00:01:30.000I don't know if that's the way the internet works, but it seems like you get a really new meme come on the scene, and very quickly it becomes overdone and tired, and, you know, it just goes so fast.
00:01:42.000That Ugandan Knuckles meme that lasted like two days before Reddit took it over and then it got really lame.
00:01:49.000So I don't know if T-Pose will have a similar lifespan or if it'll go on longer.
00:01:53.000Some memes even have a way that they come back.
00:01:56.000Like I've been listening all week, I've been listening to Baked Alaska's MAGA anthem.
00:02:01.000If you watch my intimate gaming stream last night, we were just playing that on loop just over and over, which I find to be unironically a good song and very catchy, but that's making a rebound.
00:02:27.000And one thing before I jump into it, one thing before we get going and we start talking about the news, because there's so much to discuss, I will say that there are a number of primaries happening today in Oregon, Idaho, Pennsylvania, and Nebraska.
00:02:44.000I believe those are the big states where they're having their.
00:02:49.000There are three states, or rather, three races that we are watching very closely.
00:02:55.000They are the 7th district in Pennsylvania, the 8th district in Pennsylvania, and the 2nd district in Nebraska.
00:03:02.000A very good friend of mine and a big supporter of the show has been giving us some information about that and showed me that those were the big races.
00:03:10.000So we might be doing, and let me know if you guys are interested in this, we might be doing at 8 o'clock, whereas usually we do 15 minutes and it goes on a little bit longer.
00:03:20.000I think at 8 o'clock, we might just flip over into election covering territory and we'll see what the numbers look like.
00:03:27.000It's not going to be a very exciting thing.
00:03:29.000It's not like the stakes are very high, but we will be watching throughout the night to see what the turnout looks like for the Republicans and the Democrats in these primaries because, of course, we're always watching them.
00:03:39.000And it's funny because the theme of tonight's show, I guess, is like foreign affairs and then election.
00:03:46.000That's what the America First premium membership used to be about before we got taken out by Stripe.
00:03:54.000But anyway, so that's what we might do later on after the show, and we'll be checking out those races.
00:04:00.000It'll be interesting to see because you know we've been watching a lot of special elections, and there hasn't been so much primary action going on so far.
00:04:07.000A lot of the primaries are this month, they're in June.
00:04:10.000They go on right up until the election.
00:04:12.000I'm pretty sure some of the latest ones are in the fall.
00:04:16.000And so it'll be interesting to see because a lot of the special elections we've been watching and the few primaries, we've seen very sharp Democrat action.
00:04:24.000Turnout or an uptick in Democrat turnout.
00:04:26.000We saw in Texas they doubled their turnout.
00:04:28.000We saw in Pennsylvania they won in a very strong Republican district.
00:04:33.000And so it'll be interesting to see now that some new polling numbers are coming in.
00:04:38.000Trump's approval is very high right now.
00:04:40.000The generic ballot is looking not good for the Democrats at all.
00:04:43.000It'll be interesting to see how that reflects in the turnout.
00:04:58.000Not the special elections, but if you look at the primaries, I remember hearing from somebody, I'm not sure who, that the Democrats are up 16% from 2014 and Republicans are up 64% from 2014.
00:05:12.000And I forget if I'm misremembering that or where I heard that, but it should be shown that I think it's a little bit more double sided than people say.
00:05:19.000But anywho, we got to get into the news.
00:05:22.000The first big thing I want to talk about, because nobody's talking about this, you know, people are talking about Israel still and Palestine and they're talking about Trump's wife and all this, but.
00:05:33.000The big thing nobody's talking about is Russia has drastically cut their defense spending, and this was on antiwar.com, a great site which you should check out if you are looking for news that is not globalist propaganda.
00:05:48.000And, okay, so it's looking like we're getting some Streamlabs.
00:05:50.000Every time it plays a sound, and I don't know if people are giving bits on Twitch.
00:05:55.000To make a donation on Twitch, it costs like a penny, so I'm always thinking, is somebody spamming?
00:05:59.000But anyway, so it's not really been reported so much.
00:06:03.000I think this is one of the most Underreported stories of the past month, which is that Russia is now the third biggest military spender in the world behind the U.S. and Saudi Arabia, which is a big change because we know that Russia has always been, for the last, what, 15, 20 years, been the number two military spender behind the United States.
00:06:26.000Now, the U.S. spends much, much more than every country combined, like much more than I think the next seven countries combined.
00:06:39.000And although they've been a regional power since the breakup of the Soviet Union, they've still been right there challenging us with conventional and nuclear capabilities.
00:06:49.000They undertook, under Vladimir Putin, a very strong modernization effort after some of the weaknesses of the Russian military were discovered during their invasion of Georgia in 2008.
00:07:01.000So they've been modernizing their military.
00:07:03.000They've been creating these very professional, highly mobile military units.
00:07:06.000They've been developing nuclear weapons that will be able to penetrate.
00:07:10.000The United States ABM or anti ballistic missile shield.
00:07:14.000Those were unveiled about a month ago.
00:07:15.000If you recall, Vladimir Putin laid out, I think it was three new types of missiles and nuclear technology designed specifically to penetrate the American ABM shield being constructed in Eastern Europe and also being implemented in South Korea with the THAAD system.
00:07:32.000And so there was a big show of that, and there's been a major effort underway, some very ambitious projects building up their fleet in the Arctic and all the rest.
00:07:39.000But today it was announced by Vladimir Putin that they are cutting.
00:07:43.000Military spending drastically to focus on nation building at home in Russia.
00:07:48.000Many people are calling this a Russia first policy.
00:07:52.000So, Russia cut their military spending for the first time, cut their annual military spending for the first time since 1998, cut it 17% from the previous year.
00:08:03.000Now they're the third behind U.S. and Saudi Arabia.
00:08:07.000And the reason they say is because the Russians are war weary.
00:08:11.000They say that the Russians have tolerated Vladimir Putin's efforts for a long time to put Russia back on the world stage as a superpower in the sense that they saw Russia intervening in The Ukrainian color revolution intervening in the Georgian situation, intervening in Syria, they saw that as Vladimir Putin's attempt to put Russia back on the map, where they had fallen apart after the Cold War and they had this very chaotic,
00:08:40.000unstable democratization period and they were kind of pawns of the West and the United States.
00:08:46.000They saw these excursions, these military expeditions, as an attempt by Putin to put Russia back on top or back as a superpower in the minds of Russians and of people in the world.
00:08:57.000But they say now, and if you look at any of the polling now, they say that Russians are basically war-weary.
00:09:02.000They've tolerated this for a long time.
00:09:05.000And although Putin's poll numbers are at more than 80%, I think it's something like 82% approval for Putin in Russia.
00:09:12.000And he just got elected to a fourth term as Russian president.
00:09:16.000Similarly, if you look at the polling, kind of paradoxically, you'll have this very high approval, but some 45% of Russians say they're upset about income inequality.
00:09:25.000And so Russia's now undertaking this very.
00:09:29.000Very strong effort to rebuild Russia at home, to rebuild their infrastructure, to nation build in Russia, to focus on domestic issues as opposed to international issues.
00:09:38.000And there's a lot of speculation for why this is.
00:09:40.000People say, well, it's the war weariness.
00:09:44.000People say, well, for Russia's economy to move forward, they'll have to fix up sanctions, they'll have to attract Western investment.
00:09:51.000And there's a lot of speculation about it.
00:09:53.000But some say that the reason that this is happening is so that Vladimir Putin can begin to.
00:09:58.000Make better relations with the West and with the United States.
00:10:03.000And I think what is instructive about this example of Vladimir Putin is this is essentially what Donald Trump should be doing in our country, in the sense that what Vladimir Putin was doing for a long time is something that we would say is not good.
00:10:17.000He was involving the Russian military in a foreign conflict in Syria, involving the Russian military in Ukraine and in Crimea, which I think is more defensible than Syria.
00:10:29.000In Ukraine, it makes sense because he's protecting.
00:10:32.000Ethnic Russians, Russian speaking people in Crimea, in Luhansk, in Donetsk, which is in the Donbass.
00:10:38.000So there's a better case to be made for that.
00:10:40.000But irrespective of those technicalities, people might say, well, Russia's been pursuing maybe an expansionist, maybe an aggressive foreign policy.
00:10:50.000But he did that to make a show of force, to demonstrate to the world that Russia cannot be messed with.
00:10:56.000Russia is a player, just like the UK and France and China and the US.
00:11:02.000They took a little while to establish that.
00:11:05.000I think it maybe was inaugurated in 2014 with their engagement in Crimea for the Ryan Dawson's that say, oh, well, you know, it was basically harmless and it was totally democratic.
00:11:15.000Let's say their engagement in Crimea in 2014 and concluding with their victory in the Syrian civil war by shoring up the Assad government, which they declared in 2017.
00:11:27.000And why I say this is instructive is because this is essentially, I think, what Donald Trump is beginning to do and should follow through on, which is we come back, America's on the world stage, we flex our muscles, we make China bend, we make Iran bend, North Korea, we make Russia respect us again, and then we put the focus back on the domestic.
00:11:50.000And I think that's essentially what you're seeing with Trump's policy.
00:11:53.000And if he were wise, he would do that.
00:11:56.000Because already what you're seeing with his foreign policy is.
00:12:01.000And there have been a lot of critics of it.
00:12:02.000On this show, we have looked at it in context and we've looked at it with a sense of proportion.
00:12:08.000Nevertheless, a lot of the critics have rightly pointed out that Trump has not totally followed through quite yet on a completely America first foreign policy.
00:12:17.000We've got an increasing involvement in Afghanistan.
00:12:20.000We've still got a presence in Syria and they say possibly an indefinite presence in Iraq.
00:12:26.000Our military is still involved in West Africa, still involved in Yemen, still involved in Somalia.
00:12:32.000We still have this presence in Europe and in Japan and in South Korea.
00:12:36.000We're still engaged in these conflicts, and people are not paying us.
00:12:40.000And so, the expectation, I think, has been that we would get there eventually, but we haven't seen a whole lot of movement on these major projects.
00:13:09.000And we'll show the whole world and remind the world that America is not in decline.
00:13:14.000America is not going anywhere anytime soon.
00:13:17.000Is it going to be the same unipolar, hegemonic world that we've lived in for 25 years, where America can do whatever it wants without consequence?
00:13:26.000No, it won't be exactly the same as it has been.
00:13:28.000You'll see regional powers like China, like Iran, like Saudi Arabia, even Brazil, maybe, India.
00:13:41.000And America should probably mind their own business a little bit more, at least in the Western Hemisphere and at most in their own country.
00:13:49.000But nevertheless, the point was made that America's back.
00:13:52.000We're still going to be here for a long time, still going to be a number one economic power, the number one military power, number one superpower by far.
00:14:01.000And we're going to remind everybody about it.
00:14:21.000We've done almost a redux and kind of a weird synthesis of a Nixonian and a Reagan doctrine abroad, which is a once very real politique, a very pragmatic and realistic foreign policy, but at the same time, something very aggressive and in some degree Americanized in a more Ronald Reagan tradition.
00:14:40.000So we have this very aggressive foreign policy.
00:14:43.000And that's fine so long as the next phase is something very similar to what Russia is doing, which is now we scale it back.
00:14:51.000We show everybody what we're capable of, but now we're going to focus inwardly.
00:14:55.000We're going to build up our infrastructure.
00:14:57.000We're going to take care of our entitlements.
00:14:59.000We're going to finally cut military spending.
00:15:01.000And by the way, I think that's what's going to happen.
00:15:03.000You know, I saw him at the rally at Elkhart, Indiana, and he said, well, we did the massive military expenditure to modernize the military.
00:15:12.000He said, it's been dilapidated, and under Obama, you know, it's.
00:15:17.000The quality hasn't been maintained and all the rest.
00:15:19.000And so we're going to rebuild, we're going to modernize, we're going to make a 2018 military.
00:15:25.000And so long as the expectation is that's a one time purchase and then we scale it back in a big way, I think that's acceptable.
00:15:32.000But remains to be seen by no, you know, that's not a guarantee.
00:15:37.000We have no assurance that that's going to be the same course.
00:15:39.000But I think we would be silly not to look at Russia as a model for how a realist politician can govern in the 21st century, which is that there's something to be said for being respected, something to be said for.
00:15:52.000Making a point, showing force when necessary, reminding the world of your power, but then we have to bring it back to the real focus.
00:16:00.000So, Vladimir Putin, I think that's the right move, and also I think that's a great sign for relations between the United States and Russia.
00:16:08.000Trump would be very wise to pick up on this.
00:16:12.000He would be very wise to acknowledge this in some way and to maybe interpret this as a signal that Russia is ready to re engage with the West, because it is simply true that although China, North Korea, Iran, And Russia.
00:16:26.000Although these rogue states or revisionist powers, I think that's the more apt and descriptive term, these revisionist powers, although they've been making strides, although they were kind of running the world under the Obama era, they are still completely dependent on Western finance, Western technology, banking.
00:16:45.000They are still dependent on the American led financial system.
00:16:48.000I think North Korea and our engagement with them basically demonstrates that.
00:16:53.000I think our handling of Iran will demonstrate that.
00:16:58.000Developments come out since Trump announced the withdrawal from the Iran deal that we're going to sanction German companies, we're going to sanction American companies.
00:17:05.000All kinds of companies that continue to do business with Iran are going to get shut down.
00:17:09.000And it basically just goes to show that America still runs the show, and that's okay.
00:17:14.000You know, we don't have to go to war, we don't have to be enemies with these people.
00:17:17.000But Trump would be wise to interpret these signals as basically, I don't know, some kind of a police, some kind of outreach, and say, we will meet you halfway, we will list sanctions, we will help with your economy if you meet us in this way.
00:17:47.000You know, it's okay to have ambitions and objectives and all that abroad and to build up the military and to make this kind of a point so long as we see the objective and we complete it.
00:18:00.000The biggest problem with the American military is it's never ending.
00:19:14.000You know, I don't think we'll ever look at a war, or at least we won't look at an overseas war in a long time with any kind of optimism or any kind of sympathy after what happened in Iraq, right?
00:19:28.000I mean, you've had wars before that have been less than successful.
00:19:31.000You've had wars that have been overseas and whatever.
00:19:38.000And we're still not out 18 years later in Afghanistan or 17 years later, 15 years in Iraq.
00:19:45.000And so, if it were just, you know, look, maybe we'll try this.
00:19:47.000If it doesn't work out, we'll pull out, that'd be a different story.
00:19:50.000So, as long as we approach our engagement with North Korea and with Iran, the present policy of containment in that way, which is we want denuclearization and we want, you know, we want to resolve this issue with Iranian aggression and sponsorship of terrorism and all that, I think we'd be much better off.
00:20:11.000The other big development that we saw today, moving right along, and there's so much going on in foreign affairs where it's just little things and.
00:20:18.000It all carries essentially the same narrative.
00:20:21.000It's all basically the same kind of quagmire, which is this global empire and how we're navigating that in the era of Trump.
00:20:29.000But the next big development this was something from Fox News, which I also didn't see a whole lot of on Twitter.com, which I guess kind of makes sense because we've all known it for a long time.
00:20:40.000But there was a big report out today on Fox News that showed that one of the so called moderate Syrian rebels who brokered a deal between the CIA and And the rebels, he has come forward and admitted explicitly that American weapons found their way into the hands of Al Qaeda and the Al Nusra Front.
00:23:11.000I mean, it's just kind of doesn't that tell you something when these people, the people that brokered the deal?
00:23:16.000So it's not like before we all kind of knew it, but it was hard really to prove it because you'd get these Zionists who come on cable and say, like, you can't prove this.
00:23:25.000And it's like, of course, because they're on the ground and the only people reporting on it are like conspiracy.net.biz says, you know, that Al Qaeda and the Illuminati control the world, whatever.
00:23:38.000But now you have on Fox News headline, the guy who brokered the deal is telling us, yeah, no, all.
00:23:43.000All the weapons that came over to us from the government are in the hands of Al Qaeda.
00:23:48.000And what really I think is striking, we've heard this all before, we know this, but the core of this, at the base level, our policies make no sense.
00:23:58.000Think about our weapons sales worldwide, think about our arms trafficking to foreign countries and to non state actors and all these different affairs.
00:25:06.000But just think about just the sheer incoherence here, the stark, blatant, just obnoxious incoherence that at once we're trying to make people safe in crowds.
00:26:03.000How can you say that we're a serious country if that's the case, right?
00:26:09.000And that's, I guess, kind of what Donald Trump is up against when people talk about, well, why hasn't this been fixed?
00:26:14.000I mean, this is a systemic problem where it's the bureaucracy, it's the Congress.
00:26:20.000It is baked into how laws are passed, it is baked into how laws are passed.
00:26:25.000Enforced by the executive, that this is the way it is.
00:26:28.000Short of radical institutional change, these things will not be corrected.
00:26:33.000You can pass a law, you can elect a politician, you can do a lot of things, but short of radical institutional reform, and I'm not talking about like, oh, the Immigration Reform Act or the Arms Trafficking Reform Act, short of drastic institutional change, I'm talking about a constitutional amendment, I'm talking about term limits, something like that, downsizing the bureaucracy, reinstating federalism, I don't know what it would be.
00:26:58.000But short of that kind of radical institutional change, there can be no expectation that this will get any better.
00:27:04.000Because you can have somebody come in and they'll pass a couple of laws like a Reagan or a Bill Clinton or whoever, but that will always be there.
00:27:13.000There will always be that kind of issue.
00:27:17.000I don't know why people take it seriously anymore.
00:27:19.000When we have these objectives and these goals of like, you know, we want people to be safe, we want to keep them safe from gun violence or want to stop terrorism.
00:27:28.000And we're creating terrorists and then inviting them over to the country.
00:27:44.000And that's, I guess, the bigger problem.
00:27:45.000That's one of the cultural problems because we have to be politically correct, we can't really address the problem where it is, where people want to drown out the ocean to save somebody that's drowning.
00:27:56.000You know, somebody's drowning in the lake or whatever.
00:28:00.000And instead of somebody saying, hey, let's just like bring this guy to the shore, let's throw out a life preserver, we're just going to find a way to drain out all the water in the lake.
00:28:08.000I mean, that's effectively what we do with our policies, right?
00:28:11.000Which is rather than just say, let's just, well, we can continue all this.
00:28:59.000And I know we're kind of moving rapid fire, it's a lot in one show.
00:29:03.000Some people say they like the long show that's about one thing.
00:29:06.000Some people say they like the current events, but we have to.
00:29:09.000I would be remiss if I didn't cover this, but we have to.
00:29:12.000It's the latest development out of North Korea, a big announcement out of the South Korean media.
00:29:18.000South Korean media is reporting that North Korea has canceled a meeting, a high level meeting between the South and North Koreans that was set to take place on Wednesday in a border town to discuss Red Cross and de escalating border tensions and reunifying families.
00:29:37.000And the North Koreans allegedly said that they canceled the meeting because of military drills that are going on that started on Friday, joint military drills with the United States and South Korea.
00:29:47.000They say that that's an unnecessary provocation.
00:29:50.000So they canceled the South Korea North Korea summit.
00:29:53.000And they also threatened and said, hey, we might just call off the whole thing, call off the summit with the United States.
00:29:59.000And, you know, Scott Adams was talking a lot about this.
00:30:02.000I think he's basically got the right take, which is this is what's going to happen.
00:30:07.000Going forward with this negotiation, the meeting takes place on June 12th in Singapore.
00:30:15.000Between now and then, I think you're going to see a lot of this threats to back out of the deal, threats to walk away from the table.
00:30:23.000And basically, my interpretation is this I think that, and this is also what Scott Adams said.
00:30:28.000So I'm not plagiarizing, I'm saying, you know, this is what was said.
00:30:32.000Basically, the premise is this North Korea has been almost kind of embarrassed in the Western press and in the world press.
00:30:40.000Because of all the concessions they've made, right?
00:30:42.000I mean, they deconstructed or they're planning on deconstructing their nuclear testing grounds later on this month, and they said they'll do it very publicly.
00:30:51.000People said actually it collapsed, and that's why they're deconstructing it.
00:30:54.000But nevertheless, they're going to deconstruct it.
00:30:56.000They said that they're giving up these three prisoners that they held from the United States, and they're going to make all kinds of concessions.
00:31:03.000And basically, the international press is saying, and Trump is also saying, North Korea is giving all this, and the U.S. and South Korea have given up nothing.
00:31:13.000They haven't given up on sanctions, they haven't given up on the military drills.
00:31:19.000But North Korea is giving all kinds of stuff.
00:31:21.000Trump has basically bent them to his will.
00:31:24.000And I've got to think that that has an effect, where if North Korea is.
00:31:27.000Thinking that their nuclear arsenal is going to be the bargaining chip that they want it to be, in the sense that if they think that denuclearization is something that will get them investment and sanctions relief and all the rest, well, then it doesn't really behoove them to go into the negotiation with the perception of the West and of the world being that North Korea is just giving away the whole house and they're expecting nothing in return.
00:31:52.000They're ready to bend the knee and they're done.
00:32:19.000And honestly, it's almost kind of sick because Trump, I don't think, and I don't think the global press would be talking about it the way they are if it weren't for the American press basically chastising Trump about it, saying, like, Oh, Trump gave so much on North Korea.
00:32:35.000I mean, in some ways, they're almost colluding with the enemy.
00:32:37.000You know, all that QAnon stuff, we like to make fun of it, but I don't know.
00:32:41.000It sounds kind of legitimate when you look at the way that the American liberal globalist press has been, in effect, working to further the causes of North Korea and of Iran in the way that they goad Trump into saying things like, yeah, they've given us everything and we've had to give nothing.
00:32:58.000Like, he wouldn't say that if it weren't for the press constantly going after him for this and discrediting him, and by goading him to say that.
00:33:06.000And by making that so public, I think they almost forced that reaction by North Korea.
00:33:11.000They forced North Korea to rethink the process and maybe think about backing out.
00:33:42.000By the same token, the other school of thought is that if we give on the drills, that's a sign of weakness.
00:33:48.000And going into the negotiation, if we set the precedent that we will give up on certain things without concessions, that really sends the wrong message.
00:33:59.000If we give up on the drills because North Korea threatens to pull out of the talks, that really erodes the entire foundation for our negotiation, which is that maximum pressure must be in place.
00:34:11.000And the only exception to that is complete denuclearization.
00:34:15.000That's the only way that the North Korean U.S. summit works out, is if North Korea commits 100% to complete denuclearization, not synchronized, not on the basis of reciprocity, but they just completely give it up.
00:34:29.000And after that fact, then they get the relief.
00:34:33.000If that goes away, you might as well not even have a negotiation.
00:35:36.000And of course, so much more is at stake here because now we also have simultaneously, concurrently, we have what's going on with Iran.
00:35:45.000And so Trump has kind of played this beautifully where at once there's a great amount of risk that if one of them goes wrong, Both of them will probably go wrong.
00:35:53.000But by the same token, there's also this great benefit that the two situations kind of play off of each other.
00:35:59.000He's introduced a tremendous amount of maneuverability here, where if he introduces something to the North Korean situation, it'll have an effect on the Iranian situation.
00:36:09.000So if we reach a stalemate with North Korea, well, we could do something with Iran to send a message to North Korea, or vice versa.
00:36:16.000And that was kind of the situation with the Syrian civil war.
00:36:19.000That was another theater where we could.
00:36:22.000Act in that area to make an indirect impact on what was happening in another area.
00:36:27.000And I think that's the beauty of this kind of deal making strategy, it's all connected.
00:36:32.000You know, and a lot of people were saying, for example, well, how could Trump, and this is just an example of this, they said, how can Trump hurt Iran in the same way that he hurt North Korea?
00:36:42.000Because North Korea was dependent on China.
00:36:44.000So all we had to do was break up China, or rather, persuade China to get hot on North Korea, not to get hot, but to get strong on North Korea, maybe.
00:36:53.000If they got hot on North Korea, that'd be a little weird.
00:36:56.000But to get hard on North Korea, and then we brought North Korea to the table.
00:37:00.000They say, well, how can we do that with Iran?
00:37:02.000Because Iran has got a much more robust economy, and they're connected with the European countries, and they've got the joint comprehensive plan of action with all these other countries, so they still have investment coming in.
00:37:15.000But then they forget that Trump has tremendous leverage over all countries involved.
00:37:20.000He's got leverage over the European countries with the steel and aluminum tariffs.
00:37:24.000He's got leverage over them with all these tariffs that are going into place and all these trade deals going on, and some of the things he's been saying about the European Union.
00:37:33.000And you look at some of the biggest steel exporters to the United States, it's Germany and Canada.
00:38:08.000And they basically look like retarded babies.
00:38:11.000That was baby power compared to Trump's power because he sees the entire thing in all of its depth, which is Iran, it's not going to work with purely American sanctions.
00:38:22.000So let's put in place such an ambitious tariffs regimen, such an ambitious tariff program across the world that we can break all the countries.
00:38:32.000That are pouring investment into Iran will sanction Germany, will punch China in the nose, will break Russia's gut, and will bring them all to heel.
00:38:41.000I mean, that's the beauty of Trump, where it's even if you can't see it, it's all connected there.
00:38:45.000And it was just announced that Siemens, which I think is a German company, and ha ha, Siemens, right?
00:38:50.000They're going to pull out investment from Iran.
00:38:53.000Boeing is canceling a major contract to Iran.
00:38:56.000And these are some of the ways that we'll be able to break them.
00:38:58.000There's a lot of talk about regime change in Iran, a lot of talk.
00:39:03.000You know, John Bolton, Mike Pompeo there.
00:39:05.000Suddenly there's a certain idea in Iran where the money's drying up, there's popular.
00:40:32.000It really is something you're born with.
00:40:33.000It's an instinct, it's an intuition, it's an intellect or an aptitude that you see these connections.
00:40:39.000Because a normal person will see the world in terms of Israel, Israel, you know, and that's it.
00:40:45.000Or the Jews, or, you know, the Muslims, you know, it's always like, One track, one dimensional.
00:40:51.000And this is, I think, why Trump excels.
00:40:53.000This is why Trump has been doing so well because, as a businessman, as someone in the private sector with this very specific aptitude, he sees the incentives, the motivations, the liabilities, the costs.
00:42:30.000Moki or Mochi says if you're pagan and don't regularly sacrifice animals and babies because you're afraid of Mother Nature, you're just LARPing, TBH.
00:43:51.000In a very scientific way, for people that don't have faith, what a man needs for fulfillment or for happiness, some of the key things besides friends and family, is a satisfactory explanation for death and suffering.
00:44:07.000The only way, the only way you get that is extrinsically.
00:45:04.000And the same people that were complaining, saying, I bet Nick is just too lazy to go to the gym, which I've been going to the gym, by the way, okay?
00:45:12.000Just not the most important thing, but it is up there.
00:46:28.000Kind of fanaticism that you can inspire people that will get the results that we want.
00:46:33.000You'll get a fringe element no matter what you promote, whether it's liberty or whether it's equality or racial consciousness, whatever it is.
00:46:41.000You get a small, tiny amount of people to do it.
00:46:44.000But what really motivates people to act is that something bigger, because that's something we can all relate to.
00:46:50.000That's the only universal the experience of suffering in the modern world.
00:49:20.000Very good with money, very conservative about where I spend it.
00:49:25.000You know, it's so hard because sometimes maybe you spend too much time on Fortnite, too much time in the Discord, and then things start flying out.
00:49:58.000I know it's an history or whatever, but nevertheless, A.J.P. Taylor is an Anglo and he does not believe in the great man theory of history.
00:50:07.000So there are some people that say, Nietzsche was one of them, that the world and world history is determined or.
00:50:17.000I don't know, figured out by great men.
00:50:48.000Actually, Bismarck was just making it up as he went along, and he didn't have these grand designs.
00:50:54.000Actually, he, and in Bismarck's own words, as a politician, Bismarck said his task was to hear.
00:51:01.000The sound of God's footsteps thundering through the halls of history and to try to grab onto his coat, which is a beautiful expression.
00:51:08.000And so A.G.P. Taylor's of that kind of mindset.
00:51:11.000So if you understand the bias of Taylor, who was a little bit anti German and was kind of hostile to that theory, but it is a great biography, a lot of good source materials in it.
00:51:22.000And on the Weimar Republic, I haven't read so much about the Weimar Republic, so it's a little bit tough.
00:51:27.000I do have a great documentary, I think, by a man named Toland about Hitler.
00:51:32.000I forget, it's T O L A N D or T O L L A N D, which I haven't read that one yet, but I do have that one.
00:51:39.000I did a lot of research on what's the right book to buy about Hitler because, you know, there's so many lies told about Hitler from both sides that I wanted to get the real truth.
00:52:59.000If it doesn't do that, if you don't really believe in them, and therefore it doesn't do that, it's useless.
00:53:05.000And if it's useless for that, Then you might say, oh, well, it's good because it strengthens these values and it'll bring our people together.
00:54:43.000When things get better materially for people, they stop believing in God.
00:54:47.000Because you imagine if you're like a poor farmer and you're surrounded by famine and your whole life is toil and there's no leisure, you know, it's hard not to believe in God, right?
00:54:58.000If you're to believe that the end all be all is like subsistence farming and people dying all around you, you're probably going to look for answers.
00:55:05.000You know, I think that's why you get a lot of religion and what some would call superstition in the countryside as opposed to in the urban sphere.
00:55:14.000When you're in an urban life, there are so many worldly pleasures.
00:55:19.000It's easy to lose track and maybe forget the extrinsic, or rather the existential suffering that we all feel, you know, and every now and again you're reminded, but.
00:55:31.000Not for long before you get like an advertisement for like the new Beats headphones, a new Motorola Razorblade, whatever.
00:55:38.000So, this is even during the Renaissance.
00:55:41.000You saw a lot of humanism and a lot of the Enlightenment came out of the material wealth and prosperity of the Renaissance because people said, you know, we're doing better.
00:56:29.000That's why I'm scratching my nose so much.
00:56:31.000We'll take a look at our super chat, see what people are saying.
00:56:35.000We've got Pagan Goddess Epic, who says, JF would like to set up a debate about the role of female YouTubers, preferably with you against, considering what you said last night.
00:56:47.000Do you accept his invitation or didn't she mean it?
00:56:50.000Well, what exactly did I say the other day about YouTubers?
00:56:54.000I mean, I basically said that women are better off in the home.
00:56:58.000A debate would be difficult because I'm not trying to say, like, women shouldn't be allowed to be on YouTube or, like, Lauren Southern should stop streaming.
00:57:16.000I would have to think about who the opponent would be because those kinds of fights tend to be a little bit more costly.
00:57:22.000I mean, I've maintained a position that women don't belong in a political movement without completely alienating all the women in the movement because that's just the way it is right now.
00:57:32.000So, I don't know how intelligent that would be, but.
00:57:35.000Certainly, every woman I've encountered in this movement has been nothing but trouble for the most part.
00:57:41.000You know, there are some exceptions and we know who they are.
00:57:44.000But by and large, the people I've encountered, they just, they're like, I don't even know.
00:57:49.000They're like IEDs in the road and you don't even see it coming.
00:57:52.000You think they're one of the exceptions.
00:57:54.000Then, boom, you know, you're like, your truck flips off the road.
00:57:57.000There's like a nail and you're like, you know, splattering blood everywhere because it's every time.
00:58:02.000You know, it was with Cassie Dillon where one night she was like, oh, you thought Richard Spencer's not literally Hitler?
00:58:34.000We're going to torpedo your application, another woman.
00:58:37.000So, in my experience, look, I'm not like a MGTOW or anything like that, nothing near it.
00:58:43.000But my view about women has always just simply been realistic, which is women have very particular characteristics that are suited towards particular functions.
00:58:56.000They can have a small, you know, okay, you can have your little YouTube show and we're not going to give you a hard time because, you know, but by and large, I don't know.
00:59:08.000It remains to be seen if they do more harm than good.
00:59:11.000I don't know if I'd go on for like, because when you get it in a debate, and I'll let you in on a little secret.
00:59:16.000I have a very good friend of mine who showed me this model a little while ago.
00:59:20.000The best way to win in debate is to frame the conversation with a series of two polls, which is, for example, Capitalism and communism.
00:59:30.000And the best way to frame a debate is with these two poles and to have your opponent in the middle.
00:59:35.000Because it is so much harder to defend a nuanced position.
00:59:38.000It is so much harder to defend a position.
00:59:40.000It's possible, but it's much more difficult to make the case for something that is comprehensive and is a little bit more complicated than it is to say, I'm one way or I'm the other way.
00:59:54.000And so if you're a distributist or you're this and that, it's much easier to batter those people as, well, you're the other side or you're incoherent or whatever.
01:00:52.000Yeah, okay, so this character, Mr. Empress Finest, otherwise known as Bobop, otherwise known as Sam Hyde Shooter, otherwise known as Purple.
01:01:02.000This guy, he comes in the Discord every night for verbal abuse.
01:01:59.000Not in a big way, but they are getting some of it from Germany, from France, from some of the socialists in Europe, and from the left in this country.
01:02:08.000They are getting a little bit of backlash.
01:02:10.000And that'll be their undoing, is this kind of contrast between the.
01:02:14.000Jewish media here and the Israeli kind of stranglehold over there, right?
01:02:19.000Nikki Boo32 says, When is the Catboy deathmatch, Daddy Fuentes?
01:02:26.000Always great optics when you have that on the program.
01:02:29.000The Catboy deathmatch will be had for the first, whenever we do the first America First meetup, you know, Nick Fuentes will do it in like a soldier field maybe to contain all the knickers, the millions of knickers from around the world.
01:03:08.000And I get so much, you know, it's funny because that started out as a joke, kind of a joke, but I get killed about it on Gab, where people are like, we've discovered.
01:03:18.000This top secret thing that nobody's heard about, Nick Fuentes tweets about Catboys.
01:03:23.000You know, in my public server, in a public channel on my public server, we were posting about Catboys, and I wasn't.
01:06:51.000And then in 2014, the Democrats picked it up with Brad Ashford.
01:06:55.000He served one term and then he got out in 2016.
01:06:59.000They're running him again and they're hoping that he's going to win.
01:07:01.000The problem is now you have Kara Eastman.
01:07:03.000She's running in the Democratic primary and she's running this super progressive anti Bernie platform.
01:07:10.000She's running this platform that's explicitly part of the hashtag resistance, anti Trump, healthcare for all, this ridiculous kind of stuff.
01:07:20.000And it looks like it's very competitive, which this is something that I talked a lot about after the Texas primaries.
01:07:26.000Because for the Texas Senate seat, we talked about how Ted Cruz got like 80% of the vote in his primary, and his challenger only got 60% because there was some Hispanic candidate.
01:07:36.000And there was another race in Texas where this progressive was really doing a lot of damage to the establishment candidate.
01:07:42.000And this is something I talked about a couple of months ago that you're going to see maybe this blue wave get stifled a little bit by the difference between these two camps the pragmatists.
01:07:53.000Or the, I guess they'd be the pragmatists and the progressives.
01:07:57.000The establishment, which would be Ashford versus the progressives.
01:08:47.000And then conversely, where the progressives do succeed, are they able to appeal to people down the middle?
01:08:53.000And it's really a challenge for them because they're going to be competing in states that Trump won.
01:08:58.000In both the Congress and the Senate, or the House and the Senate, rather, the states that are up for grabs are states like Nevada, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Indiana, North Dakota.
01:09:09.000I mean, these are states that are not Democratic strongholds by any stretch.
01:09:13.000I mean, Nevada was won by Democrats, but they still do have a strong Republican streak.
01:09:18.000So I guess we'll be watching Pennsylvania.
01:09:21.000I'll give one last update before we go off the air, depending on how many votes are reporting.
01:09:26.000This is not really much to speak of right here.
01:10:33.000I had headaches, stomach aches, low blood sugar, all kinds of stuff.
01:10:37.000And I figured out I'm just not drinking.
01:10:39.000I thought to myself one day, I had a very bad stomach ache, a bad headache, and I thought, wait a minute, you drink water and it takes the toxins out of your body.