00:23:48.000So, we have to do the show, and I did want to wait until the events of tonight concluded.
00:23:54.000Before I went live, I was considering going live on DLive and covering it play by play, but it looks like now the attack, the counterattack is over, so we can have some kind of an idea now that the dust has settled of what exactly has transpired and what might happen in the next 24 hours.
00:24:12.000The gist of what happened is that Iran launched dozens of missiles at U.S. bases.
00:24:20.000Bases in Al Assad, which is this billion dollar military base that the United States built in Iraq.
00:24:26.000This is one that the president talked about earlier this week.
00:24:30.000You know, Iraq, they passed a non binding resolution yesterday saying that they want the United States to withdraw all troops from Iraq.
00:24:38.000The president said on Air Force One that we're not going anywhere because we have bases like Al Assad that we spent billions of dollars to build.
00:24:46.000So that's one of the bases that was struck, as well as, and I think this is unconfirmed at this point, as well as a base in Erbil, Iraq.
00:24:54.000So it looks like Iran launched a total of 15 missiles at these two bases.
00:24:59.000Four of the 15 missiles failed to reach their target.
00:25:03.000So it looks like only 11 missiles actually struck these two bases.
00:25:07.000So far, only Iraqi casualties have been confirmed at this point.
00:25:12.000It's a little bit dicey about who has died, who has been injured in this attack, what assets have been affected by this.
00:25:20.000But it looks like at this point, the American Air Force has been targeted, planes have been damaged.
00:25:27.000Helicopters potentially have been damaged.
00:25:29.000And it looks like the only casualties are Iraqis and no Americans have been injured or killed.
00:26:02.000It appears to be over at this point in time.
00:26:05.000Iran has said that they will not proceed with further attacks or other ways of attacks if the United States does not respond to what happened tonight.
00:26:14.000And this is according to the Spectator Index.
00:26:17.000It says the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has threatened to strike Haifa in Israel and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates if the U.S. retaliates after the strikes tonight.
00:26:27.000So it looks like we have this first wave of attacks against American bases inside of Iraq.
00:26:33.000If the United States retaliates, then Iran has promised to attack Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
00:26:57.000Honestly, to me, this is a breath of fresh air.
00:27:00.000This is very encouraging, very white pilling if this is the extent of Iran's counter response.
00:27:07.000Now, of course, the United States will have an opportunity to respond, and they can either Take that opportunity and respond, or we can de escalate the situation and refrain from responding in a military fashion, right?
00:27:19.000So we're not out of the woods just yet, but if this is what constitutes the Iranian counterattack, this does give the United States a lot of options in terms of how we want to respond.
00:27:31.000And the reason for that is because this does not constitute an escalation.
00:27:35.000You know, we went over the whole timeline last night on the show, and I showed you from 2018 all the way up.
00:27:42.000Through to last week, how we arrived here.
00:27:45.000And I saw some people on Twitter said, 2018, you have to go back to 1953.
00:27:51.000You know, we had to cover a lot of ground yesterday.
00:27:54.000We can't go back to the beginning of time.
00:27:57.000We could go back to the crucifixion, right?
00:27:59.000But, you know, I showed you how, with this administration in particular, hostilities have escalated with Iran more so than in the previous administration as a result of us withdrawing from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
00:28:13.000So I showed you how we got from there all the way to.
00:28:19.000And my verdict last night on the show is that the reason why Trump's assassination of Qasem Soleimani was a mistake is because it constituted a disproportionate escalation.
00:28:32.000You know, that's the key phrase there.
00:28:34.000Whereas we have seen these sort of tit for tat exchanges in the Middle East for a long time.
00:28:39.000For example, we saw last summer the tanker incident in the Gulf of Oman in May and then in June, the drone that was shot down over the Persian Gulf.
00:28:49.000Then we retaliated with cyber strikes and so on.
00:28:52.000The reason that that was, I mean, relatively uneventful compared to the latest episode is because all of our responses were proportionate and did not escalate.
00:29:02.000You know, if Iran allegedly attacked tankers in the Gulf of Oman, we responded with economic sanctions.
00:29:08.000You know, this is not introducing anything dramatically new into the equation by ratcheting up sanctions.
00:29:15.000You know, some might argue that ratcheting up sanctions doesn't even actually effectively do anything, that to an extent we've already gone really as far as we can go.
00:29:26.000In a certain sense, you know, certainly we could escalate further with sanctions and take it to a whole different level, but where we are with sanctions right now without imposing hardcore secondary sanctions and, you know, sanctioning more critical things, that's about as far as we can go.
00:29:41.000We kind of reached that maybe two years ago, right?
00:29:44.000With the shooting down of the American drone over the Persian Gulf, we responded by shooting down an unmanned drone of theirs, allegedly.
00:29:51.000The difference in this week is that in response to this Iranian backed militia's demonstration in front of our embassy, we went and we assassinated one of the most powerful people in Iran, a government official, the leader of the IRGC, the leader of the Quds forces within the IRGC.
00:30:10.000That was a huge, disproportionate escalation.
00:30:13.000And the reason why that was cause for concern is the question becomes if we are going to escalate to that level, how can Iran retaliate?
00:30:22.000To save face, we forced them, and I said this all last night, but to reiterate, by doing that, we forced them essentially, forced their hand to retaliate in some capacity that would be striking, that would be, you know, no pun intended, but, you know, what would be a strike that would send a message, there would be a retaliation that would communicate to the United States that Iran will not be pushed around, that kind of thinking.
00:30:49.000And so for the past few days, I think myself and a lot of other people have been wondering.
00:30:53.000What exactly will this Iranian response look like?
00:31:42.000On the timeline right now, you know, hopefully there's not a huge announcement about something else that's going on while I'm saying this to you because this is only, you know, so many minutes after the initial wave of attacks.
00:31:52.000But if they've only done 15 missiles launched at American bases, And apparently, the people that are in the Middle East, American forces, they saw, they detected the missiles as they were launched.
00:32:05.000They got all of our troops into shelter and into bunkers so that they were protected.
00:32:10.000If that's the extent of the Iranian counter response to us killing the second most powerful Iranian government official in the country, we have been given a great gift.
00:32:23.000This allows us to save face, you know, and perhaps we retaliate in some fashion.
00:32:29.000I think it would be advisable simply to stop retaliating at all.
00:32:33.000If we kill their second in command general and they launch 15 missiles and don't even kill anybody, I say that's a good deal, right?
00:32:40.000I would say that, no, not saying like the killing of Soleimani was a good thing.
00:32:45.000I think it was tremendously reckless, but you understand what I'm saying.
00:32:48.000That if that's the extent of the Iranian response, that does not force us into something that will further escalate the situation, continue the cycle of rising tensions and things like that.
00:33:00.000So to me, I think the president at this point should take the opportunity to de escalate, you know, maybe some kind of symbolic response, sanctions, something like that.
00:33:12.000But I look at this as, you know, this to me is the sign that maybe we can avert World War III.
00:33:18.000But I'll read you this is from Fox News.
00:33:19.000It's sort of a full report on what happened tonight.
00:33:23.000It says Iran fired more than a dozen ballistic missiles into Iraq, targeting U.S. military and coalition forces early Wednesday, according to Pentagon officials.
00:33:32.000The missiles launched by Iran targeted military bases in Al Assad and Erbil.
00:33:37.000Initial assessments showed no U.S. casualties, according to a U.S. military official in Baghdad.
00:33:44.000President Trump did not immediately respond, and the White House eventually said he would not make an address to the nation or other on camera statement on Tuesday.
00:33:52.000White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said after the attack, We are aware of the reports of attacks on U.S. facilities in Iraq.
00:33:59.000The president has been briefed and is monitoring the situation.
00:34:05.000Closely in consulting with his national security team, it was not immediately clear how the U.S. may respond.
00:34:11.000The Pentagon added, In recent days, in response to Iranian threats and actions, The Department of Defense has taken all appropriate measures to safeguard our personnel and partners.
00:34:21.000These bases have been on high alert due to indications that the Iranian regime planned to attack our forces and interests in the region.
00:34:28.000As we evaluate the situation and our response, we will take all necessary measures to protect and defend U.S. personnel, partners, and allies in the region.
00:34:36.000In the meantime, Iranian State TV claimed Tehran launched tens of surface to surface missiles at the Al Assad airbase.
00:34:45.000State TV described it as Tehran's revenge.
00:34:49.000Iran's Revolutionary Guard then warned the U.S. and its regional allies against retaliating over the missile attack in Iraq.
00:34:55.000The Guard issued the warning via a statement carried by Iran's state run IRNA news agency.
00:35:01.000They say, We are warning all American allies who gave their bases to its terrorist army that any territory that is the starting point of aggressive acts against Iran will be targeted.
00:35:13.000The Guard in the warning also threatened Israel.
00:35:15.000I have to say, there is a little bit of irony.
00:35:19.000In the fact that it's devolved now into just every country calling each other terrorists.
00:35:24.000There is sort of an irony in the fact that the United States, for the past four decades, has called every militant group in the Middle East, every militia, every non state actor, a terrorist group.
00:35:38.000Every country that sponsors militant groups is a state sponsor of terrorism.
00:35:43.000And so it's an irony now that this word has just really lost any kind of weight behind it.
00:35:48.000Now Iran says, well, the United States is.
00:37:00.000This is the 11th such attack in the last two months of Iranian backed militias using missiles against Iraqi bases that house U.S. forces.
00:37:10.000We responded to this on the 29th of December of 2019 by launching an airstrike against five targets three in Iraq, two in Syria against Hezbollah.
00:37:20.000Hezbollah responds on December 31st by showing up to the American Embassy in Baghdad and they demonstrate, they set fires.
00:37:28.000The Iraqi government allows them into the green zone.
00:37:33.000A row between the United States and Iraq now, the Iraqi government.
00:37:37.000The United States responds to these embassy protests as well as all the missile strikes in the previous two months by killing the head of the coup's forces, Qasem Soleimani.
00:37:49.000And now Iran has retaliated after three days of mourning by launching 15 missiles against two or one American bases within Iraq.
00:37:59.000So now the question becomes as has been the case, you know, now what is America going to do?
00:38:05.000You know, after we killed Qasem Soleimani, we passed the ball to Iran.
00:38:09.000And the message of the show yesterday is.
00:38:10.000We have to wait and see what Iran does.
00:38:21.000And as I said, you know, I think at this point, we have to be very, I will say, I'm not going to say anything specific, but we have to be very judicious in our response.
00:38:29.000We have to be very judicious and considerate of the possibility to escalate.
00:38:33.000Because I will say something that this was such a muted response, and it totally was.
00:38:42.000Is totally a de escalation on Iran's part.
00:38:45.000It's so funny to see all these people that were coping so hard about the heritage sites and Qasem Soleimani being killed.
00:38:53.000You know, the mighty Iran, based mighty Iran, what is their response after all that tough talk and bluster about attacking the White House or the president or anything else?
00:39:52.000And now we see that there's really not much weight behind all that bluster, that Iran really is sort of a paper tiger.
00:39:58.000For as much as they talk about death to America and all this apocalyptic rhetoric about bringing down the United States, this is what happens when push comes to shove 15 missiles.
00:40:10.000Now, all of that having been said, a lot of boomers will take that and say, So let's destroy Iran.
00:40:20.000If Iran is such a weak country, why bother, right?
00:40:25.000If Iran is such a weak country, and in doing this, in this muted response, and in pulling back and de escalating, what they're communicating to us, in other words, is they pose no threat to our country.
00:40:43.000At this point in time, if the question is we should either retaliate heavily for this and continue the escalation, or we should show some restraint, Pull ourselves back from the brink as well, do our part in de escalating.
00:40:57.000Of course, we have to consider the fact that we do not want to be in the Middle East.
00:41:02.000We don't want to be in the countries that we are currently in.
00:41:05.000We do not want to be in more countries like Iran.
00:41:09.000We have just seen, you know, if you look at the events over the last couple of years, you know, you could really look at the events of the last couple of decades.
00:42:15.000We have no business in the broader Middle East.
00:42:16.000Let's start to pull the troops out and let the sanctions, the economic, political, diplomatic measures, let's let those measures have their effect.
00:42:25.000Let's let them work their magic without having spent any more money or any more time in the Middle East.
00:42:31.000I see what's going on over the past 24 hours.
00:42:36.000A lot of people, whenever anything like this happens in the world, I don't know if people are ignorant about world affairs or they just can't control their emotions, but I've been doing this show for three years, and every time there is a major escalation in tensions, a flare up, a crisis, people get sent over the edge.
00:42:57.000I remember the first time it happened was the serious strikes in April 2017.
00:43:11.000I don't remember the exact date, but it was on a Friday.
00:43:13.000That America made its official position.
00:43:16.000We changed our official position three months after the inauguration that we were not, we were not, our intention was not to remove Bashar al Assad from power.
00:43:25.000We were not seeking regime change in Syria.
00:43:28.000Within like four days, it was on a Tuesday.
00:43:31.000Within four days, Bashar al Assad uses chemical weapons.
00:43:34.000We respond with, what was it, 52 missiles attacking an air base that wasn't even occupied.
00:43:47.000They said that on June 1st, America was sending 100,000 troops to Syria, and all bets are off, and it's World War III, and America's going in.
00:43:55.000And as always, you got to look at the bigger picture.
00:43:57.000As always, you got to think long and hard about logistics and capabilities and interest and motivations and all this kind of thing.
00:44:05.000And after surveying the damage, I said, you know, look, this was really like a non strike, didn't really do any damage.
00:44:13.000If you looked at who was at, Mar-a-Lago at the time, it was Xi Jinping during these negotiations with North Korea.
00:44:18.000You know, it wasn't negotiations at that point, it was a lot of brinksmanship and whatever.
00:44:25.000But, you know, if you looked at the bigger context at the time, you realized, okay, everything's going to be okay.
00:44:29.000And I view it, the reason I bring it up is it's the same thing that's happening with Iran.
00:44:33.000You know, we killed Qasem Soleimani, and I legitimately was concerned for some time that, you know, maybe Iran would do something extremely reckless.
00:44:41.000Maybe they would kill civilians, maybe they would attack America.
00:44:47.000But at the end of the day, what's fascinating to me about Iran is for all the rhetoric that we hear from neocons about Iran, about the fact that it's run by mullahs.
00:44:58.000That's what we hear from like Sean Hannity, Fox News, Ben Shapiro, all the neocons and Zionists and Israelis that would love nothing more than for more Americans to die in the Middle East.
00:45:10.000We hear from them that Iran is run by religious fanatics.
00:45:16.000These extremist Muslims that's run by religious scholars that chant death to America and they're going to develop a nuclear arsenal and they've got this apocalyptic version of Shiite Islam that they're going to bring about the 12th Imam and blow up the world and blow up Israel.
00:45:32.000For all this sensational, ridiculous, alarmist, completely nonsensical rhetoric about Iran, we see that in every case they conduct themselves rationally.
00:45:44.000They conduct themselves as a rational state actor, right?
00:45:48.000You know, in this case, If Iran was this nuclear threat, oh, run by fanatical mullahs, they will destroy America.
00:45:56.000You know, you would think that a country like that would do more than 15 missile strikes.
00:46:00.000But Iran knows that if they seriously inflicted damage on America, they would instigate a huge counter response that would hurt them in their country.
00:46:12.000I mean, they know they're outgunned with conventional arms as well as the fact that we have weapons of mass destruction.
00:46:19.000So to me, this communicates that Iran wants to de escalate the situation.
00:46:23.000You know, these provocations were intended to get the United States to rethink its maximum pressure economic strategy.
00:46:30.000The provocations, the alleged provocations in the Strait of Hormuz, the drone, the pro Iranian militias in Iraq and these other countries, the intention is to get America to rethink its maximum pressure sanctions campaign.
00:46:45.000But, you know, when we call their bluff by retaliating disproportionately, well, then they rethink their strategy of making us rethink maximum pressure.
00:46:53.000So now they're thinking, okay, well, You know, we want the maximum pressure campaign to end, but we also don't want to get bombed.
00:46:59.000We also don't want to get destroyed, right?
00:47:01.000So I think that's what we're seeing tonight.
00:47:03.000Now, it remains to be seen if we'll see anything more from Iran.
00:47:07.000You know, it's very possible that there will be further attacks by Iran.
00:47:12.000It's very possible that there will be an attack in Israel or the Emirates or Saudi Arabia or maybe in Europe or maybe in the United States.
00:47:20.000You know, who really knows if this is truly the end?
00:47:24.000I think it's also worth considering maybe there's a false flag attack.
00:47:28.000Is nobody considering the possibility that the Zionists and neocons, if they don't get the response from Iran that they want, that they'll create the response that they want?
00:47:40.000That, in other words, if Iran is going to do this very muted response, 15 missiles, I mean, this is really nothing in the grand scheme of things.
00:47:47.000Do you think that these Zionists, Israel, neocons, unsatisfied with their Iranian response that is not going to draw us into war, will they create a provocation and blame it on Iran?
00:47:59.000Will they create a provocation in the United States?
00:48:02.000Will they create a provocation in Europe, in Israel, in the Gulf states?
00:48:14.000But it's my opinion that our involvement in the Middle East to begin with is a result of this kind of false flag, very dubious, shady tactics by people that want us there to begin with.
00:48:27.000If you look at the record of history, it was on September 10th.
00:48:32.0002001, September 10th, 2001, that the plans for a war in Afghanistan arrived on George W. Bush's desk.
00:49:07.000And then the last possibility where this could go awry is that the president messes this up by doing some kind of huge counter response and forcing Iran's hand to attack other countries or escalate even further.
00:49:23.000So there are possibilities where the situation can change rapidly or escalation could be back on.
00:49:30.000But for the moment, I do believe, I do predict that Trump will pull us back.
00:50:22.000So I understand where they're coming from.
00:50:23.000But throughout the past three years, we really have seen a tremendous amount of restraint.
00:50:28.000How quickly people forget that it was just last summer that whether Iran did attack those tankers in the Gulf of Oman, whether they did or whether they didn't, did America retaliate against Iran?
00:50:44.000The tankers in the Gulf of Oman last May and then again last June, we didn't respond.
00:50:51.000When Iran shot down an American drone a week later, Trump was locked and loaded.
00:50:56.000You know, we were on, we were prepared, ready to strike.
00:51:00.000They made it out like, you know, planes were about to take off to start bombing radar and missile sites in Iran before Trump pulled it back.
00:51:50.000But nevertheless, we pulled out a significant amount of those troops into Iraq.
00:51:54.000So I do see whether or not it's been completely successful or fully realized, there is a concerted effort, I feel, on the part of the president to mitigate these conflicts.
00:52:08.000He's up against the Pentagon, he's up against the DOD, he's up against the military industrial complex, the Israel lobby, Sheldon Adelson.
00:52:16.000You know, Sheldon Adelson said, I think it was a few years ago, that he thinks we should nuke Iran.
00:52:21.000And Sheldon Adelson is one of the biggest political contributors, one of the single biggest contributors to political campaigns in the last election.
00:52:29.000And who do you think he gave all his money to, right?
00:52:31.000Sheldon Adelson's responsible for a lot of the disasters in this administration.
00:52:38.000You know, so I see all the forces arrayed against Trump, all the people pushing in the direction towards more war, escalation, ground forces getting involved.
00:52:48.000And I see that there is, whether it's all the way successful or fully realized.
00:52:52.000Every time I do see a concerted effort on the part of Trump to pull us back.
00:52:56.000So that's not to say that it'll be like that forever.
00:52:58.000It's not to say that this is like a great situation to be in.
00:53:04.000What we'd like to see is all the wars to be over.
00:53:06.000Maybe it's more complicated than that.
00:53:08.000But I'm not ready to say that Trump is all the way out just yet.
00:53:12.000Now, that's a different story from him giving all the Gibbs to Israel.
00:53:15.000You know, we know that Sheldon Adelson and all the Zionist money has allowed or has facilitated the White House, for example, naming the IRGC a terrorist group, recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, moving the embassy to Jerusalem.
00:53:30.000So it's not to say that Israel hasn't gotten any bang for its buck, right?
00:53:33.000It's not to say that the Zionists have not gotten what they paid for at this administration.
00:53:39.000But it hasn't fully materialized in terms of foreign policy.
00:53:42.000In the case of Syria, I know that Israel and AIPAC were not happy that we canceled regime change.
00:53:48.000They were not happy that we've tried to pull out of the region last December 2018 and August 2019.
00:53:55.000They were not happy that we backed down last summer after the Gulf of Oman incident and the drone being shot down over the Persian Gulf.
00:54:30.000If we pursue regime change in Syria, I'd say it's over, right?
00:54:33.000If we start another war, I'd say it's over.
00:54:35.000If there was a huge troop surge, you know, tens of thousands of troops going back in, I would say it's over.
00:54:40.000But I think that he's done a, you know, Pretty admirable job of holding the line against the neocons.
00:54:46.000And I know that might be controversial, but if you lay out the body of evidence, I think that's the only reasonable take.
00:54:54.000Granted, it's not, like I said, it's not ideal.
00:54:57.000I don't love the fact that there's still 50,000 troops in the Middle East, but compared to the alternative, compared to if Marco Rubio had been president or Hillary Clinton, I think it would have been a totally different equation, and that's worth something, particularly in Syria and Iran.
00:55:12.000So now, again, all of this is highly contingent on how he.
00:55:16.000Decides to move forward over the course of this week.
00:55:19.000If there's a major retaliation, this could easily draw us into a conflict with Iran, and that would be it's hard to overstate how disastrous that would be.
00:55:28.000But then again, I think Trump can show us that he's committed to non interventionism, committed to pulling us out of the Middle East by de escalating and showing some restraint.
00:55:40.000It's really the hour of decision for the president, and we'll see over the next 48 hours what the response will be like, and then we'll figure out who Trump really is.
00:55:49.000If Trump pulls us into war with Iran, then he was a neocon all along and a Zionist and so on.
00:55:56.000But if he shows restraint and deescalates, I think that'll show that this has been a strategy of containment, that Trump is trying to keep us out of these wars.
00:56:06.000And I would say that that would be pretty commendable if he were to pull us back from the brink.
00:56:14.000He made a mistake, I think, with Qasem Soleimani.
00:56:20.000If he decides to pull back, well, then I think we can say that it will not have been a disastrous, it will not have been a fatal mistake for this administration or the country.
00:56:29.000You know, still don't think it was a great idea.
00:56:30.000I still think it was completely reckless.
00:56:32.000It could have gone a very different way.
00:56:35.000But I think, in effect, he ended up calling Iran's bluff.
00:58:31.000I will say that this is more evidence, perhaps, that whenever we see bluster from any country, you always have to separate out rhetoric from.
00:58:41.000A lot of people have a very hard time doing this.
00:58:44.000You know, for example, when Trump said, We will attack 52 sites, including cultural institutions, and everybody freaks out to tweet.
00:58:55.000You know, and it's like when Trump said about North Korea, The world will see fire and fury, the likes of which nobody has ever seen before.
00:59:03.000As always, you have to separate out rhetoric from action.
00:59:08.000Iran does the same thing death to America, death to Israel.
00:59:12.000We're going to wipe Israel off the map.
00:59:25.000If you want to analyze politics, you have to understand that what leaders say, if it's true or not, influences the actions of other states.
00:59:37.000So people are not always communicating their earnest intentions explicitly.
00:59:42.000That's not, you know, political communication on the level of a head of state.
00:59:47.000It's not the same as you and I talking.
00:59:50.000You know, if I go to, you know, I don't know, a flea market and I'm haggling with somebody, you know, some honest guy, and I'm like, well, you know, I'll give you $10 for it.
00:59:59.000This is not the same as the president saying, unless you do this, we will, you know, mess your stuff up.
01:00:08.000Because at the level of a head of state, at the level of a president, if the president threatens another country, it's just like in a game of poker, you have the idea of bluffing, you have the idea of exaggerating.
01:00:30.000This is very simple negotiating tactics, right?
01:00:34.000If Trump says, we're going to just like nuke Iran if they respond, well, this is going to change what Iran's response is.
01:00:42.000If the United States, you know, if President Trump comes out and says, we don't want war, we don't want war with Iran, we really don't want war, oh, it's time we get out of the Middle East.
01:00:53.000They're going to do a big counter response if they think they can get away with it, right?
01:00:57.000If they can do a huge counter response and save face and look tough because they perceive that America is eager to withdraw from the region, eager for an excuse to de escalate, well, then that's what they'll do.
01:01:08.000Contrast that with if President Trump says, I'm going to bomb 52 sites for the 52 hostages.
01:01:15.000I'm sure he's just making it up at this point.
01:01:17.000I'm sure he's just sitting on a recliner, 52 sites for 52 hostages.
01:01:23.000I'll bomb cultural, I'll commit war crimes, I'll fucking commit war crimes, you know?
01:01:28.000And people take this seriously, and then people freak out and say, This is terrible.
01:06:40.000So I'm going to try and keep it kind of short tonight.
01:06:42.000My apologies if that's disappointing, but I mean, I'm like dying over here.
01:06:46.000I'm going to have to get a good night's sleep and drink plenty of fluid so my voice will return tomorrow when nothing will be happening, right?
01:08:26.000And I'd be cozy, you know, watching World War III in my pajamas, playing Civ V and, you know, just watching it transpire, autistic neat mode.
01:09:22.000All I mean to say about that is things are going to become very, very difficult.
01:09:26.000Not impossible, but they're going to become very difficult.
01:09:29.000And this is an intergenerational struggle.
01:09:31.000Just because we won't realize victory in our lifetimes might be sad to hear, but it's also a strong possibility.
01:09:38.000It doesn't mean that we don't have to carry the torch.
01:09:42.000You know, if you look at history, things you look at like the Hundred Years' War, you look at the Muslim conquest of Europe, and then, you know, the subsequent reconquest of Europe.
01:09:56.000There's such a thing as generational struggle.
01:09:59.000And so the idea that at a certain point in time things are going to become immeasurably more difficult for us and that this will become this multi generational struggle over many generations.
01:10:11.000I mean, that doesn't mean that we shouldn't be fighting or trying or doing our part.
01:10:15.000It just means that, you know, we shouldn't expect our fortunes to wildly turn around overnight.
01:10:22.000Zach Fisher says, can't take a night off when it's World War III.
01:11:04.000But there is something about being a Zoomer about being desensitized and sort of the surreality or surrealism of the world and being sort of numb to it or apathetic about it.
01:11:18.000Zoomer humor is dark, it's provocative.
01:11:21.000And I feel like for the past couple of years, it's mostly bad faith people, but I make like jokes about like obvious, ironic jokes.
01:11:31.000Even on these corners of the internet, you think it'd be cool, but now I get all these people like, hey, you're like the leader of the movement.
01:12:19.000If you think it's a good idea, I'd really appreciate any quick elaboration on tasteful imagery and inspiring messages for America First posters, messages, and propaganda purposes.
01:12:49.000We're not going to poster our way to America first.
01:12:53.000I think, you know, there's a lot of interesting things we could do, but I don't want to say anything because it could very easily be hijacked by, you know, patsies, people that are going to try and make us look bad or whatever.
01:13:06.000So I think whatever propaganda should be done, it should be done behind the scenes by, you know, trusted people, people that I know, so we can kind of control what it looks like, what it is.
01:13:16.000But I'll say that posters, I mean, it's not going to hurt anybody, but I mean, it's really not going to help anything either, really, isn't it?
01:13:22.000Elston says, so this is how it starts.
01:15:17.000It's like if Nick Fuentes appears, if he shows up and he does the show, well, then it's de escalation.
01:15:23.000It means that World War III is canceled, but the longer he stays away from the desk, the closer we get to midnight, the closer we get to nuclear holocaust.
01:15:32.000Terry Davis says the Black Cubes herd of shill cattle are attacking God's people, but God says they won't stop his divine intellect plan with these sodomite smears.
01:16:50.000You know, libertarians, these like so called well meaning, like good intentioned, your average libertarian, they think that they could just ignore identity politics.
01:17:00.000Like, oh, the left is playing identity politics.
01:24:08.000Evner says, I don't support war, but I kind of want to go over there just to hit the default dance on the black and brown bodies to own the lives.
01:25:57.000Unless he does something that's so bad that it's worse than the left, like that's worse than a Democratic candidate, that is the point at which I'll jump off.
01:29:27.000Web Dev Anon says rather than responding with sanctions or military attacks, America should install numerous McDonald's bases on Iranian soil to liberate the country.
01:31:41.000But the real battle was in the 80s and 90s.
01:31:44.000It was people like Jared Taylor, Sam Francis, Paul Gottfried, who else?
01:31:52.000Pete Brimelow and others, who they, the paleoconservatives, I mean, people like Pappy Cannon, social conservatives, immigration restrictionists, and so on, they were just like totally blacklisted by like William F. Buckley Jr., National Review, all these guys, a weekly standard, Bill Crystal.
01:32:15.000And you can read it, like I said, did I say Paul Gottfried?
01:32:19.000If I didn't, Paul Gottfried writes a lot about this.
01:32:22.000He's got a book called Conservatism in America.
01:32:53.000Almost nobody, I would venture to guess that almost nobody in the conservative circles, at the highest level or the lowest level, knows anything about the purge of paleoconservatives.
01:34:47.000Like, obviously, Israel is, you know, a factor, it's not the only factor.
01:34:52.000It just happens to be the one that nobody will talk about because, you know, everyone's on the payroll and nobody wants to get, like, killed.
01:41:29.000I also don't know much about it, so I can't really tell you.
01:41:33.000Ren Paul says, Red pill me on Gloria Allred.
01:41:35.000I heard you mention her on a debate, but the video cut off.
01:41:38.000Is there evidence to suggest these accusations are lies, or is she a hero?
01:41:42.000No, she's a lying, like, libtard lawyer.
01:41:45.000Correct me if I'm wrong, but she was the one that brought the accusations against Roy Moore, and she was also involved with, like, the Brett Kavanaugh thing.
01:41:52.000So she's just, like, one of these Democrat lawyers they trot out for these high profile cases.
01:41:58.000Booper says, Trump just tweeted, very white pilling.
01:46:31.000You know, I saw it yesterday in the afternoon, or rather, I saw it today in the afternoon.
01:46:34.000The likes on yesterday's video were at 2,100 plus dislikes were 2,100 plus.
01:46:41.000And within hours, it was down to 1,800.
01:46:44.000That means they deleted 300 or 400 dislikes.
01:46:47.000That means 300 or 400 fake accounts were set up to dislike the video, which, you know, everybody was saying, oh no, Nick, what disinformation?