Angela Merkel and the no go zones.

00:03:16.000 This is essentially a vindication of what we said yesterday about Italy and what's going on in Europe and broadly around the world.

00:03:23.000 And I don't want to spend too much time on it because it is basically a rehashing of what we said yesterday, but it's worth mentioning because it does vindicate all the concerns, the anxieties that the so called far right, and I don't think they are far right, you know, you want to keep your country, you want your people to remain the same, you want to preserve the order of things, and they call you a far right, a far right extremist, a far right radical.

00:03:47.000 I think they're the reasonable right.

00:03:49.000 But.

00:03:50.000 The so called far right, who everybody says they're, oh, they're angry, they're neo fascist, everybody's scared of them in the upcoming Italian elections.

00:03:58.000 Well, this is kind of a vindication of all those fears, all those anxieties, all those concerns.

00:04:03.000 That even the German chancellor, you know, the head of the German country, which is seen as the leader de facto of the European Union, finally admitting something which has been denied for many years.

00:04:14.000 I remember in high school when I would make these arguments, you could go back many years, I think five or six or seven years.

00:04:21.000 And you heard all this talk about the 453 no go zones throughout Europe.

00:04:26.000 And they're in Sweden, they're in Germany, they're all over the place. 0.85

00:04:29.000 And these are the Muslim ghettos where the police go in there to chase down somebody for a traffic ticket or they chase down somebody because they stole something or, you know, for whatever reason. 0.95

00:04:40.000 You would get some kind of public service in that town. 0.99

00:04:43.000 And within seconds, within minutes, you would hear all the people of the community coming out and chasing out police officers, chasing out firefighters, chasing out people that weren't Muslim, that didn't.

00:04:54.000 That weren't familiar to the neighborhood.

00:04:57.000 And this was a common talking point on Fox.

00:04:59.000 This was talked about on Gatestone Institute.

00:05:01.000 This was no secret that the people committing the crimes in these countries were the Muslim immigrants, were these Arabs and North Africans, and they did occupy these cities and occupy them in the real sense of the word, where the governments, the central governments in Europe, gave up sovereignty over those areas because they said, you know, it's just not worth enforcing the law in those parts. 0.78

00:05:21.000 It's just not worth it to put out fires in those places or to provide public services because we're just going to get chased out. 0.92

00:05:28.000 And this was a popular talking point, a very strong one, because it's visual and a visceral demonstration of a real takeover of a conquest.

00:05:36.000 Whereas the liberals, the internationalists said, well, they're going to come here and they'll assimilate and they'll take part. 0.59

00:05:41.000 They'll become German.

00:05:43.000 They'll become Italian or they'll contribute to rich diversity.

00:05:46.000 Well, here you have this image of these ghettos, these enclaves, essentially, of the places where the migrants fled from, where they pick up Syria and they put it down in Molenbeek.

00:05:58.000 In Belgium, or they pick it up and they put it down in the various cities in France or Germany or Sweden from where they came from in West Africa, North Africa.

00:06:08.000 And so it's just nice to hear Merkel acknowledge that yes, the no go zones do exist, and all the liberals who denied it for so long say, oh, you know, that's not real, that's Republican fiction, that's far right propaganda.

00:06:19.000 No, even Merkel, even the de facto head of the European Union, even she admits that this project has been an unmitigated, absolute disaster for the European continent. 0.96

00:06:31.000 You know, maybe you could have some immigration. 0.66

00:06:33.000 Maybe you could have some migrants, but a million a year, a half a million a year for 10 years?

00:06:38.000 I don't think so. 1.00

00:06:39.000 So that's a miracle.

00:06:41.000 I guess kind of a white pill in that regard that she acknowledges it finally because we were out there.

00:06:46.000 And it's no secret.

00:06:47.000 If you watch the videos, if you see these things on Facebook or on Twitter, Voice of Europe does a good job with this stuff.

00:06:54.000 That's a great account on Twitter to follow.

00:06:56.000 Gatestone Institute provides these statistics.

00:06:58.000 It's an open secret, basically, in Europe that this is the elephant in the room, that this is the problem. 0.89

00:07:04.000 The fact that you have these fundamental people, these primitive people coming over here from uncivilized places, uncivilized countries and nations, and they come over here and they do their Muslim call to prayer and they have their rape gangs and they're playing the knockout game in the streets. 0.94

00:07:19.000 And everybody knows this, and the government knows this. 0.99

00:07:22.000 That's why they stop publishing the statistics on crime.

00:07:24.000 If you look in Sweden, they stop publishing the ethnicities of the different crime categories because, hey, people are looking at them in 90 some, 80 some, 95, 96 percent.

00:07:36.000 We're all Muslim.

00:07:37.000 We're all North African.

00:07:38.000 We're all Middle Eastern.

00:07:39.000 So now they call them Asian in the UK. 0.99

00:07:42.000 It's an Asian migrant.

00:07:43.000 It doesn't really look like a Chinese person to me, but they call them Asian.

00:07:47.000 I guess pretty far south and west Asian.

00:07:51.000 But we all knew it.

00:07:52.000 We all knew it in America.

00:07:53.000 We saw it online.

00:07:55.000 They all know it in Europe.

00:07:56.000 They see it every day in their cities.

00:07:58.000 They see what's happening with the construction of mosques and the introduction of Sharia law in many locations. 0.85

00:08:04.000 And again, but the fundamental point is we acknowledge that this is the problem. 0.92

00:08:09.000 Even the European Union technocrats are being forced to acknowledge the problem because many of them are facing tough elections.

00:08:16.000 And somebody made the correction the other day.

00:08:18.000 I said Geert Wilders was from Denmark.

00:08:20.000 He's actually from the Netherlands.

00:08:22.000 Good catch.

00:08:22.000 We were tossing up a lot of countries.

00:08:24.000 It's easy to get confused with Northern Europe.

00:08:26.000 But in the Netherlands election, this was a good example, I believe, over the summer, where Geert Wilders was beat out by a center right party in the Netherlands.

00:08:36.000 And what was significant about this was, you know, people thought Geert Wilders and his PVV party, I believe it was called, that was the acronym.

00:08:44.000 People thought he was going to sweep.

00:08:46.000 They were doing really well in the polls.

00:08:47.000 People had kind of this, oh, I don't know, this hope, this dream that maybe there would be some kind of a government formed.

00:08:54.000 But what was significant in the Netherlands elections and in some of the others is that the so called far right forced everybody else to move further to the right, and specifically on the topic of immigration.

00:09:05.000 And we saw this in the Netherlands, where the party that ended up winning, the center right party that ended up winning the elections and getting the most seats in the parliament there, they weren't Geert Wilder's right, where they were saying, you know, ban the Quran and shut down mosques and deport Muslims, but they did say that migration had to be stopped and that that was a big problem.

00:09:26.000 And even in the Italian elections, even though you have these different coalitions, you have the Democratic Party, and you have the five star, and you have the far right party, even the left says we'll have to end immigration.

00:09:37.000 I mean, that's the furthest left coalition you have.

00:09:40.000 And even they are saying, hey, immigration's a problem.

00:09:43.000 We're going to have to do something about that.

00:09:44.000 And now even Merkel acknowledges it.

00:09:46.000 Now even Junker and the European Commission acknowledges it.

00:09:50.000 And so I think we are moving in the right direction there.

00:09:53.000 The question remains is it too little, too late?

00:09:55.000 Has the damage been done?

00:09:57.000 Will there be enough reform now, now that the politicians are aware of it, now that they're feeling the heat?

00:10:03.000 In Germany, for example, the Alternative for Deutschland party is now number two, far right.

00:10:08.000 They want to end immigration there as well.

00:10:10.000 Will it be enough?

00:10:12.000 And then will the reforms make it through?

00:10:14.000 Because you saw in the case of the Brexit, even when the far right, and I have to use the air quotations because, you know, again, we're the reasonable ones.

00:10:22.000 I don't really think it's that radical.

00:10:24.000 But even when the right wing won in the Brexit vote, even when they.

00:10:28.000 Defeated the globalists, they defeated the European Union, even when they got their referendum passed. 0.99

00:10:33.000 Now Theresa May comes in and she was not a Brexiteer, and now she's going to slow walk the process.

00:10:39.000 And now it's questionable if the Brexit will even happen, if it'll even have any significant effect on the relations between the UK and the European Union.

00:10:47.000 So those are really the fundamental questions now.

00:10:50.000 All the politicians are feeling it, all Europeans are basically aware of it.

00:10:54.000 There is this political pressure.

00:10:55.000 Now the question is, is it too little, too late?

00:10:58.000 And if there are reforms, will they be carried out?

00:11:01.000 Faithfully by the central governments.

00:11:03.000 I think that's really the dubious part.

00:11:06.000 But we'll see what happens. 0.96

00:11:07.000 I think we're getting a stronger hand every day in Europe, and that's a white pill, like I said yesterday, because that bodes well for us. 0.97

00:11:14.000 If they're getting radicalized by this immigration, and you see the dominoes falling one by one from Poland to Hungary to Czech Republic to Austria to Italy, Netherlands, hopefully France and England and Germany one day, as the dominoes fall over there, we get a glimpse into our future. 0.96

00:11:30.000 Will the increased immigration, Will this changing demographic situation, the change and a noticeable change in the texture of life in our country beget a counter revolution? 0.86

00:11:42.000 Will it beget a reaction as strong or maybe even stronger than the forces that got us here in the first place?

00:11:48.000 We'll see.

00:11:50.000 But that's Merkel.

00:11:51.000 She finally acknowledges it.

00:11:52.000 The next thing we want to get to, and that's Germany.

00:11:55.000 But the other major development in terms of international affairs that we saw today, which I thought was pretty significant, was Vladimir Putin's State of the Nation address this afternoon.

00:12:07.000 So in Moscow, he gave a big grand speech, kind of like the State of the Union, but I guess the Russian version of it, State of the Nation version in Russia.

00:12:16.000 And he went over, and it was pretty remarkable because he addressed all kinds of topics in the speech.

00:12:20.000 He addressed health care and education and all kinds of things.

00:12:24.000 But the single largest, most noticeable piece in the speech was about weapons, was about military.

00:12:30.000 And I saw somebody tweeting about it that if you watch the whole speech from start to finish, he spent maybe five, ten minutes on this, five, ten minutes on that.

00:12:38.000 And then it was a whole half hour to an hour about weapons and foreign affairs and all this other stuff, which really gives you an insight into how Vladimir Putin.

00:12:47.000 Will govern in his next term, how he sees Russia's place in the world under his reign.

00:12:53.000 So he gave his State of the Nation speech, and this was, of course, in preparation for the Russian presidential election, which will be March 18th, and he's expected to win another six year term.

00:13:05.000 And it's really something interesting how Vladimir Putin did this, where he got into office in the year 2000, succeeding Boris Yeltsin, and he got into office in 2000.

00:13:16.000 He served two terms.

00:13:18.000 And the rule was when he got into office, when Russia was this fledgling democracy, and by the way, Russia is a terrific example of what goes wrong with the free market, what goes wrong with liberalism, why neoconservatism and neoliberalism is fundamentally flawed.

00:13:34.000 Because here was a country which endured communism for so long, and in many instances, you saw the Russian people hungry or interested in democracy, interested in capitalism, because it was something new, it was something different, they wanted the fruits.

00:13:50.000 The wealth that we had, the freedoms that we had, that the West Germans had.

00:13:54.000 But then they realized hey, wait a minute, we kind of need experience. 0.55

00:13:58.000 There needs to be a culture for democracy to really work.

00:14:02.000 There needs to be a certain atmosphere.

00:14:04.000 There needs to be certain social capital in place for a free market system to work.

00:14:09.000 And they found that out because, in many cases in St. Petersburg, you would have people being assassinated in the streets.

00:14:15.000 You had snipers on the roof, killing each other, oligarchs at war with each other, buying up all the land that was being sold off by the government, and really a terrible.

00:14:24.000 Terrible instance, a really terrible example of these fantasies, maybe, of the West gone wrong, where we think we can throw down our system anywhere in the world and it'll work.

00:14:36.000 We tried that in Iraq, we tried that in other places, and they tried it in Russia and it didn't work so well.

00:14:41.000 So Vladimir Putin comes into power in 2000, and the system that was in place then under their new constitution, we're going to try and be Western, we're going to try and assimilate into this new world order, as George Bush put it.

00:14:56.000 And under the Constitution, the rules were Vladimir Putin would serve two terms and then you're done.

00:15:02.000 You get your two terms and then you're out.

00:15:04.000 And so Putin served his two terms and then he put in Medvedev, who was his prime minister before.

00:15:09.000 Then he rotated in and became president.

00:15:12.000 And Putin became prime minister.

00:15:13.000 And while Medvedev stood as kind of a puppet for Putin, they changed the Constitution so that actually we only mean two non consecutive terms.

00:15:22.000 So you can serve as many terms as you like so long as it's not more than two consecutively.

00:15:27.000 And also, we're going to increase the amount of years for the term up to six.

00:15:30.000 And of course, Putin comes back in 2012, wins handily, gets a six year term.

00:15:34.000 He'll get another six year term in 2018.

00:15:37.000 And, you know, they kind of get a bad rap about this kind of thing, about how Putin's really in charge, and he's always been in charge, and he's been consolidating power, and he has kind of this personal state apparatus.

00:15:49.000 He basically calls the shots.

00:15:51.000 But you know what? 0.95

00:15:51.000 It works for Russia. 0.95

00:15:52.000 It works for Russia.

00:15:54.000 Russia has a tradition, a political culture in their country called Cesaro Papism, which means that they want a strong leader, they want a strong central government.

00:16:04.000 And you look at the physiognomy of Russian civilization, the Russian land, the Russian culture, and It is suited towards this kind of government.

00:16:13.000 We might not like it.

00:16:14.000 We might not understand it.

00:16:16.000 We probably wouldn't enjoy it if we lived in that country. 0.94

00:16:20.000 Our tendency is to rebel, especially Americans.

00:16:23.000 We want self reliance.

00:16:24.000 We want independence.

00:16:25.000 We want to dissent against the government.

00:16:27.000 Russians, it's a different atmosphere.

00:16:29.000 And that was proven in this latest transition from fledgling neoliberal hellscape into a somewhat solid and stable country.

00:16:38.000 And you had, with the leadership of Putin, they consolidated the country.

00:16:41.000 They consolidated.

00:16:43.000 And stabilize the country after a pretty rocky transition.

00:16:46.000 And so there he is.

00:16:47.000 He's in there for another six years, I guess, and I'm sure he'll be in there probably until he dies.

00:16:53.000 And he gave his grand state of the nation speech today, and he announced the big announcements were the new weapons systems that Russia has created, which are they're revamping their nuclear arsenal, and they have a nuclear powered cruise missile, a nuclear powered underwater drone, and a hypersonic missile.

00:17:11.000 And the United States knew, I believe they knew about the missile.

00:17:15.000 And they knew about the hypersonic missile.

00:17:17.000 They didn't know so much about the underwater drone.

00:17:20.000 But what was really significant about it, the announcement that was made about the hypersonic missile, is that this new ICBM by Russia can reach any point around the world, so they can fire it off from Russia and they could hit anywhere on the globe.

00:17:34.000 And then additionally, the missile operates in such a way I guess it's so fast because it's faster than the speed of sound, it's hypersonic that this can penetrate any and all anti ballistic missile defense shields.

00:17:47.000 So, you understand that one of the more significant developments in the past 10 to 15 years in terms of nuclear deterrence is the introduction of more and more sophisticated anti ballistic missile technology.

00:17:59.000 And so, we see ABM systems being put up, for example, in the Czech Republic, in Poland, that Obama pulled out, and there was an additional one that was put in place in Eastern Europe.

00:18:08.000 We see an ABM system, the FAD, that was put in place in South Korea.

00:18:12.000 We talked at length about that over the summer and actually in the spring of last year, I believe, in the fall of last year.

00:18:19.000 Of 2017, and in the spring of 2017, which was the Terminal High Altitude Air Defense Shield, which, when put in South Korea, would have shot down any North Korean medium to short range ballistic missiles before they even got into the atmosphere.

00:18:34.000 And then, of course, we conducted numerous tests in Hawaii, in the West Coast, in Alaska, of our anti ballistic missile shield to defend against a missile coming from the Pacific.

00:18:45.000 And the construction of the ABM, you understand the anti ballistic missile, it sounds good in theory.

00:18:49.000 I think a lot of people would see the ABM.

00:18:53.000 And they would think, oh, well, that's good because here's been this problem since the 1940s we have these weapons of mass destruction where a group of people in Moscow or a group of people in Beijing, if they read a signal wrong, if they want to launch a first strike, well, they could press the big red button and the whole world goes to hell.

00:19:14.000 The whole world burns up, and that's a bad thing.

00:19:16.000 And people might see the ABM, they might see anti ballistic missile technology, and say, oh, well, here's a way out of it. 0.62

00:19:22.000 Well, we're not at the mercy of Russia anymore.

00:19:25.000 We're not at the mercy of China anymore.

00:19:26.000 They could launch their missiles, but.

00:19:28.000 We have a shield.

00:19:29.000 We're safe now in this bubble.

00:19:31.000 And this is a fundamental misunderstanding of how nuclear deterrence operates.

00:19:37.000 In a way, and this was argued by the great neo realist foreign policy thinker Waltz, that the introduction of nuclear weapons, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, in a way made the world safer, in a way made the world more stable.

00:19:52.000 Because if you had these weapons of mass destruction, if the Soviet Union had 1,000 warheads and we had 1,000 warheads, well, guess what happens?

00:20:01.000 Whereas in World War I or World War II, you had some kind of prospect of great power conflict because it was only conventional weapons.

00:20:09.000 You could have the prospect of a land war between the United States and China, or a land war between Germany and the United Kingdom, or Russia and France, because the devastation is manageable enough where you could fight for limited aims and use limited capacity and, you know, it wouldn't end the world.

00:20:28.000 With the introduction of nuclear weapons, any kind of conflict between a great power, You know, the P5 nations, which are China, Russia, France, the UK, and the US, new nuclear powers like India and Pakistan, Israel, among others.

00:20:42.000 Now, if you had even like a border skirmish, if you even had some kind of limited conflict, if a bullet was fired, if a ship was sunk, the Cuban Missile Crisis, something like that, it could potentially escalate to the point where it's total nuclear war and everybody dies and everybody burns, and that's what you get something called mutually assured destruction, where a great power will not attack another great power because.

00:21:07.000 It could escalate into nuclear war, and then both can be assured that they would be destroyed, mutually assured destruction.

00:21:14.000 And so the ABM, while people might think that's a good thing, while people might say that's really great, we've constructed this ABM technology in response to rogue states getting nuclear weapons like Iran and like North Korea, and now we're protected from these radicals, from these crazy people, well, then maybe we could also protect ourselves against Russia and China.

00:21:33.000 This is actually the most disruptive development in the nuclear age since the introduction of nuclear weapons, because now that we have these sophisticated weapons, Now it's once again become questionable.

00:21:46.000 Do you have mutually assured destruction?

00:21:48.000 Because consider the moral hazard, consider the moral hazard of a United States armed with anti ballistic missile technology such that they could defend against any ICBM threat, any missile or nuclear threat.

00:22:02.000 And this is not the case, but imagine it is for a moment. 0.61

00:22:05.000 Imagine we keep going on this trajectory, and under the guise of defending against North Korea and Iran instead of other great powers, we constructed an impenetrable ABM shield.

00:22:16.000 There is now an element of moral hazard where the United States, if they wanted to fight a war with China, if they wanted to fight a war with Russia, and these are some of the biggest militaries in the world that would result in mass casualties, it could escalate beyond limited objectives into a total conventional war.

00:22:34.000 But now this is on the table.

00:22:35.000 Now this is an option.

00:22:37.000 So that the next time there's a skirmish in the South China Sea, so that the next time there's a skirmish in the Donbass, in Ukraine, the Donbass or in Luhansk or Donetsk or in Syria or whichever theater you want to pick, If there's a border skirmish, if a troop is killed, if a plane is shot down, now it's on the table that there could be a war, maybe with limited objectives, maybe not.

00:22:59.000 Who knows?

00:23:00.000 Once you fire the first shot, it's sort of out of your hands.

00:23:03.000 Then the enemy gets a vote in how far they want to take it.

00:23:07.000 And so that's why the ABM stuff is really disruptive.

00:23:09.000 And so Putin is essentially saying, look, we know what you're all about.

00:23:13.000 You're putting up these ABM shields in Eastern Europe to defend against Iran? 0.64

00:23:17.000 Okay. 0.79

00:23:17.000 You're putting them up in South Korea to defend against a North Korean missile? 0.79

00:23:21.000 Okay.

00:23:22.000 Like, we really understand what you're getting at.

00:23:24.000 You're really trying to get after making it so that Russia can't nuke you.

00:23:30.000 And think about it in terms of what the establishment wants.

00:23:33.000 Think about it in terms of what the military industrial complex wants.

00:23:36.000 Think about the rhetoric about Russia. 0.97

00:23:38.000 We have psychopaths like John McCain saying we should bomb Russia, and people like Lindsey Graham saying we're going to bomb Russia. 0.90

00:23:45.000 And look at our policy with NATO over the past 25 years. 0.91

00:23:49.000 Soviet Union went away, but NATO didn't.

00:23:51.000 NATO actually expanded aggressively right alongside the borders of Russia so that you have.

00:23:57.000 NATO troops.

00:23:57.000 You have American troops in Estonia, which is, if you look at a map, which is not very far at all from Russia's capital or one of their biggest cities, St. Petersburg.

00:24:07.000 And so you look at the policy of the United States over the past 25 years.

00:24:11.000 Is it so crazy for Vladimir Putin to think that with NATO expanding right against the borders of Russia and conducting military exercises right on the borders of Russia and military bases on the border with Russia and all this talk about Russian hacking and Russian cyber attacks and we ought to retaliate against Russia?

00:24:31.000 And we're challenging them in Syria and in Iran.

00:24:33.000 We're remaking the entire world order.

00:24:36.000 Is Putin crazy for thinking that the ABM shield is there so that it would eliminate the possibility that Russia could retaliate in any sufficient capacity against a U.S. first strike or against a conventional attack on Russia?

00:24:51.000 Is that so crazy?

00:24:53.000 And what it gets down to is that Putin is asserting, and he said this in the speech, he said, look, we're not making threats.

00:24:58.000 He said this explicitly.

00:25:02.000 The graphics that Putin used and the technology that he introduced, and say, Putin is threatening the world.

00:25:08.000 That's a veiled threat.

00:25:09.000 That's an implicit threat.

00:25:10.000 But Putin said explicitly, look, this is not a threat.

00:25:13.000 We don't want to make war with anybody.

00:25:15.000 We have no plans to make war with anybody. 0.56

00:25:17.000 But your policy of containing Russia's sphere of influence has failed. 0.89

00:25:23.000 You cannot contain Russia.

00:25:24.000 We've developed technology to circumvent your ABM shield. 0.79

00:25:28.000 And in the age of Obama, we reasserted our national interest in our sphere of influence, rightfully so.

00:25:34.000 In eastern Ukraine, in Georgia, in the Caucasus, in the Middle East, in Central Asia. 0.51

00:25:40.000 And I think that's reasonable.

00:25:41.000 I think Putin is a statesman.

00:25:43.000 Now, that doesn't mean that we go and we become his best good friend.

00:25:46.000 That doesn't mean we go in and say, oh, well, now that we cleared that up, we can be best good friends and everything's okay.

00:25:51.000 But it does mean that Vladimir Putin is not Hitler 2.0.

00:25:55.000 He is not Satan incarnate.

00:25:57.000 He is not the boogeyman hiding under your bed.

00:26:00.000 He is a statesman.

00:26:01.000 He is a statesman among other states defending the self interest.

00:26:07.000 What is the French?

00:26:08.000 Raison d'etat, the interest of the state, of his people, and of his nation.

00:26:14.000 He is not, as all the neoconservatives said in 2012 and 2008, trying to reconstitute the Soviet Union.

00:26:21.000 You know, you get on Fox News all day long from the neocons, from the Max Boot types, who take that quote that Putin said some years ago where he said that the collapse of the Soviet Union was the biggest geopolitical disaster of the 20th century.

00:26:35.000 And they say Putin is trying to reconstitute, he's trying to revive.

00:26:41.000 The Soviet Union, and this is just such a misreading of the Russian situation and Russia as a nation.

00:26:48.000 People need to understand the Soviet Union is not Russia.

00:26:53.000 The Soviet Union, as existed between 1918 and 1991, is not the Russian Federation, which has existed since 1991, or the Russian Empire, which preceded the Soviet Union.

00:27:08.000 The Russian state now is a country like any other country, comparable to China.

00:27:13.000 Comparable to Germany or France or Britain or Poland, even. 0.57

00:27:17.000 I think maybe that's a better example.

00:27:18.000 They're an assertive country.

00:27:20.000 They have a certain image of themselves on the world stage, which harkens back to the days when they were one of the greatest and largest empires in the history of the world.

00:27:29.000 But they're a country just like any other.

00:27:31.000 The Soviet Union, when that was around, and it wasn't the Russian Soviet Federated, what was it?

00:27:37.000 It was the RSFSR.

00:27:40.000 That was under the jurisdiction of a collection of cosmopolitan and transnationals in Moscow.

00:27:46.000 And under the Soviet Union, the objective of that conglomerate was world domination.

00:27:53.000 Right? 0.54

00:27:54.000 I mean, the Soviet Union actually wanted to overturn the world order.

00:27:58.000 They saw until, I believe it was Brezhnev, I forget when, but somebody championed socialism in one country. 0.51

00:28:04.000 It might have actually been Stalin.

00:28:06.000 But up until that point, their foreign policy, their grand strategy was we need to make every country in the world communist.

00:28:14.000 We need to spread the communist revolution to every country in the world.

00:28:18.000 And this is why in the 1920s, they fomented a communist revolution in Germany and they tried to foment communist revolution in China.

00:28:25.000 They supported to some extent in the early days.

00:28:28.000 Both the nationalists and the communists in China.

00:28:31.000 They supported resistances all around the world until eventually they said, we kind of need to get our own house in order.

00:28:37.000 But for the longest time during the Cold War, there was a legitimate existential threat to the United States in that the Soviet Union was sponsoring revolutionaries in places like Nicaragua, in Cuba, in Venezuela, in Angola, in Syria, in Iran, or Azerbaijan rather, in northern Iran, and then in Asia.

00:28:56.000 And so there was this legitimate threat.

00:28:58.000 There was this legitimate. 0.58

00:28:59.000 Global hegemonic strategy by the Soviet Union, and we were fighting for it.

00:29:04.000 Well, now that doesn't exist. 0.78

00:29:05.000 Now Russia wants what was Russian a hundred years ago. 0.85

00:29:09.000 They want Moldova. 0.96

00:29:11.000 They want eastern Ukraine. 0.82

00:29:13.000 They want the parts that are ethnically Russian, that up until very recently, the rule and not the exception was that they were Russian. 0.84

00:29:21.000 They want what?

00:29:22.000 Abkhazia, South Ossetia. 0.71

00:29:23.000 They want Crimea. 0.84

00:29:24.000 They want a few regions.

00:29:26.000 And granted, this is also so that they can have a stronger geopolitical hand. 0.62

00:29:30.000 They want Crimea because it's ethnic Russians, but they also want it because. 0.64

00:29:34.000 The port in Crimea controls the Black Sea. 0.60

00:29:36.000 However, all they are asking for is a reasonable sphere of influence.

00:29:41.000 All they want is for the United States hyperpower to not be breathing down their throats, choking them out.

00:29:47.000 And I think that's what was said at this speech we're not going to be kicked around.

00:29:51.000 We have the capability to defend ourselves.

00:29:54.000 We have the weapons to assert our interests in a reasonable sphere of influence, and we're going to do that.

00:30:01.000 And the United States can try and stop us, but we will respond in kind.

00:30:05.000 And I don't think that's totally unreasonable.

00:30:07.000 That's not to say that.

00:30:08.000 Again, that's not to say that Putin is an ally.

00:30:11.000 Maybe potentially we could work together, but that's not to say they're an ally.

00:30:14.000 It's not to say we're best friends.

00:30:16.000 It's not to say that there aren't legitimate areas of concern where Russia is overturning things in Western and Eastern Europe and in the Middle East. 0.61

00:30:24.000 And we are sparring, we are jockeying for them, for power with them in these different spheres. 0.63

00:30:29.000 But it is to say that we have to have reasonable expectations.

00:30:32.000 We should return to a more Nixonian policy of detente where we say, okay, we respect your distance, we respect.

00:30:40.000 The gains that you've made, but that's enough.

00:30:42.000 Let's just preserve the world order as it is, and we can negotiate how that's going to look.

00:30:47.000 But it's not this ideological thing.

00:30:49.000 It's not this Russia is evil. 1.00

00:30:51.000 They're the evil empire, and we have to wipe them out. 0.99

00:30:53.000 None of that stuff. 0.96

00:30:54.000 So, pretty interesting speech.

00:30:56.000 And it was interesting how the White House responded.

00:30:58.000 The press secretary dismissed it basically and said, Yeah, like we basically knew about these weapons, and Putin's probably just, it's all just bluster.

00:31:07.000 He's pandering to the audience for the big election, which I'm sure is to some extent true.

00:31:13.000 There's Russia.

00:31:13.000 And there it is.

00:31:14.000 I think there's a lot of, they're very misunderstood in this day and age.

00:31:18.000 A lot of propaganda on both sides.

00:31:20.000 And that should tell you that you should read a little bit about Russia.

00:31:23.000 Why does the military industrial complex hate Russia?

00:31:27.000 To some extent, like I said before, it's because of pipelines and money and banks and that kind of thing.

00:31:33.000 But why do they really hate Russia?

00:31:34.000 Why is Russia the sole antagonist?

00:31:36.000 Why is it not another country? 0.82

00:31:38.000 Why is it not China?

00:31:39.000 China, if you're talking about threats to the world order as controlled by the United States for the past 25 years, China is the most threatening, the most.

00:31:50.000 Prominent, the one with the most potential as a revisionist power, and you don't hear about China hacking.

00:31:55.000 You don't hear about China buying up our enterprises, buying up our debt, manipulating our currency, and all that.

00:32:01.000 You just don't hear about it.

00:32:02.000 And why isn't that?

00:32:03.000 So it's a little bit more than just the strategic interests that Russia is challenging the United States on.

00:32:09.000 You have to think of the bigger picture.

00:32:11.000 What does Russia present to the world that scares the people in Washington, D.C., and the people in Brussels?

00:32:19.000 It's not simply strategic.

00:32:20.000 If it was, they would say the same stuff about China.

00:32:23.000 It's because Russia.

00:32:25.000 Is a traditionalist country. 0.95

00:32:27.000 Russia is a white country. 0.87

00:32:29.000 Russia is a Christian country.

00:32:31.000 It's an ethnic nationalist country.

00:32:33.000 And I think that terrifies them because here's an assertive country on the world stage who is not going to be weighed down by multiculturalism, multiethnic, multiracial, neoliberalism, and that kind of stuff.

00:32:45.000 They say, look, we are Russia, and Russia is Russia, and we all know what that means, and we're going to do what we're going to do.

00:32:50.000 We're going to put our country first.

00:32:52.000 And that terrifies the people in Washington, D.C., that terrifies the people in Brussels.

00:32:57.000 Because, of course, they're the diametric opposite.

00:32:59.000 So, in some ways, there is this ideological exchange, but in many cases, we have more in common with the Russians than we do with the elites. 0.60

00:33:07.000 They say Russians influence our elections as though there's no foreign influence in Washington, D.C. every day of the week.

00:33:14.000 I see people in Washington, D.C. as a foreign occupying presence, whether they're getting money from foreign governments or whether they just are who they are.

00:33:22.000 You know, many of them hold dual citizenship, many of them don't even see themselves as Americans.

00:33:27.000 You saw in the State of the Union. 0.94

00:33:29.000 All the black congressmen show up in their African garb. 0.99

00:33:32.000 Well, which is it? 0.99

00:33:33.000 Well, which is it?

00:33:34.000 Are you an American or are you somebody else?

00:33:36.000 Luis Gutierrez, he had to leave because he couldn't take the USA chant.

00:33:41.000 When all the congressmen were cheering USA for Donald Trump, Luis Gutierrez was so disgusted with it because he is a proud Mexican nationalist, he had to leave the chamber.

00:33:51.000 So you look at foreign influence, and it's not coming from Russia, it's coming from Washington, D.C. That's why they're afraid of Russia.

00:33:57.000 That's why they don't like Russia.

00:34:00.000 That was that.

00:34:01.000 The last major development here that we have is the tariffs.

00:34:04.000 And I hope you learned a little bit about Russia there.

00:34:07.000 It's a peculiar country.

00:34:08.000 I mean, it really is interesting in how the United States has defined itself against that country.

00:34:15.000 Kind of a peculiar thing for many years.

00:34:17.000 But the last thing, moving right along, we got to get into is the aluminum and the steel tariffs, which Trump has, I guess he said that's how they're going to move forward.

00:34:26.000 They haven't laid out the particulars yet if the tariffs will be limited, if there will be exceptions for.

00:34:32.000 You know, most favored trading partner people or anything like that.

00:34:37.000 But he said that he would be putting a 25% tariff on steel, a 10% tariff on aluminum, and the world goes nuts.

00:34:44.000 The Canadians are furious.

00:34:47.000 The Europeans are furious, which was curious because many people expected, you know, a big reaction from China.

00:34:54.000 And there were talks of trade war between some of these more foreign countries like China.

00:34:58.000 And surprisingly, the most vocal response, the most, I guess, upset country, The most upset parties were Europeans.

00:35:07.000 Junker, the head of the European Union Commission, was furious about this.

00:35:10.000 Says we will respond in kind and you're going to spark a trade war and you're going to hurt our economy and this and that, which was interesting.

00:35:17.000 But we do get a lot of our raw materials.

00:35:19.000 Surprisingly, not so much.

00:35:21.000 I mean, we get them from China, but we get a lot of them from Canada and a lot of it from Germany and from other European Union countries.

00:35:27.000 And it turns out, actually, this is pretty good.

00:35:30.000 This is a case of President Trump using the executive power that he has.

00:35:34.000 Finally, where the reason they're able to do this without going to Congress is because.

00:35:40.000 According to certain rules and regulations, the Commerce Department, if they assess the situation and they say that there is a national security threat because of trade, they can unilaterally put down trade tariffs.

00:35:54.000 So the Commerce Department did an analysis of the steel and aluminum that the United States gets and how much it has and how much it needs.

00:36:02.000 And they said, well, actually, there's a national security threat to us not being in total control of the aluminum and the steel that we need.

00:36:10.000 There was one report that said that in terms of military grade aluminum, There's only one company in the United States, only one company that produces the kind of aluminum that we need for our fighters and our Air Force and all that.

00:36:24.000 So it's actually got, it's somewhat to do with the economy, but more broadly, it's to do with national security.

00:36:30.000 And this says a little bit more, I think, about where we're headed economically, but also in terms of ideology as a country.

00:36:37.000 Whereas, you know, free trade, and I talked to many of the free traders at CPAC, I was a free trader for a long time.

00:36:44.000 It's all free traders in the Republican Party now.

00:36:47.000 It's been a free trade party since NAFTA, right?

00:36:50.000 And you talk about going against free trade, and it's like you said, you're a communist. 0.78

00:36:53.000 It's like you said, you're a Muslim extremist or something.

00:36:57.000 But you think about it, and many of these people, it's an ideological commitment to free trade.

00:37:01.000 If you were to show people the fact sheet and say, here's how many jobs have been lost because of free trade, here's why free trade doesn't work, it's actually more about time preference, it's actually more about balance of payments, it's about some of these other things.

00:37:14.000 Here are the national security risks, here are the X, Y, and Z. You go through the whole litany of reasons.

00:37:18.000 And in many cases, they refuse to even look at the data.

00:37:21.000 They refuse to even hear the arguments.

00:37:23.000 I've argued with free traders and introduced facts and examples that they have never heard of, that they didn't even know that that's how the system works.

00:37:31.000 But in spite of that, they go hard because it's an ideological commitment to free trade.

00:37:37.000 Their vision of America is essentially just an open market open markets, open borders, it's openness, it's pathological altruism.

00:37:46.000 That this is just a conduit, this is just a node through which people's and goods and monies just is exchanged.

00:37:53.000 It's not a land.

00:37:54.000 It's not a culture.

00:37:55.000 It's not a people descended from a common ancestor.

00:37:58.000 It's just the marketplace.

00:38:00.000 It's just the marketplace. 0.99

00:38:02.000 And everyone's just doing their business and blacks and whites and reds and browns and purples and yellows and Muslims and all the rest. 0.99

00:38:11.000 And they're all just buying and selling. 1.00

00:38:13.000 They're all just moving money around.

00:38:14.000 And that's really what we get to when we talk about free trade.

00:38:18.000 I was always, when I first came around on the Trump train, I was not so enthusiastic about the anti free trade stuff.

00:38:24.000 I said, you know, I like Trump.

00:38:26.000 I don't really care that he's against free trade, even though I'm for it.

00:38:28.000 But then I saw who were the kinds of people that this protectionist stance was upsetting.

00:38:34.000 Who was this?

00:38:35.000 Who was really butthurt about the fact that we were going to start producing our own steel and our own aluminum?

00:38:41.000 And you're looking down to a man, it's Cato, it's American Enterprise, it's the lobbyists, it's the foreign lobbyists.

00:38:49.000 And there it is.

00:38:50.000 It's about putting America first.

00:38:52.000 The reason that free trade doesn't work specifically in this context is because I don't think this.

00:38:56.000 This is a really good example of it because this I think everyone can wrap their heads around if it's aluminum and steel.

00:39:02.000 When it's aluminum and steel, you're talking about weapons of war.

00:39:06.000 You're talking about production capacity for the national defense being 100% controlled by foreign nations.

00:39:13.000 Obviously, it doesn't make much sense to anybody that we would be dependent on our adversaries for the raw materials we need for military production.

00:39:23.000 That just makes no sense.

00:39:24.000 We're going to get steel and aluminum dumped on us by China. 0.98

00:39:28.000 They outcompete us, they shut down our factories, and the number one country we're forecasted to go to war with in the next 100 years. 0.97

00:39:34.000 They're going to be the sole supplier of the steel and aluminum we would need to fight that war.

00:39:39.000 It makes no sense.

00:39:40.000 It makes absolutely no sense.

00:39:41.000 And maybe this is an instance of Trump introducing the most common sense, the most like, yeah, okay, maybe we can understand that, as he did with DACA, as he did with the immigration issue, rather, and some of these others.

00:39:54.000 But more broadly, you understand that free trade doesn't work because when we're talking about China in particular, when we're talking about Mexico and these other countries, and you talk about balance of payments, people don't really understand how this works.

00:40:08.000 But they have it.

00:40:09.000 The free traders have it then when we have a trade deficit with China or we have a trade deficit with Mexico, which, you know, we had a $500 billion trade deficit with China last year.

00:40:19.000 And the free traders will tell you, well, that's just a statistical anomaly.

00:40:22.000 You're getting goods and services.

00:40:24.000 So it doesn't matter that there's a deficit.

00:40:26.000 That just means that they're producing more and it's a comparative advantage and blah, blah, blah, blah.

00:40:31.000 You know, they say it just doesn't matter.

00:40:33.000 It's arbitrary.

00:40:34.000 But when you actually break it down, what does that mean when we have a $500 billion trade deficit with China?

00:40:39.000 It means that in Our current account in terms of goods and services, that's one of the ways we account for trade between nations.

00:40:46.000 We are importing $500 billion more goods than we're giving to China.

00:40:51.000 And this is pretty simple stuff.

00:40:53.000 You don't get anything for free.

00:40:55.000 There is no such thing as, well, we're just getting more goods than we're giving, and we just get $500 billion worth of free stuff.

00:41:02.000 This cannot work.

00:41:03.000 This cannot stand.

00:41:04.000 This is common sense.

00:41:05.000 A $500 billion trade deficit with China, to boil it down very simply, means we're getting more than we're giving.

00:41:12.000 Well, that can't make sense.

00:41:13.000 So then you enter into the financial account.

00:41:15.000 Of the balance of payments.

00:41:16.000 That's the current account.

00:41:18.000 Then you enter into the other accounts.

00:41:20.000 And how do we rectify this system where we're getting all this stuff and we don't have to give very much?

00:41:25.000 Well, we give to China in exchange for goods and services, in exchange for cheap plastic toys in Walmart, and steel and raw materials and everything else.

00:41:35.000 In exchange for that, we reconcile that deficit with three different kinds of capital.

00:41:42.000 We can give them assets, we can give them debt, and we can give them currency.

00:41:46.000 $500 billion worth of these three things.

00:41:49.000 To rectify that imbalance in the current accounts.

00:41:53.000 So that means we either give them assets in the form of stocks, which is businesses, which is equity in businesses.

00:41:59.000 We give them real estate.

00:42:00.000 We give them land, buildings, infrastructure in our country. 0.94

00:42:04.000 We give them debt, which is treasury notes, so that when we're paying interest, I think it's 13% of the debt is held by China. 0.59

00:42:10.000 We're paying that interest every year to China.

00:42:13.000 And they own a lot of this debt.

00:42:14.000 They're subsidizing the government.

00:42:16.000 Or they get it in the form of currency.

00:42:18.000 And this is the trip with currency.

00:42:20.000 Or we just give them straight up cold hard cash.

00:42:23.000 And what do they do with the cash?

00:42:25.000 They take the cash and they put it in a foreign currency reserve.

00:42:28.000 They keep it all to themselves.

00:42:30.000 And what they do, they sell it off at strategic times.

00:42:33.000 They introduce it into the market at strategic times so that they can manipulate the exchange rate between their currency, the RMB, and our currency.

00:42:43.000 And what that does, you understand that if their currency is worth less than our currency, then we will always be importing more than we'll be exporting.

00:42:52.000 So, they take our currency in exchange for the imports that they give us.

00:42:56.000 And the reason they can export more to us is because their currency is worth less.

00:43:01.000 Well, when they get the currency for that, they then release it at strategic times to keep the exchange rate in such a way that they will always have cheap exports coming to the United States or cheap imports coming into the United States.

00:43:16.000 And then you start to understand that it's really more about strategy, it's really more about geopolitics than it is about economics.

00:43:24.000 In the sense that if we're supposed to be coming up against China, if they're a revisionist power challenging U.S. institutions, challenging U.S. domination of the economy, military domination over the Pacific theater, and you imagine that this revisionist power, this rival power, they are consuming every year hundreds of billions of dollars of our currency so they keep this relationship, this symbiotic relationship going.

00:43:50.000 They get our debt so that in 2070, when interest is half of all tax revenue, A significant portion of that 13 or probably more at that point percent will be going to China, or they just straight up buy American companies.

00:44:05.000 And they tried to buy the Chicago Stock Exchange a couple of weeks ago.

00:44:09.000 They buy Hollywood companies.

00:44:12.000 Many of them are becoming influential in the movie industry.

00:44:15.000 And how does that bode for this country in the long term?

00:44:18.000 They're buying up businesses, they're buying up land, they're buying up strategic ports, they're buying up transportation infrastructure.

00:44:25.000 This is scary stuff.

00:44:27.000 I don't think anybody could say that's a good bargain.

00:44:30.000 In exchange for selling off a hundred and some billion dollars every so many months, in exchange for $500 billion a year that they get to buy in debt, assets, and currency, and it's a symbiotic relationship, and we outsource all the raw material production to a rival military power.

00:44:48.000 Well, in exchange for that, we get McDonald's.

00:44:51.000 In exchange for that, we get cheap tiles and cheap siding for the house, and we get cheap air conditioners and cheap home appliances and televisions.

00:45:03.000 Video game consoles.

00:45:04.000 Is that a good deal?

00:45:07.000 Is that something that we benefit from in the long term?

00:45:09.000 And then you understand that the free market, free trade as they have it, is not about market efficiency, it's about consumption in the short term.

00:45:18.000 We put in regulations, we put in protections, we put in government regulations on the economy so that we can have a longer term time horizon, so that we're not consuming everything all at once, so we're not making terrible long term decisions.

00:45:34.000 Because people want things now.

00:45:36.000 I mean, that's what it comes down to.

00:45:37.000 We want cheap things now, and we want to eat them now, and we want them for the cheapest possible price.

00:45:41.000 We want to develop as fast as possible, and we're going to mortgage off our future for that.

00:45:46.000 That's where government comes in to say, no, no, the free market is not so smart.

00:45:51.000 The free market is, they prefer the short term over the long term.

00:45:55.000 We have to step in and change that and adapt that.

00:45:58.000 So that's tariffs.

00:45:59.000 I think it's generally a good thing.

00:46:00.000 We'll see how that's actually implemented because, of course, the devil's in the details.

00:46:04.000 We have to see what the tariffs actually look like.

00:46:07.000 You know, who they're going to be applied to, if it's global, if it's for certain countries, if there's exemptions or exceptions for favored trade partners or anything like that.

00:46:17.000 But we'll see.

00:46:18.000 Generally, I think it's good.

00:46:19.000 The more protection we can put on the economy, the better at this point in time.

00:46:24.000 So those are your developments for the day.

00:46:26.000 What an eventful day, a very informative day.

00:46:28.000 All kinds of fun subjects from Europe and Germany to Russia to free trade.

00:46:37.000 Fun and educational on the show.

00:46:39.000 And let's check our super chats.

00:46:40.000 We'll see what the patricians are saying here.

00:46:43.000 Frederick White says Nick is a weapon of mass destruction.

00:46:46.000 It's true.

00:46:47.000 It's true.

00:46:49.000 Very true.

00:46:50.000 Logical conclusion of tolerance says, Hail.

00:46:53.000 Yes, hail.

00:46:54.000 Hail Nick, right?

00:46:55.000 M A E M 945532 says, Nick the knife, your energy is contagious, bro.

00:47:02.000 I'm glad.

00:47:03.000 Glad you're getting the high energy transmitted through the airwaves.

00:47:08.000 Logical conclusion says, Nick, didn't you know secular liberalism is a divine revelation?

00:47:14.000 You are excommunicated. 1.00

00:47:15.000 Praise the diverse Muslims. 1.00

00:47:17.000 Well, yeah, I mean, that is functionally how liberalism operates in the 21st century as a substitute for faith.

00:47:24.000 You think about America, and this is not really like at all, that's not really a new take anymore.

00:47:29.000 Nietzsche was talking about this a hundred years ago.

00:47:32.000 We called it the new idol, which was the state.

00:47:35.000 And that was, you know, a hundred and some years ago.

00:47:39.000 But you look at our country today, you look at Western Europe today, and it has all the trappings of religion.

00:47:44.000 You have your clergy, which is academia.

00:47:46.000 You have your rituals, which is voting and which is, you know, the civic process and volunteering and watching the news and the elections and all that.

00:47:54.000 You have your prayers, which is your slogans and your tweets and that kind of thing.

00:47:59.000 You have your community centers, which is, you know, if you're going to be an activist, if you're going to get your clipboard, like Barack Obama says, and start community organizing, it has all the trappings of religion, except it has nothing within.

00:48:11.000 And this is why we have created a society that is wealthy and life expectancy is good.

00:48:17.000 And you can read Steven Pinker, and he'll tell you, we're so good.

00:48:20.000 Progress is real.

00:48:22.000 We're doing real work.

00:48:23.000 Everything's so good.

00:48:24.000 Everything's so great.

00:48:26.000 And despite all that, it's hollow, it's empty.

00:48:28.000 To what end have we done it all?

00:48:29.000 To what end have we built great.

00:48:31.000 Skyscrapers and monuments.

00:48:33.000 Monuments to what?

00:48:34.000 You see what happens when you subtract the most important part, which is the nucleus, the center, and it starts collapsing in on itself.

00:48:41.000 And now you have, you go into an art museum, and it's like some woman takes a dump on the floor and they put velvet ropes around it.

00:48:48.000 You know, is that the civilization we want? 0.61

00:48:48.000 That's the art. 0.61

00:48:51.000 Very wealthy, but that's the core of it.

00:48:54.000 It's a religion.

00:48:54.000 So it is.

00:48:55.000 Step by step, piss all over unisex bathrooms. 1.00

00:48:59.000 It's your duty, goy. 1.00

00:49:00.000 I like that idea.

00:49:01.000 I don't like that idea because it's vandalism.

00:49:04.000 And it's disrespectful, but I don't know.

00:49:07.000 That's certainly one guerrilla warfare method, right? 1.00

00:49:11.000 How could a transgender use a unisex bathroom if there's piss all over the floor? 1.00

00:49:15.000 In many cases, many of them, I think, would like that better. 1.00

00:49:17.000 Many of these people, they are degenerates and they live in filth and they love filth. 0.97

00:49:22.000 That's what they want for our country. 1.00

00:49:23.000 They bring over people, for example, from a particular subcontinent.

00:49:28.000 And would that be all that bad for them if there was piss all over the place?

00:49:32.000 When they bring in people from all around the world, I think that's kind of what they want for their country.

00:49:36.000 They essentially want. 0.99

00:49:39.000 If the country is a unisex bathroom, they want to turn the country into a unisex bathroom and then they want to piss all over it.

00:49:45.000 So I don't know if that's very far from what they're gunning for.

00:49:49.000 Begbie says every show is fresh like a freshly knifed steak.

00:49:54.000 It's true.

00:49:55.000 Cutting it up, chopping it up, freshly seasoned.

00:49:58.000 And it's all filet, by the way.

00:50:00.000 No fat, no chewy part, no burnt edges.

00:50:05.000 It's just straight up filet.

00:50:07.000 All right, it's all filet.

00:50:10.000 Freshly cooked, freshly seasoned.

00:50:11.000 That's the show.

00:50:13.000 And shopped up by the local knife guy, the knife himself.

00:50:17.000 Classical theist, do you think Trump will make social media censorship a campaign issue?

00:50:22.000 He hasn't talked about it, and that worries me.

00:50:24.000 What can we do about this issue?

00:50:27.000 I don't think he will talk about it because this is something that really doesn't affect the American people.

00:50:35.000 You look at any of the polling on what voters care about, and it's always the economy, and it's also health care.

00:50:41.000 So a lot of people in our movement, I think they get a little bit.

00:50:44.000 Insulated.

00:50:44.000 I think they get a little bit maybe in this place where they can't really hear what's going on in the outside world.

00:50:51.000 And they might think that the biggest issues in the world are that Trump isn't, Trump isn't deporting a million illegal immigrants every day and we're being censored on social media and all the rest.

00:51:02.000 But if you look at the actual numbers, healthcare was the number one issue, I believe, in a poll that was taken pretty recently for the midterms.

00:51:10.000 It was like 80% said that they care about healthcare, economy was next.

00:51:15.000 Terrorism is up there as well.

00:51:17.000 So, those are the things people care about.

00:51:19.000 I don't think people are going to choose whether they're going to vote or not based on social media censorship.

00:51:24.000 It's just really not a winning issue.

00:51:26.000 I care about it.

00:51:26.000 I think it's important.

00:51:28.000 I think it's really important.

00:51:30.000 But it's just not something that's going to win state level or national elections.

00:51:35.000 Hopefully, one day.

00:51:37.000 And I guess the way that you would do that is with advocacy.

00:51:40.000 You know, not for nothing, but the National Policy Institute should be making policy, maybe.

00:51:47.000 If there were any way we could get.

00:51:50.000 Legislation into action if there was any way we could move the needle on something, it would be nice if there were some kind of organization that got money and there were smart people there and lawyers there and they had conferences and they could actually be the ones promoting this kind of legislation that is pro white, that is against censorship and all that. 0.59

00:52:10.000 Those are the things that we need to be doing instead of rallies, instead of sticker campaigns.

00:52:16.000 I put a sticker on a stop sign, I did something.

00:52:18.000 We need, whether it's AMREN or it's NPI, Somebody should be, and there's a real niche that needs to be filled here drafting legislation, come up with policy.

00:52:28.000 Heritage does it, American Enterprise does it, Cato does it.

00:52:31.000 They come out with policy papers and research papers.

00:52:34.000 We need to be doing that.

00:52:35.000 We should be doing that.

00:52:36.000 That's the way you move the needle because then somebody runs for office and they could say, Well, look at this report.

00:52:42.000 They can cite something.

00:52:43.000 And they don't have to go through some Koch Brother funnel organization where they have to find a good number and find a good way to phrase it.

00:52:50.000 They can say, Look, this is the report.

00:52:53.000 This is the annual censorship report by American Renaissance, and it says X, Y, and Z.

00:52:58.000 And look at this.

00:52:59.000 And you could run on that.

00:53:01.000 A senator could use that.

00:53:02.000 A representative could use that. 0.88

00:53:04.000 Somebody in Congress could use that as a basis for law.

00:53:08.000 But hey, no, maybe it's better that we dress up like gladiators and we all meet up in the park on Sunday and drink beer and yell slogans.

00:53:16.000 Maybe that's more helpful.

00:53:17.000 I don't know.

00:53:18.000 You tell me, though.

00:53:19.000 That's not you, though, in particular, classical theist who's a good fella.

00:53:22.000 I just mean people who say that other activism is.

00:53:27.000 Is better or that it boosts morale or something.

00:53:30.000 We need to get back to tangible political objectives.

00:53:35.000 Activism which promotes tangible, and when I say tangible, I mean it clearly defined, achievable.

00:53:41.000 There's a how we get there and away from this other stuff.

00:53:44.000 So that's what I would say you could do about the issue.

00:53:46.000 There's nothing really we could do about it because we don't really pull any levers, but institutionally we have to start organizing, creating legislation, creating policy, having advocacy for these issues, being a voice.

00:53:58.000 And the only way you become a legitimate voice is with good optics.

00:54:01.000 So it's really all kind of together.

00:54:03.000 But I wasn't trying to dig at you, classical theist.

00:54:06.000 It was a good question.

00:54:07.000 But you understand the people who have a problem with that kind of activism.

00:54:14.000 And Jake Paul says, Stop playing video games. 0.99

00:54:17.000 Completely hypocritical. 0.99

00:54:19.000 In what way, dopey? 0.98

00:54:20.000 First of all, I love people when they comment on my show or they tweet at me and it's these orders Stop doing this.

00:54:28.000 You need to do that.

00:54:28.000 Do this.

00:54:29.000 You need to mind your own business.

00:54:31.000 That's first of all.

00:54:31.000 How about that?

00:54:32.000 Second of all, I never said don't play video games.

00:54:36.000 By the way, I'm a very hard worker.

00:54:38.000 People want to have their different leisure.

00:54:41.000 There's room for leisure in the world.

00:54:43.000 He can play video games.

00:54:44.000 It's also a form of propagandizing. 0.99

00:54:46.000 Not hypocritical at all, dummy.

00:54:49.000 I really love this anti-video game crusade.

00:54:51.000 You know, everybody's entitled their, you know, particular leisure, but if it's in front of a screen, if you want to unwind for a little while, that's suddenly, you know, not such a great thing.

00:55:04.000 The movement cannot be joyless if it has to survive, you know.

00:55:08.000 We have a lot of tasks to do.

00:55:10.000 We need to relax sometimes.

00:55:13.000 Hacker known as 4chan.

00:55:14.000 We just say no excess.

00:55:17.000 The problem is not video games, it's excess.

00:55:19.000 You sit down for a half hour, you want to fool around, whatever.

00:55:23.000 But this is people who do this eight hours.

00:55:24.000 This is gamers, you know.

00:55:26.000 And maybe if they're making money, I guess it's okay.

00:55:28.000 But otherwise, you know, people that are sitting down in the three or four hours and they're not doing what they need to be doing if they're not working, if they don't work out, and all the rest. 1.00

00:55:37.000 So pretty gay, these megs coming in tonight. 0.81

00:55:41.000 Hacker known as 4chan. 1.00

00:55:42.000 Stay sharp, Goyam, living knife. 0.70

00:55:44.000 I'm the knife, and I'm sharp.

00:55:47.000 The Daily Oven, what do you think of Eli trying to get Unite the Right 2.0? 1.00

00:55:51.000 It's just dumb, dude. 0.99

00:55:53.000 It's just so. 0.99

00:55:54.000 Have we not learned from our mistakes?

00:55:57.000 Really?

00:55:58.000 Charlottesville 2.0, does anybody.

00:56:00.000 I mean, we're actually up to 4.0, actually, because there was 1.0, there was 2.0.

00:56:05.000 That was the big one.

00:56:06.000 3.0 was a disaster.

00:56:08.000 And now I guess they want to do 4.0?

00:56:11.000 It's a mess.

00:56:12.000 Why?

00:56:13.000 Stop doing rallies.

00:56:15.000 That's not activism.

00:56:17.000 That is like, I don't even know.

00:56:20.000 It's just self. 0.94

00:56:22.000 Self indulgent, it's masturbatory, it's. 0.91

00:56:26.000 This serves no end. 0.55

00:56:28.000 You know, call it social, but don't call it activism.

00:56:30.000 Maybe it serves a purpose in that you want to meet up with your buddies.

00:56:34.000 Well, then do that.

00:56:35.000 Go to a bar, have some drinks, do some kind of fraternal organization.

00:56:39.000 By all means, go for it. 0.96

00:56:40.000 But don't get in a costume and show up and wave your silly sign. 0.80

00:56:45.000 And of course, the media is going to be all over you and say that's political activism.

00:56:49.000 It's just you need to have goals for something to be activism.

00:56:52.000 There's no goal for that. 0.90

00:56:53.000 Raising the white consciousness. 1.00

00:56:55.000 I'm sorry, that doesn't mean anything to anybody, any reasonable person. 0.84

00:56:59.000 So I think it's goofy.

00:57:00.000 Spooky Ghost, Nick, you haven't shilled for big water in a while.

00:57:04.000 Are you staying hydrated, big guy?

00:57:06.000 I am.

00:57:07.000 I am.

00:57:08.000 I've just been so high energy, I don't need the water these days.

00:57:12.000 I can go on, I could go for hours and hours and hours.

00:57:16.000 But we'll do a little plug for big water.

00:57:17.000 The problem is the mugs.

00:57:18.000 I don't sell the mugs anymore.

00:57:20.000 So I can't shill anymore because if people are buying these mugs, they have to go to the other website, they have to go to the others.

00:57:28.000 And pay for it.

00:57:29.000 And so I'm not in the business of mugs anymore.

00:57:33.000 We are doing merch, though.

00:57:35.000 Making some phone calls this week and looking into what kind of merch we're going to do logos, whatever, you know, that kind of thing.

00:57:42.000 And so we should have merch ready this month.

00:57:44.000 I believe it'll be this month.

00:57:46.000 And so that is incoming.

00:57:47.000 Maybe it'll be mugs.

00:57:48.000 Maybe it'll be knives, hats, shirts.

00:57:50.000 Who knows?

00:57:52.000 Jake Paul, escapism, shirking responsibility, start a family.

00:57:58.000 Bro, I'm 19.

00:58:00.000 I'm 19.

00:58:00.000 Not really a market to start a family out of high school at 19.

00:58:05.000 And again, you can have escapism.

00:58:07.000 You can, you know, are we not going to watch movies?

00:58:10.000 Are we not going to watch any television?

00:58:12.000 Are we not going to read fiction?

00:58:14.000 Are we not?

00:58:14.000 I mean, really, there is room for leisure.

00:58:18.000 People have done, you know, people hunt, people play sports.

00:58:23.000 You can have your form of leisure so long as it is not excessive.

00:58:27.000 The reason I don't have a family is not because I play video games.

00:58:30.000 The reason I don't have a family is because.

00:58:33.000 Look at the housing market.

00:58:34.000 Look at the market for diapers.

00:58:37.000 I mean, that's just one example, but consumer goods.

00:58:40.000 Look at, I mean, and maybe that'll sound like an excuse, but it's just really not in the cards for somebody like myself right now.

00:58:46.000 Although, maybe, you know, maybe there are some machinist jobs for people fresh out of high school that'll be able to support a family that I'm just not aware of.

00:58:54.000 Maybe I don't know, but don't super chat me anymore if you're going to be sub 250 IQ.

00:59:02.000 Al Sabadis, feels good to work out, huh?

00:59:04.000 No lazy people in here.

00:59:06.000 That's right.

00:59:07.000 No lazy bones.

00:59:09.000 I would say, though, the reason I didn't work out before, look, I work.

00:59:14.000 It's not so much working out for me as it is.

00:59:17.000 I work a lot, but we found some time to work out, and that's a good thing.

00:59:22.000 But the gym stuff is really over the top.

00:59:24.000 Now that I go to the gym, I have liberty to say that the gym obsession on the far right is a little bit goofy.

00:59:32.000 Stay in shape, by all means, go to the gym a few times a week.

00:59:35.000 But this, like, we're going to get huge and we have to do all this and that.

00:59:40.000 I mean, really, it's a little bit much.

00:59:42.000 It's a little bit over the top.

00:59:44.000 I mean, what it comes down to, I think.

00:59:46.000 Is people who have some kind of issue.

00:59:48.000 You know, I don't know.

00:59:49.000 Are all these people who are, you know, bulking up with these insane regimens and this insane dieting and all this other stuff, are they pushing themselves 100% in their work?

01:00:01.000 Are they pushing themselves 100% in their faith, in their education, with their family?

01:00:06.000 You know, I don't understand how people have the time or the energy to have their life orbit around, you know, getting 3,000 calories and hitting the gym every day for hours.

01:00:16.000 It's just goofy.

01:00:17.000 So I'm doing it because.

01:00:20.000 I see the value in it, but again, it's the excess, which is this church of self improvement.

01:00:25.000 I don't really, the self improvement stuff is a meme.

01:00:28.000 You know, do your job, start your family, educate yourself with books, stay in shape.

01:00:33.000 Beyond that, I don't know.

01:00:35.000 I guess it's a choice at that point.

01:00:38.000 Daily Oven says Do you listen to any John McDermott?

01:00:41.000 I do not.

01:00:42.000 I do not listen to any John McDermott.

01:00:44.000 But it looks like that's going to be the show. 1.00

01:00:47.000 A couple of nags in the super chats today from Jake Paul. 1.00

01:00:51.000 You're never going to make everybody happy. 1.00

01:00:53.000 That's just how it goes.

01:00:54.000 You're never going to make anybody happy.

01:00:55.000 That's why you can't.

01:00:57.000 And this is a little pearl of wisdom, life advice from Nick.

01:01:01.000 As somebody who's been in the spotlight, as somebody who has critics and detractors and friends and fans, a little pearl of wisdom for all you people out there.

01:01:10.000 You're never going to please everybody.

01:01:11.000 You have to please yourself.

01:01:13.000 If you're going to do anything, you have to do it for yourself because there's always going to be somebody who has a problem, there's always going to be somebody who has something to say.

01:01:20.000 Everybody's a critic.

01:01:21.000 And I learned this.

01:01:22.000 You know, in doing the show, and you get all kinds of people.

01:01:25.000 Well, you're not far enough, or you're not moderate enough, or you're not this enough, or not that enough, or it's too this, or it's not enough that.

01:01:32.000 And you just have to believe in what you're doing.

01:01:34.000 You just have to have faith in the decisions you make and what you're doing.

01:01:37.000 And a little bit of life advice for all of our youngsters out there who are getting pushed and pulled in all these different directions.

01:01:44.000 I see this all the time lots of unsolicited advice from irresponsible people.

01:01:49.000 And I see our young people who go to these rallies, or they make these life decisions, and they do other things.

01:01:55.000 And you just got to be careful who you're listening to.

01:01:59.000 Dringle Bells, is it trad to take kratom?

01:02:02.000 Kratom? 0.96

01:02:03.000 K R A T O M?

01:02:05.000 I don't know what that is. 1.00

01:02:07.000 I don't know.

01:02:08.000 Is that a supplement of some kind?

01:02:10.000 Is that like, what, steroids?

01:02:12.000 I think the trad thing to do is just to eat meat, to eat meat, to eat your vegetables, eat a balanced diet, and to stay in shape a little bit.

01:02:22.000 You know, obviously, man was what?

01:02:25.000 We were like hunting tigers and stuff.

01:02:26.000 So we were running around, we were a physical species.

01:02:29.000 And now we're not.

01:02:30.000 So, what's Chad, what's healthy, is to stay in shape.

01:02:33.000 Lift heavy things, do cardio, that kind of thing.

01:02:37.000 Don't eat soy all day.

01:02:39.000 Don't sit around shoving your face with sugar all day.

01:02:42.000 You know, I see the soda.

01:02:43.000 The soda's got to go.

01:02:45.000 That's the number one scourge in the country today. 0.91

01:02:47.000 You wonder why there's so many fat people walking around. 0.97

01:02:49.000 Maybe it's because there's like three cans of sugar in every beverage they're drinking.

01:02:54.000 You know, that was really the red pill for me I saw this is one of the most ubiquitous products in the country.

01:03:00.000 It's for sports, it's for the movies, you have to have a soda everywhere you go, and it's literally all sugar, and it's going to just rot your insides out.

01:03:09.000 That kind of sugar intake.

01:03:11.000 And you have people that they swear by it.

01:03:13.000 They pull up to 7 Eleven every day and they get the mega triple double gulp and they'll take three or four of these a day.

01:03:19.000 And you wonder why people are the way that they are.

01:03:22.000 Drink water, eat meats, eat vegetables, eat things that come, you know, where they come from, you know, generally.

01:03:28.000 And you can have your, you can eat McDonald's every now and again.

01:03:31.000 We like our Zog Chow every now and again.

01:03:33.000 Have a McDouble here and there because it tastes good.

01:03:36.000 You have to indulge a little bit.

01:03:38.000 But for the most part, you just got to stick to this came from a cow.

01:03:41.000 I'm going to eat this.

01:03:42.000 This came from the ground.

01:03:43.000 I'm going to eat that.

01:03:44.000 And not all the junk stuff.

01:03:48.000 And Reagan with a single shekel, and that's how it ends, right?

01:03:51.000 A single shekel from the great godfather, Ronald Reagan.

01:03:56.000 And that's going to do it for us here on the show tonight.

01:03:58.000 We're feeling strong.

01:03:59.000 We're feeling powerful.

01:04:00.000 We're hitting the gym.

01:04:01.000 We're getting our tea up.

01:04:03.000 We're getting our tea up.

01:04:04.000 We're getting jacked, feeling like a hulkamaniac. 0.83

01:04:07.000 Listen, kids, I haven't read a book in 20 years, and my job sucks, and I live in a little apartment. 0.98

01:04:14.000 But I'm huge and I'm going to punch somebody so hard they explode. 0.85

01:04:21.000 We can't counter signal weightlifting. 0.98

01:04:21.000 I'm kidding. 0.98

01:04:23.000 We're getting in the gym.

01:04:24.000 We're getting stronger.

01:04:25.000 The knife is growing sharper.

01:04:27.000 Whoops.

01:04:28.000 The knife is growing sharper every day. 0.91

01:04:31.000 And, well, that almost looked like a casual Roman there, but that was not the intention. 0.55

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