J6 HEROES JAILED FOREVER: RIGGED JURY Convicts Proud Boys Of SEDITION | America First Ep. 1156J6 HEROES JAILED FOREVER: RIGGED JURY Convicts Proud Boys Of SEDITION | America First Ep. 1156
The Proud Boys have been convicted of sedition for their role in the January 6th, Patriot Day protest, and are facing a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. We talk about the charges and the possible impact on the families involved. We also talk about regional bank failures and the potential for two more to fail. And finally, we talk about a new collaboration from Sneeko and Leafy. Music: "A Black Pill" by Rolo Thomas - "This Guy" Art: Macklemore and Ryan Lewis Editor: Will Witwer Theme Song: Hayden Coplen - "In Need of a Savior" by Fountains of Wayne Download MP3" Subscribe to the podcast (RSS) Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. If you like what you hear, please consider becoming a supporter of the show by becoming a patron. It helps spread the word about the show and help support it grow! Thank you for supporting! The opinions stated here are our opinions, not those of our sponsors. We do not endorse, represent, review, or promote any product or service that is not related to the show. in any way to this podcast. This podcast is not affiliated with that of our parent company, or any other product, product, service, or product that might be discussed in the show is not being promoted or promoted in this episode. All opinions expressed is our own. . Logo by our logo and image by our sponsor is not our own, unless otherwise stated. Logo and logo by our content is not that is owned by our third party. Music by our public domain by our copyright of the artist. Art by our patrons in this podcast is copyright of our third person All rights reserved and third person copyrights We are not compensated for this podcast by any other person s use of this episode copyright by any third party if any credit given or third person s credit card or service is not claimed or service provided by any credit card company at any third person's credit card used in any other third party or service, other than this podcast or other person's use in any service or credit card use is used by third person or service is being used in this show is being provided except this podcast, other such thing is being promoted in any such thing
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00:02:48.000Featured story tonight, kind of a black pill.
00:02:51.000We're talking about the Proud Boys who you may have seen today were convicted by a jury of sedition against the United States government for their role in the January 6th epic day, Patriot Day.
00:03:05.000And I'm playing it up a little bit in the title.
00:03:08.000They didn't get a life sentence, but as a matter of fact, they didn't get sentenced at all yet.
00:03:13.000But they will be facing a maximum sentence of 20 years in jail.
00:03:21.000And we'll talk about the charge specifically because it's actually a very specific thing.
00:03:28.000Sedition means that they tried to overthrow the government, which they really didn't.
00:03:33.000It's also the next most severe law that a person can break other than treason.
00:03:39.000It goes treason, which is in the Constitution, and then sedition.
00:03:44.000So this is a really big deal, and it requires a very high standard, which I don't know that the evidence that exists could pass it, but yet they were convicted.
00:03:54.000So we'll talk about that tonight and the fate of those involved.
00:04:09.000We'll also be talking tonight about these regional bank failures.
00:04:11.000Looks like we're setting up for maybe two additional banks to fail.
00:04:16.000And just when we thought, if you remember, we were out of the woods from the failure of the Silicon Valley Bank and First Republic, which was just purchased by JP Morgan just a few days ago, there are now potentially two other regional banks which may suffer the same fate with a major drop in their stock price today.
00:04:38.000And we'll talk about all that too, pretty scary stuff, but
00:05:38.000Hey so far so good right knock on wood recovery's going well So we're here with another show before we get into it though I want to remind you to smash the follow button to get a push notification whenever I go live Also, follow me on gab telegram true social links you down below check me out on rumble I'm live on rumble every night as well and on rumble I have all the replays
00:06:04.000So if you miss a show from a week, two weeks ago, you can find it on Rumble.
00:07:08.000But I woke up today and Pearl texted me this morning and she says, hey, I'm going to be interviewing this Rolo Thomas-y guy who I guess is well known in those circles.
00:07:34.000I think it was just those two that I know, in addition to Pearl, of course.
00:07:38.000And so I jump on the stream and it was it wasn't that great content to be honest it was a little bit tedious I feel like but it was kind of funny I had some good moments but here's the takeaway so if you missed the stream I think a lot of you guys did because there was maybe 1,600 people watching on YouTube and I didn't promote it anywhere I didn't advertise it and kind of a spur-of-the-moment deal
00:08:04.000But I go on there and the subject matter is that this Red Pill guy he put out a tweet the other day and he said something like the fastest way to become a high-value man is to get a vasectomy and don't get married and don't have kids and all this kind of stuff and I guess it went viral like Ben Shapiro quote tweeted it and Lauren Chen replied and all these people jumped in on it and so he was on her show defending it
00:08:34.000And like I said, he is one of these prototypical, like, red pill guys.
00:08:42.000And I've talked a lot about this on my show.
00:08:46.000He goes on this interview to defend this post, and he says, well, I'm not saying people should get vasectomies, but look, if you want to, like, slay women, if you want to get, if you want to pull, well, then this is the best way to do it.
00:08:58.000The easiest way is to make a bunch of money, and that means that you're still being promiscuous, you're still being adulterous and fornicating.
00:09:08.000But, you're doing it without the possibility of having kids, without even the desire or the intention of getting married, just focusing on your job.
00:09:17.000And he goes, that's not advice, that's just the way it is.
00:09:21.000And it was interesting, Pearl was actually agreeing.
00:09:26.000She said, she goes, well I agree, she goes, because all these traditional conservatives
00:09:33.000They want to moralize everything and it's just not the way it used to be because there are no traditional women and there are no traditional men and that's just the way it is, she goes, and red pillars don't, or rather traditional conservatives don't like when red pillars tell it like it is, if you like it or not.
00:09:53.000And so I came on the stream and I didn't really even get to talk too much.
00:09:56.000It was a lot of bickering between Bryson and the other guy.
00:10:00.000But it was a very instructive stream and example because I've talked about this a lot on my show and it's like a little bit controversial even though some people in my community disagree with me on this but here's the point.
00:10:14.000Many times on the show I've said that this self-help stuff is actually very pernicious and a lot of people go well really how?
00:10:25.000You don't like that there are influencers telling young men to work out, get a job, make money, and that sort of thing?
00:11:34.000Or, if they don't believe that religion is good because it's a useful tool to facilitate self-help, they say that religion is just one among many areas that you could improve.
00:11:47.000Yeah, yeah, spiritual life, as well as your money and your physical fitness and those things.
00:12:12.000But I sat there in my college dorm, and I read the Bible for the first time.
00:12:17.000And I was away from home for the first time.
00:12:20.000And living on my own for the first time and I looked at my life and I thought about the fact that I'm gonna live to see my parents die, probably most of my friends.
00:12:29.000I'll live to see sickness, my physical and mental well-being will degrade over time just through aging and attrition.
00:12:38.000I said my parents could die right now while I'm away thousands of miles in Boston while they're in Chicago.
00:12:46.000I look at my life, it's wake up, eat three times, go to school, go to bed.
00:12:50.000Wake up, eat three times, go to school, go to bed.
00:12:53.000And when I go to work, it'll be those things.
00:12:56.000And I said, one, there's more to life than this.
00:13:01.000There's more to life, in other words, than these material things.
00:13:08.000Made of atoms and I exist in a physical world and I have flesh and blood and if someone cuts my head off I cease to be in this world.
00:13:19.000And to the extent that I'm physical I need physical things like a bed and like food and like relationships with other physical people and I need money to buy those things.
00:13:31.000But what didn't sit right with me is I realized that I also have other appetites.
00:13:38.000It wouldn't be enough because there would need to be a significance to those actions and there would need to be something more than just those things by themselves.
00:13:51.000There had to be a means to the end of all of it.
00:13:54.000And I read the Bible and I thought a lot about this and I realized that a religious viewpoint, a theistic viewpoint, which is to say you believe that there is a God that created everything and gave us a law that we have to adhere to and that we have a spiritual life after our physical life.
00:14:12.000Not that we don't have a spiritual life here, but of course in the afterlife our soul will be separated from our body for a time.
00:14:22.000And so, if you believe those things, then you have to reorient your entire perspective, because then that becomes the most important thing.
00:14:31.000If we entertain this theory, or this conjecture, if you're not a believer yet, that there is a God,
00:14:39.000Well then it follows that you would want to please God.
00:14:43.000If God has rules, you have to follow them.
00:14:48.000If we have to answer to God for how well we follow those laws, if we have to give an account to God at the end of our short life here, for every action, and it's measured against His law, and it's measured against His standard, well that's...
00:15:04.000It's not just something we'd like to do, and it's not just important, it's the most consequential thing.
00:15:12.000It's more consequential than everything else.
00:15:16.000If we're made in God's image in the sense that we have a spirit life in addition to a physical life, then the spiritual is more important because that's the godly part.
00:15:29.000So when you listen to these self-help types, what is omitted is that a lot of them are atheists.
00:15:36.000And if they're not atheists, they are religious insofar as they like the effects of religion.
00:15:44.000Maybe some of them are true believers.
00:15:46.000And certainly there are Christians that encourage self-help.
00:15:49.000But there is a particular strain, this so-called red pill thing, very pernicious, which says
00:17:46.000And in particular, and so this is something I've talked about a lot, but I think it was laid out very nicely because you had this guy on there and he was like your typical, when I say typical Red Pillar, I mean he was like this Gen X with the beanie and like a seething atheist, like one of these smug cynical atheist types talking about Gandhi and MLK.
00:18:14.000I don't think I need to go too much into that.
00:18:16.000But in particular, the question with that stream was about what makes a high-value man.
00:18:21.000That's like a big... They talk about the sexual marketplace and they talk about, we need the young men to become high-value men.
00:18:29.000And they say, what is a high-value man?
00:18:33.000That a woman's gonna want someone with a good LinkedIn page and they make money and they they have status they have a network they subscribe to the war room or whatever and so we're going back and forth on the stream about what what does what is value you know that's my question is who assigns value what do we value how do we assign that
00:18:55.000And I thought about it more after the stream, and the only objective measure of value that a human being has, objectively, we say objective reality, we mean all of the dimensions, all of the realms, not just Earth, not just our life on Earth, but how it echoes in eternity, and what the angels see, and what God sees, not just what women like, you know, or women are going to swipe right on.
00:19:22.000And the only objective measure of value is that at the judgment, God says that our actions will be melted down like precious metals, and the very noble, the very good actions will be like the most precious, most valuable metal, and in diminishing order, the lesser actions will be melted down and they'll be like silver, or like bronze, or like brass.
00:19:49.000And then according to that, it'll be weighed up.
00:19:52.000That, to me, is the only biblical, religious, real value that a person can have.
00:20:10.000Is God picked up dirt and blew into it.
00:20:13.000And we're going to return to dirt at the end.
00:20:15.000And all that's going to be left of our time on Earth, our entire life, everything you ever did, is going to be at the Second Judgment when you're melted down like metal, and they evaluate how precious, how noble the integrity of your actions.
00:20:47.000Everything has to be subordinated and serve that.
00:20:52.000Get a job, get a girlfriend or a wife for that matter, even have kids, family, friends, whatever, all subordinated to those actions and those decisions.
00:21:09.000The rest, you're not going to take the riches with you.
00:21:14.000You're not even really going to take your family with you, because you stand before God alone.
00:21:19.000So, when the Earth is long gone, whether it meets a scientific end or a religious end, if you think the Earth is going to be consumed by the Sun, or you think that God will wrap it all up one day, only thing that will echo when the real legacy of a human, of a created being, is going to be their actions as judged by God.
00:21:41.000That's it, according to a moral scale, and no other scale.
00:21:44.000And that's the only language I'm interested in, is a moral language.
00:21:50.000So, anyway, so those are just some thoughts.
00:21:52.000I didn't really get to say that on the stream.
00:21:54.000I mean it just devolved into like a lot of bickering, but I thought about it a lot today and just in particular this phrase, high value man, and that really sums it up, doesn't it?
00:22:05.000What does make a person high value and according to whom?
00:22:09.000And even these new philosophies, these so-called right-wing philosophies, were, by the way, we share a lot in common with them in some respects,
00:22:18.000But on a fundamental level, we are separated by a gulf, by a chasm, because we believe in God, and they don't.
00:22:28.000We believe in God, we know there's a God, we know God is alive, and they don't.
00:22:34.000And so everything that follows from that, therefore, will be different.
00:23:07.000So that, that's why I don't, I don't even like, I mean, and don't get me wrong, I like these guys, they're interesting to me.
00:23:12.000Like, I like Pearl, and I like Sneeko, of course, like, Sneeko's a great friend, Pearl's a great friend of mine, I love them, and, uh, and I even admire a lot of these types.
00:23:21.000Like, Andrew Tate, I actually like him a lot.
00:23:24.000I like him more than Tucker, in some ways, for that matter.
00:23:50.000But I'll see, I don't know if there's a recording of it, because she took it down right away, because I did talk about Hitler a couple times.
00:23:59.000Pearl got mad at me, because I go on the stream, and the guy's like, why don't you just cut to the part where you blame Jews for everything?
00:24:05.000And I'm like, well, we could do that, but we're not.
00:24:09.000And then the other one is like, well, was Hitler a high value man?
00:25:41.000First Republic Bank just got sold and seized on Monday so it just got resolved like a few days ago.
00:25:49.000And now on the news of that, I think there was some spokesperson for the Treasury or from the White House, they come out and they say, hey, no problem, we just resolved it all.
00:25:59.000And literally today, the next day, now there's two other banks that may be facing the same fate as both Silicon Valley and First Republic.
00:26:11.000This is a story here from the New York Times.
00:26:14.000It says, quote, a cluster of regional banks scrambled on Thursday to convince the public of their financial soundness, even as their stock price plunged and investors took bets on which might be the next to fall.
00:26:26.000The tumult brought questions about the future of the lenders to the fore, suggesting a new phase in the crisis that began two months ago with the collapse of Silicon Valley and Signature Bank, and was then punctuated on Monday by the seizure and sale of First Republic Bank.
00:26:42.000PacWest and Western Alliance were in the eye of the storm despite the company's protestations that their finances were solid.
00:26:49.000PacWest's share lost 50% of their value on Thursday and Western Alliance fell 38%.
00:26:57.000Other mid-sized banks, including Zions and Comerica, also posted double-digit percentage declines.
00:27:04.000Unlike the banks that failed after depositors rushed to pull their money out, the lenders now under pressure have reported stable deposit bases and don't sit on mounds of soured loans.
00:27:17.000They're also much smaller than Silicon Valley Bank and First Republic, which each had about $200 billion in assets when they collapsed.
00:27:25.000PacWest, based in Los Angeles, has about $40 billion and Western Alliance, headquartered in Phoenix, has $65 billion and both run fewer than 100 branches.
00:27:36.000The most immediate threat the banks face, say analysts, is a crisis of confidence.
00:27:41.000Headlines about their spiraling share prices could spook depositors and upend the bank's ability to operate normally.
00:27:49.000Shares of PacWest and Western Alliance were halted for trading dozens of times on Thursday as their huge price swings breached stock exchange guardrails put in place to prevent a sell-off from spiraling out of control.
00:28:01.000The turmoil also raised the specter of concerted action by short sellers, the lenders who bet, or rather the traders.
00:28:09.000Who bet on share prices falling and are sometimes blamed for stock market volatility.
00:28:14.000Even before the week's commotion, depositors were increasingly worried about the safety of their money following the collapse of SVB.
00:28:22.000According to a new poll through late April, 48% of American adults said they were concerned about the money they held in deposits at banks.
00:28:32.000So just to break this down a little because it's a very complicated subject.
00:28:35.000Not a lot of people fully understand this.
00:28:38.000Brief refresher because I think we did a whole show about it back in March.
00:28:42.000But the way you have to think about a bank is that a bank has a balance sheet.
00:28:50.000And as you know, as a consumer with probably a personal checking account, although some of you may have business checking accounts, people deposit their money in the bank and the bank holds it for them.
00:29:02.000And although they're giving cash to the bank, this is counterintuitive, but this is how you have to understand this.
00:29:11.000Those cash deposits are technically a liability on the bank's balance sheet.
00:29:22.000It's got obligations, and then it's got loans where people are obligated to pay them cash flow.
00:29:30.000So if I go to the bank and I put $10 in the bank, the bank in theory owes me $10 plus interest.
00:29:40.000So what a bank does is they go out and they use the cash that I've deposited or some of it.
00:29:45.000Some of it they keep on hand and some of it they go and loan out and depending on a lot of math they'll choose
00:29:55.000Certain types of loans with more or less risk and more or less guaranteed profit and they have sophisticated people that calculate how this all works.
00:30:05.000But the goal of the bank is to take the money that you deposit or that a business deposits and they need to make a higher rate of return on that money than they owe to the depositors.
00:30:35.000And in order to deliver all their money to their depositors, again they're technically liabilities, in order for them to pay out all this money they had to sell a lot of the loans that they had for a major loss.
00:30:48.000And so there was like a two billion dollar shortfall.
00:30:51.000And it's very complicated without relitigating that whole operation.
00:30:58.000Is that the bank wasn't insolvent but being forced to sell their assets and their loans for a loss it made them insolvent for a time.
00:31:10.000And that insolvency scared investors and investors sold stock in that bank and more depositors pulled out and it just made them more insolvent.
00:31:19.000But there were specific things that were wrong in Silicon Valley which were that deposits were going out at a higher rate than they were before
00:32:04.000And they sat on not loans that were bad but loans that needed to be held that they were forced to sell for a loss and so although on paper they weren't insolvent that panic and that unexpected increase in outflows made them insolvent for a moment and they created a bank run.
00:32:25.000So the difference between Silicon Valley and these banks is none of these banks have either of those things going on.
00:33:47.000The problem is that overall, because the interest rates keep going up, credit is becoming a lot less accessible.
00:33:55.000And if you understand anything about the American economy, in particular the American economy since roughly 2006, this economy relies entirely on cheap, abundant credit.
00:34:07.000Meaning that it is free, it is virtually free, and extremely easy to get loans, to get debt.
00:34:14.000The entire economy is propped up on this.
00:34:18.000And now that they're raising interest rates to the highest level since 2001, which they just did another rate increase this week, now all that money is drying up.
00:34:27.000And what's happening is that all of these businesses, which have employees and have their money in banks, they're defaulting on their loans.
00:34:58.000And we talked about it back in March that there's really two ways that we can go about it here.
00:35:03.000Either the Federal Reserve can slash interest rates and they can keep printing money and they can make credit cheap again.
00:35:10.000And if they do that, then all these Silicon Valley businesses, which are not profitable and not good businesses, they could resume borrowing infinite money.
00:35:20.000And putting money back in the bank and employing people and paying landlords but you'll have very high inflation.
00:35:29.000Because the value of the dollar will go down, so prices will go up.
00:35:34.000So that's one way, is the Federal Reserve can abandon their monetary tightening policy, they can cut interest rates, make credit free again, and then with money flowing, you're going to have high inflation, cost of living is going to go up, price of goods is going to go up, but you're not going to have as many of these issues.
00:35:54.000If they keep raising interest rates, or if they don't cut them this year,
00:35:58.000Which some are expecting they're going to do a cut before the end of the year.
00:36:24.000In the 1970s you had stagflation which is a combination of very slow economic growth and very high inflation.
00:36:32.000Paul Volcker comes in and under Reagan institutes monetary tightening.
00:36:39.000They raise the interest rate and it causes a recession.
00:36:42.000I mean it was that alone that caused a major recession and the collapse of the savings and loan industry and a lot of people got screwed because when there's a credit crunch it's like a game of musical chairs.
00:36:53.000Somebody, because of fractional reserve banking, because all of the balance sheet of a bank is theoretical, they have only so much cash in the bank, and the rest of it they invent money by loaning out money they don't really have.
00:37:08.000If you don't have economic growth, and if a lot of these businesses start failing and they can't pay back the loans, a lot of this money is going to disappear.
00:37:15.000Like, straight up, the theoretical money that is created with the creation of credit is going to disappear.
00:37:21.000And so, like in the case of Silicon Valley, some people are going to be screwed, and they're going to lose their money.
00:37:28.000And the federal government's job is to make sure that the right people lose their money.
00:37:48.000It's a credit crunch, which is that they're gonna basically eliminate a lot of the credit and eliminate a lot of the money, which is gonna make the value of money go up,
00:37:58.000But by the same token, in order for that to happen, some people are going to lose.
00:38:02.000Like, institutions will begin to fail.
00:38:04.000And the thing is, we don't really know where that's going to be until it happens.
00:38:08.000Because the economy is so complex, it is so vast, and so big, and there are so many causes and effects, that until you introduce this monetary tightening, it is very difficult to see where the weaknesses in the institutions are.
00:38:25.000It's very difficult to see where exactly
00:38:29.000The stress is gonna show up on the system and what we're seeing now is it's in these regional banks and we're seeing it's in Silicon Valley and it's in commercial real estate.
00:38:39.000So it's gonna get ugly for some people and it's hard actually to say what is the better path forward because neither are actually good options.
00:38:51.000Back in the 1980s we had a manufacturing base.
00:38:56.000And this goes back to what we talked about the Ukraine-Russia conflict, which is that the composition of our economy is fundamentally different than it was a hundred years ago.
00:39:07.000The American economy doesn't make anything.
00:39:57.000And when somebody pays for insurance, and when somebody pays for whatever other service you can imagine, it's counted in that.
00:40:06.000And so when you consider that 85% of our 20 plus trillion dollar GDP is not actually making things, then you realize that there is no value that underpins the money or the economy at large.
00:40:23.000In the 1980s, it made more sense to do monetary tightening because we actually had a productive economy underneath all of the monetary troubles.
00:40:50.000It's about your factors of production.
00:40:53.000And so ultimately if you have a very productive economy you will have these problems that are introduced by securitization and financialization and you'll have monetary problems but those can be corrected because you have people going to work and making things.
00:41:12.000So you can sort out the accounting as long as people are waking up and they're going out and they're building houses and they're growing food and they're making the things that people need on a daily basis cars fuel
00:41:23.000They're repairing the bridges and the roads.
00:41:28.000But if people aren't making anything, if people aren't working, if the economy doesn't produce anything, then when your balance sheets are messed up, then you're really in trouble.
00:41:52.000So when we're not able to give China debt anymore, when we're not able to give India and Indonesia and Vietnam debt anymore in exchange for the things they send us, what will we have to give them?
00:42:06.000And if we don't have debt money to give to people, because half of the country is being subsidized by the government in some form,
00:42:33.000So this... So this is a lot different.
00:42:37.000Even though it's similar, even though it's the same, it's inflation,
00:42:42.000And it's stagnant economy with strict monetary policy.
00:42:47.000The fabric of the American economy is totally different.
00:42:52.000And we're going to run into some big problems here.
00:42:55.000You don't have to look very far to see that the math doesn't add up.
00:42:59.000Even this week it's being debated in Congress about the debt ceiling.
00:43:02.000They say that if we don't reach an agreement in Congress on the debt ceiling in June, the United States will default on our debt and therefore the debt that we issue will become worth less.
00:43:16.000And so if American debt isn't valuable in the world anymore,
00:43:21.000Again, how are we going to import anything?
00:43:23.000If China, if these Asian countries supply us with the things that we need, if we're not energy independent, if we're not food independent, if we're not raw material independent, and other product independent, and we have nothing to give these countries because our debt isn't good, where are we going to get it?
00:44:15.000Their money, woes, any restrictions on trade, it didn't matter because they could get their people to go out there and make the stuff they needed.
00:45:29.000Most of this economy is hospitals, schools, police and fire, bureaucracy.
00:45:37.000I mean that's like so much of our economy is people that don't really make stuff.
00:45:43.000And by the way, that's why we're getting poor in every single way.
00:45:48.000You may think we're getting rich because we have nicer consumer electronics.
00:45:52.000You need the nicer consumer electronics, because if you didn't, you'd realize that everything is now made out of plastic, even the clothing, even the food.
00:46:04.000And that's because we have to get it cheaper, because we don't make stuff, because no one's really doing any work.
00:46:11.000So, real quality of life, real standard of living has precipitously been going down.
00:46:17.000It's directly related to our economy not being productive.
00:46:21.000Maybe people had fewer things 100 years ago, but the things that they have are made out of wood and cotton.
00:46:30.000And metals and glass the things that we have now take a look around your home, especially if you're in New construction, it's all plastic.
00:46:39.000It's all synthetic fabricated materials and things and even the food it's all industrial oils like literally byproducts like leftover materials and
00:47:23.000We're in a very bad spot economically.
00:47:27.000So, what we need is a leader and a president who is going to re-industrialize the American economy and bring the manufacturing base back here.
00:48:40.000I want to get into this Proud Boy conviction today.
00:48:45.000And this is our big featured story tonight.
00:48:48.000In case you missed it, there were a number of Proud Boys today that were convicted for their role in January 6th on felony sedition charges, which is a really big deal.
00:49:00.000As I said at the top of the show, there's one crime listed in the Constitution, which is treason, and sedition is just below that.
00:49:08.000And sedition, which we'll read the definition in a moment, means that they tried to overthrow the government of America.
00:49:16.000Carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
00:49:20.000And virtually all of them got hit with this.
00:49:25.000It says, quote, Five members of the far-right Proud Boys, including former leader Enrique Tarrio, faced decades in jail after being found guilty for their role in the January 6th Capitol riot.
00:49:37.000Four were convicted of seditious conspiracy and all five were found guilty of obstructing official proceedings alongside other felonies.
00:49:45.000The most serious charges carry penalties of up to 20 years in prison.
00:49:50.000So they could conceivably get 20 years for obstructing an act of Congress and they could get another 20 for sedition.
00:50:01.000More than 100 members of the far-right all-male group joined the Capitol riot.
00:50:05.000All five defendants were found guilty of conspiracy to prevent officials from discharging their duties, impeding officers during civil disorder, and destruction of offense protecting the Capitol.
00:50:15.000A mistrial was declared on a total of 10 charges against the men where the jury failed to come to a conclusion.
00:50:23.000The Proud Boys were steadfast supporters of Donald Trump who marched several times in D.C.
00:50:28.000after the election, often clashing with far-left anti-fascists.
00:50:33.000Their protests culminated on January 6, 2021, as the election results were due to be certified by Congress.
00:50:40.000Unlike his co-defendants, former Proud Boy Chairman Henry Enrique Tarrio was not in Washington that day.
00:50:47.000He was actually arrested two days before for burning a BLM banner and for other weapons charges.
00:50:55.000Tarrio's co-defendants included Ethan Nordean of Washington State.
00:51:00.000Nordean was active in street protests and brawls with anti-fascists in the Pacific Northwest.
00:51:08.000In video from January 6, he was seen leading members of the group around the Capitol with co-defendant Joe Biggs of Florida, a U.S.
00:51:14.000Army veteran and former broadcaster for InfoWars.
00:52:03.000As defined as a plot to overthrow the government or use force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States government.
00:52:20.000These guys are having the book thrown at them.
00:52:22.000And it only makes sense from one point of view.
00:52:27.000Which is that, and I've often said this about January 6th, people underestimate what was really going on there.
00:52:34.000And not just there, but in that entire season throughout Stop the Steal.
00:52:40.000Because you had a sitting, a then sitting President, even though he was a lame duck, he's acting as the Chief Executive of America, you have the sitting President of the United States openly defying the results of the election.
00:53:15.000And when all of that transpired, not only did he resist it and not accept the results and try every way of overturning it, but he then summoned hundreds of thousands of his supporters to the nation's capital city, and in a way summoned them to the Capitol building where that constitutional process was happening in the Congress.
00:53:41.000And the supporters breached, and they got in, and they delayed this.
00:53:45.000Now, if you're sitting from our point of view, you're saying this is awesome because the government's corrupt, and the election was rigged, and even though what they did was improper that day, and maybe there was some false flag element, it represents the anger that's being felt by the people.
00:54:04.000Because our entire... talk about a process being overturned.
00:54:08.000Our entire way of government, our entire way of life is being overturned by money and media.
00:54:14.000So people said, yeah, the election's rigged, Congress is rigged, and we never even had a chance with all the mail-in ballots and with this conspiracy to stop us from challenging the results.
00:54:28.000But from their point of view, they see that our capital city, our capital building, was unsecured.
00:54:36.000When this all-important transition was taking place of the head of state and the head of government, which discharges all the administrative duties of the military and the federal government, it's like a really big deal.
00:54:48.000And so if you're looking for a reason why, it is that they are, I mean, they legitimately are charging these people for that, in addition to it being political.
00:56:25.000That Trump, with his base of supporters, is trying to perform regime change in the American government.
00:56:31.000And in 2016, did it peacefully, legally, through the election.
00:56:36.000He got elected and said, I'm going to drain the swamp, I'm going to fire everybody in the government, have a clean change in regime in who pulls the levers of power in the capital city.
00:56:51.000So we're going to throw impeachment, and the special counsel, and we're going to throw mail-in ballots, and the pandemic, and you name it.
00:56:58.000And we're going to rig the next election, and we're going to conspire to stop you from overturning it, which is your right to make that attempt.
00:57:49.000And so now, what they're doing, and it's very smart, is they're bringing in all the lawyers and all the spies and all the agents to deliver thousands, as many people that are involved in that as possible, to jail.
00:58:03.000So that they cannot rise against the regime.
00:58:06.000So that they can't work for Trump in his election.
00:58:09.000So that they can't go on Twitter and spread their anti-regime message.
00:58:15.000But make no mistake about it, this is exactly like the American Revolution.
00:58:19.000Which is that you've got this burgeoning... And it's not to say that January 6th was an insurrection attempt, it wasn't.
00:58:26.000I would compare it more to like the Boston Tea Party.
00:58:48.000And that's why they're going after Ricky Vaughn, that's why they're doing lawfare against Alex Jones, against Tucker, against you name it, Madison Cawthorne, Matt Gaetz, against me.
00:58:58.000That's why they have to go hard as they can against everybody involved.
00:59:03.000Because if they can disorganize and disintegrate this opposition to the regime, then they stand unopposed.
00:59:28.000If Trump, as a leader, as a figurehead, if his lieutenants, his family, his business, if all these people are tied up in legal jeopardy, some of them in jail, some of them running out of money, being spied on, leaned on, in every kind of way, if his lieutenants in Congress, in his business, on his campaign, his donors, his family, if they're all subject to maximum pressure by the regime, then this
01:00:50.000I mean, they are treating us, and it's no secret, over the past couple years, and DHS, FBI, DOJ, they have been treating us as terrorists, which is what they view us as, which is what they viewed Sam Adams and Washington and all the rest as hundreds of years ago.
01:01:09.000So, none of this surprises me, and it's a shame.
01:01:12.000I don't think they'll get any justice.
01:01:16.000But here's the thing about the FBI and the DOJ.
01:01:19.000They don't charge people unless they know that they gotcha.
01:01:24.000Because they've got a 95% plus conviction rate.
01:01:28.000So when they go out there and they appropriate billions and billions of dollars for themselves and they go out and they expand their office and bring on lawyers and judges and agents
01:01:43.000And they throw the book at these guys, building their case over years, subpoenaing records from the telecom companies, the big tech companies, subpoenaing all the various individuals and groups.
01:02:19.000They're going to do the next best thing, which is to throw them in prison forever.
01:02:23.000And it's going to devastate their families, and it's going to devastate them, and it's horrible, and it's tragic.
01:02:29.000But by the same token, these are the stakes.
01:02:34.000These are the wages of what we're talking about.
01:02:36.000Do you think that everything going the way it is, like I just described earlier, our country being de-industrialized, our country being looted, the satanic new religion being imposed on us, do you think that these people are gonna let go of the reins of this multi-multi-trillion dollar mafia scheme they've got going?
01:02:56.000And they're just gonna say, hey, well, you beat us fair and square.
01:02:58.000I guess we needed some of that meme magic, huh?
01:03:02.000They're going to kill you, they're going to kill your kids, they're going to kill your whole family, they're going to burn down your childhood home.
01:03:10.000They'll kill anybody who ever knew, if it means that they can stay in power.
01:03:14.000And so, in ways that you can't predict, in ways that will be unforeseen, people are going to stumble into these kinds of traps, and these kinds of things, and it's horrible.
01:03:27.000You have to decide for yourself, is it worth it to save our country?
01:03:32.000And the only difference between... Well, I would say there are some precautions you could take.
01:03:36.000I've always advised against being in militias or groups and breaking laws, which they did all those things, and it's not to blame them and victim blame, but it is to say I think that's a very high-risk strategy.
01:03:48.000If you want to avoid risk, you could start by not being in a militia and breaking laws.
01:03:54.000Doesn't always protect you like Ricky Vaughn.
01:03:57.000Ricky Vaughn played it as clever as he could.
01:04:23.000People just have to decide what they're willing to sacrifice and if it's worth it.
01:04:27.000Some people increasingly are saying it's not.
01:04:30.000Some people after the, and this is what we've been seeing a lot of in the last two years, after January 6th, a lot of people made the decision, they said, it's not worth it.
01:05:03.000Everybody thought we were just kind of having fun.
01:05:05.000And then after 2021, when the Empire struck back and they, you know, charged up the Death Star and blew up our village, everybody was like, oh okay, they're not messing around.
01:05:46.000We got to take care of their families.
01:05:49.000And support the people that have yet to be prosecuted.
01:05:53.000They're probably going to arrest another thousand people.
01:05:56.000Got to put our noses down and you know what?
01:05:58.000I mean, whoever decides to run in 24, if it's the existing candidates, if it's yet unannounced candidates, we got to do everything in our power to make sure that somebody favorable gets in.
01:06:10.000And that means not Biden, not DeSantis.
01:11:12.000Cause in that instant, I didn't know, you know, I mean I get in this brutal crash and
01:11:19.000And I never lost consciousness, but I get hit, I get hit again, and I'm sitting there, and what I know is happening is that my adrenaline is up.
01:11:29.000So I know that if I'm badly injured, I'm not gonna feel any pain.
01:11:33.000So I got kind of nervous because I'm thinking like, well, I don't feel like I'm in too much pain, but also I know that I wouldn't be, even if I had a real issue.
01:13:30.000You know, it's like I always say, either they're gonna kill me and I go to heaven as a martyr, or they don't and I get to keep doing this, so... There it is.
01:15:35.000Joseph's Prayer and then it has a little blurb on the bottom and it says something like, if you pray this or carry it on your person, you'll be spared from a sudden death.
01:15:45.000This prayer has never been known to fail.
01:15:47.000And it's sort of, and I don't know if that's true.
01:15:49.000I mean, I just found like five copies of this on my grandma's desk.
01:17:20.000so uh no i don't think i don't i think ai would have a hard time replacing me that's how you know you're a real human being like there are some people that ai could easily replace but me i'm like one of the very few people that ai can never replicate i maybe maybe i'm flattering myself i don't know whoops the unknown
01:18:16.000And the show was getting no traction and nobody watched it.
01:18:20.000And it was really frustrating because, I mean, they didn't really know what they were doing over there yet.
01:18:26.000No shade to RSBN, but they just hadn't figured it out yet.
01:18:31.000So I was very frustrated with my producer, very frustrated with the Seals guys.
01:18:36.000And so when they called me up and they said, we got to cancel your show because it's not making any money and it costs more to do it than you make, I said, I think that's for the best.
01:22:13.000The first season, it opens with Bryan Cranston
01:22:18.000is doing a high school chemistry lesson about a chemistry principle and then that principle is metaphorically illustrated in the course of the show.
01:22:33.000And like the fedora thing the like I'm gonna put my fedora back on and when he confronts the guy in the desert and he's like I'm selling classic coke you ate my product at every turn it's so cringe!
01:22:48.000I mean it's like campy, but in a good way.
01:22:50.000It's like campy, but in a fun Like like I enjoyed it.
01:22:54.000Don't get me wrong, but it is so campy So yeah, I like it it's campy in the way that The Emperor is campy in Star Wars or Anakin's campy So I mean don't get me wrong.
01:23:11.000I like it but But some of that stuff was just bad
01:24:52.000Yeah, I was thinking the same thing as I looked it up and we got in a car crash like basically around the same age, which is kind of trippy to think about.
01:25:03.000There's a lot of like, there's a lot of weird analogs there.
01:27:36.000There's just a lot of violence over there.
01:27:39.000I feel... when I see a school shooting in Serbia, it's like...
01:27:56.000Isn't that kind of how it is over there?
01:27:59.000Well they just don't want you to love who you are, man.
01:28:11.000These companies that are decentralized and not run, definitely not run by the Jews, they just want you to be the best version of yourself, just not too pro-white.
01:28:36.000Funny how Tucker won't touch white identity because it's too divisive but also because they believe in individualism.
01:28:42.000When you think about it, what's more divisive than each person being divided from each other individually, not allowed to be part of a group?
01:28:49.000Especially when every other race gets to have their group who advocates for them.
01:29:11.000As far as the critique of Tucker, I don't know that I totally agree because his... When he says he's against white identity, he says he's against it because he is against all identitarian politics.
01:29:25.000He doesn't say that it's too divisive.
01:29:33.000When you say that being against collective action is divisive because it divides everybody up into we're all going to be individuals fighting with each other, he wants that!
01:29:55.000There are other people that they say it's divisive, like that Nate Hockman guy and that Luca Cacciatore.
01:30:04.000When I did a space with them, they said, oh well, you can't do white identity because it's going to turn off Hispanic voters.
01:30:12.000Hispanic black Asian voters, but Tucker has never said that he said that he's against it because Identity erases the individual so he supports what you're saying insofar as Individualism is more divisive than collectivism like he's in favor of that.
01:30:29.000So But anyway, I appreciate the super chat.
01:35:01.000If you, if that was like your bet, if no matter what happened to you, your bet was the Jews were at fault, it's a very safe bet.
01:35:08.000If there was like one thing you could blame everything for,
01:35:13.000Like, if I tripped and fell, or if I lost my job, or if I got in a car crash, there are not many things you could blame other than the Jews, which would have a very high rate of being positive.
01:35:45.000Still not gonna be as much of a hit rate.
01:35:47.000Like, blaming, it would probably go something like blaming yourself, blaming the devil, blaming the Jews, in terms of, like, highest percentage of causing problems.
01:35:56.000So it would go something like that not not that's not a perfect science, but it'd be something like that So it's honestly it's a safe guess It's a joke of hey kidding.
01:36:06.000We're kidding of course That's just jokes We're playing with the concept you see how you see how a joke is for me see how I'm riffing we took a concept We exaggerated it in a way that is somewhat true, but exaggerated which is what makes it funny, and we're just kidding
01:40:06.000So when they say, oh shit, white boy can dance, or white boy this, that's a nasty... And it's subtle, and you could say it's a microaggression, but it's there.
01:40:59.000I don't like sup and all that sort of thing.
01:41:04.000I don't like the street wear everywhere.
01:41:06.000I think that we need to... We need to become proud again of who we are as whites and become proud of white things as opposed to
01:41:18.000Nothing, you know, I got nothing against black people and I have nothing against their culture.
01:41:21.000It's theirs, but their culture is clearly dominant and it being foisted on us is making us internalize and a lot of people are going to say, oh, well, that's like what black people say about white racism, but it's true.
01:42:00.000It's like seeing these white kids doing the gritty.
01:42:02.000It's like seeing these little white kids, they're like 8 years old, and they're doing all these dances, they're doing all these very urban TikTok sounds and TikTok dances.
01:42:12.000And it's like, if that were my kid, I would beat the fuck out of him.
01:42:16.000If I had a white son, if I had some white 12-year-old, 13-year-old son,
01:42:22.000And he was going around like, hey gang gang, and doing the gang signs and doing that wigger shit, I would beat his fucking ass.
01:43:55.000Like they're very, they're like a very strong ethnic identity.
01:44:01.000So they're very contrary to the, to the Uyghur thing.
01:44:04.000In a way that whites aren't because whites have no, well, I mean they don't, a lot of these American whites don't really have a strong cultural identity.
01:44:12.000You go out into the, you go out into Iowa, you go out into Kansas,
01:44:18.000What what music what what do they really got out there?
01:44:23.000They got Walmart they got Burger King they go to they hang out at Target No hate, but it's what it is.
01:44:31.000So what they get is the dominant American culture, which is this Negro black thing And again, I you know, I enjoy a lot of I enjoy the music but I'm a white guy enjoying black music I'm not a guy that thinks he's black or is like
01:44:47.000You know, so we gotta retain a little bit of our heritage here and some of that stuff is just so out there.
01:44:56.000I remember, you know, this trans person who came out recently, who we didn't know was involved, turned out to be intersex and then we fired him immediately.
01:45:06.000He was always texting me, sup, sup, I'ma do this, I'ma do that, and every time I would say, listen you, listen up pal.
01:45:16.000Don't tell me SUP like some ignorant, like some ignoramus.
01:45:40.000I know your parents didn't raise you like that for crying out loud.
01:45:45.000I mean, your parents are, like, supposed to be farmers, or, well, the gym teacher, actually, but, you know, maybe somewhere down the line you had farmers, peasants.
01:45:55.000He didn't talk like that, despite their low stature.
01:45:59.000So, for crying out loud, I'mma do this, I'mma do that, sup, sup.
01:46:05.000And it's like, hey, that kind of thing?
01:46:43.000I was talking to my mom the other day and she said, and it's true, my parents had a business in the projects, in the heart of the projects in the South Loop in Chicago.
01:46:55.000My grandmother grew up in the projects in Chicago.
01:46:59.000So for generations, me and my ancestors have lived side by side with black people, and black people were their clientele and their neighbors for a long time.
01:47:12.000So believe me, I mean, I just come from a different background than most white Americans.
01:47:18.000Most white Americans don't come from that.
01:47:48.000He gave it to his wife, who's not in the family.
01:47:52.000But my great-uncle, my grandmother's brother, he started up all these businesses and one of his businesses was they licensed people for concealed carry and they taught people proficiency in firearms, cops, bodyguards, stuff like that.
01:48:09.000And my mom's gonna be mad at me for telling the story, but somebody said to my uncle, they said, hey, you know, you teach blank how to shoot guns.
01:48:20.000And I think he was talking to some Democrat operative or some city government official, and he said, hey, maybe I teach blank how to shoot, or maybe I give them guns, you give them pens.
01:48:33.000Which is to say, you give them power in the government, you made them bureaucrats.
01:48:39.000I didn't tell the story very well because I only heard it the other day.
01:48:43.000But my family had a lot of experiences.
01:48:48.000I believe Larry Hoover Jr., my parents taught him how to shoot a gun.
01:48:55.000And my parents had to participate in these kinds of programs where they had to support black businesses.
01:49:01.000They would literally have to do ridiculous things, like they would find black people in the newspaper, they put out an ad, and they would have to literally go to a Best Buy, give a black guy a thousand bucks, and the black guy goes into Best Buy, buys a computer, and gives it to them.
01:49:17.000That's the kind of stuff you have to do.
01:49:20.000For these kinds of quotas and programs about supporting black businesses or whatever many many many stories like this And that was one of them is one of these guys was saying to my uncle.
01:49:34.000Hey, maybe I give them guns, but you give them pants It's kind of funny Even though it's racist, of course deeply racist So But
01:49:50.000Point being is that is just how it goes in this country and we've been living side-by-side.
01:49:58.000I mean literally my ancestors have been living side-by-side with American blacks in these cities after the Great Migration for over a century.
01:50:07.000So I think I know what I'm talking about here and maybe that's why I have a different attitude.
01:50:11.000Because a lot of these guys who are assimilated, I mean they don't even know they're from
01:50:20.000They're they're from Pennsylvania, and they don't know they're from the middle of nowhere So anyway But yeah, so that's my perspective If I had a son he was doing sup sup dad.
01:50:42.000And that's how, I mean, not so much my parents, because my parents are a little more woke than their friends, but my mom, she's got a good friend of hers, and his father, he passed, but he would leave these voice messages, like you wouldn't believe, on his son's phone, going on a rant about how... I can't even repeat some of these things.
01:51:07.000The word mullinyan was used a lot, and
01:51:10.000Anyway, now my family disavows all that.
01:51:12.000My family's very woke and they have all the correct opinions, but that's like a very ethnic, old-world attribute, which I'm probably more connected to than your average white person, because American ethnics fought it out with every other group in the scrum in these cities.
01:51:30.000A lot of these other people didn't, you know?
01:51:34.000Italians in Chicago fought it out with all these different groups.
01:51:39.000They were in the scrum with everybody else.
01:51:44.000Different kind of country in Chicago, which is really a 20th century city with 20th century migration patterns and demographics than Eastern Seaboard or the Midwest or something.
01:51:58.000Or the Pacific Northwest or the Southwest.
01:52:01.000It's all fucking hippies out there in Colorado and Washington.
01:52:29.000Some suggested it could be a Russian false flag, but yeah, it was absolutely amateur hour.
01:52:36.000It seems most plausible to me that it was just desperate desperation, maybe freelancing from the Ukrainian armed forces, but who knows for sure.
01:55:06.000I mean it hurts a little bit certain movements like I'm a little stiff in some places but yeah, no generally no pain and it's funny because I go in there and I'm on I'm on the bed and she's like I'm gonna give you something for the pain.
01:55:21.000I said, I don't want anything She said are you sure like you broke your bones and it's really bad and I said I said, I don't know I said I really don't want to take opiates and
01:55:32.000I said, how about we start with Tylenol?
01:58:04.000According to the science, if it's scientific, then why don't you get out your instruments and why don't you look at the chart of the human body and tell me with a consensus and a straight answer what's going wrong.
01:58:17.000But instead, they come in and tell me opposite things!
02:04:57.000But it's certainly not like it was last year.
02:04:59.000Last year, it had this almost unexplainable ascendancy.
02:05:05.000Like, it had this effect of coming out of nowhere and being totally unexplainable and really coming from TikTok, where maybe nobody had ever really come from that place like before.