America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - March 23, 2018


IRL Bloodsports: Nicholas J. Fuentes vs Low IQ Marxist Weirdo @BU — Trump Debate


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In this episode, YAL Chapter President Nicholas J. Fuentes and YAL State Chair Jake Brewer debate the presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. The debate was moderated by Alec D. Dakin and Cassie Dillon.

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00:00:01.000 Hello, hello, hey everyone, how's it going?
00:00:07.000 Come on in, come on in.
00:00:11.000 Let's get seats.
00:00:12.000 There's plenty of room, hopefully.
00:00:15.000 If not, you guys can sit on the sides.
00:00:19.000 Just kind of watch the camera that's live streaming in the middle.
00:00:24.000 So, thank you guys so much for being here.
00:00:26.000 Obviously, we have Nicholas Puentes and Jake Brewer here tonight debating the question Trump or Clinton.
00:00:34.000 Very simple.
00:00:35.000 So, the debate is sponsored by the Young Americans for Liberty Organization, or YAL for short.
00:00:40.000 My name is Alec Dakin, I will be moderating.
00:00:43.000 And I'm also the president of the YAL chapter at Boston University.
00:00:47.000 And YAL is a political organization dedicated to defending individual liberties on college campuses nationwide.
00:00:53.000 And tonight, in particular, we will be exercising our First Amendment rights for freedom of speech.
00:00:58.000 And just note that YAL does not endorse either candidate, we are simply here to provide both sides an equal platform.
00:01:06.000 Attending tonight's debate is also Yale State Chair Cassie Dillon, right there, and Cameron Westbrook.
00:01:12.000 I think he's on the table out there.
00:01:14.000 But if these kind of events interest you and you would like to become more involved, I welcome you to speak with one of us afterwards and sign up for Yale here.
00:01:23.000 Okay, so now as you're all aware, you're all aware of the video online featuring Nicholas in which he explains why he's voting for Trump.
00:01:34.000 And in light of the huge reaction to that video, Tonight is a chance for both sides of the political spectrum to be given an equal and fair platform.
00:01:44.000 Each side will not only be responsible for arguing why their candidate is the better choice, but also why the other candidate is the worst choice.
00:01:52.000 So it's positive and negative arguments.
00:01:54.000 The format will be as follows.
00:01:56.000 First, we will start with opening statements, then, we will have a short round of moderator questions.
00:02:00.000 Next, there will be a crossfire round in which Jake and Nicholas will ask each other questions.
00:02:06.000 And finally, after closing statements from each side, we will open up to questions from the audience.
00:02:11.000 Okay?
00:02:13.000 And that's really going to be the second half of it.
00:02:15.000 So I really want everybody to be involved in this.
00:02:17.000 If you have a question you want to ask either of these guys, feel free.
00:02:22.000 We're going to have a microphone up there.
00:02:23.000 We only have two, but Cassie will be holding one and helping out with that.
00:02:28.000 So, now, most importantly, I fully expect this to remain a civil and respectful environment.
00:02:34.000 It has been discussed some very controversial issues.
00:02:38.000 I'd like to remind you quickly of a quote by Evelyn Beatrice Hall.
00:02:42.000 I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
00:02:46.000 Woo!
00:02:46.000 Yeah, let's get to it.
00:02:47.000 Round of applause for that.
00:02:54.000 Once again, I thank the university for making this possible, and I thank these guys for being up here.
00:02:59.000 Let's give them a huge round of applause.
00:03:08.000 Woo!
00:03:09.000 All right, let's get started.
00:03:10.000 So.
00:03:17.000 Alright, Nick's gonna go first.
00:03:19.000 So, five minutes max each for each opening statement.
00:03:25.000 Let me just get the timer going.
00:03:34.000 All right, go ahead.
00:03:38.000 Thank you.
00:03:40.000 Good evening, everybody.
00:03:42.000 I am Nicholas J. Fuentes, and tonight I'm here to give a human face to the last dying breath of conservatism in this country.
00:03:51.000 Now, I say this, that may sound hyperbolic, but I say this because the left has won the culture wars.
00:03:57.000 This institution, and the vast majority of institutions like it, universities and colleges across the country, they're liberal.
00:04:05.000 The media is liberal.
00:04:07.000 Hollywood is liberal.
00:04:09.000 The establishments of both major parties, Republicans and Democrats, are liberal.
00:04:13.000 And the vast majority of you out here tonight are probably liberal.
00:04:19.000 Now, the tide has turned so quickly and so decisively in this direction because of the hateful, fascist, and bullying tactics of the left.
00:04:28.000 Now, we all complain.
00:04:32.000 We all complain about polarization.
00:04:35.000 But for the past 20 years, only one party. 0.96
00:04:39.000 Has been called racist, Nazi, white supremacists, and Bible thumpers. 0.91
00:04:44.000 And they have been harassed into extinction. 0.98
00:04:46.000 Go ahead, laugh it up.
00:04:47.000 I thought you were going to try civility tonight.
00:04:51.000 Now, I've been given this platform tonight exactly because this problem does exist.
00:04:55.000 And what thought crime did the students of Boston University think so pernicious, so dangerous, and so evil that I be issued threats of violence, that I be ostracized socially?
00:05:07.000 Of course, it was my opposition to multiculturalism.
00:05:11.000 How ironic.
00:05:13.000 An ideology which purports to champion tolerance, diversity, and pluralism descended on me like a pack of vultures for having a contrary opinion.
00:05:24.000 That is called hypocrisy.
00:05:26.000 And now we're gathered here tonight, patting ourselves on the back for our brave and enlightened liberal minds, having a constructive dialogue about substantive issues.
00:05:36.000 Hooray!
00:05:37.000 How progressive.
00:05:39.000 But let us not forget the reason for the season.
00:05:42.000 Let's not forget why my story has gotten so much attention and afforded me this platform.
00:05:49.000 If not for the work of the courageous and hardworking people of Young Americans for Liberty who generously hosted this debate, everyone here would be more than happy to excommunicate and ostracize me right out of this school.
00:06:02.000 So we will have our debate.
00:06:04.000 We will talk about Trump and Hillary and the election, and I will answer all of your loaded questions and we'll play this little game.
00:06:12.000 But let's not pretend that this isn't anything more than spectacle, because it isn't.
00:06:17.000 I'm going to make the case for Donald Trump because it needs to be heard.
00:06:21.000 That's the only way that we're going to make America great again, and we're going to on Tuesday.
00:06:26.000 It's going to be a big surprise, but I think we're going to win.
00:06:35.000 This is war, folks.
00:06:36.000 Don't mistake this ceasefire tonight for a truce.
00:06:40.000 Let us begin.
00:06:41.000 Thank you.
00:06:44.000 Thank you. 0.96
00:07:37.000 Unfortunately, for the people of the United States and around the world, a Clinton administration is still the best option for the American people right now, solely because her opponent is a racist egomaniac with an alarming fascist aesthetic.
00:07:56.000 Hillary Clinton, regardless of how damning her neoliberal policies may be, is at the very least a committed globalist and therefore a catalyst for multi.
00:08:04.000 Culturalism.
00:08:05.000 In my view, globalism, or the increased interconnectedness of all the Earth's people, is the only path forward through the 21st century.
00:08:13.000 While I disagree with how Hillary Clinton is choosing to pave this path, it is at least en route.
00:08:20.000 Donald Trump, on the other hand, is at his core a nationalist, and nationalism, as his name may suggest, is the antithesis of globalism.
00:08:31.000 Particularly alarming about Donald Trump, as I mentioned before, is his unique brand of nationalism, which is characterized by the same core elements as.
00:08:38.000 Pinochet's Chile, Suharto's Indonesia, Franco's Spain, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany.
00:08:46.000 Here, of course, we are talking about the characteristics of fascism.
00:08:50.000 These core elements have been classified by the Italian philosopher Uberto Eco Dustli.
00:08:56.000 One, the cult of tradition, exemplified by the catchphrase, make America great again.
00:09:02.000 Or, do you know what they would have done to someone like that back in the day?
00:09:05.000 They would have been taken out on a stretcher.
00:09:08.000 Two, the rejection of modernism.
00:09:11.000 Quote from Donald Trump.
00:09:13.000 The problem is we have the Geneva Conventions, so soldiers are afraid to fight.
00:09:18.000 Number three, the cult of action for action's sake.
00:09:22.000 Another Donald Trump quote.
00:09:24.000 We're going to build a wall and we're going to have Mexico pay for it, arbitrarily.
00:09:31.000 Fear of difference.
00:09:33.000 I can't choose a quote for this one.
00:09:38.000 Obsession with a plot.
00:09:40.000 Either Obama not being an American or the election is rigged or any name of. 0.52
00:09:45.000 Ridiculous conspiracies that have been rattled off during this election.
00:09:51.000 Casting their enemies as the same, as too strong and also too weak. 0.98
00:09:58.000 That's a fascist tendency as well. 0.98
00:10:00.000 For example, we're being overrun by Islam, yet it's an inferior culture. 0.99
00:10:06.000 It's completely dissonant.
00:10:10.000 Contempt for the weak, where every member of society is considered to be superior to outsiders by virtue of belonging to the inside group. 0.85
00:10:18.000 Of white people in this case.
00:10:21.000 Machismo, holding both a disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of non traditional sexual habits.
00:10:30.000 And Newspeak, which I think Donald Trump is quite great at, which is when fascists employ and promote an impoverished vocabulary in order to limit critical reasoning.
00:10:40.000 Again, make America great again.
00:10:43.000 It's probably not even Russia, he says, about the hacks and the WikiLeaks.
00:10:46.000 It's probably China.
00:10:48.000 I don't even know. 1.00
00:10:49.000 Or I'm going to bomb the shit out of them. 1.00
00:10:52.000 He says about the entire Middle East. 1.00
00:10:56.000 So, all of these things lead me to believe that Donald Trump is a fascist.
00:11:03.000 And although I'm a Marxist, and although I believe that Hillary Clinton's neoliberal policies are not in everybody's best interest, they at least are on the route to progress instead of barbarism.
00:11:25.000 Okay, so now I just have a question for each of them.
00:11:31.000 And after I ask them a question, you'll have a chance to respond.
00:11:36.000 So, Nicholas, a lot of the response to your video was in regards to your view of multiculturalism, in which you say, quote, political correctness and the multicultural movement are subverting any effort that a conservative could ever make to change the country.
00:11:51.000 Could you explain the meaning of this statement?
00:11:52.000 I mean, exactly what transformation do you hope Donald Trump would bring, and why do you think it is the best path for America?
00:11:59.000 Yes, so the first point is multiculturalism.
00:12:03.000 Now, we have to distinguish, and I think it's important that we distinguish multiculturalism from multiracialism.
00:12:09.000 I think that the vast majority of people here, and I think it's also very ironic, here on the liberal campus, we like to talk about nuanced ideas.
00:12:17.000 Rachel Maddow, Chris Matthews, they like to talk about nuance.
00:12:21.000 Well, here's a little nuance for you.
00:12:23.000 I'm not against multiracialism.
00:12:25.000 America is and has been a multiracial country for hundreds of years. 1.00
00:12:29.000 I am against a multicultural. 1.00
00:12:32.000 Country. 1.00
00:12:33.000 And of course, cultures can be inferior to other cultures.
00:12:36.000 That does not mean that racism.
00:12:38.000 And we scoff and we laugh.
00:12:40.000 And we scoffingly laugh.
00:12:42.000 But where do celebrities say they're going to move when Donald Trump gets elected?
00:12:45.000 Where do they say they're going to move? 0.99
00:12:47.000 Donald Trump is such a racist. 1.00
00:12:49.000 He hates Mexico so much. 1.00
00:12:51.000 So if he gets elected, I'm going to move to Canada.
00:12:54.000 That's how tolerant I am.
00:12:55.000 And we show.
00:12:58.000 And people vote with their feet.
00:12:59.000 Look at every migration crisis in the world today, and where is the flow? 0.57
00:13:03.000 Is it from West to other cultures?
00:13:06.000 No, it is not.
00:13:08.000 There is no crisis of Americans and Canadians fleeing the West to Mexico.
00:13:13.000 No Italians are drowning in lifeboats trying to get to Libya.
00:13:17.000 No Swedes are climbing barbed wire fences traveling throughout Europe to get to Iraq.
00:13:23.000 They're just not.
00:13:25.000 What's that?
00:13:25.000 That's right.
00:13:27.000 We destroyed Iraq? 0.97
00:13:28.000 Really?
00:13:31.000 Well, I thought this was a civil debate, but I will address that.
00:13:31.000 Really?
00:13:34.000 I will address that. 0.82
00:13:35.000 What happened to the Islamic Empire? 1.00
00:13:37.000 The golden age of Islam, when you were just barking. 1.00
00:13:39.000 Excuse me, excuse me. 1.00
00:13:40.000 We're going to have time for all questions after this from the audience.
00:13:43.000 All right, all right.
00:13:44.000 We'll get that to you.
00:13:45.000 Multiculturalism.
00:13:47.000 As I was saying, as I was saying before I was interrupted by the tolerant left, people vote with their feet.
00:13:57.000 Now, you look at every country in Europe where multiculturalism has been tried, and it has been a failure.
00:14:03.000 Now, don't take my word for it.
00:14:05.000 Angela Merkel said multiculturalism has failed.
00:14:08.000 David Cameron has said multiculturalism has failed.
00:14:12.000 Sarkozy of France has said multiculturalism has failed.
00:14:15.000 Sweden in 1976, liberal, tolerant Sweden that everyone loves, adopted multiculturalism as their immigration policy.
00:14:24.000 What has happened in the meantime?
00:14:26.000 The rape rate has increased 1,500%.
00:14:30.000 Sweden is now number two in the world in rapes per capita, behind Swaziland and landlocked South Africa.
00:14:37.000 What does that say about multiculturalism?
00:14:39.000 Now, of course, we're not saying this is not a discussion about race.
00:14:43.000 This is only a topic about culture.
00:14:45.000 And if culture was not a factor in wealth, in freedom, in pluralism, tolerance, and all the things that we love here in America, then the distribution of wealth and all these things would be a statistical anomaly so impossible it could not happen.
00:15:00.000 Why is it that all the free, democratic, wealthy countries in the world are in the West, America, Canada, Australia?
00:15:06.000 Why is it that Africa is uniformly poor?
00:15:09.000 You might say that it's because of imperialism.
00:15:11.000 But when we got there in 1870, in some places they hadn't discovered the wheel.
00:15:16.000 So I think we have to be very careful when we're talking about this debate that has nothing to do with race and everything to do with culture.
00:15:23.000 And that's my response to that.
00:15:24.000 Now, in regards to Donald Trump and the cultural transformation he would bring, he's restoring Americanism and the monoculture that the United States was founded under. 0.56
00:15:33.000 Now, these beliefs that I'm talking about, they're not crazy, fascist, everything I don't like is Hitler virtues.
00:15:39.000 The virtues I'm talking about are pluralism, tolerance for people that don't look like us, freedom of speech, limited government, constitutionalism.
00:15:48.000 These are Western American values.
00:15:50.000 This is a part of the American monoculture. 1.00
00:15:53.000 And unless Immigrants are assimilating into this culture, we will become the polyglot boarding house of the world. 1.00
00:15:59.000 We will descend into anarchy just like every other clever country that has ever existed. 1.00
00:16:03.000 And you laugh, but it's happening in Ukraine, it's happening in Nigeria, and it might happen here. 0.97
00:16:07.000 And that's my response to that.
00:16:15.000 I think I'm going to respond with a question.
00:16:18.000 I feel like it's the best way.
00:16:20.000 So, after hearing all that, my question, I guess, is.
00:16:26.000 Do you take into regard the material process through which cultures come about?
00:16:31.000 Or, from my understanding, you seem to be saying that other places are poor and unwealthy because their cultures don't allow for entrepreneurism or whatever kind of factors you consider to be important for an economy.
00:16:45.000 But I think what you're leaving behind in that analysis is the geography and the natural resource allocation of the earth and the accessibility to those things.
00:16:55.000 Those regions.
00:16:56.000 I don't think that the culture necessarily has much to do with it.
00:17:01.000 Okay, that's a fair question.
00:17:02.000 That's a valid question.
00:17:03.000 Let's take two examples here.
00:17:05.000 Let's take two examples where American culture was imposed and two very different results.
00:17:10.000 In South Korea, Japan, and West Germany, following World War II and then following the Korean War, America came, they reestablished the government, and they left them with American Western culture.
00:17:20.000 Now, those three countries thrived.
00:17:22.000 Those three countries, I think we can all agree, are tolerant, democratic, free societies that have material wealth.
00:17:28.000 They are on par with the other developed countries of the West.
00:17:30.000 I think that's true in large measure for most of these places.
00:17:34.000 What happened to Iraq and Afghanistan after 11 years of American occupation?
00:17:40.000 It's still horrible, just like Syria, just like Morocco, Libya, and all the other countries in the Middle East.
00:17:45.000 And this has everything to do with culture, nothing to do with race, nothing to do with anything else. 0.62
00:17:49.000 But you're comparing two examples where there was a similar occupation.
00:17:53.000 We rewrote their constitution in a similar way, we gave them resources in a similar way.
00:17:59.000 And yet, Japan was able to thrive.
00:18:02.000 Singapore has been able to adopt our measures and our culture and thrive.
00:18:06.000 Hong Kong, the same thing.
00:18:07.000 Asia has taken our culture, they've adopted certain measures of it, and they've done very well for themselves. 0.97
00:18:13.000 The Middle East, not so much luck. 0.97
00:18:15.000 And it has everything to do with culture.
00:18:16.000 I think it would actually be a racist proposition to say that culture was not a factor.
00:18:20.000 Because what would the other reasons be for that other than race?
00:18:23.000 It has to be culture.
00:18:32.000 Okay, so.
00:18:33.000 You kind of just argued for multiculturalism.
00:18:36.000 How's that?
00:18:36.000 How's that?
00:18:40.000 By saying that Japan, South Korea, and Hong Kong were able to adopt certain parts of our culture and then thrive because of it, that is multiculturalism.
00:18:49.000 No, that's not the definition of multiculturalism.
00:18:54.000 Multiculturalism is multiple different and distinct cultures living together.
00:18:57.000 And what I am opposed to is not people adopting the good parts of Western culture and assimilating.
00:19:01.000 That's called Americanism.
00:19:03.000 That's what we want in this country.
00:19:04.000 What we don't want, yeah, boo Americanism, right?
00:19:08.000 Because you're not taking advantage of all the liberties and wealth that we've afforded.
00:19:08.000 Right?
00:19:12.000 Yeah, that's right.
00:19:13.000 So, no, that's not an argument for multiculturalism.
00:19:15.000 If you want to take the good things about America, that's what we're for.
00:19:18.000 That's the immigration policy we work for. 1.00
00:19:20.000 Is so long as you adopt the Constitution, so long as you adopt speaking the English language and all the nice elements of our culture, then you can come here and move English, right? 0.99
00:19:31.000 Let's be the Tower of Babel.
00:19:32.000 So long as you adopt. 1.00
00:19:36.000 We don't have an official language, but we have a national language. 0.90
00:19:39.000 The Declaration of Independence, the National Anthem, the Constitution, the Pledge of Allegiance, they're all in English.
00:19:44.000 One vote away from being in German. 0.61
00:19:46.000 What's that?
00:19:47.000 One vote away from being in German. 0.90
00:19:49.000 Yes, everything I don't like is Hitler, everything I don't like is fascist.
00:19:52.000 We've heard all these things before.
00:19:54.000 I don't think that your definition of multiculturalism is correct.
00:20:03.000 Okay, well, then let's talk about definitions.
00:20:06.000 So, my understanding of multiculturalism is the work that is done, it's the emergent property of a global society where cultures come together, find common ground.
00:20:20.000 And then use those things to lay the groundwork for global society, which is the global economy, tourism, those things, all of those things that people are allowed to come and go as they please in most countries in the world, right?
00:20:35.000 Yeah.
00:20:36.000 And so all of that is multiculturalism.
00:20:40.000 No, I think that's a globalist fantasy.
00:20:42.000 The actual definition of multiculturalism is a hope that they can all come together and share the good elements.
00:20:49.000 That is a hope.
00:20:50.000 That is not the definition of multiculturalism. 0.96
00:20:52.000 And I think that that's where there's so much.
00:20:54.000 So many people being misguided as they think that I am against people coming together from different places and sharing good things.
00:21:01.000 We want that.
00:21:02.000 We want them to take the good American things. 0.91
00:21:04.000 And what we don't want is for them to bring the cultures, bring the cultures with them that made the places that they left so bad that they left them in the first place. 0.91
00:21:13.000 If we're talking about multiculturalism, meaning that they come here and they take the good things from America, then there's no argument to be had. 0.60
00:21:20.000 That's not what I'm saying at all.
00:21:22.000 What I'm saying is that multiculturalism, like we, American culture is not Western culture.
00:21:28.000 We have benefited from centuries of people of color being white, of other cultures coming from the world through America.
00:21:41.000 That's not true. 0.96
00:21:42.000 Multiculturalism is the American story. 0.63
00:21:44.000 Multiculturalism is proliferated.
00:21:48.000 It proliferates.
00:21:48.000 Okay, can you?
00:21:49.000 Let me finish.
00:21:50.000 Go for it.
00:21:50.000 So, okay.
00:21:54.000 Besides all of that, if you are saying that we don't want other cultures to come back, And bring the negativity that they supposedly innately have.
00:22:08.000 How do you explain the cultural changes that happen after America comes in and does something, say in like Iran, right?
00:22:16.000 Where they had a completely free situation, not completely free, obviously, a better situation of liberty than post American intervention?
00:22:27.000 Are you saying the.
00:22:28.000 What are you talking about when?
00:22:29.000 Are you talking about when Iran.
00:22:30.000 Are you talking about when Iran was under the Shah?
00:22:33.000 Are you talking about that?
00:22:35.000 No.
00:22:36.000 No, I'm talking about the revolutionary period.
00:22:40.000 79 and post.
00:22:41.000 You think that post revolutionary Iran was better than pre revolutionary Iran? 0.83
00:22:47.000 In some ways, yes, I do. 0.66
00:22:48.000 In what ways? 1.00
00:22:48.000 Women have to wear hijabs. 1.00
00:22:50.000 Yeah, in what ways, please? 1.00
00:22:52.000 No interruptions, guys, come on.
00:22:54.000 Okay, so civil society was growing as it was not under the Shah.
00:23:01.000 And so the important set, you know, this is again, And I know you have contempt for democracy, so this is.
00:23:06.000 I don't have contempt for democracy, but nice track. 0.53
00:23:11.000 The democratic work that is done in civil society that is required for progress was not being done during the Shah. 0.58
00:23:18.000 And the repression of people that did not agree with Americanism was rampant and still is.
00:23:27.000 And there's no oppression in Iran today, right?
00:23:29.000 There's no oppression in the Shia.
00:23:30.000 But I think it's a nationalist reaction to American intervention.
00:23:34.000 Okay, I'm not advocating for American intervention.
00:23:36.000 All right, I think we can come back to this.
00:23:39.000 I think you guys are going to watch our three children.
00:23:41.000 Yeah, do you want to take the Pokemon question?
00:23:44.000 Where are you now?
00:23:45.000 I'm sitting.
00:23:47.000 Yeah, let me just ask you in a moment.
00:23:51.000 Okay.
00:23:51.000 You can sit in a moment.
00:23:55.000 So, Jake, the video of Nicholas was met with a very harsh response online.
00:23:59.000 Some students threatened to, quote, personally fight him, others calling him, quote, a waste of space, hoping he would be shunned by all of BU, some calling him even a Nazi, okay?
00:24:13.000 Now, obviously, Jake, you didn't take part in these nasty comments, but I'd just like to ask if you would like to comment on this incident.
00:24:21.000 Is there something you would like to say to all these people who did make these comments?
00:24:25.000 And do you sympathize with the response?
00:24:32.000 Okay, so obviously, threats of violence are not okay.
00:24:35.000 They're unacceptable regardless of who's saying them, regardless of what direction they're coming from.
00:24:44.000 But.
00:24:45.000 I am not comfortable telling people not to speak their mind when someone, you know, this is a multicultural institution.
00:24:51.000 There are people from all around the world who visit here, who come to school here, and whose cultures make up the fabric of this university. 0.94
00:24:59.000 So, for someone to come in to this university, this multicultural institution, and to say that multiculturalism is cancer, to not expect a reaction is ignorant.
00:25:16.000 And honestly, I, you know, People are defending what they perceive as their liberty to choose how they practice their existence. 0.62
00:25:25.000 You know what I mean?
00:25:26.000 So, in terms of being a waste of space, I disagree with that.
00:25:30.000 But, you know, it's not against the First Amendment.
00:25:34.000 I'm fine with it being expressed.
00:25:38.000 And in terms of you being a Nazi, I do think you're engaged with fascist rhetoric.
00:25:43.000 So, are you a Nazi?
00:25:45.000 No. 0.76
00:25:46.000 Ripto Nazi, maybe.
00:25:48.000 We're all adults here.
00:25:50.000 Is that it?
00:25:52.000 Do you have a response for that?
00:25:56.000 I do.
00:25:57.000 So, essentially, and here's what I heard.
00:25:57.000 I do.
00:26:00.000 Correct me if I'm wrong, audience, because this is a pretty interactive session.
00:26:03.000 I didn't know that.
00:26:03.000 But so, you said that for me to come to this multicultural campus and exercise my First Amendment and say I think that multiculturalism is cancer, which I do, you're saying that it was ignorant for me not to expect that I would be bullied, harassed, have threats issued against me.
00:26:21.000 I think that is what the liberals call victim blaming.
00:26:24.000 My question then, of course, of course.
00:26:28.000 That's not what I said.
00:26:30.000 I said, of course.
00:26:32.000 I expected a reaction.
00:26:34.000 I thought that we could be adults.
00:26:35.000 Well, you know, actually, no, I will say this.
00:26:37.000 I was unsurprised.
00:26:39.000 I was really unsurprised because the climate, the current political climate in 2016, has been so hostile, and it's come from the left.
00:26:48.000 The left, laugh it up, but the Democrats are the ones that are sending people at their rallies to get punched in the face and picking fights with Trump supporters.
00:26:48.000 And it's come from the left.
00:26:57.000 Look it up.
00:26:58.000 Project Veritas, James O'Keefe.
00:27:00.000 They don't play it on CNN, but it's happening.
00:27:02.000 He talked to me.
00:27:03.000 He talked to me about you should expect a response.
00:27:06.000 Of course, I expected a response, but I also expect that we can be decent, that we can be civil, and that of all people, the left could be tolerant of an opinion different from their own, even if we are on a multicultural campus. 0.82
00:27:17.000 For you to try to lecture people on modes of conduct is completely ridiculous when you're engaged in cyber brown shirting almost every night. 0.82
00:27:24.000 Cyber brown shirting, explain that to me. 1.00
00:27:27.000 You'd like to troll leftists to make them look like they're terrible people. 0.92
00:27:31.000 But in reality, what you're doing is seeking a reaction, and just the same way the brown shirts did. 0.77
00:27:31.000 That's not true. 0.77
00:27:38.000 And Nazi Germany.
00:27:39.000 It's the same inflammatory, knee jerk reaction so that the right can gain political power.
00:27:43.000 It's opportunism at its finest.
00:27:45.000 Everything that I've gotten, everything that has been leveled against me was activist.
00:27:50.000 Nothing that I have done was not in response to something else.
00:27:53.000 I said nothing about my BU Today video.
00:27:56.000 It was Zach Schiffman who said, hey, how about that guy who's against multiculturalism?
00:28:00.000 Are we ready to shun him?
00:28:01.000 Are all the BU students ready to shun him? 1.00
00:28:02.000 I said, I want a male Hillary Clinton supporter to chop off his balls. 1.00
00:28:05.000 No, I said, let me clarify. 1.00
00:28:08.000 In response, guys, let's calm down.
00:28:18.000 We're all at most.
00:28:18.000 What's wrong with you?
00:28:19.000 Come on.
00:28:20.000 Right on.
00:28:20.000 Well, guys, we will have a chance for everyone to ask a question, but please just let these guys talk to each other uninterruptedly.
00:28:32.000 Sure.
00:28:32.000 So now, let me clarify.
00:28:34.000 Now, I asked Zach Schiffman very politely because it was an honest question.
00:28:38.000 I said, Are you with Unix for Hillary? 0.99
00:28:40.000 Now, of course, we know that eunuchs don't have balls. 1.00
00:28:44.000 But again, that was in response. 0.99
00:28:46.000 That was in a response for his call for social ostracism, that I be excommunicated.
00:28:51.000 Now, maybe that's a form of collectivist authoritarianism.
00:28:54.000 I think you're very blind. 0.74
00:28:56.000 Of all people, you're a Marxist, and you're going to say that because I'm a little bit to the right, I am a fascist.
00:29:01.000 Meanwhile, a Marxist over here is going to pretend like Marxism has such a clean slate.
00:29:06.000 If you want me to talk about Marxism, I can for like four hours.
00:29:06.000 No.
00:29:10.000 I don't, but I just want us all to understand.
00:29:13.000 The double standard is just a blank.
00:29:15.000 Jay, do you have anything to add relating to this issue?
00:29:20.000 No, no.
00:29:20.000 Like the video?
00:29:21.000 Okay.
00:29:21.000 All right, so now we can.
00:29:23.000 I would like to move into the crossfire section where you guys can ask each other questions.
00:29:27.000 So, Nick.
00:29:28.000 There you go.
00:29:40.000 So they're just going to alternate.
00:29:45.000 One person's going to ask a question, the other one will have a chance to respond, and then vice versa.
00:29:58.000 Okay.
00:30:00.000 So, which one first?
00:30:02.000 Yeah.
00:30:03.000 My question for Jake is Are all cultures equal?
00:30:09.000 If so, how possible? 1.00
00:30:10.000 How is that possible?
00:30:13.000 Okay, so just for transparency's sake, we sent each other these questions earlier through Alec.
00:30:20.000 So, these responses, my response is a little long, right?
00:30:23.000 This is a very big question.
00:30:26.000 So, I'm going to answer it in four or five parts.
00:30:29.000 I apologize for that.
00:30:33.000 The first thing I want to say about this is that I believe that trying to compare cultures is ultimately futile.
00:30:41.000 And the reason for that being is that there are no metrics that can measure.
00:30:44.000 The true weight of culture and people's agency without somehow reducing this weight into something arbitrary to understand.
00:30:53.000 Instead, I believe we should focus on how to treat individuals with respect and allow every person to live their life as they see fit, either within the larger American culture, within a subculture, or completely anonymous.
00:31:07.000 Yeah, sorry, that's a problem.
00:31:08.000 So, in my opinion, neither a state nor a nation should have the right to use agency.
00:31:16.000 To mutilate an individual's cultural identity.
00:31:19.000 And the UN agrees with this.
00:31:20.000 They classify any such actions as cultural genocide.
00:31:25.000 But are they created equal?
00:31:27.000 That is the question.
00:31:30.000 Are they equal in other ways somehow?
00:31:31.000 I said that they couldn't be broken down into parts, but let me try.
00:31:35.000 Are they equal in genesis?
00:31:36.000 Yes, they are.
00:31:37.000 All cultures are created by complex interaction between people.
00:31:41.000 That is what makes culture.
00:31:43.000 Are they equal in function?
00:31:45.000 Yes, all cultures are equally capable of producing functional.
00:31:49.000 Civilizations, functional civilizations, I'm sorry.
00:31:54.000 The idea of human rights, for example, is that those things are not delivered to us by God or by even our culture.
00:32:02.000 Instead, they're delivered by the thing that delivers our culture.
00:32:04.000 They're determined by the discourse under God and civil society.
00:32:09.000 The discourse, this discourse, is commonplace in international institutions like the UN, which drafted the Declaration of Human Rights, and in my opinion, proves that all cultures are equally.
00:32:21.000 Capable of working towards a situation of perfect liberty, equality, and fraternity.
00:32:27.000 But that doesn't mean that all cultures are equal in the specifics of their historical situation.
00:32:34.000 And I think this is where differences in cultures come up.
00:32:39.000 And many constructivists, people who focus on the role of culture in international relations, believe that this is the genesis of the propensity for cultures to have phobias and prejudices.
00:32:51.000 For example, Let me take Russia for example.
00:32:54.000 In recent years, the Kremlin has cracked down on allowing gay rights to make any headway in Russia.
00:32:58.000 Why?
00:33:00.000 I don't believe it's because the Russian people are just somehow more naturally inclined to be homophobic because of their cultural identity that they've inherited. 0.60
00:33:09.000 I think it's a nationalist response to actions seen as working against Russian interests on the international stage. 0.70
00:33:15.000 I think that the Orthodox Church is being played up as a symbol of Russian identity for the purpose of nationalism.
00:33:25.000 And I think that institutionalized homophobia serves to create a large divide of the people of Russia and the West.
00:33:31.000 And it helps maintain Russia's focus on pronatalism as a means of bolstering their population for the sake of economic productivity and national defense.
00:33:42.000 And my last point is that the United States and Western culture as a whole is not above being riddled with its prejudices and phobias that we like to point out as being lesser parts of other cultures.
00:33:57.000 Little regard in this country is given for the economic rights of people outside of our borders whom we infringe.
00:34:05.000 Upon every day.
00:34:08.000 And we still have rampant racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc.
00:34:14.000 We disproportionately incarcerate white people and have more people incarcerated percentage wise than any other country on earth.
00:34:22.000 Even here at BU, just a few days ago, a student was assaulted seemingly due to the color of the skin.
00:34:29.000 So, for all of these reasons, I have a hard time saying that any cultures are equal or unequal.
00:34:39.000 But that they're working together to build something that all of us, all the people of the earth, can share together.
00:34:51.000 Under two minutes.
00:34:54.000 So we can't compare other cultures because there's no metric.
00:34:57.000 I think the things that we value are things that are universally worth valuing.
00:35:01.000 Things like human rights, things like gender equality, pluralism, tolerance, freedom, wealth.
00:35:07.000 I think all of those are worth valuing as a measure of success of a civilization and their culture.
00:35:11.000 And I think that the West.
00:35:13.000 Output transcript Outbreaks every other one.
00:35:14.000 Now, you said that human rights are an example of how all cultures are equal. 0.62
00:35:19.000 I think that's ironic, especially in the case of the UN, when you have countries like Libya in charge of the Human Rights Commission.
00:35:25.000 Now, if you know anything about Libya, you know that Libya isn't exactly a bastion for human rights. 0.74
00:35:30.000 Human rights, as it exists in its present form, is a Western conception.
00:35:35.000 The Westphalian nation state happens to be a Western conception.
00:35:39.000 China doesn't do so hot on human rights, most countries in Asia don't.
00:35:43.000 Africa doesn't do so hot on human rights.
00:35:44.000 The Middle East, again, not so great on human rights.
00:35:47.000 Eastern Europe itself, not so great on human rights. 0.79
00:35:50.000 And that goes back to the difference between race and culture. 0.95
00:35:53.000 I'm very willing to acknowledge that the white Slavs of Eastern Europe and in Russia are not as good on human rights as the West. 0.92
00:36:00.000 That just goes to show that it is culture which matters and not race. 0.93
00:36:03.000 Now, you said that Russians are not naturally predisposed to being against homosexuals.
00:36:08.000 I don't dispute that.
00:36:09.000 Of course, no race is predisposed to any characteristic.
00:36:12.000 If you bring a race into America and you raise them with Western culture, They will become a citizen of Western civilization with that Western culture.
00:36:20.000 No one is immune to Western culture.
00:36:22.000 However, when you have cultures prevalent in these different continents and among these different civilizations, they do imbue certain things, which then those people of that cultural region naturally have.
00:36:34.000 So I have some statutes.
00:36:35.000 Funny that you bring that up.
00:36:37.000 27 out of 48 states in Asia, only 27 out of 48 countries in Asia is same sex sexual activity legal.
00:36:46.000 22 out of 56 in Africa, 25 out of 35 in the Americas.
00:36:52.000 In the European Union, same sex sexual activity has never been illegal.
00:36:57.000 In America, it's legal.
00:36:59.000 In Canada, legal.
00:37:00.000 Australia, legal.
00:37:02.000 New Zealand, legal.
00:37:04.000 Now, if you went to Russia, you'd probably run into some trouble.
00:37:07.000 If you went anywhere in the Middle East, it'd be trouble.
00:37:10.000 Africa, it'd be trouble. 1.00
00:37:11.000 Not here, not anywhere in the West. 1.00
00:37:13.000 And that is a metric that you can judge why the West is better.
00:37:17.000 All right.
00:37:22.000 So, all of these things, you completely ignored the materialism argument, which is that Russia and all these other places, as you mentioned, have these human rights abuses because they are economically predisposed to require homophobia.
00:37:39.000 It's required for the economy of Russia that you have homophobia? 0.62
00:37:42.000 Okay, it's not required, but it helps because pronatalism is a program that helps increase the. 0.66
00:37:50.000 Population out of this homosexuality and a lot of sexual deviant behavior actually comes to hurt the demographics of America. 0.95
00:37:58.000 But I'm not sure, maybe I misspoke. 0.96
00:38:02.000 But a lot of the oh, oh, I'm not trying to conflate deviant sexual behavior with homosexuality.
00:38:08.000 I'm just saying, in general, liberal tolerance of post sexual revolution attitudes of sexuality, which includes a big umbrella of things, has come at the detriment of American demographics and American economy.
00:38:19.000 You can't argue.
00:38:20.000 That the Western birth rate has been declining because of changing attitudes towards sex and the family.
00:38:25.000 Now, if what you're saying is true about materialism, we would try and combat those trends because it would be bad for the economy and demography. 0.55
00:38:33.000 But instead, we have encouraged them because it's more free, it's more tolerant, and it's better for the earthlings that you like to talk about.
00:38:41.000 It's better for our economy because we have a focus on relative surplus value and are a labor intensive economy. 0.98
00:38:47.000 I am hearing a lot of Marxist jargon.
00:38:49.000 It is hurting our economy that you're not having children in Italy that.
00:38:53.000 Only 400,000 people are being born in Italy every year.
00:38:57.000 That's doing no good.
00:38:59.000 Italy, I don't know if maybe this is unclear, but if you don't have a population, it doesn't matter the infrastructure, you're going to have less economic activity.
00:39:08.000 Japan has a rapidly declining population in their economic risks.
00:39:12.000 And their economy will decline along with it.
00:39:14.000 I think if you're trying to make the argument that population is not intrinsically linked to economic activity, I think you'll find that's a losing argument.
00:39:22.000 I'm not even, I mean, okay.
00:39:24.000 I don't believe that it is, personally, and technology is the reason for that, but it's kind of a side point.
00:39:29.000 What I'm saying is that these differences in economic necessity are what give rise to cultural difference.
00:39:36.000 And you seem to be agreeing with me.
00:39:38.000 No, I don't think I am.
00:39:41.000 That's one example, but.
00:39:42.000 That's true.
00:39:44.000 Let's move on to that.
00:39:47.000 Okay, let me follow up for a second.
00:39:59.000 That would be awesome.
00:40:15.000 Okay, the first question.
00:40:19.000 Yeah.
00:40:19.000 You said that Trump is more important than democracy on your website.
00:40:23.000 Do you really believe that an authorian form of government, like the kind that emerged in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s, would be better for America than democracy?
00:40:33.000 Yes, I did say on my website, which is nicholasjfuentes.com.
00:40:37.000 That's nicholasjfuentes.com.
00:40:44.000 I did say that Trump is more important than democracy, and let me explain that.
00:40:48.000 Now, you jumped to a conclusion there, and I'm not going to fault you for it because a lot of liberals do this.
00:40:53.000 It's not a conclusion.
00:40:54.000 I've heard that you said that you think that the people have had their way.
00:40:58.000 The title is Trump is, I did say that, but I think here's where the misunderstanding comes into play.
00:41:03.000 Here's where the misunderstanding comes into play.
00:41:06.000 I don't think that we should have a fascistic, Mussolini, yeah, go Hitler, let's have that instead of democracy.
00:41:11.000 The argument that I made in that post was that democracy is not the priority in this country.
00:41:17.000 Ben Franklin, when he was asked what type of government, He and the founders had created at the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention.
00:41:23.000 He said, A republic, if you can keep it.
00:41:25.000 And republican and democratic sovereignty are different.
00:41:29.000 And this is an important distinction to be made.
00:41:31.000 In a republic, each individual is sovereign.
00:41:34.000 They are endowed with their creator by unalienable rights life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
00:41:38.000 You call this human rights.
00:41:40.000 A lot of people call this positive and negative rights.
00:41:42.000 But there's this conception that each individual is the ruler of himself.
00:41:46.000 And that government derives its legitimacy from the consent of those sovereign individuals.
00:41:51.000 Democracy says that.
00:41:53.000 The government can do whatever it wants so long as it gets 50% plus one to vote.
00:41:56.000 That is the definition of democratic sovereignty.
00:41:59.000 That's why you have democracy in Iran.
00:42:00.000 That's why you have democracy in the Soviet Union.
00:42:02.000 That's why you have democracy in Cuba.
00:42:04.000 Though they may not be actual majorities, the legitimacy of these corrupted, tyrannical governments derives from the 50% plus one metric.
00:42:13.000 Now, I said that Trump is more important than democracy because if Hillary Clinton, by hook or by crook, gets elected and she shreds our Constitution and takes away our individual rights, it is incumbent on we the people.
00:42:27.000 To uprise against a tyrannical government and restore a government up by and for the people, one that receives its rights and its authority from a constitution which we consent to.
00:42:37.000 And I think that trading away the futures of our children because of the sanctity of the ballot box is a mistake.
00:42:44.000 I think that if we're going to give up our second, first, tenth, fourth, fifth amendment rights, that we're going to go to war with Russia and Syria because Hillary Clinton was democratically elected, and God forbid we ever go against the democratic result.
00:42:57.000 I think it's a mistake.
00:42:58.000 I think Republican sovereignty is what matters the most. 0.98
00:43:00.000 It's ridiculous.
00:43:12.000 To take away the necessity for democracy for legitimacy completely destroys the Constitution as a social contract.
00:43:23.000 There's no way for us to represent people to have a document that we say is.
00:43:31.000 Binding to people for when they're born to when they're died, when they enter this country.
00:43:38.000 You know, to say that that cannot be changed by the people, to say that that can't be, you know, superseded by popular opinion, that takes away sovereignty, individual sovereignty.
00:43:52.000 Republican sovereignty is not more important than the right of the individual to political sovereignty.
00:43:58.000 Now, I never said, I never said that we can never change the Constitution.
00:44:02.000 But there is a process.
00:44:03.000 It's called the amendment process.
00:44:05.000 And you can do that through Congress, you can do that through state legislatures, but you cannot rewrite the Constitution from the bench of the Supreme Court.
00:44:12.000 And that is what I am worried about. 0.88
00:44:13.000 And the individual rights that I'm talking about are not the cult of tradition, this Mussolini, we hate everyone that isn't white. 0.73
00:44:21.000 The rights that I'm talking about are that you're free to express your opinion, that you are free to bear arms, so that if a government says that you can't express yourself, we can overturn that government. 0.66
00:44:31.000 So, what I'm talking about with Republican sovereignty are the most basic foundational rights that the Constitution observes, not grants.
00:44:38.000 The government does not give rights.
00:44:40.000 Our rights come, and natural rights doctrine has problems if you're an atheist, but our rights come from someplace other than man.
00:44:47.000 We are born with them.
00:44:48.000 So I think that canceling the Constitution because Hillary Clinton picked a couple of judges and then the Senate ratified them, and then the judges said, actually, free speech means this, and the Second Amendment means this, and the Fifth Amendment means that, through no representative process, as you know, the Supreme Court justices are not elected, I think that is what we must oppose. 0.88
00:45:06.000 That is what takes away from sovereignty, is when a couple of old white men, as we all like to say, in black robes, are rewriting the foundational document of this country. 0.75
00:45:17.000 We can't allow it to happen, even if Hillary Clinton is democratically elected. 0.90
00:45:24.000 I don't understand.
00:45:25.000 What are you afraid of Hillary Clinton doing in the Constitution specifically?
00:45:29.000 Here's a perfect example.
00:45:30.000 So, on the D.C. versus Heller decision on the Second Amendment, Hillary Clinton said that the Supreme Court made the wrong call.
00:45:36.000 Now, what the Supreme Court ruled in the D.C. versus Heller decision is that the Second Amendment, the right to bear arms, is an individual right and not a collective right.
00:45:45.000 Now, if you were to go the other way, say it's a collective right, that opens the door for the confiscation of guns.
00:45:51.000 Now, everyone says, oh, you know, don't worry, Tea Party loony, they're not coming to take your guns.
00:45:56.000 But Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, without fail, in any conversation on gun control, say the Australian example is worth looking at.
00:46:05.000 The British example is something worth looking at.
00:46:07.000 And you don't have any guns in those places.
00:46:09.000 They either had them bought or they became illegal.
00:46:12.000 And the Second Amendment is what safeguards all the others.
00:46:14.000 I know that may be a ridiculous proposition in a place like Boston, but you tell me if the government owns all the guns, you don't have private property.
00:46:24.000 If you don't do what the government says and the government says, well, your house is my house now and they have all the guns, Who does it really belong to?
00:46:31.000 And so that's why we need the Second Amendment.
00:46:33.000 And that's just one example of how nine justices are going to shred our Constitution, and that's going to be the gateway to do it.
00:46:42.000 So you think we need the right to bear arms to protect us from a government with nuclear weapons?
00:46:48.000 Yes.
00:46:57.000 A valid question, but I think anybody that thinks that the people, 300 Million people with more than 300 million guns in this country cannot defeat the American government.
00:47:08.000 Do they know what the Afghanistan war was?
00:47:10.000 Do they know what the Vietnam war was?
00:47:12.000 And do they know who won those wars?
00:47:13.000 I think that the idea that America is going to start nuking and droning the population into submission, defending our sovereign American rights on our home turf, that we will go away and surrender, I think that maybe they didn't read a liberal history book which said that a few people with modern day weapons in their homes and in their cities can take down any government, no matter how big, because we're fighting with heart.
00:47:35.000 We're fighting for our rights and we're fighting for the rights of our children.
00:47:38.000 So.
00:47:42.000 We need guns to protect us from the government.
00:47:44.000 Yes.
00:47:45.000 But we don't need to worry about the government attacking us.
00:47:48.000 No, that's why we need the guns, because the government may attack us.
00:47:50.000 But if the government attacked us, they could destroy us very easily.
00:47:56.000 As I just said.
00:47:57.000 With airplanes.
00:47:58.000 Like, there are, you know, it's not just nuclear weapons we're talking about.
00:48:02.000 If you think a handgun or even a machine gun is going to stop you from getting UAV'd, You're out of your mind.
00:48:09.000 See, maybe playing a little bit too much Call of Duty, but as I just said in my example, as I just said in my example, if you know it, and let me give a little brief history of the war in Afghanistan.
00:48:27.000 Can I just give my show?
00:48:29.000 Let me give you a little brief history on the war in Afghanistan.
00:48:33.000 We've been in there, we've been in Afghanistan.
00:48:37.000 I guess I'm going to wrap it up.
00:48:38.000 Thank you. 0.90
00:48:39.000 We've been in Afghanistan for 15 years, and men in rags.
00:48:42.000 With AK 47s, we were able to repel the might of the American army.
00:48:47.000 I think if you think that 300 million people with their 300 million guns can't take on the American government in a war in America, I think that's a mistake.
00:49:03.000 You guys didn't print out two copies of the question sheet?
00:49:11.000 All right.
00:49:12.000 So.
00:49:13.000 Are you, Jake, at all hesitant to vote for a woman with such close ties to special interests and Wall Street?
00:49:21.000 I'm going to answer this frankly.
00:49:23.000 Yes, and I did not vote for Hillary Clinton.
00:49:29.000 Oh.
00:49:30.000 So, yeah.
00:49:31.000 Good.
00:49:32.000 We need more people like you.
00:49:33.000 I'm here to defend Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump.
00:49:36.000 Okay.
00:49:37.000 If I had to choose, I would have chosen Hillary Clinton.
00:49:39.000 But I would have preferred if everyone in this room and everyone in the country would have written in and tried again.
00:49:45.000 Because I think this election is a sham.
00:49:47.000 Okay, well, I agree.
00:49:51.000 Look at that.
00:49:52.000 I agree.
00:49:53.000 I invite all liberals to write in.
00:49:55.000 Try it.
00:49:56.000 Everywhere.
00:50:00.000 Specifically in New Hampshire.
00:50:02.000 Okay, I'll go on to the next one.
00:50:03.000 I'm from Ohio, too, so I can do some.
00:50:06.000 Thank you.
00:50:08.000 We should be friends.
00:50:09.000 Do you believe?
00:50:12.000 Do you believe that the concentrated power which a Clinton administration would create in Washington, DC, do you believe that that could be harmful to America?
00:50:23.000 Okay, no.
00:50:25.000 Because I think that if Hillary Clinton wins, Republicans will win Congress for all eight years.
00:50:25.000 And here's why.
00:50:31.000 That's my assumption.
00:50:33.000 And so I think Schilberl is a moderate Republican.
00:50:36.000 I think that she will put forward some programs that are not obviously Republican in mind.
00:50:44.000 But I think in general, she'll be a moderate Republican.
00:50:47.000 Now, Donald Trump, on the other hand, I think if he won, there would be a Democratic insurgency. 0.90
00:50:51.000 And I think Washington's power would grow under a completely incompetent doofus.
00:50:58.000 So I'm not concerned about Hillary Clinton concentrating power necessarily. 1.00
00:51:03.000 Obama did concentrate power in Washington.
00:51:05.000 I don't think that's Hillary Clinton's aesthetic.
00:51:08.000 It's not her aesthetic, yes.
00:51:10.000 Well, see, the left leaning organization, WikiLeaks, said that every political power broker in the country is with Hillary Clinton.
00:51:19.000 That's the military industrial complex, that's the bureaucracy.
00:51:23.000 That's every major institution, the media.
00:51:24.000 I don't think you can argue that one.
00:51:26.000 You look on NBC News' Twitter page, I don't think you'll find.
00:51:29.000 And that's not some plot. 0.99
00:51:30.000 That's because Donald Trump scares the shit out of everybody. 0.99
00:51:34.000 I don't think. 0.98
00:51:34.000 I'm not saying it's an orchestrated plot, but I think you can discount so easily the power which she has accumulated and the power which she would exercise. 0.98
00:51:43.000 I think that if you're saying that Clinton will get rid of all the concentrated power which Barack Obama and the Democrats have, that's not what I'm saying.
00:51:51.000 You're saying it's not her aesthetic.
00:51:53.000 So she will have all of the power and increasing, but she won't exercise. 0.97
00:51:58.000 I don't think she'll increase it. 0.85
00:51:59.000 I think it will stay the same.
00:52:00.000 I genuinely believe we will have a stagnated Obama type presidency for the next eight years.
00:52:06.000 All right, thanks so much.
00:52:16.000 Hold on.
00:52:19.000 Let's see here.
00:52:21.000 Okay, I'm going to ask the really annoying question that might be too academic.
00:52:32.000 So, I think you've talked about this already.
00:52:34.000 So, you use the positive and negative rights methodology in a lot of your arguments about economics.
00:52:40.000 How do you account for the capitalist's positive right to profits on stock and Adam Smith's understanding of a market economy at London and the World of Nations?
00:52:49.000 Specifically, how does this positive right not pen a negative right on laborers to be forced to labor beyond what is required to produce what is necessary for society and their own needs indefinitely?
00:53:00.000 Yes, so a very academic question indeed.
00:53:03.000 Now, property rights are not positive rights, they are negative rights.
00:53:08.000 I think if you conflate contracts with the right to the product of your labor, I think that's where the misunderstanding arises.
00:53:15.000 The right for a free sovereign individual is to combine toil with resources and produce something.
00:53:20.000 If you go out and you Chop down a tree and you build a house?
00:53:23.000 That's labor, that's not profits on stock.
00:53:25.000 Profits on stock in particular.
00:53:26.000 Okay, well, if you're talking about profits on stock, I think that more refers to contract.
00:53:31.000 And contract, you have no right to have a contract on it.
00:53:35.000 I think everyone has the negative right to opt out of a contract.
00:53:38.000 I think that's pertaining more to ethics than it is to natural rights doctrine.
00:53:43.000 I don't believe it is a negative right.
00:53:46.000 I think you are confused on what a negative right is because it doesn't put a negative right on someone that a company is publicly owned and traded on the stock market.
00:53:55.000 Are working on the factory line, it is your negative right to walk out the door.
00:53:59.000 It is also your negative right to continue working.
00:54:02.000 It's a good time to remind people that all transactions in a capitalist economy must necessarily benefit both parties.
00:54:10.000 That's why they occur, because they are voluntary transactions.
00:54:13.000 Now, you talk about wage slavery and things of that nature, but it gets away from the fact that all contracts between consenting individuals, whether that be between an employer and a worker, or between a husband and a wife, or anything of the sort, You're talking about two people that are choosing to engage in that contract because it benefits them.
00:54:32.000 And that's the reason why.
00:54:34.000 Because there's no other option.
00:54:35.000 The capitalist economy uses profits on stock as the fundamental groundwork for all enterprise.
00:54:43.000 So to say that people don't have, you know, or they have a choice in the matter is completely invalid.
00:54:52.000 And you know what?
00:54:52.000 There might be some examples where profits on stock is not the methodology for every industry in the capitalist economy.
00:54:58.000 But it is.
00:54:59.000 By and large, used for almost every industry.
00:55:03.000 That is a mechanism that has come about later in capitalism.
00:55:07.000 It was in Adam Smith's wealth of nations.
00:55:09.000 It was completely jiggling the space for that.
00:55:13.000 But it didn't come to dominate the economy as they do until later.
00:55:16.000 But it gets away from the fundamental point.
00:55:18.000 I'm not talking about stock market options here.
00:55:20.000 I'm talking about profits on stock, as in my right as a capitalist.
00:55:23.000 If I lay down money on something, if I buy this table, for example, I have a right to, for everyone who sits there, I have a right to X amount of whatever they produce.
00:55:34.000 If you purchase something and it becomes your property, then you get to dictate the terms on which people use that service.
00:55:39.000 That's called a contract.
00:55:41.000 If someone sits there, they're unfringing your negative rights, but you are property and left alone.
00:55:44.000 So you have a contract that makes people indefinitely have to toil for you.
00:55:48.000 You don't have a positive right to the contract, but if you're talking about stock as in capital, capital is an extension of the individual.
00:55:57.000 Because, and this is sort of the hierarchy that I've observed in Bastiat's book, The Law.
00:56:02.000 Sorry for people, we're getting a little bogged down in academics.
00:56:05.000 Will reserve the Trump Clinton sensational festival.
00:56:09.000 Another minute on this one, sure. 0.55
00:56:10.000 For the academics in the audience, in the hierarchy that Bastiat sets up, and for those of you atheists, I know there's a lot of godless hippies out there.
00:56:21.000 Bastiat.
00:56:24.000 I know they're out there. 1.00
00:56:27.000 Give it up for the godless hippies.
00:56:31.000 What Bastiat said Bastiat said that individuals get their rights from God.
00:56:39.000 And through our faculties, which are God given, we produce things, tables, we work, we gain money, we purchase things.
00:56:48.000 And because we earn all of these things in economic capital through profit, which is determined through individual toil, through our faculties, our senses, our talents, and so on, that's seen as an extension and equally protected under naturalized doctrine.
00:57:01.000 But you can get the final word.
00:57:03.000 It's a boring debate, which has been going on for centuries here.
00:57:07.000 What you're talking about is labor.
00:57:08.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0.55
00:57:09.000 So, what you're talking about is objectified labor.
00:57:12.000 You're not talking about profits on stock here.
00:57:13.000 Again, profits on stock is the fixed capital that you buy that you, for some reason, apparently by God, have the right to charge people for forever.
00:57:22.000 It is completely, it's the fundamental aspect of capitalism that is used to exploit people for both absolute and relative surplus value that has caused children to die in factories and has put structural adjustment programs all around the world.
00:57:42.000 Which is a neoliberal program that you should oppose of all people.
00:57:45.000 I do.
00:57:45.000 I do oppose the IMF and the structural adjustment scheme.
00:57:48.000 The structural adjustment scheme comes from this concept of the natural right to profits on stock.
00:57:56.000 It comes from globalism, but.
00:58:00.000 Let's wrap it up there and we'll continue on to the next.
00:58:09.000 Do you want to close the statement and then we're going to open it up to the audience?
00:58:15.000 So everyone here has questions, right?
00:58:18.000 Good.
00:58:19.000 Good.
00:58:35.000 Okay, so tonight we heard a discussion about Hoover, Clinton, and Donald Trump, but I think more importantly, we heard a discussion on globalism and nationalism and multiculturalism and whatever the absence of multiculturalism looks like in the 21st century.
00:59:01.000 But What I want people to take away from this is that we are in a very precarious place politically.
00:59:11.000 I didn't vote for Hillary Clinton because I couldn't sleep at night if I voted for her, right?
00:59:15.000 But at the same time, I understand that many of you can't sleep at night if you know that you're helping Donald Trump get to the White House.
00:59:23.000 So it's incumbent upon each of us in the future to make sure that an election like this does not happen again.
00:59:30.000 And I hope that we can all commit ourselves to that.
00:59:42.000 Well, we have heard a debate on Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton.
00:59:47.000 I think my opponent very poignantly said it is more so a debate about globalism versus nationalism.
00:59:53.000 Now, I've made the case for nationalism, and though it might not have persuaded all of you, I would implore you all to look at the Declaration of Independence, to look at the Constitution, and look at what it says.
01:00:06.000 We are endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
01:00:11.000 And really, what else is that?
01:00:13.000 Explain everything then.
01:00:15.000 My opposition.
01:00:17.000 Always be closing.
01:00:21.000 That's what they say.
01:00:23.000 Now, my opposition to multiculturalism comes not from a place of racism, of hatred, of bigotry.
01:00:29.000 It comes from none of those places.
01:00:31.000 Ayn Rand said that racism is the most primitive form of collectivism.
01:00:36.000 It's a good quote, even if you don't like her.
01:00:39.000 Now, I'm not a racist, but the things that I am for are things that all of us here today in this institution are for, which are tolerance, diversity, pluralism.
01:00:49.000 And above all else, freedom.
01:00:51.000 Now, if we're living in a country where Washington, D.C., the media, the establishment, the politics, the economy, and the Western world is controlled by a small group of crony, well connected elite, I think you'd be hard pressed to say that this country, as it exists, can endure long, and it won't.
01:01:08.000 So I would encourage you to, if not vote for Donald Trump, vote your conscience, like my opponent.
01:01:13.000 It does us a lot of favors.
01:01:14.000 Election day is November 8th for Republicans and November 9th for Democrats.
01:01:18.000 So go out and do your patriotic duty and vote.
01:01:21.000 Thank you.
01:01:26.000 Okay, great.
01:01:27.000 So now, if anyone has a question, you can line up right down the middle.
01:01:32.000 Cameron.
01:01:33.000 Oh, man.
01:01:34.000 All right, listen.
01:01:36.000 So this is how we're going to do it.
01:01:37.000 We're going to have on this side, if you would like, we're going to try and form two lines there if possible.
01:01:44.000 I would like to alternate between these two.
01:01:52.000 Right, so one for Jake, one for Nick, et cetera.
01:01:55.000 So just.
01:01:57.000 Why not?
01:02:08.000 Okay, let's do it like that.
01:02:08.000 Like this?
01:02:11.000 Alright, if you have a question for Jake, line up along the sides here.
01:02:16.000 And if you have a question for Nick, line up along this side.
01:02:19.000 That's the order we did, okay?
01:02:25.000 Just try and stay off to the side.
01:02:34.000 But guys, move the line off to the side.
01:02:39.000 So, like.
01:02:42.000 Yeah, move the line that way.
01:02:44.000 Against the wall.
01:02:47.000 Guys, can you move?
01:02:49.000 If you're second with Whitney, can you guys move the line back?
01:02:55.000 Up against the wall, please, just so everyone still has a clear view who's in the front row.
01:03:03.000 Wall.
01:03:05.000 Wall, please.
01:03:07.000 Guys, can you guys move back?
01:03:08.000 Back up.
01:03:09.000 Back up and go.
01:03:17.000 Okay, all right, so you have a question.
01:03:20.000 So, if you can just introduce yourself and address.
01:03:24.000 How are you doing?
01:03:26.000 My name is Andre.
01:03:27.000 I have a question that's kind of a similar question for both of you, actually.
01:03:31.000 But, Nick, in your blog, the post that had come up, sort of an extension of what we were talking about before, the Donald Trump democracy, I have a direct quote here, and I'll read it right off because I don't want to get anything twisted.
01:03:43.000 Through their graves, the founders, they urge us to pursue the peaceful and legitimate means of the government which they created.
01:03:49.000 And if that fails, then to take up arms and remind the professional politicians who runs this country.
01:03:54.000 Now, this is kind of, would you encourage an armed rebellion after the election if your candidate doesn't win?
01:04:01.000 And sort of, same thing for Jake, would you encourage that if Hillary Clinton lost this election?
01:04:07.000 If it could win, yes, absolutely.
01:04:10.000 Because what we're going to see if Hillary Clinton is elected is two things. 0.82
01:04:12.000 We're going to see her fill four Supreme Court justice seats, we're going to see her legalize 11 million, possibly more, illegal immigrants. 0.98
01:04:21.000 Now, that's going to have two effects. 1.00
01:04:23.000 It will change the balance of the Supreme Court in favor of liberal activists for generations, possibly until the end of time.
01:04:30.000 Two, the second effect is that Republicans will never win the White House ever again. 0.82
01:04:35.000 They will never win the Senate ever again, because those illegals that are legalized will turn Colorado, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico blue again until the end of time. 0.80
01:04:43.000 Now, my opposition to that is not because of liberalism. 0.99
01:04:46.000 My opposition to that is quite because of the contrary.
01:04:49.000 Because when you have one party that runs three branches of government ad infinitum, I think that you will never.
01:04:57.000 Be able to maintain or have a free society.
01:04:59.000 So I would say that if the Republicans were in this position, I'd say that the Democrats are in this position.
01:05:03.000 So while I don't want to encourage violence because I don't want the Secret Service to pay me a visit, I would say that it is worth resisting by legal and possibly less than legal means.
01:05:17.000 We want to have a rights.
01:05:21.000 Okay, yeah.
01:05:24.000 Jake, I'll offer a quick response then.
01:05:28.000 I, you know, I'm a Marxist. 0.96
01:05:31.000 There's a lot of us who have done some pretty crazy shit over the years. 0.75
01:05:34.000 But I do not believe in this day and age that armed rebellion of any kind in an industrialized advanced economy like the United States is productive at all. 0.93
01:05:43.000 Even if Donald Trump were to win, I would not be saying everyone needs to go buy an AK and get ready to march on Washington.
01:05:51.000 And the reason for that is about the Second Amendment debate that we just had.
01:05:55.000 I do not believe that the people of America are capable of suppressing the American government.
01:06:01.000 Thank you.
01:06:05.000 Hello, I'm Jerry Owens.
01:06:06.000 Jake, I work with you on Capstone.
01:06:08.000 It's nice seeing you again.
01:06:11.000 Basically, my question would be you know, there's a lot of people who want to ask questions, a lot of negativity coming up.
01:06:18.000 What's something genuinely nice that you two can say to each other?
01:06:26.000 And not like, oh, I like his kids or oh, I like his girl.
01:06:30.000 Like, something that's genuinely nice.
01:06:33.000 That you, as two human beings, don't look at this.
01:06:39.000 Okay, so if you know me, I love myself a little bit.
01:06:44.000 And I see myself in this human being.
01:06:47.000 So, you know, we might disagree a lot, but I have, my entire life, as being a radical person, I have dealt with ridiculous backlash.
01:06:47.000 I really do.
01:07:00.000 Like, I'm from a place, I'm from a town with, I think, 13 registered Democrats, and I've been a Marxist since I was 14 years old.
01:07:08.000 So, I understand the position that you're in right now, and I respect that.
01:07:13.000 And other than that, I'll even say another thing.
01:07:14.000 He's funny.
01:07:15.000 How about that?
01:07:19.000 Thank you.
01:07:19.000 This is the one question I didn't prepare for, but I will say that my opponent, I will say that I was going to say a very similar thing.
01:07:29.000 I think it takes balls to be, and I'm all about balls to the wall.
01:07:33.000 I think that you are, I think it's brave, I think it's courageous to have an opinion which is so contrary. 0.58
01:07:41.000 I know in the liberal campus of Boston, you may not take a lot of flack, but I think generally speaking, to go into a political debate and say, I'm defending Hillary Clinton, but I didn't vote for her, and I'm a Marxist, and she's evil, but the lesser of two.
01:07:54.000 I think that does taste some courage.
01:07:55.000 So I will say a similar compliment, yes. 1.00
01:07:57.000 And also, I used to shit on Hillary Clinton all the time before you came around. 0.97
01:08:01.000 So thanks for taking my gig. 0.98
01:08:05.000 Is Ken Bone here tonight?
01:08:14.000 There we go.
01:08:25.000 Under a lot of fire for his questions about women and allegations, and there's been a lot of studies done, and this selection has been specifically traumatizing to women, especially victims of sexual assault.
01:08:35.000 There's been nothing more said.
01:08:37.000 If someone has to keep reiterating that they've been saying that they've had the utmost respect for women and at the same time want to punish them for abortion, how would you justify that?
01:08:47.000 Yeah, sure.
01:08:48.000 So there's two parts here. 0.60
01:08:49.000 I think the first part is trauma women, the second part is how do you justify someone who has to keep defending that they love women if they actually do?
01:08:58.000 I think the first part.
01:08:59.000 If you're talking about people who are victims of sexual assault and there's trauma there, I think that I don't see where they take offense or why they're scared of Donald Trump.
01:09:09.000 I know there's a lot of pressure.
01:09:11.000 I just want to cut you off there.
01:09:12.000 As a victim of sexual assault, I take offense knowing that the runner of this country is a victim.
01:09:29.000 It should be a deal breaker not to have someone to support someone who has been on rape, who is going to trial for child rape and has all these allegations.
01:09:37.000 Those accusations were dropped.
01:09:39.000 Not all those accusations have been dropped, and he's the one who's going to sue them.
01:09:43.000 And additionally, his wife has actually, there's been a, she actually was in court with him about marital rape, and she rescinded that because she got paid off for it.
01:09:52.000 I don't, if someone has to keep saying they respect women, I don't really think they do.
01:09:56.000 I don't mean to get you to sound like condescending here, but I think as a man, you don't.
01:10:00.000 Fully understand what it's like as a woman in this election specifically.
01:10:03.000 Okay, well, I will.
01:10:06.000 Excuse me, I just want to say one more thing. 1.00
01:10:11.000 This election has been extremely traumatizing, especially with this talk about grabbing women by the pussy, because that is not locker room talk, and you cannot condone that in any matter. 1.00
01:10:20.000 I do not physically understand how you can support a candidate who has said such terrible things about women. 0.99
01:10:26.000 Okay, thank you for your loaded statement, and I will answer it.
01:10:31.000 In many parts, because there were many parts to what I think some might call the question if they didn't know what the question was.
01:10:40.000 Now, look, if anybody really cared, if anybody really cared, they would know the names.
01:10:47.000 They would know the names and they would know the circumstances of every one of the allegations against Donald Trump.
01:10:53.000 But I found when I asked people, they don't.
01:10:55.000 I know all the names.
01:10:57.000 Okay, well, let me tell you something about what happened.
01:11:00.000 Many of the cases were brought against Donald Trump by Gloria Allrad.
01:11:03.000 Now, you may know Gloria Allred because she brought similar accusations, unfounded accusations, against Herman Kane when he was the Republican frontrunner against 2012.
01:11:12.000 When he lost and Mitt Romney won, she brought similar unfounded allegations against Mitt Romney.
01:11:17.000 And now, here we find her again in 2016, bringing more allegations against Donald Trump.
01:11:23.000 In one case, a woman said, by the name of Stoyanov, she said that Donald Trump was groping her in his house, and the butler burst in and interrupted the sexual assault.
01:11:33.000 The butler came forward and said, that never happened.
01:11:36.000 That never happened.
01:11:37.000 Miss Leeds, her last name is Leeds, so we call her Miss Leeds.
01:11:41.000 Kind of euphemistic and coincidental when you think about it.
01:11:44.000 She was on a plane with Donald Trump.
01:11:46.000 She said that Donald Trump roped her on a plane.
01:11:49.000 She said that a witness was sitting right next to her watching the whole ordeal go on.
01:11:53.000 That witness came forward and said, That never happened.
01:11:56.000 Wrong, wrong, wrong.
01:11:57.000 Actually, it was her who was being flirtatious.
01:11:59.000 You go down the