MASSIE DEFEATS AIPAC??? Israel Lobby Spends $400k, LOSES In Major Upset | America First Ep. 1333MASSIE DEFEATS AIPAC??? Israel Lobby Spends $400k, LOSES In Major Upset | America First Ep. 1333
Rep. Thomas Massey was the only pro-Israel Republican to defeat the pro-AIPAC challenger in the Kentucky primary. AIPAC claimed they were just trying to make sure he didn t win, but in reality they were trying to prevent him from running for the U.S. Senate seat in Kentucky. We also discuss the recognition of Palestinian statehood by 3 European countries, Spain, Ireland, and Norway, which is a major rebuke of Israel. The European Union will not be changing its position on Israel anytime soon. Why? Because the European Union runs on consensus and opposes Israel's conduct in the war in the Middle East. And there are only two countries in the EU that will not join the EU in defending Israel, which was a positive gesture towards its course, because the EU will not change its position towards Israel because it's a stranglehold on further integration with the EU. And it's not France, Germany, France, Ireland and Spain. It's not Germany, not France. And Hungary, Hungary, not Hungary. And the EU won't change its stance on Israel. And that's a good thing, because they're the only country that won't condemn Israel. Today's special guest: Nicholas J. Fuentes, host of America First! joins us to talk about this and much, much more! and much more on today's show! Welcome back to America First, where the American people will always put America First. - Nicholas J F. FuENTES and America's First - the show where they will always come first, always, always always, and always, never, always! - always, no matter what the sooner or later, always the sooner than later, never the sooner, the sooner the later, the better, the faster, the smarter, the more likely, the earlier, the later the later we'll all have it will be better, right? or the sooner we'll get there, right, the quicker we'll have it, right?? . Thank you for tuning in, friend? - Nicki Thanks for listening, bye bye, bye Bye Bye Bye, bye, Bye Bye. Love ya'll! Love, bye! -- Your Hosts, bye. -- NANCY, Kristy and Betsy, EJ -- MURPHY, -- MAGA, EGGS, EMMY
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00:14:18.000Our featured story, we're talking all about the Representative Thomas Massey from Kentucky and his blowout victory in his primary election last night.
00:14:29.000It's a huge deal because he was the only Republican holdout and vocal opponent of a series of pro-Israel bills earlier this year and late last year.
00:14:42.000In response to this, AIPAC, the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee, put up $300,000 in a super PAC against him in the primary.
00:14:55.000And last night he cleared and won the primary by 75% of the vote.
00:15:02.000So it wasn't just a minor win, but a major victory.
00:15:05.000So we'll talk about the race and the whole situation.
00:15:12.000What may be, I think, more disturbing about this story, it's a little bit funny,
00:15:19.000AIPAC comes out last night, totally defeated, and they say, and I'm not making this up, they come out and say, well, we weren't even trying to win.
00:15:46.000Maybe they didn't think they had a shot at winning.
00:15:49.000They actually went, and if you look this up, you'll see this is true.
00:15:55.000They went and forced every news media outlet to correct their coverage of the story.
00:16:03.000And I know that because I read all about it yesterday, and it said that Thomas Massey won, he defeated the AIPAC challenge.
00:16:10.000I read the same story tonight, and they had all been updated with a note at the bottom that said it was updated to reflect the fact that AIPAC was not actually trying to win at all, so he didn't beat AIPAC.
00:16:27.000So they want everybody to know it wasn't a loss.
00:16:30.000This did not sacrifice their 100% win rate.
00:16:35.000And who they support and who they oppose.
00:16:40.000And it's very funny, but it's disturbing because what they have said is that this is priming the population for if Massey decides to seek higher office in the future.
00:16:53.000Many people consider Thomas Massey as a future contender for the U.S.
00:17:00.000And AIPAC says they're simply laying the groundwork to prevent his ascendancy, to prevent that from happening.
00:17:07.000And that might be true, and it might be extremely effective.
00:17:11.000So, we'll talk about that aspect of it, just goes to show another way in which our politics is totally controlled.
00:17:20.000We'll also be talking tonight about the recognition of Palestinian statehood by three European countries, Spain, Ireland, and Norway, which happened yesterday morning.
00:18:08.000Viktor Orban, the Christian nationalist, the Christian Democrat.
00:18:14.000The two holdouts, Austria and Hungary, will not condemn Israel.
00:18:19.000They're the only two countries in the European Union defending Israel.
00:18:24.000So some of these more minor states in the EU, and I don't say that in a nasty way, but it's not Germany, it's not France.
00:18:33.000The more minor states like Norway, Ireland, and Spain, it's symbolic and it's I think a positive gesture.
00:18:42.000But the European Union will not anytime soon change its course, which was prior to the war, towards further integration with Israel because of these two holdouts which seem to be in a stranglehold by the Likud party in Israel.
00:19:02.000It's kind of complicated because it's positive on the one hand.
00:19:06.000Like I said, it's a good thing, it's a good step that these three states have recognized Palestinian statehood.
00:19:12.000At the same time, it's not France or Germany.
00:19:15.000And also, you're never going to get an EU course correction on this because they've locked it up with two of these countries.
00:19:26.000And this is more evidence of what I've been talking about for a long time, which is that this alliance that the far right seems to have with Israel in all these other countries, in Argentina, in Brazil, in Hungary, in these opposition parties in Western Europe, Spain, France, Germany,
00:20:00.000Why do you think it is that Geert Wilders, and Vox, and Marion Le Pen, and AFD, and Viktor Orban in Hungary, and Bolsonaro, and Noboa in Ecuador, and Bukele in El Salvador, and Millet in Argentina, why are they all pro-Israel?
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00:23:50.000I think the whole thing is a big fucking deception, and I've just had it.
00:23:55.000I posted a big, kind of a, I don't want to say an essay, but I posted some of these breadcrumbs on my telegram earlier today, and just kind of laid out some of the connections.
00:24:09.000And I know for a lot of people it might be difficult to follow along because I know a lot of people maybe don't know all the players involved and maybe haven't heard of everybody involved.
00:24:18.000But I've been doing this for a long time.
00:24:22.000I'm aware of a lot of intel on this kind of stuff.
00:24:26.000And I'm noticing a pattern here, which is that it seems to be a very deliberate and concerted effort
00:24:36.000To prop up another phony right-wing that is controlled by Jewish people.
00:24:42.000And look, I know that it sounds like hammer and nail.
00:24:47.000You know, if you're a hammer, every problem's a nail.
00:24:50.000I know that's what it sounds like, but that's also what it is.
00:24:55.000Okay, I don't want to sound like a broken record.
00:24:58.000I don't want to sound like it's a one-word answer to every problem.
00:25:03.000But everywhere you look, you just see, it's like I always say, you just find more of it.
00:25:08.000So like with Steve Saylor, I didn't trust this guy to begin with.
00:25:13.000And I could, I had a feeling that V Dare, who has promoted Saylor for decades, I had a feeling they were maintaining distance with me.
00:25:22.000And then I hear some of the stuff that's going on like Amanda Milius is over there and Ryan Gerduski's over there and they're asking Ashley Sinclair to be the speaker.
00:25:31.000And then I read Steve Saylor's blog post from 20 years ago.
00:25:34.000He says that he believes that he's Jewish and he performed a DNA test and confirmed it and he's effectively a philosemite and pro-Israel.
00:26:35.000Only time he's ever said my name is to say, well, he's gotta be, somebody's gotta hold this guy back.
00:26:41.000And then you go through his timeline, he doesn't have nothing to say about Israel, nothing to say about Jewish people, nothing to say about any of this stuff.
00:26:49.000Then he gets doxxed, and he makes the rounds on Steve Bannon and Jack Posobiec.
00:26:55.000And Darren Beatty says, cancel culture's over.
00:26:59.000When Groipers get doxxed, they just get screwed.
00:27:03.000They don't get invited on shows, they don't get invited on Steve Bannon, they don't get a promo code, they just get screwed.
00:27:10.000And they can't get work, and they get fired by wherever.
00:27:16.000So, I think cancel culture is only over if you have patronage from billionaire Peter Thiel, who is a federal informant and a contractor for the intelligence community, and if you're a Jew.
00:27:32.000I think those are the people for which cancel culture is over.
00:27:35.000Not so much for any loyal Americans, or Christians for that matter,
00:27:41.000And then Jack Posobiec's Human Events.
00:27:43.000You know, Jack Posobiec is doing this kind of cutesy thing.
00:27:46.000I don't really know what the play is, but you know, he's playing these games where he's pretending like he's saying Talmud and stopping himself.
00:27:55.000And playing these other- I don't know, he must think he's really clever.
00:27:59.000He's the senior editor at Human Events, which must have changed hands from Will Chamberlain and Raheem Kassam at some point.
00:28:07.000And today they publish a big hit piece about me from Rabbi Barkley, the same rabbi that called Candace Owens a Jew-hating anti-Semite.
00:28:15.000And they publish an op-ed saying, Donald Trump should disavow Jake Shields and Nick Fuentes and Kanye and the Groypers.
00:28:23.000From Rabbi Barkley, like I said, the smear merchant who was attacking Candace Owens a few months ago.
00:28:29.000And Jack Posobiec's the senior editor.
00:28:32.000And I put a tweet out and I'm like, hey, WTF?
00:30:16.000But when are people going to talk about what I did last night, the show, the Washington Post story about how every Jewish billionaire is in a group chat talking about how they're going to convince America to go to war for Israel again.
00:31:55.000Vance has this Jewish chief of staff from the Tikvah Fund, and from the same constellation of groups that they're all from.
00:32:04.000And he's probably going to be tapped to be the vice president, and he's also with American Moment and NatCon, where he's speaking in July, which is run by Hazoni.
00:32:12.000I mean, like, I'm the only one pointing this stuff out!
00:32:24.000And anyway, I don't want to sound like rambling and crazy, but you know, between the Steve Saylor thing and the Jack Posobiec thing, and the Bronze Age Perfor thing which is now going on for a long time, there's clearly a huge calculated deception just like there was 50 years ago.
00:32:44.000Which is to skin suit the real right-wing with this Jewish invasion of the body statures, neo-reactionary movement.
00:32:54.000Like, to put it succinctly, that's what it is.
00:32:57.000They are pretending to be 2019 Groipers, but actually they're Jewish, atheist, pro-Israel, neoliberal types.
00:33:08.000You know, they want to push now this colorblind meritocracy.
00:33:12.000It's like, so let me get this straight.
00:33:21.000You cheered on Millet, who's like a CIA, DoD, Mossad plant.
00:33:28.000It was in favor of the Austrian Chicago School of Economics, which you apparently support.
00:33:34.000You're in favor of colorblind meritocracy, meaning we're going to have a multiracial country, but we're just not going to have affirmative action.
00:33:42.000It's like, how is that any different from an average conservative?
00:33:44.000When you take that platform and put it together, how is that even slightly different from an average conservative?
00:33:51.000We're gonna tack on Steve Saylor noticing and do tough on crime.
00:34:50.000You got these people that are being tricked into this raw egg thing.
00:34:54.000This Jewish guy told me that we're gonna win the war for our country by drinking raw eggs and posting softcore porn of, like, these girls eating a bowl of yogurt and berries and they're reading Greek poetry.
00:35:16.000So that's what I've been getting into lately on Twitter with Posobiec and Steve Saylor.
00:35:23.000The problem is that what they are offering, to put it in a way that's maybe understandable,
00:35:32.000The problem is that what this fake right wing, this skin suit right wing, is pushing is very simple and agreeable.
00:35:41.000And if you try to expose this, like, vast network behind it and these calculated omissions, it's just more complicated.
00:35:50.000And I think whatever is more simple is what wins.
00:35:53.000So they have this message where it's like, hey man, what we're about is vitality and working out, and we kind of are racist a little bit.
00:36:04.000And then I'm like, okay, so Peter Thiel is wanting this one, and he likes Curtis Yarvin, and Curtis Yarvin won here, and it's just too complex.
00:36:14.000Not even that it's difficult to understand, but it's just more, it has more complexity.
00:36:19.000And you're just never going to convince a ton of people of something that's more complex.
00:36:24.000So I feel like that's why we have to lean into more simplistic... That's why I kind of do a little... I mix up the tactics a little bit.
00:36:31.000I mean, because I put out all the receipts, but then I also push something very simple, which is just like, you are Jewish.
00:37:52.000Featured story tonight, we're talking all about Thomas Massie, who defeated AIPAC last night.
00:37:58.000For those that don't know, Thomas Massie, the representative from Kentucky, you know, he's cringe on some things, like he doesn't support Trump, but he's based on other things, like he wants to end the Federal Reserve.
00:38:19.000But what he has been really solid on lately is that he has called out the influence of the Israel lobby over the U.S.
00:38:26.000government and its reaction to October 7th and Israel's campaign in Gaza.
00:38:32.000And for that, he has been attacked by AIPAC, which is some would say the central or one of the most important nodes in the Israel lobby.
00:38:45.000American Israel Public Affairs Committee has a long history in the United States.
00:38:51.000And Thomas Massie voted against one of these pro-Israel bills at the tail end of last year.
00:38:58.000And AIPAC dedicated itself to overthrowing him in his primary.
00:39:03.000And they've done this across the United States in this election cycle.
00:39:08.000They have said that they are really spending a lot of money this year to depose anybody, especially Democrats, who has vocally spoken out against Israel's campaign in Gaza, and Thomas Massie is one of them.
00:39:27.000I think the final number was well over that.
00:39:30.000I think it was $400,000 in Thomas Massie's Republican primary and they spent that money through their super PAC and they ran ads on television and radio talking about how Massie is anti-Israel and an anti-Semite and he opposes the Holy Land and so on and it was
00:39:53.000And Thomas Massey very publicly opposed them.
00:39:56.000He talked about it, tried to raise money against that, although he didn't raise even close to as much as AIPAC wound up spending in the primary.
00:40:33.000His win is notable given that a super PAC aligned with American Israel Public Affairs Committee or APAC aired ads targeting Massey and his record on Israel ahead of his primary.
00:41:26.000It says UDP spokesperson Patrick Dorton said the group is not playing around in Massey's May 21st primary election where he faces no serious primary opposition.
00:41:39.000The group is making an initial buy of $300,000 in TV airtime on all Fox affiliate channels in Kentucky.
00:41:47.000He said, quote, we are shining a spotlight on Thomas Massie's atrocious anti-Israel record.
00:41:52.000We are going to make sure every voter in the state of Kentucky knows how bad Thomas Massie is on Israel.
00:41:59.000Massie, a libertarian-minded Republican generally opposed to foreign aid, is seen as a potential contender for Kentucky Senate seat in 2026.
00:42:09.000Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has faced health issues and recently announced plans to step down as leader, is not expected to run for re-election.
00:42:19.000The 30-second advertisement asserts that Israel is under attack by Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, and Congressman Thomas Massie.
00:42:28.000Republicans are trying to help Israel, but one Republican is standing in the way, says the narrator.
00:42:34.000Fifteen times in April, Massie was the only Republican voting with anti-Israel radicals.
00:42:40.000Massie's votes, helpful for Iran, harmful to Israel.
00:42:44.000Anyone who cares about the Holy Land needs to know, Tom Massie is hostile to Israel.
00:42:50.000The Super PAC previously ran a series of TV, radio, and digital ads last year targeting Massie's votes on Israel issues.
00:43:01.000So APAC spends, like I said, I believe the final number was well over $300,000 through a super PAC called United Democracy Project.
00:43:22.000I know that's trite, but you've got the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee
00:43:28.000Which is most likely bankrolled by the actual state of Israel.
00:43:34.000And actually that was the source of a major political scandal 60-70 years ago that the initial body, I think it was the American Zionist Council, which prefigured AIPAC,
00:43:50.000It was doing all the same activities that AIPAC does now, but it was receiving money directly from the state of Israel.
00:43:58.000So the federal government said, hey, the Israeli government can't bribe American politicians to support Israel.
00:44:07.000They said at the minimum you have to house these political lobbying activities in a different entity.
00:44:15.000Like, at least try to make it a bit more discreet.
00:44:22.000You've got this American Zionist Council.
00:44:25.000They're getting money from a foreign government and then they're taking that money and giving it to politicians and I'm...
00:44:33.000Being a little bit reductive here, but they're giving it to politicians.
00:44:36.000The government said, hey, we got to hide this a little bit.
00:44:39.000We have to make this a little bit more, at least make an effort.
00:44:43.000Try and show that you're doing a little something to obscure what's happening here.
00:44:48.000So they separated it out and they made it AIPAC.
00:44:51.000Although I think it is safe to assume that AIPAC is receiving some form of assistance indirectly through the state of Israel.
00:45:03.000AIPAC is pouring money, we're talking tens of millions of dollars, every cycle into these elections in very targeted ways.
00:45:13.000And politicians will say that they will throw money in favor of a candidate that supports them.
00:45:22.000They will throw the same amount of money against a candidate that opposes them.
00:45:27.000And so, in effect, the money is doubled.
00:45:32.000If AIPAC is giving a candidate that supports Israel $200,000, but that candidate goes against Israel and then they shift the money to the opponent and give the opponent $200,000, the differential is $400,000.
00:45:44.000AIPAC has an office in every congressional district.
00:45:54.000Even though the Jewish community is only concentrated in like 7 or 9 states in the entire country, there's like no Jews in South Dakota.
00:46:04.000There's like no Jews in most American states.
00:46:09.000Not only do they have an office in every single state,
00:46:13.000They've got an office in every single district.
00:46:22.000They've got offices in every state, in every district, monitoring the positions of every congressman, even, for example, like a congressman in Northern Kentucky.
00:46:32.000And they are prepared to put up large sums of money to everyone that supports them, and if a candidate opposes them, they remove the money and give it to the opposition.
00:46:41.000And like I said, in the 1950s they were getting the money directly from a foreign state.
00:47:34.000It's also a problem because states are far more interested parties.
00:47:39.000America is the military that runs the world.
00:47:44.000Foreign governments have an interest in influencing that military and that diplomatic mission that controls the world and all its institutions through force and through other forms of soft power.
00:47:58.000But in particular in the case of Israel, it's especially malicious because one of AIPAC's biggest priorities is they want to see American representatives support foreign aid to Israel.
00:48:16.000Congress passed a bill called the Memorandum of Understanding that increased annual foreign aid to Israel from $3.6 billion to $3.8 billion per year.
00:48:29.000And as I said, this is one of AIPAC's major policy priorities.
00:48:34.000They will support or oppose candidates on the basis of whether they support ever-increasing and perpetual foreign aid to Israel.
00:48:43.000Well, if AIPAC's lobbying activities are, in some indirect way, subsidized by the State of Israel, you can see the conflict of interest.
00:49:30.000This is why John F. Kennedy tried to register AIPAC as a foreign agent.
00:49:35.000That was scuttled after he was assassinated by Lyndon B. Johnson, who permitted AIPAC to reorganize its activities in a different entity and resume and grow in lobbying power in Congress.
00:50:22.000And they put ads all over Fox News for all these boomers dying of, like, fentanyl, dying deaths of despair, their city has been hollowed out by deindustrialization, their kids, if they have any, are trans or gay, their wives have left them, and they're sitting there watching Fox News, and here comes an advertisement from the United Democracy Project,
00:50:48.000That says, Thomas Massie is working with Hamas and Iran to hate Israel.
00:50:58.000All this money coming from the Middle East, coming from the other side of the world, on your television screen, under the name, United Democracy Project.
00:51:11.000To trick boomers into thinking that this is somehow in their best interest.
00:51:18.000And as I said, I know it's trite, but this is literally dystopian.
00:51:24.000People read about this stuff in, like, grade school.
00:51:27.000Again, I know it's trite, but you read, like, 1984, you think about what happens in the Soviet Union, or these overt forms of political propaganda.
00:51:42.000And anyway, in this particular situation, it was pretty funny.
00:51:45.000Thomas Massey is one of the only Republicans, as a libertarian, who is willing, and I think has a plausible excuse, to go after the foreign aid to Israel.
00:51:57.000And so, he's one of, like, nine Republicans, or rather, nine representatives.
00:52:02.000The only Republican that is consistently voting against these pro-Israel bills.
00:53:07.000But the ones that did all got corrected, they all were updated to reflect AIPAC's statement that no, we didn't lose, we weren't trying to win.
00:54:44.000And they want that so they have more influence, so that they have some sway over what bills get out of committee, and they're able to determine what bills get voted on, and so on.
00:54:55.000They want to make more money, whatever.
00:54:58.000And a lot of them, of course, have ambition to rise to state-level office.
00:55:06.000They want a spot in a Republican administration.
00:55:10.000They want to be in the future President Trump's cabinet.
00:55:16.000And so in order to rise through those ranks, then, you're no longer talking about your district, you're talking about, now I have to make an appeal to the Republican leadership, which represents Republicans nationwide.
00:55:29.000And as such, requires national-level money.
00:55:33.000We're not talking hundreds of thousands, we're talking hundreds of millions of dollars.
00:55:37.000We're not talking the politics of Northern Kentucky, we're talking the politics of the whole United States.
00:55:44.000And if you want to win a statewide office, again, you're not just talking any longer about the district in North Kentucky, you're talking about the whole state.
00:55:54.000And if you want to get in the administration, you're talking about the pressures that are on a president.
00:55:59.000And so you might think, oh well, AIPAC's power stops where a really loyal congressman is able to reliably win his primary or win his seat.
00:56:12.000Because even if AIPAC can't unseat every representative like Ilhan Omar or Marjorie Greene or Thomas Massey or Rashida Tlaib, what they can do is impose a very low ceiling.
00:56:27.000An AIPAC can go to Mike Johnson, or Kevin McCarthy, or Elise Stefanik, and they can say, this Thomas Massie guy?
00:56:37.000Yeah, he can't rise through the ranks in Congress.
00:56:40.000He can't have no committee assignments.
00:56:43.000Because if he does, we are going to create big problems for the Republicans in this cycle on a national basis.
00:56:50.000And they can go in, and if they can't flip, like I said, the particular seat, they can say, hey, Thomas Massey, looks like this is as high as you will ever ascend in your political career, because if you try to run for statewide office, we're gonna put millions to stop you in a potential governor's race, where it's more competitive, or a potential senator's race, in a primary, in a general, and you'll never move beyond your lowly spot as a representative.
00:57:19.000And this is where their power comes from.
00:58:13.000It's great that he has brought awareness to the issue, but the message is crystal clear.
00:58:19.000And the message is, AIPAC is on your ass now.
00:58:24.000AIPAC is going to be there every cycle, putting in money against Massie, and if he ever tries to rise above wherever he is, they're going to be there, and they are going to sabotage any more ambitious
00:59:27.000I don't think anybody would be able to defend this arrangement, where a foreign government is pouring millions of dollars into these lobbying firms, and their sole issue, their highest priority, is to lobby on behalf of that foreign government.
00:59:46.000And they seem to have this national reach, national influence.
00:59:52.000They're one of the most influential and richest lobbies in DC, which makes them the most powerful.
00:59:59.000And they're going out to bat in favor of a foreign government, and in doing so, creating a system of incentives and disincentives so that nobody in American government opposes them.
01:00:11.000You know, but like I was talking about at the top of the show,
01:00:15.000These guys like Jack Posobiec and Steve Saylor don't want to talk about it.
01:01:01.000Other than that it's totally humiliating and we have no sovereignty and we're being raped by a foreign country.
01:01:08.000Let me bring it home for you and spell this out simply.
01:01:12.000We've been talking throughout the past nine months about the gridlock in Congress.
01:01:19.000Back on October 1st, 2023, there was a deadline when Kevin McCarthy was still the Speaker of the House to pass appropriations bills for the military.
01:01:31.000And if the Republican House didn't pass a spending package to the Senate for approval by Joe Biden, the government would shut down.
01:01:41.000But there were a few members of the House Freedom Caucus within the Republican conference that said, we will not vote for any military appropriations bills, thereby shutting down the government, unless the Democrats in the Senate and the White House agree to border security.
01:02:01.000The Republican leadership said no way.
01:02:04.000The Republican leadership in the House said to the Freedom Caucus, no way.
01:02:09.000We are not shutting down the government over border security.
01:02:13.000The Republican Freedom Caucus overthrew the Republican leadership.
01:02:21.000We are going to shut down the government to get border security.
01:02:25.000They said, we're not going to give Biden a cent of foreign aid for Ukraine.
01:02:30.000We're not going to give Biden one appropriations bill for the military until they can commit to serious border security because the border's out of control.
01:02:40.000Because you got 30,000 illegals getting apprehended at the southern border every single day.
01:02:46.000And cities like New York and Chicago are going bankrupt trying to house, feed, provide for these people.
01:02:53.000This impasse over Ukraine and military appropriations in exchange for border security went on for six, seven months.
01:05:24.000But how they rank those issues is what matters.
01:05:30.000And how they rank those issues is directly affected.
01:05:34.000One could say it's controlled by who provides the money for the next campaign.
01:05:42.000Because whether or not that politician has a political future depends upon who, or if, money will be put up for the next campaign.
01:05:53.000So if AIPAC comes around and says, you need to let go of this border thing to give Israel the money, because if you don't, we're going to put $300,000 in favor of a primary opponent or a general election opponent, then it forces, it concretizes the priorities.
01:06:12.000Now all of a sudden, that Republican who was in favor of border security and Israel, well today, he's just in favor of Israel.
01:06:22.000Today, on April 16th, the day after the attack, when Mike Johnson split up the bills into four separate bills and voted on them piecemeal, well on that day, we're only pro-Israel.
01:06:33.000The border, we'll consider that later.
01:07:27.000Because whenever it comes between Israel and America, America always comes second.
01:07:33.000Because Israel puts up the money, and these politicians know they can sell out America and continue to rise, but they can't sell out Israel and have a political career.
01:07:46.000To bring it all home for you, just so you understand, people say, well, you know, even if Israel disappeared tomorrow, America would still have a border problem.
01:08:00.000Hypothetically, theoretically, if Israel and its lobby and this fifth column in our country cease to exist, I think actually there would be a direct correlation, a direct effect on how quickly we could secure the border.
01:08:17.000If we didn't have to stop and pledge allegiance to Israel every three weeks and pass another anti-anti-semitism law, another holocaust remembrance law, another foreign aid law, another replenishment of the Iron Dome, another disavowal of the Iranians, and so on, I think actually we could get it done.
01:09:43.000He shut down the government in January 2018 because his own Republicans said $17 billion for a border wall, $6 billion for additional border security.
01:10:14.000When all was said and done, they gave him $1.3 billion for a fence in the Rio Grande Valley.
01:10:24.000He asked for 23, he got 1.6 for a fence in the Rio Grande Valley.
01:10:33.000After the midterm elections, after November, during the lame duck session between the election and when the new Congress with the Democrat House was seated in January, Trump shut down the government again.
01:10:46.000Longest government shutdown in history.
01:10:48.000Almost threatened the State of the Union.
01:10:50.000He said, I will not reopen the government until these Republicans, before they lose their majority, give me money for a border wall.
01:11:41.000Mike Johnson gets in last year, Israel says jump, he says how high.
01:11:46.000They say foreign aid, he says how much.
01:11:48.000You tell me these things aren't related.
01:11:50.000That Trump gets elected for a border wall, he can't get more than $4 billion for an eternal, permanent border security solution the Republicans voted for for 50 years.
01:12:02.000But Israel could get its embassy and its sovereignty and its enemies crushed and the deal ripped up and the latest tranchevade in this cycle.
01:12:21.000Do not be so stupid as to think that whether or not Americans have control over our own government is a negligible afterthought, which is how it's treated.
01:12:31.000People say, well, you know, we're going to go and we're going to beg these right-wing Zionist Jews to let us have a secure border.
01:12:38.000It doesn't really matter who gets to dispense the favors.
01:12:41.000What matters is, you know, we're being pragmatic.
01:12:45.000Do not let them trick you into thinking that whether or not we have control over our own government is some sort of afterthought.
01:16:28.000Where you're saying, you're correct, Nazis are the worst thing, but the real Nazis are the people we don't like.
01:16:35.000You're never gonna win that, because if you are like a white, identitarian, if you are illiberal in any way, in favor of authoritarian or fascist government, any form of nationalism,
01:16:50.000All of that has a strong connotation with Nazism.
01:16:54.000So you will always be more plausibly the Nazi.
01:16:56.000I mean, it was created that way by design.
01:16:59.000You will always be more plausibly and convincingly called the Nazi than if you try to say, oh, you know, these liberals or these Jews are the real Nazis.
01:17:46.000We might have to get you in our video team, because that was seriously impressive.
01:17:50.000I think with some direction and some mentorship from some of our guys, I think you'll be one of the finest clippers.
01:18:00.000Not knocking you, but I'm saying that was some really excellent stuff.
01:18:04.000I don't think I've seen anybody animate like that in our scene, so we might be able to get you plugged in with some of our guys and show you some tips and tricks and maybe we can make that happen.
01:19:30.000People that are too fixated on the outcome or the kind of flow of the battle.
01:19:35.000I think this gives way to short-term thinking and shortcuts and ethical or moral compromise.
01:19:43.000You know when I started doing this I really made a gamble on myself and on this approach and on this message Because I believed in it.
01:19:51.000You know, I really believed in it and I just did it for a long time and Sometimes it looked like it was working.
01:19:58.000Sometimes it looked like it was a total failure and There were some very dark times in my career and
01:20:08.000I don't want to get into the you know crying about you know my emotional mental state or whatever but you know there were some very dark times there were some times when I thought it was over and I was a total failure and
01:20:23.000You know, various times throughout, take your pick.
01:20:25.000Sometimes you thought, you know, I'm at the top of the world, it's happening for me.
01:20:29.000I'm also somebody with a ton of, like, raw ability, so there's pretty high stakes.
01:20:33.000If you're just some guy that doesn't have, you know, anything going for you, it's like, whatever.
01:20:37.000But, I mean, me, I was at a great school, I had a lot of raw ability, I was being scouted by the establishment.
01:20:43.000So, throughout this saga over the past seven years, there was a lot of
01:20:48.000Expectation a lot of disappointment highs lows like I said all of it And people have come and gone Based on how they thought it was going at the time or what you know whether they thought it was really gonna win or something and
01:21:08.000I was able to see it through over a long period of time.
01:21:11.000I was able to, from a very young age, dedicate myself to a project that I had no idea if it would succeed or not, persisted through everything that anybody could imagine being thrown at them.
01:21:25.000Censorship, debanking, the federal government on your case, betrayal, intrigue, scandals, humiliations, reputational destruction, personal fallings out, you know, everything you can imagine.
01:21:41.000And saw it through, I think, to a true success.
01:21:45.000And the point was to say, well, now that it's successful, you can't say necessarily, oh, OK, now everything's good.
01:21:52.000It's like, no, I anticipate and expect there will be more challenges.
01:22:01.000And you really have to be there for all of it.
01:22:03.000You have to be equally committed and equally into it and believing in it.
01:22:09.000Whether you're at your lowest low, your highest high, whether you're an abject failure, whether you're considered the breakout star, whatever it is, you got to be with it.
01:22:21.000So, you know, people that really are in love with the fruits of it, which is the credit, the notoriety, the money, the fame,
01:22:34.000Status, prestige, legacy, even victory itself.
01:22:39.000People that are too married to that, I think they'll never do anything worthwhile.
01:22:46.000So, um, it's kind of like reminding everybody, hey, we're up, but never forget, you know, and you have to say it when you're up.
01:22:54.000If you say it when you're down, it seems like a cope.
01:22:56.000If you're losing, and you're like, hey, it doesn't matter, you know, then people say, oh, that's a cope, you're a fucking loser, and you're just saying, hey, it doesn't matter.
01:23:05.000So you have to say it when you're winning, because if you say it when you're winning, it's like, oh, wow, he must really believe that, you know?
01:23:11.000If you say it when you're, instead of gloating, instead of saying, hey, I'm the best, I'm the guy, I won.
01:23:18.000Instead of gloating, you say, well, we can't, the victory doesn't even belong to us.
01:23:24.000Then people could say, okay, so it's legit.
01:24:01.000You know, and whether I'm, you know, if my account loses $500,000 overnight, I'm right here on the show, the same as if I had just met with Trump and Kanye, you know, the previous week.
01:24:13.000I'm there on the show at 10 o'clock, reading the stupid superchats, talking about politics.
01:24:20.000So, you know, if something's worth doing, then it's worth doing for its own sake.
01:24:26.000Not because it's gonna necessarily have a particular outcome, but
01:27:35.000Yeah, I think that something like that emerges in the absence of forced integration.
01:28:03.000You know, I think that it's happened in spite of forced integration.
01:28:07.000You look at a city like Chicago, it's totally segregated.
01:28:12.000And I don't think that's... I mean, it is true that partially how the city was designed was intended to create segregation, like where they put the forest preserves and the metro stations and things like that, but...
01:28:27.000But I think you've seen segregation even persist in spite of attempts at integrating people with Section 8 and other things.
01:28:35.000I mean, the whites tend to clump together, the Hispanics do, the blacks do.
01:33:27.000I appreciate the big super chat, but we will talk to you about that in a private form of communication.
01:33:34.000If you send us a support ticket or a support email, we'll be able to help you out with that.
01:33:39.000Cell phones not allowed you can't have your cell phone out just for OPSEC concerns So we'll have people walking around the event making sure people don't have their phones out Because for obvious reasons we don't want people snapping pictures.
01:33:53.000We don't want people to be photographed there.
01:33:55.000It'll be pretty dark anyway, so You know that's never happened that's never been a problem in the past but
01:34:07.000In terms of a sponsorship package, if you don't want the extra tickets, you could just forfeit them and we could seat you at a table with other sponsors, you know?
01:34:58.000um yeah well you know and there's this idea that it's like we just gotta make everything as profitable as possible and I understand that is like true to an extent in the business world
01:35:14.000I think we should move away from that, though.
01:35:15.000This, like, squeezing value out of everything, it's ruining our society.
01:35:21.000Like, yeah, you can make more money putting ads in everything, and in a cynical way, it's like people aren't really gonna care that much.
01:35:36.000Like, yeah, firms are getting more money by squeezing every last dollar out and they could do more with it and it's like more efficient and stuff, but is that the society we want to live in?
01:35:48.000Do we want to live in a world where everything has to be interrupted like Harrison Bergeron with an ad read, a five-second advertisement, skippable advertisement?
01:36:03.000Different time where you know, maybe things are less convenient and it's less instant gratification and maybe we we have less But everything's better You know, I don't think people realize that so much of what we have.
01:36:18.000It's just really to accommodate waste and instant gratification You know like we could probably tolerate
01:36:26.000Less material abundance and, you know, we have to wait for certain things or whatever and make the economy less efficient.
01:36:40.000To have these, like, standard of living upgrades.
01:36:43.000Like, for example, you can go to the store and have any kind of fruit year-round.
01:36:50.000Is it so wrong to suggest that we would only have fruit that's, like, in season at the store?
01:36:55.000Why do we have to have fruit year-round?
01:36:59.000Everyone knows the oranges taste better in the summer than they do in the winter, but why do we have to have oranges at the supermarket in the winter?
01:37:06.000Can't the supermarket just say, hey, they're not in season?
01:37:09.000You know, such and such is out of stock.
01:40:35.000Listen, I'm not really getting in a lot of arguments about nihilism with people.
01:40:39.000I think a lot of political debates are basically futile.
01:40:42.000These are like my least favorite questions when people are like, What's your go-to argument when you're in political debates about the political compass and whether God is real and stuff?
01:40:53.000It's like, I'm not really getting in those debates really that often because I think it's kind of stupid.
01:40:59.000I think people are basically open to it or they're not.
01:41:04.000It depends on the course of the argument.
01:41:07.000It depends on who you're arguing with.
01:41:10.000To me, that's something that's kind of like... I hate this whole culture of speed debating.
01:41:17.000I get in Discord calls and debate other people on Discord.
01:41:21.000I go on Twitter and argue with people on Twitter about politics.
01:41:26.000Like, I understand people are into that.
01:41:29.000I was into that when I was like a teenager.
01:41:31.000You know, when you're like, when you're like 18, you want to debate with everybody about, you know, who was a better president, Trump or Obama?
01:41:39.000Um, you know, but now that I'm older, I'm like, are people still doing, people are still like, what does that even mean?
01:41:44.000We're getting, what's your go-to argument in the debate about nihilism?
01:43:58.000And maybe I have a different perspective on this because my family had a lot of tragedies, but life is miserable and at a certain point it peaks and it gets worse all the time.
01:44:08.000You get older, uglier, you lose your hair, you get wrinkled, you lose your sexual function, your hormones diminish, you become frail, your mental state deteriorates, your senses degrade, your vision, your hearing,
01:44:27.000Your ability to move, your mobility, your friends die, your family dies, things that you love disappear, your memories fade away, the richness of new memories deteriorates all the time, you know, so it's like life kind of sucks.
01:45:41.000You, your life, your body, your experiences, your memories, your senses.
01:45:48.000You know, people like to say, well, I like to live because of hobbies and travel and new experiences and trying new things.
01:45:55.000It's like, yeah, but eventually you run out of novelty and eventually the the pleasure or enjoyment you derive from each new novel experience is marginally less pleasurable.
01:46:11.000And like I said, you experience so much profound grief
01:46:14.000And disability in your life and a profound sense of loss that like no amount of vacations are going to make up for that.
01:46:24.000Sorry, the aesthetic emotion you feel when you look at like the beach doesn't satisfy someone whose kid died, doesn't satisfy someone whose wife died.
01:46:35.000You know, a man gets married to his high school sweetheart
01:46:39.000Maybe they were old childhood friends.
01:46:42.000They finally consummate their marriage.
01:46:45.000She dies in a freak car crash the next day.
01:46:49.000Where does that person find solace in a material world?
01:46:54.000A person goes to the gas station, eats nachos, develops botulism, dies two days later.