KEVIN MCCARTHY 2.0??? Mike Johnson Allies With DEMOCRATS To Avert Shutdown | America First Ep. 1250KEVIN MCCARTHY 2.0??? Mike Johnson Allies With DEMOCRATS To Avert Shutdown | America First Ep. 1250
The government was going to run out of money today, but a deal was struck to keep the government funded through the beginning of 2024. This is the exact same scenario as the one that got Kevin McCarthy fired as House Speaker a few months ago, but with a different leader and a different set of circumstances. Tonight, we re back talking about the deal and why it s exactly the same as McCarthy s ouster. We ll also be talking about a new report from the Department of Homeland Security that says there may be 50 million or more illegal immigrants in the United States and it s cost the US $450 billion a year to handle them. We ll be back on Tuesday with a new episode of America First with Nicholas J. Fuentes where we ll talk about that and much more! Subscribe to America First to stay up to date on all things America First. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe on iTunes Learn more about your ad choices. Like, comment and tell a friend about what you're listening to today's episode. We'll be looking out for the best independent journalism in the podcast world. Thank you for listening and share the podcast with your fellow podulters! Timestamps: 0:00 - What's your favorite moment of the week? 5:30 - What are you listening to most recently? 6:15 - What do you think of the latest episode? 9:00 | What are your thoughts on the government shutdown? 11:00 12: What's the worst thing you've heard so far? 13:30 | What would you be looking forward to see in the next episode of the podcast? 15:00 -- What s your biggest takeaway from the most important thing you re listening to right now? 16:30 -- What's going to happen next? 17:40 -- What can you do in the future? 18: How do you want to hear from your government shutdown day? 19:15 -- what do you're going to do in 2020? 21:30 22:00 Is the government going to be the biggest thing you're most important? 25: What s the best thing you'll be doing in the most impactful thing that you re going to get in the rest of your life? 26:00 // 15:20 -- what are you're watching right now in the meantime? 27:30 Is there a better place for you?
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00:12:04.000And our featured story, we're going to be talking about what I actually had planned on getting to this last night and I'm kind of pissed that I didn't, but we were supposed to have another government shutdown by the end of the week and it got canceled today.
00:12:23.000Because the new House Speaker Mike Johnson was able to secure a deal that will fund the government through the beginning of 2024.
00:12:31.000So I actually wanted to cover it last night because last night we didn't know it was going to happen.
00:12:39.000So I planned on doing it yesterday so that we could anticipate and set it up a little bit but
00:12:47.000There were some things going on in the Gaza War I had to cover so anyway tonight our featured story we'll be talking about this deal and we're picking up where we left off back in October before the Gaza War.
00:13:02.000Big story of the year before the Al-Aqsa flood was that Kevin McCarthy, the Republican Speaker of the House, was ousted by the House Freedom Caucus and specifically a small faction inside of it that had been resisting McCarthy for almost a full year.
00:13:24.000And they finally won in October when they ousted Kevin McCarthy.
00:13:30.000But it took until October to find a replacement.
00:13:34.000They went through several ballots and finally they selected a new guy and his name's Mike Johnson, relatively unknown entity.
00:13:43.000And so a lot of people are waiting to see how he would do and if he'd be more conservative or if he'd be a better politician than McCarthy.
00:13:52.000But after this deal today, it appears that he's exactly the same.
00:13:58.000And so we'll go over the background on how McCarthy got ousted, because it's exactly the same scenario that played out today.
00:14:08.000Which is that the government was set to run out of money at the end of the week.
00:14:12.000They needed to pass a stopgap bill that would fund the government for one or two more months so that they could figure out a long-term spending plan.
00:14:23.000Republicans didn't want to pass the stopgap without deep spending cuts or a commitment to deep spending cuts and certain items relating to immigration.
00:14:35.000And just like McCarthy, Mike Johnson went around all the Republicans, cut a deal with the Democrats to fund the government, no strings attached, until January.
00:17:43.000so we'll go through this report because it goes into detail what these expenses are and what the biggest expenses are and how much and we'll go through all the figures but it is it's just outrageous what more is there even to say I don't think anybody's even surprised at things like this and it's just a joke so
00:18:15.000We're going broke, feeding people that will kill all of us.
00:18:19.000The good news is, this show is on time, and we're here.
00:18:25.000So before we get into the news I want to remind you to smash the follow button on Cozy and Rumble follow me on both because they're both great and it's good for me and Rumble you get all the replays and Cozy is a backup because I may get banned on Rumble I hope I don't and I'm always saying this kind of to cover my ass I'm like I'm kind of nudging Rumble I'm like hey
00:21:02.000You know, I went in there with the razor and I guess I just took a little too much off because I was trying to just trim it around my nose.
00:22:25.000It's the same way how, you know, some black people don't trust white people.
00:22:30.000You know, there are some black people that they just resent us.
00:22:36.000A lot of Jews are like that with Europeans and Christians.
00:22:40.000And they may be friendly, and they may act like they agree with you and stuff, but in the back of their head, they think everybody might be a Nazi.
00:22:48.000Everybody might be a Nazi and might hate them because they're an outsider.
00:23:07.000So this fanatical lunatic, since the war has started, has been everywhere on his platform and on YouTube and Twitter calling for the United States to do everything for Israel.
00:23:23.000Give them as much money as they need, go out and threaten to bomb Iran, and bomb Hezbollah, and bomb Syria, and kill more Muslims and everything.
00:23:34.000And Candace Owens, who works at the same company, she's an American, and I actually like her, and she's been a little bit more moderate.
00:23:44.000And she said it's wrong when Palestinians call for genocide against Israel.
00:23:51.000She said it's also wrong when Israelis call for genocide against Palestinians.
00:23:57.000She also said that Israel does resemble an apartheid state, that the Palestinian Arab Muslims are segregated, and they're subject to worse conditions and limited autonomy, which by definition is apartheid.
00:24:13.000And she said other things too, but in other words, she's been really like the rest of us, like an American.
00:24:20.000When she looks at Israel, she doesn't see her true home.
00:24:24.000She doesn't see her true motherland and her real people.
00:24:28.000She sees another foreign country, which may or may not be sympathetic, but they're not us.
00:24:34.000So, I saw last night on Twitter, it's blowing up, it got millions of views,
00:24:42.000Someone posted a video where Ben Shapiro was at some gathering, I don't know where, looked like some private gathering, and somebody asked him about what Candace has been saying about Israel, and he comes out swinging and says she has been absolutely reprehensible.
00:25:00.000He said her behavior is unconscionable, she is a faux sophisticate,
00:25:07.000Meaning that she pretends to understand the nuances of the conflict, but she's really ignorant.
00:25:13.000He says that she is giving the Daily Wire a bad name.
00:25:25.000Ben Shapiro says this about Candace Owens, apparently in private, this wasn't on a show, this wasn't on a livestream, this was at some party, maybe some party for Jews or something, where he could be a little more candid.
00:25:39.000And he said, yeah, Candace Owens, she's reprehensible, she's disreputable, she's faux sophistication on this issue is ridiculous, he says.
00:25:54.000And she comes back on Twitter today and says, And she's going on Tucker Carlson tomorrow, so I don't know if she's going to address it or what.
00:26:06.000She says, Clearly, a shot across the bow at Shapiro and a masterstroke
00:26:17.000Because people are definitely going to call that anti-semitic.
00:26:21.000They're going to say, oh this is obviously a subtweet of Ben Shapiro and it's about serving money.
00:28:07.000With that being said, the vast majority of them, even if they don't like the Netanyahu government, and maybe some are sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, they're all Zionists, for the most part.
00:28:18.000Religious, not religious, liberal, conservative, it's the same rate that they support State of Israel.
00:28:26.000And so some are saying that this is creating tension in the left wing, because the left wing coalition has a lot of these very influential Jewish elites.
00:28:40.000On Wall Street, at the major Ivy League universities, but they also have a lot of these underclass minorities, blacks, Hispanics, that are liberation-minded.
00:28:52.000They're anti-colonial in favor of decolonization.
00:28:58.000And so this conflict puts these two factions within the left at odds because the liberal Democrat voting Jews who are very elite on Wall Street and they're in government and they're in academia, it pits them against these BLM, Black, Hispanic, Arab, Asian types that are sympathetic to Palestine and the cause of Palestine
00:29:23.000As the oppressed versus the oppressor.
00:29:26.000So people say we have to exploit this contradiction.
00:29:28.000Maybe we can use the Zionist element among the Jewish elites on the left to go after these other left-wing types.
00:29:38.000We can use the Zionists as a bludgeon against immigrants, against left-wing organizations on universities.
00:29:49.000Use it as a bludgeon against the Democratic Party, split the vote, and make Biden less popular.
00:29:57.000And I've heard that, but what I realized is that that results in a victory for the Jews, ultimately.
00:30:07.000In Germany, for example, they're talking about deporting people, but they're not talking about mass deportations.
00:30:13.000They're talking about deporting people that don't swear allegiance to Israel.
00:30:18.000But they will keep taking refugees, they will keep taking economic migrants, and as a matter of fact, they'll distribute the illegal immigrants across Europe and make sure everybody gets a lot of them.
00:30:29.000So, in other words, some will look at this situation and say, finally we get to use Zionist power for our ends, which is to expel immigrants, which is to expel migrants.
00:31:24.000I've seen... and you're gonna have to go back and watch my show from 2017, six years ago.
00:31:30.000I had a crystal ball, because I could see these contradictions, which is that when Donald Trump said, it's Americanism and not globalism,
00:31:42.000When he said, America first, this necessarily creates
00:31:51.000A conflict with the substantial Zionist infiltration on the right wing.
00:31:57.000Because, of course, what do Republicans stand for?
00:31:59.000If you look at the GOP primary debate, if you look at this latest Speaker of the House that was just elected, it's one of the fundamental pillars of the GOP is our support for Israel and, just in the last year, for Ukraine and Taiwan.
00:32:13.000Same thing with some of these other satellite organizations, or I should say this constellation of groups that forms a conservative movement.
00:32:46.000You cannot say America first without necessarily confronting and coming into an inevitable conflict with the state of the conservative movement.
00:32:57.000Because the state of the conservative movement is thoroughly infiltrated and subverted by a foreign country.
00:33:05.000So America can't come first as long as Zionists are running Breitbart, Fox News, PragerU, Daily Wire, Daily Caller, New York Post, Turning Point USA, the GOP.
00:33:37.000In other words, people could kind of hold this contradiction in their head when it started, and they could be both supportive of Israel, although maybe not understanding the full scope of the situation, while also saying, America first.
00:33:51.000But I knew from the beginning that if we pressed that contradiction, if we forcefully pressed that contradiction,
00:34:02.000Then it would pit the Trump base and Americans and Gentiles against the Zionists.
00:34:09.000Because, of course, all the Americans... This is common sense.
00:34:42.000There was a conservative pundit named Gad Saad.
00:34:46.000He's a Jewish, Lebanese-born immigrant who lives in Canada.
00:34:51.000And he says that if the West doesn't support Israel, he's gonna go move to China, because the West has fallen.
00:34:57.000This is a guy who writes for 20 years about how liberalism's the best, and the West is the greatest, and he's a tireless fighter for Western values.
00:35:08.000But the moment that those Western values don't benefit Israel, or they're not so hospitable to this alien Jewish presence,
00:35:55.000The contradiction was able to live because of the ambiguous nature of the conservative movement.
00:36:03.000Because they had this big Trojan horse.
00:36:07.000Where they dressed it up in American flags and free market, limited government, Reagan, and the affects of patriotism, but, or artifacts, I should say, of patriotism, but on the inside, the driver and the engine of it was that they wanted the GOP and America to support Israel.
00:36:27.000And so, I realize that all that needed to happen is for this contradiction to become apparent, for it to come to the surface.
00:37:08.000You're not the same person if you live in a world where you really believe everything is matter.
00:37:15.000Whereas if you're a Christian, then you really believe that you have a soul, and the world was created, and there's a purpose, and there's a judgment, and so on.
00:37:25.000And I realize that the, again, the necessary logical conclusion to that would be that we have to have Christian government.
00:37:34.000And that would preclude these Jewish people that don't share our values, either the so-called secular atheist Jews or the religious Talmudic rabbinical Jews.
00:37:44.000It would preclude them from having influence.
00:37:48.000And again, there is a contradiction here.
00:37:51.000That the base is almost universally Christian of some stripe, and they believe in Universalism, and they believe in the resurrection of Jesus, and they believe in Christ's commandments, and the leadership of the GOP, which is variously Atheist or Orthodox Jewish, in which case they have very different values.
00:38:14.000And so, you know, that's really, to me, the contradiction which is necessary for us to exploit.
00:38:22.000I'm not interested in the contradiction on the left.
00:38:29.000Because the left and the right are very much related.
00:38:32.000As we know, there's not any daylight between the right and the left.
00:38:36.000The right and the left are in favor of war, open borders, free trade, all of it.
00:38:43.000The right and the left are in favor of a bloated military, and they're in favor of this patronage, corporatist, bureaucratic system we have.
00:39:30.000The right wing could be a vehicle for opposition.
00:39:35.000The right wing could be a vehicle for opposition to the left and the controlled right wing.
00:39:44.000It could be a vehicle for true nationalism.
00:39:47.000And I'm interested in bringing the Republican base, which is Christian, nationalist, conservative, into their fullness, leading the conservative movement, leading the right wing, and then we'll actually have real opposition.
00:40:03.000Then we'll actually have real opposition to the system.
00:40:07.000If you have Christian Nationalist types, and by the way I don't mean Christian Nationalists, I mean if you have Christians and Nationalists running the GOP, now this is effectively fighting the system.
00:40:22.000This is effectively fighting the entrenched elites.
00:40:25.000And so for that reason I'm interested in exploiting that contradiction that exists
00:40:38.000I see the contradiction coming to the fore, which is guys like Matt Walsh and Candace Owens, or I guess people like Matt Walsh and Candace Owens, they're Americans.
00:40:54.000And yet they're working for a guy, Ben Shapiro, who doesn't see it that way.
00:40:57.000He doesn't like Jesus, and he doesn't like America that much.
00:41:02.000And when a conflict pops off in Gaza, and America's expected to go in and support their unchristian killing of children, and go in there and get dragged into a war with Iran, it offends the Christian and nationalist sensibilities of Catholic America Firsters.
00:44:15.000So that we can put people in them for longer and not feel bad about it.
00:44:19.000Because they belong separated from society if they can't help breaking laws.
00:44:26.000And we can maintain harmony within our society, and we can ban pornography, and we can regulate social media, and we can regulate what goes into our food and water, and we can build infrastructure.
00:47:48.000When guys like Jake Shields, or Elijah Schafer, or Lucas Gage, or me, or Kanye West for that matter, when people are putting it all on the line to wake people up,
00:48:18.000And, you know, for all these, like, wigger, white nationalist types, they want to say, well, you know, we don't need Muslims to do our fighting for us, and hey, we're white, pal.
00:48:28.000It's like, hey, okay, white man, explorer, pioneer, conqueror, time to tell the truth.
00:48:34.000You don't have to go and die in a sword fight.
00:48:41.000I mean, we're in a knife fight for the future of our civilization and people don't want to go and say words because then they can't afford an $8 latte.
00:48:49.000Then they can't afford an $80,000 car.
00:49:09.000I'm sick of everybody complaining, but nobody wants to make a sacrifice.
00:49:15.000Now, I'm not saying to be imprudent or reckless, but I mean, you gotta be doing something.
00:49:22.000You gotta ask yourself, what am I doing?
00:49:24.000And even if it's investing in yourself so that you can put yourself in a position where you can financially give to dissidents who lose their jobs to talk about this, even if it's you become a lawyer so you can run for office 10 years in the future, do it!
00:49:41.000But figure out how you're going to join this fight.
00:49:44.000I mean, honestly, nothing else is worthwhile.
00:49:47.000You go and fuck off to a farm to raise your family?
00:49:50.000There's not gonna be a country for your children or grandchildren to live in in 80 years if we don't win.
00:49:58.000So people gotta realize it's gotta come down to literally us.
00:50:01.000I mean, and I look at myself in the mirror and, you know, sometimes it's hard to see yourself as rising to the level of our ancestors, but you know what?
00:50:11.000They looked in the mirror the same way and they saw flesh and blood just like we do.
00:50:17.000They see a human being just like we see a human being.
00:50:21.000They weren't more or less than we are.
00:50:26.000So what I mean by that is it's not going to be somebody else.
00:50:30.000We can't cargo call people that were here 300 years ago.
00:50:34.000We have to rise to the occasion and do everything that we can.
00:51:03.000I mean, these people, they all have their own unique attributes and faculties and things like that, but none of them are any more special than any other person.
00:51:13.000There are people that are doing the work.
00:52:41.000I didn't mean to go on like that for a long time, but... You know, I just got charged up.
00:52:49.000Because it's like I said the other day, and I know I'm a little glib about it when I say this country's going downhill, but it's a really, it's a crying shame what is happening to this country.
00:53:34.000In other words, everybody wants to do it their way.
00:53:36.000Everybody wants to do it in a way that's painless or in a sort of egotistical way where if we can't win all the way tomorrow, they want no part of it.
00:53:46.000People look at Trump and they say, well, you know, he did something I didn't like.
00:55:05.000Have your family, raise the next generation of soldiers, but, you know, people gotta think in terms of, where's this political revolutionary class gonna come from that will deliver the change?
00:55:16.000It's not gonna be a bunch of guys that are driving their kids to soccer practice.
00:55:21.000And I, you know, I know people aren't gonna like to hear that, but that's just true.
00:56:37.000I've been critical of her here and there, but
00:56:40.000I mean lately I've been really impressed with her and you know me and her had kind of a funny interaction almost about a year ago with the whole yay 24 thing and I'm not going to go into that because I don't want to blow up her spot or whatever but you know what I think she's a real deal and this proves it.
00:56:59.000She could easily just not say the stuff and be way better off.
00:57:20.000But our featured story, we'll talk about this government shutdown, which is just a burden.
00:57:27.000And so the big news today is that the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, was able to put together a stopgap bill in the House that he will be able to send to the Senate and to the White House, which will fund the government until 2024.
00:57:43.000And this is part of the ongoing appropriations battle in Congress.
00:57:52.000Government was running out of money in September.
00:57:57.000They needed to pass 12 long-term spending bills to fund the government for a year, but they couldn't reach agreement.
00:58:08.000It's a Republican-controlled House, a Democrat-controlled Senate.
00:58:12.000They were running out of time so they said well we need a bill that just funds the government for like six weeks.
00:58:17.000Stopgap bill that gives us just a little more time so we can iron out the differences on these these big spending bills that'll go on for a year.
00:58:32.000This was a major source of contention because whenever the government shuts down, as you know, this is an opportunity for one chamber to leverage the other.
00:58:44.000And there's always the prospect that if there is no agreement reached, if they don't pass a spending bill, the government runs out of money and various parts of the government begin to shut down.
00:58:58.000And this puts a tremendous amount of pressure on the entire government, on the President, on the Senate, and so this gives one or the other chamber leverage to extract concessions.
00:59:09.000And they say, well, we're not going to fund your government until you give us this, that, and the other.
00:59:15.000And with the extraordinary pressure with the government shutdown, they're able to extract concessions, and it's really a negotiating trick.
00:59:24.000So, back in September there were about a half dozen members of the House Freedom Caucus that refused to support Kevin McCarthy's spending bill.
00:59:35.000It was a fight within the Republican Party.
00:59:38.000Republicans had a very, very slim majority.
00:59:40.000Kevin McCarthy needed 217 votes out of the 200 and I think it's 20 that he has.
00:59:54.000But he needs 216, 217 votes to pass a spending bill that will go to the Senate and then go to the White House and pass.
01:00:02.000But there were just enough Republicans from the House Freedom Caucus that said, no, we don't like your spending bill because we're not getting anything out of this deal.
01:00:51.000So we'll put forward a bill that has 9% spending cuts and a little money for border security.
01:00:56.000And the Republicans said, well, that's not good enough.
01:00:59.000So it got closer and closer to the deadline, which was September 30th.
01:01:05.000And at the last minute, Kevin McCarthy outflanked his own party, went across the aisle, and made a secret deal with the Democrats to pass a bill that had no concessions for Republicans.
01:01:19.000It didn't even have the limited concessions that McCarthy was willing to ask for.
01:01:25.000So McCarthy passed a bill with more Democrat votes than Republican votes in the House, and it went to the Senate and to the White House, and it funded the government for six weeks.
01:01:35.000This was a huge betrayal because McCarthy basically said, I am more willing to negotiate with Democrats than my own side.
01:01:43.000I'm more willing to negotiate with Democrats than I am to stand up for concessions and to negotiate with the most conservative members of my own party.
01:01:54.000Total backstab, total betrayal, and it's the second time that this happened.
01:01:58.000McCarthy did another rotten deal back in May over the debt ceiling.
01:02:03.000So Matt Gaetz initiated the vote of no confidence, which is called the motion to vacate, and McCarthy was defeated.
01:02:17.000There was a long battle in October over who would succeed him.
01:02:20.000They went through three different candidates before they finally selected a new speaker, and it's Mike Johnson.
01:02:27.000And Mike Johnson just did exactly the same thing that McCarthy did.
01:02:30.000I mean, today, that whole scenario that just played out, Mike Johnson literally did exactly the same thing.
01:02:38.000The continuing resolution that McCarthy passed with the Democrats on September 30th just expires this week.
01:02:49.000So once again they were facing a deadline and in exactly the same way the same members of the House Freedom Caucus like Chip Roy and others said we're not going to pass a bill that does not have more concessions.
01:04:18.000Haven't cut the salary of a single cabinet member.
01:04:21.000We don't have the 46,000 hours of surveillance footage from January 6th.
01:04:28.000We haven't subpoenaed any Democrats or opened up any subcommittees, no spending cuts, haven't gotten rid of the 60,000 IRS agents they want to hire, haven't passed any money for border security, haven't cut aid or even audited the aid to Ukraine, haven't done anything.
01:04:50.000And it was so bad, we got rid of McCarthy, elected Mike Johnson, he did the same thing.
01:04:56.000The same thing that McCarthy was overthrown for, Mike Johnson just did the same.
01:05:02.000And this is a brief summary here from New York Times.
01:05:05.000It says, quote, Speaker Mike Johnson was forced on Tuesday to rely on Democrat votes as the House passed legislation to keep federal funding flowing into early 2024 after scores of Republicans opposed his plan to avert a government shutdown at the end of the week.
01:05:22.000Almost all Democrats and a majority of Republicans overcame the opposition of conservatives to approve the bill under special expedited procedures that required a supermajority.
01:05:34.000That approach, hatched by Mr. Johnson in his first week as Speaker, amounted to a gamble that a substantial number of Democrats would rally to help pass a package that Mr. Johnson's own members were unwilling to back.
01:05:48.000The vote was 336 to 95, clearing a two-thirds threshold required for passage.
01:05:54.000And in the end, 209 Democrats and 127 Republicans joined together to pass the bill.
01:06:02.00093 Republicans opposed it, as did two Democrats.
01:06:10.000But more Democrats than Republicans voted for the bill.
01:06:13.000Almost every Democrat voted for it, but half of Republicans voted against it.
01:06:41.000The Senate will pass legislation and send it to President Biden's desk within days.
01:06:46.000The legislation would fund federal agencies at current spending levels with two different expiration dates, January 19th for one set of government programs and February 2nd for another set.
01:06:58.000The timing would allow lawmakers more time to finish off the individual and annual spending bills, as many conservatives have demanded.
01:07:07.000In the days leading up to this week's deadline, some hardliners in Mr. Johnson's conference had suggested Republicans should let the government shut down and use that as leverage to try to force lower spending levels.
01:07:20.000So, this is why I say, by the way, that it's not Republicans vs. Democrats or Right vs. Left.
01:13:09.000It's like, but you... So that you can not do it the next time, because then you'll have to win the time after that, and then after that you won't be able to do it because they have to win the time after that.
01:13:20.000It's like... And it wouldn't be catastrophic.
01:13:24.000I mean, look, nothing is more catastrophic than 12,000 people being apprehended at the southern border every day.
01:13:32.000I don't think anything could possibly be doing more damage than that.
01:13:36.000Every day it's 10 or 15 or 20,000 people apprehended or they get away, they call them gotaways.
01:13:45.000It's 10 or 20,000 people every single day pouring in and they're being put up in hotels and tent cities are being created.
01:13:53.000They're being put up in nursing homes and airports and police stations.
01:13:57.000They're using hospitals for medical care.
01:14:00.000They're sending their kids to our schools.
01:15:49.000If Republicans won a bigger majority, contrary to what would seem intuitive, if Republicans had a bigger majority, they would be doing less.
01:16:00.000Because with more wiggle room, but not enough to have a super majority,
01:16:05.000They would be able to pass shitty bills that have nothing in them, that are completely toothless, and there wouldn't be enough conservatives in the GOP that could stop it.
01:16:17.000So if they had 10 more votes, it would be worse.
01:16:20.000Because those 10 votes would cancel out the only conservatives in the conference.
01:16:23.000And so they could pass the McCarthy bill without the Democrats.
01:17:17.000There's this, and I don't even know how I would, like, categorize it conceptually, but what I found when I do this show
01:17:29.000Is that there tends to be two sort of mindsets or schools of thought where me, I'm like, let's do everything.
01:17:39.000Let's show up to the battlefield and let's, even if we're going to lose, let's fight.
01:17:44.000Like, you know, we'll look at a situation like this, for example, and people will say, well, if the Republican controlled house passes a debt ceiling bill,
01:18:00.000But with tons of money for border security, then the Democrats will never accept it.
01:18:07.000They say, so we shouldn't even bother, you know.
01:18:09.000If we pass a bill that raises the debt ceiling, but it guts the IRS expansion, etc., the Democrat-controlled Senate will never pass that.
01:18:20.000So, we might as well not even try, because if this, then this.
01:18:25.000And if that happens, well then it's no good.
01:18:28.000So let's just give the Democrats what they want.
01:18:31.000And that's like one school of thought.
01:18:32.000People say, if we run into a wall, let's just not approach.
01:18:38.000If we show up on the battlefield and the enemy is there, let's just not even show up.
01:20:25.000You know, maybe all that this accomplishes is that we elect five more guys like Matt Gaetz and Chip Roy next time, and five more the next time, or maybe a Rhino gets primaried or whatever, but if you don't go and fight for your side, how can you ever expect to win?
01:20:40.000If you don't go and ask, if you don't go and make the challenge, how are you ever going to win the battle?
01:23:30.000The way things are going right now, it's over.
01:23:34.000The currency, the debt, the military sucking, the guys being trannies and gay, and the women on birth control and the fertility rate below replacement.
01:25:50.000People will not move to change the way things are.
01:25:54.000Convention, common sense, got us here.
01:25:58.000And so the bias is for people to remain like that.
01:26:02.000So I'm in favor of anything that's not that.
01:26:04.000Even if it is insane and doesn't make any sense and even if no one gets it and it's provocative and people say, you know, well that's not productive.
01:26:11.000It's like, I guess we should just like get on the train that's hurtling towards a brick wall instead.
01:26:27.000I mean, that's in a nutshell what's going on here.
01:26:30.000So, if guys like Trump and Gates and Iran and China, you know, whatever, the Taliban, whoever these people are, if they're just changing things, if they just represent not this, they represent change, something dynamic, something new, something that is not this, let's just do it.
01:26:53.000You know, because otherwise what you see happen is that people buy into the system.
01:26:57.000People vote for the GOP, thinking it's doing something when it's not, and we're in a slow-motion freefall.
01:27:09.000If you're plummeting to the earth, you know, to go back to the, I'm mixing all my metaphors here, but just go back to the Flight 93 analogy.
01:27:45.000Meanwhile, the deficit's growing at a billion percent.
01:27:50.000It's sucking all the oxygen out of the room for anyone with a new approach, with a new idea.
01:28:00.000So that's why we just need to make it, we need to make a lot of just noise and make people uncomfortable and we need to get the leadership to say, how can we stop this?
01:28:08.000How can we stop these people from upsetting the apple cart and changing our plans?
01:28:12.000We need to get them to start asking the question, how is the GOP going to win a victory?
01:28:19.000And then maybe these very powerful, rich, smart people will then be forced to figure out a way.
01:28:26.000You know, even if it's with reluctance and resignation, they say, all right, all right, all right, we'll figure out how we're going to save the country.
01:31:12.000Everyone who's in the know knows what I'm talking about.
01:31:16.000You go on TikTok, and you see a TikTok that says, Hitler was the chosen one, and it has a million likes.
01:31:22.000Like, you go on TikTok these days, and there'll be a TikTok that says, like, Hitler tried to save the world, and all the comments are like, rest in peace.
01:34:48.000kind of like look I don't have beef with the guy but he's kind of like been around forever I've been doing this show forever and he as far as I know doesn't have like a big following but I've I've heard about him forever just because he's like the self promoter he says he invented email like so he just kind of comes across as a sort of a grifter but I have no beef with him I don't know him
01:35:20.000Earlier this year, he's gonna hate me for this.
01:35:23.000Earlier this year, I forget how, but somebody told Ye about Dr. Shiva and about how he invented email and he has like a plan to save America and they got him on a phone call with Ye.
01:35:39.000And Ye was like, should I jump on a private jet right now and meet with this Dr. Shiva in Massachusetts?
01:35:49.000I'm like, this guy, this guy, like from, because I've, this guy's like, again, I don't really know that much about him, but he's like been a minor ESA Lab for like 10 years, maybe longer.
01:36:00.000Since I got started, he's been a fixture.
01:36:29.000I mean yeah, yeah, he was at that point.
01:36:31.000He was a little bit wishy-washy So I don't think I was the sole reason I don't think I'm you know The only reason that that didn't happen He's gonna he probably wants to kill me after in that story, but I was like yeah, I don't think so I don't think that's a good idea
01:37:30.000I know Public Enemy, and Tribe Called Quest, and Eric B., and all that stuff.
01:37:42.000Big Daddy Kane and I mean, you know, I I'm into all that.
01:37:46.000I'm it wasn't all that stuff But it's just kind of like cringe like you come across as like a white nerd like a corny white nerd So, you know, I obviously love Kanye I feel like Kanye is a is sort of transcended the rap genre Because his music is it is rap, but it's also pop and it's also soulful.
01:40:16.000Can you briefly explain their importance?
01:40:19.000Council on Foreign Relations, they're one of the most important think tanks.
01:40:28.000It's a lot of business leaders and it's a lot of bureaucrat types in there politicians and they're they're basically tasked with making sure that everybody is on message that everybody is pushing
01:40:44.000They're the ones that are going out there.
01:40:45.000Because, you consider that, like, we are a liberal, democratic, open society.
01:40:51.000And yet, we need to have a stable foreign policy.
01:40:55.000We need to have, like, a stable diplomatic mission and military posture.
01:41:00.000And so, I guess the best way to explain it is the Council on Foreign Relations is sort of meant to resolve that dilemma.
01:41:09.000What I mean by that is, you know, the country is an open society, it's democratic, so, you know, the people can be passionate, and popular opinion is gonna change over time, and if everyone was left to their own devices, maybe there'd be these wild, um, sort of, uh, what would be the word for it?
01:41:33.000We would have like a very temperamental and unstable foreign policy.
01:41:39.000How could we sustain commitment for like the war in Iraq or support for certain allies if public opinion is unstable?
01:41:48.000So there is a need for the diplomatic mission and the military of the United States to have a sort of sustained long-term agenda and posture.
01:42:00.000But then there's all these retards in the country.
01:43:09.000Every time I get the chance to tune into your show, Nick, you always put on an entertaining show and I always leave having learned something new.
01:43:16.000So thank you for doing your homework and covering these subjects.
01:43:19.000Candace IMO was never a good fit for the DW.
01:43:22.000Still remember her guest appearance on InfoWars.
01:43:26.000Yeah, I'm glad you like the show, because it's, uh... taxing.
01:43:32.000I mean like when I say taxing I mean it's one thing to be a live streamer and you like like I watch the Destiny stream sometime and he puts on a game and just sits there for hours saying nothing but I really I feel like I really put on a show like I I develop a monologue and then it's uninterrupted non-stop content for like 90 minutes
01:43:54.000I feel like people don't- it's a very actually physically demanding thing.
01:43:57.000People would roll their eyes and say, oh really?
01:44:18.000There's no other show where there's no guests, no produce segments, no breaks, no advertisements, where it's just 70 minutes, one guy talking at a camera.
01:47:24.000The bulwark for the 2nd Amendment's the Supreme Court.
01:47:42.000But, I mean, you go to these major cities, there's gun control in every major city, in liberal states, and they pass it at the federal level, so that is just fear-mongering when they do that, and they're gonna take your guns anyway.
01:47:56.000So all that stuff is really inevitable.
01:48:00.000You know, when people say, we have to keep voting for the GOP because they'll take the guns, it's like, look, every scare scenario will happen if you keep voting for Republicans regardless, it's just a matter of time.
01:48:13.000So it's a question of whether you want it at all or if you want it later.
01:48:19.000Me personally, I want the Second Amendment indefinitely.
01:48:22.000I don't just want to wait until the GOP inevitably collapses and then, you know, we get it in a couple of decades.
01:48:49.000Not unfunny but... Like.1 sent $23, one of Tim Pool's segments today was about the Candace Owens, Ben Shapiro situation and he left an AF post and Autumn Groyper tweet up on his screen for the entire 12 minute segment.
01:49:04.000He also said 4 times that he is America first.
01:50:44.000As a father of 10 children and traditional Roman Catholic, I am requesting prayers for the repose of the soul of my wife's grandmother Marlene L. Requiescat in pace.
01:50:54.000God bless you and keep up the great work.
01:50:56.000Hey, thank you very much for the super chat.
01:54:51.000I mean I'm really holding myself back because I'm just
01:54:55.000You know, I eat Papa John's three times a week and stuff, but you know, once I'm really in peak physical condition, which I'm hurtling towards every day, man, it's over.