00:00:29.000I couldn't even start the show because I woke up and my eyes wouldn't open all the way.
00:00:36.000You know, when that happens, you know, when you're so tired and you wake up, and my eyes were like this, you know, like when you first wake up and you can't walk outside.
00:01:39.000So, I'm streaming right now on Telegram.
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00:09:18.000And it's really a triumph for this movement and for this organization because, as you know, and we did a victory lap last year too, but last year's AFPAC came at a really difficult time for the movement.
00:09:33.000You know, that AFPAC 2 conference happened.
00:09:38.000Less than two months, fewer than two months after the January 6th insurrection.
00:09:43.000And there was still a lot of fear and a lot of uncertainty about the scope of the DOJ investigation into that.
00:09:50.000And I know a lot of people didn't go because they were concerned about law enforcement or other things.
00:10:20.000And even though they have the government and big tech and everything breathing down our neck, last year we stood up alongside CPAC and said, We're not going anywhere.
00:10:29.000America First is now a fixture in right wing politics.
00:13:41.000I got banned from Instagram, Facebook, even backend services like Email Octopus and other things.
00:13:48.000And so we started out the year having everything that I had built for five years totally destroyed the financial aspect of it, the streaming aspect of it.
00:13:58.000And even the infrastructure on the business side.
00:14:01.000And so, for the first time ever in five years, I was unable to do the show for nearly an entire week because I was deplatformed.
00:14:10.000And so, I scrambled with my web developers, who I'm not going to name because I don't want to dox them, but we had a small team at the time and we scrambled.
00:14:19.000We tried to put something together, it didn't work.
00:15:03.000In the span of one week, each successive day, one after the other, I lost it all and was left with this little blue webpage with a video player.
00:15:16.000And then people started to bail on the movement.
00:15:19.000You know, a lot of people said they were quitting politics and they wanted no part of this.
00:15:23.000And of course, then Joe Biden was inaugurated.
00:15:27.000And then there were these questions about law enforcement.
00:15:31.000You know, I was under the impression for the first two months of the year that I could, at any point in time, Have my house raided and get arrested by the FBI, potentially tried for insurrection, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years.
00:15:48.000Lose everything, lose all my income, lose my platform, some of my best friends, lots of our followers, our president, and the constant fear looming overhead of an FBI raid, arrest, and potentially more than 20 years in jail for something that I didn't even do.
00:16:14.000And then, of course, in late January, you know, just when I thought things couldn't get any worse, I thought, gee, well, you know, Hey, at least if I hang on to some of these things, I'll be okay.
00:16:25.000Late January, the FBI seizes half a million dollars from my bank account.
00:16:34.000And my credit rating is blown up because all my automatic payments are on my bank account, you know, all my subscriptions and my credit cards and all this stuff.
00:16:54.000You know, I had to take cash that I had and open a new bank account and put it all in there and had to sell some of my assets and throw it into a checking account just so I could pay for my expenses.
00:17:07.000And all the while working on the platform, we're making a decision to do AFPAC 2.
00:19:47.000And then 2021, it's just like getting gang raped and curb stomped and punched and, you know, car crashing into me and a train crashing into me at the same time all the time throughout the year.
00:20:05.000So I'm just ready for it to be over with.
00:20:49.000And I may be more controversial than him, honestly.
00:20:52.000The State Department hates him more, but I think I'm more controversial.
00:20:57.000But in spite of everything, even when the situation appeared hopeless, when the chips were down, personal crisis, professional crisis, seems like there's no way out.
00:21:11.000Constant rug pulls, constant attacks, but we survived, right?
00:24:06.000And the same goes for what we're trying to do in politics.
00:24:09.000You think we're going to go against this transnational financial elite, which controls everything, including federal law enforcement and the financial system and mass media.
00:24:21.000You think we're going to challenge their power and it's going to be easy?
00:24:26.000You know, they're not going to take from us.
00:24:40.000The people that are going to evangelize the world, the people that are going to make a difference, are the ones that are going to be able to take the suffering easily and smiling while doing it and not even giving it a second thought.
00:24:54.000The people that have the real gifts of faith, hope, and charity, those are the people that are going to make it.
00:25:00.000And the people that don't have those things, the people that can't persevere, they will not be part of the solution.
00:25:07.000And so, you know, if you made it through this year, guess what?
00:25:14.000If you made it through this year, no matter who you are, no matter how small of a part you played, and you know, everybody knows where they stand.
00:25:23.000Everybody knows who stuck with and who abandoned.
00:25:25.000I might not even know, but everybody knows for themselves.
00:25:28.000And if you made it through this year, you made it.
00:25:32.000And if we can make it through all that, that should give you some confidence about what we could do in the future.
00:25:37.000Because you look at everybody else that we're up against, and this is the white pill the people that we're up against could not do what we're doing.
00:25:47.000You know, when you look at Turning Point USA, when you look at people at Claremont or Heritage or whatever, they don't have the balls to do what we're doing.
00:25:57.000Sometimes it just comes down to something as simple as that.
00:26:00.000They're not strong enough, they're not man enough.
00:26:03.000They couldn't do what I do, they can't do what we do.
00:32:30.000And we did it, and we didn't get any accolades, and we didn't get any credit, and they didn't write glowing articles about us and all these fag think tank magazines.
00:32:39.000They called us Nazis and Holocaust deniers, and they got me banned from YouTube, and they tried to ruin my life.
00:32:48.000And we're the ones on the front lines, boldly going forward.
00:32:52.000Telling the truth, even when it's not popular, taking the slings and the arrows.
00:32:58.000We're the ones throwing ourselves into the system and challenging it head on.
00:42:05.000And it's like, you don't convert to feel better because often that's not what you get.
00:42:10.000And, you know, You know, I also resent when people say, Oh, I pray, and then, you know, good things happen to me, because sometimes it doesn't work like that.
00:42:19.000It's not, you know, that's not actually how it works.
00:42:24.000And it's easy to have faith when it makes you feel good.
00:42:28.000And it's easy to have faith when you pray and you get the things you want.
00:42:32.000Of course, it goes without saying, it's a lot more difficult to have faith when God gives you lemons, you know, when temptation comes your way and tragedy and suffering.
00:42:43.000Maintain faith when those things happen.
00:42:45.000But, you know, I've always had a fatalistic worldview about things, and I never looked at life that way, you know, this sort of happiness, positivity thing.
00:42:56.000I've always resigned myself to the fact that it's a complicated business.
00:43:00.000And, you know, life has lows and highs, and it's all part of the plan and everything like that.
00:43:08.000So I feel like I was sort of uniquely prepared to be in this.
00:43:11.000And I'm sure I'll have my faith tested even further.
00:43:14.000You know, more will be taken from me, I know, and it will get harder.
00:43:18.000But that's why it's important to have a solid foundation to really have faith.
00:43:29.000You know, you're a great example, I think, for the younger viewers and stuff.
00:43:34.000As far as like your Catholic perspective, I think it's a great thing.
00:43:38.000And like you mentioned, it's really easy to trust God when things are going your way.
00:43:43.000But when they don't, that's when your faith gets tested and it's difficult.
00:43:50.000Well, you just got to look to Jesus, you know, because the other thing, what's also hard about it is not only is it suffering, but also, It's like me uniquely, I suffer and people lie about me and betray me.
00:44:08.000And, you know, if I wasn't a Christian, I don't know if I could take it because you look at Jesus and, you know, he says, if they hate you, remember they hated me first.
00:44:17.000And you look at this is the guy who was literally the son of God.
00:44:20.000I came here to save people and he's, you know, part, he's a person of God.
00:44:25.000So he created people and yet he's betrayed by them, crucified, tortured.
00:45:43.000Well, I mean, I can't get it like you do just because I'm obviously not in that situation.
00:45:47.000But, but yeah, from like, you know, the perspective of Christ getting, you know, kind of like crucified by the Jews and the Romans and like no one really kind of wanted him.
00:45:58.000So, I, you definitely are kind of like in that sort of situation where not the left and not the right and no one really wants to be on your team except like very few people.
00:46:07.000And, you know, that's that's very admirable, honestly, because you keep speaking the truth and.
00:46:12.000I don't know if I'm being like super articulate because I'm a little bit nervous, honestly.
00:47:36.000And then you're like, you're like responded to her or something, and you're like, you got knocked up in college by black guys, and now you expect me to be like be a cheerleader for your own, for your career, your fake conservative career past.
00:47:49.000Like the past part got me so, like, got me kecking so hard.
00:48:08.000And that's it, it was like, it's like, you know, they say that, what is it, Ivan the Terrible, when the architect who made St. Basil's Cathedral, Ivan the Terrible had his eyes removed so he could never make anything that beautiful again.
00:50:50.000Someone posted another one the other day about the vaccine, and it just got.
00:50:57.000I think I started out tweeting something like, you know, hey, be nice to the vaccinated people because they're not going to be with us for very much longer.
00:51:05.000And then I just tweeted like a hundred things, and by the end of it, I was like, you know, the vaccinated are drinking the Kool Aid, not in the sense that they're conforming to society, but in the sense that they've ingested poison that will kill them very soon.
00:52:18.000Taking six different guys are coming at you, throwing accusations and everything.
00:52:25.000And you were still able to body all of them.
00:52:28.000Yeah, and I was throwing books at him too.
00:52:32.000That was the best part, is like masterfully with precision.
00:52:35.000Just, oh, have you read Sam Huntington?
00:52:37.000Have you read, what was the other one I threw at him?
00:52:40.000And they're like, have you read White Shift?
00:52:42.000I literally, somebody's got to find that clip because years ago I was making fun of these DC creatures and I made some, I was like imitating them and I was like, oh, have you read White Shift?
00:52:55.000And I said that like years ago and that was like a famous clip.
00:52:59.000And then all these years later, I'm in this, you know, in that space with all these DC interns, and they're like, well, if you ran White Shift, it says that Mexicans are becoming white.
00:57:46.000I was at this hot dog place today, and there were young kids come in there, and they're all, you know, saying no cap and stuff, and they're all whatever.
00:57:54.000And I'm like, I have my mustache and my car.
00:57:58.000And I'm like, I'm an old head to these guys.
00:58:43.000And I had so many followers and so much dopamine, and I could just tweet it out and change the conversation, and that just made it a lot harder.
01:00:44.000And so, just to add to what you were saying about like the Christian suffering, like our martyrs were like tortured and killed and fed to lions just because they refused to deny Jesus Christ.
01:00:54.000And I think like suffering brings us closer to Jesus Christ, you know?
01:04:41.000Prison stories, you know, he's telling me, like, oh, yeah, I used to in the cafeteria, I used to sit next to Ray, and Ray murdered his wife and kids and the dog.
01:06:05.000Then I found out his dad used to spoil him and buy him gifts and stuff like this.
01:06:10.000So, so, so like I paid him one day and I was, I was nervous because he showed up late the next morning.
01:06:18.000I thought, well, was he out like boozing and whoring the night before?
01:06:22.000And, and he was, yeah, he was like out partying and stuff.
01:06:24.000And, So, you know, he's just like learning things.
01:06:28.000You know, there's things he doesn't know how much things cost, and he doesn't, he really doesn't know.
01:06:33.000Like, they don't let him, they don't let people use the internet when you're in prison.
01:06:37.000So, he was really behind on the times in some ways, but you know, it's kind of disarming, kind of charming in a way because he doesn't have a head full of rot like a lot of people that are just, you know, like on the internet all the time and are sort of like made victims of it.
01:06:53.000Like, people that are on Facebook and they're just kind of like trapped in Facebook.
01:09:06.000I didn't really do a lot this year, especially in terms of content, but I'm starting to feel fired up again, starting to feel like bouncing back.
01:09:15.000You know, this stuff with Trump, like sort of going full Pfizer on everybody, for me is motivating in a way because I don't know, can you really wait on him to salvage the situation?
01:09:31.000Like, this is, you know, this is not good for him.
01:09:34.000And so, I don't know, it's kind of motivating for me in a strange way, seeing, Seen some people that were very influential in the last presidential cycle falter a bit, him and then others included.
01:09:46.000Like, it's kind of motivating in a way because it's like clear waters, you know, it clears out the water and it allows for new opportunities.
01:10:01.000There's a lot of it's not just Trump failing, but even his ban from social media.
01:10:07.000Like, yeah, there's a lot of market share without getting too into the weeds on it.
01:10:11.000There's a lot of market that's opened up and just the Past five years because of what Trump did, because of the Groyper War, the events of the past 12 months.
01:10:34.000You have things like Revolver, which has kind of a different flavor, and you got InfoWars, and you got these Q people, and then you got the Trump people, and even that is split up, and then Con Inc.
01:10:48.000That's all that needed to be done, really, was for it to be disrupted, you know, and for there to be a little bit of entropy into the system.
01:10:55.000And that gives an opportunity for people like us to rise up.
01:10:58.000Because, I mean, the biggest enemy is when things are status quo, when things remain the same.
01:11:02.000That always benefits, of course, the players that are in control.
01:11:06.000So, you know, and I said that back five years ago.
01:11:09.000I said, if all Trump does is just win the election, he succeeded.
01:11:12.000And some might say that's a cope or something, but that was the minimum.
01:11:17.000Anything that came as a consequence is really extra.
01:11:19.000But that was just what needed to happen to sort of just make a huge sort of dynamic play and shake things up enough where, and that's not enough.
01:11:31.000I mean, that's not going to propel us to success, but it is enough to open up the playing field so that, you know, some moves can be made.
01:11:51.000And now he is relegated to sort of like trying to scratch out what he can, like everybody else.
01:11:59.000And I was watching this interview, this like half hour interview he did with Candace Owens.
01:12:03.000And Candace was putting into a little bit, like putting the iron to him a little bit.
01:12:09.000And he was shifting around uncomfortably.
01:12:11.000And this wouldn't have happened like three or four years ago.
01:12:15.000I think that he has to, like, yeah, maybe he's a sure bet in terms of polling, but in terms of turning out his base, like he is going to have to improve in a couple of ways and some glaring ways.
01:12:28.000And just to see, I mean, like, I'm not thrilled that it's Candace Owens who's.
01:12:32.000Who's sort of like sticking it to him?
01:12:34.000I'd rather it be, you know, like Beardson.
01:12:38.000But, you know, just seeing that there's no sacred calf right now.
01:12:46.000Like everybody's searching around for answers, everybody's looking for what's effective, and everyone's beholden to that, even President Trump.
01:12:57.000It's the Pfizer thing's very dispiriting because there's been so much improvement in some ways, like the.
01:13:06.000You know, the Jewish triangle is sort of dissipated surrounding him, and the personnel things seem to have been sorted out in the last year, began to be sorted out.
01:13:15.000You know, they brought on Douglas McGregor in the last few months, John McEntee in the last year.
01:13:19.000But, yeah, he's just not the same guy that he was five years ago.
01:15:29.000You know, I haven't heard from Steve in a while.
01:15:31.000I mean, we texted a few times, but yeah, he hasn't been as active this year as he was last year, which it's a shame because his content's really good.
01:15:40.000I mean, if you watch his show, it's got a very cozy vibe.
01:15:49.000And it's always interesting, you know?
01:15:53.000It's not always super political, which is a good thing, because I think that I do a current events show, so it is what it is.
01:16:00.000But, you know, there's a lot of insight just to be gleaned, obviously, from non political things, maybe more so sometimes.
01:16:06.000So he's got a great show and totally solid guy.
01:16:10.000I miss him, because, you know, we used to see each other all the time during Stop the Steal, just because we were all, I mean, that was like the fucking, you know, everybody was there.
01:18:07.000And that was the first time I met you, and you saw me at like a 10, a perfect 10, just like marching around the strip, just like bum, bum, bum, you know.
01:18:17.000And then the Ramsey restaurant was closed, and I was so mad, I was ready to like burst through the fucking wall.
01:18:24.000And then we waited like 45 minutes to get a burger.
01:18:34.000At the Gordon Ramsey restaurant, I had the, I had the, the, The chicken sandwich, which you got on my case about, but like the night before when you were going, you were just going sicko mode, you maniac, you just pinched Jaden out of nowhere and his arm was like injured for the rest of the night.
01:19:30.000But actually, that reminds me, I've been meaning to ask your take because you're from Chicago, you know, you're a foodie.
01:19:36.000I don't know, is that like, it's too much of a millennial thing.
01:19:39.000Like it's like an Instagram thing to be a foodie.
01:19:41.000But I went on my Telegram, I was talking about this the other day.
01:19:45.000I think that, like fries, like as a side dish, and it was actually because I was thinking about the Vegas trip.
01:19:50.000I think fries are like a really lazy side dish because I was thinking back at all the restaurants I've gone to, they usually give me like a really big plate and then they put like the entree, like the chicken sandwich for the Gordon Ramsay restaurant or a burger or something.
01:20:03.000They put it on one side of the plate, takes up like a quarter of the plate.
01:20:06.000And then they take like, I don't know, one or two potatoes, cut them up, fry them, just throw them, like scatter them over the rest of the plate.
01:20:57.000And typically, you know, the fries that they have in a sit down restaurant are garbage.
01:21:02.000When you get like a gourmet burger and the fries, good fries are like, they're either crispy, golden, fluffy on the inside like McDonald's, or they're like hand cut, sort of like greasy, wet.
01:21:15.000And they're like, whenever you go to a restaurant, they're just like this sort of diner style fry, which just isn't, which is appealing to nobody.
01:21:25.000It's not crispy and yummy and dipped in peanut oil like McDonald's or whatever.
01:21:31.000It's not disgusting and dipped in fucking lard like the good stuff in Chicago is.
01:22:25.000Well, they bring them in like a fucking, they have like a metallic.
01:22:29.000Wire cone, you know, with like a sheet in it, and then they pour like 10 fries in there.
01:22:36.000You know, that's I hate the baskets they come in whenever you go to a sit down restaurant, always comes in some like gimmicky, they come in a cup or something.
01:22:45.000You know, it's like just put them in a basket.
01:22:47.000We want a paper basket of just good fries, like they have an In N Out or you know, McDonald's has a basket now, but yeah, like the wire cone.
01:22:57.000I want to like stab a waiter with those wire cones with their fucking neck.
01:23:02.000When I see that, yeah, what's your go to then for fries?
01:23:05.000I mean, you said McDonald's, but like, what do you think is the best fries and fast food?
01:23:42.000And it was an interesting thing because I was messaging people and I'm like, the Wendy's fries are some of the worst fries I've had.
01:23:48.000And they're like, no, no, it's location wise.
01:23:50.000And I went one day to the Wendy's that I frequent, and they gave me this basket of fries or this dish of fries because I get the four for four, and they had made them fresh, and they were delicious.
01:24:01.000And they were like some of the best fries I'd had.
01:24:04.000But one place that's actually surprisingly really good with fries, and people are going to call this like insider trading and whatnot, but the KFC fries are really, really consistent because they use the same spices that they use on the chicken, and I find them very tasty.
01:25:07.000But I mean, the one I used to work at, the chef that we had literally took a half an hour break and smoked crack in the bathroom with these two homeless guys that came in.
01:25:22.000And this was a thing that they just did.
01:25:24.000Like they frequently did this, so yeah.
01:25:26.000No, I mean, if it was up to my experience, they eat while they work.
01:25:48.000You get the two scoops or actually three scoops of mashed potatoes on the bottom, you put gravy on top, popcorn chicken on top of that, cheese and corn, and more gravy over the chicken.
01:29:06.000I thought, no, I thought it was pretty keen.
01:29:08.000Oh, it's just like you think about it, like, huh, these guys are in the drawing room, and they're just like, You'll get this cowboys and aliens.
01:36:26.000I understand the pragmatism with keeping Trump around and trying to use him as a vehicle to push our thing, but I'm not going to lie.
01:36:35.000A lot of the stuff recently coming out with him, minus the whole Jewish thing, obviously, but I think a lot of the stuff that's been coming out as of recent, honestly, over the last year, has been really black billing.
01:36:48.000And I just want to know your take on it overall.
01:36:54.000Is he really the vehicle that we want to use to kind of.
01:36:59.000Push the envelope moving forward, or like Francis said earlier, I know he was touching on it too, so I'm sorry if I'm being a bit redundant, but um, or is it like kind of time for uh, some new blood, uh, let new people come to the forefront and try to use them?
01:37:15.000Yeah, so here's the problem with this premise.
01:37:18.000Um, I mean, I agree with you, and the thing is, is um, you know, to say that Trump is a vehicle is not to say that I don't agree with that.
01:37:30.000Because everybody says, oh, you know, you kiss Trump's ass, you make excuses for Trump, blah, blah.
01:37:34.000I know more about Trump's flaws than most people because I know people that know Trump.
01:37:40.000And I know people that worked in the admin all four years.
01:37:42.000And I know people that worked closely, directly with the president all four years.
01:37:46.000And so I'm more in tune than most people.
01:37:50.000And I'm a pragmatist and I know what's up.
01:38:48.000He was the president for four years, so he's not going anywhere.
01:38:53.000And now that he's not the president, he's not going anywhere either, you know?
01:38:56.000So it's not like an active sort of sustaining his position, it's really more political reality that he is the uncontested leader of the party.
01:39:07.000I mean, that's a fact, and that's not changing anytime soon.
01:39:10.000It's sort of an unshakable allegiance that most people have to him.
01:39:40.000He says, you know, the art of politics is at every instant choosing the best, the most pragmatic, the most practical from, you know, a limited number of options.
01:39:49.000And, you know, that is sort of begging the question, well, who then would it be?
01:41:01.000It's going to probably be some think tank American who is a transplant or, you know, transnational globalist, whatever.
01:41:09.000And we're going to get literally the same problems we did before, except none of the instinct, none of the intuition, none of the fight that Trump had fighting the media, the boldness.
01:41:19.000DeSantis is a creature of the GOP, former congressman, now a governor.
01:41:24.000And, you know, what does it say that he gets support from the mainstream media?
01:41:27.000Like a lot of, if you look at like the Atlantic, Washington Post, I think a few of these publications have written nice things about him and said this is a positive turn and, you know, he's seen as respectable.
01:41:39.000And why is it the conservatives from like Bill Crystal all the way through to a lot of Trump supporters support this guy?
01:42:35.000You're falling back into this red team, blue team shit.
01:42:38.000And, you know, you're sort of trusting that somebody from the Republican Party is going to do what needs to be done to save America, which I just think is a non starter.
01:42:48.000So, in essence, that is where I come from with Trump.
01:42:51.000Now, the vaccine thing is disqualifying.
01:42:54.000Like, as of right now, I don't know that I support Trump after what he's been saying about the vaccine.
01:42:59.000But there's still a lot of time left between now and 24.
01:43:02.000And we have to be aware of the reality that Trump is here, he's not going anywhere.
01:43:06.000You know, us complaining about him isn't going to change that.
01:43:10.000And then we also have to compare them to the alternatives, which are all worse.
01:43:15.000So, taking all of that together, you know, how do we proceed?
01:43:19.000Well, we can be in denial, or we could support something that's not as good, something that's objectively inferior, or we could, like we did for the past, like I did for the past four years, throw our lot in with Trump and try to influence him because there's a non zero chance that significant change could come.
01:43:36.000But that's sort of my take on all that.
01:43:40.000Okay, yeah, no, that makes a lot of sense, actually.
01:43:43.000Yeah, I was always a little bit fuzzy on that whole thing, and I always get shit from my Wignat friends.
01:43:50.000Shout out to him, I guess, like about like, oh, yeah, like Fuentes is like showing for Trump and Trump shows for like Jews and whatnot and all this.
01:43:58.000And like, that's why like Fuentes is bad and all this stuff.
01:44:02.000And I was just like, I guess you're entitled to your opinion, man.
01:44:10.000But yeah, man, I just wanted to say you're like an inspiration.
01:44:14.000I've been riding with you since like 2020, went to all the Stop the Steals.
01:44:21.000You're just like, you're one of my heroes.
01:44:26.000And not going to lie, you've inspired me a bit too much.
01:44:29.000I actually, and I'm not trying to take up too much time here, but I had a very big autism moment today.
01:44:36.000I was training at my MMA gym today, and we were talking about, I'm from New York, not to dox or anything like that, but I'm from New York.
01:44:44.000And since Cuomo's out and this horrible woman is in, now I was saying, like, guys, like, I unironically miss Cuomo, and it was like me, some boomer lady.
01:44:56.000My Sifu, my teacher, and her two sons.
01:45:00.000And like she said something to the effect of, Oh, I think she's mentally ill.
01:45:05.000And then I, without even thinking for a second, I was just like, Oh, well, yeah, that's because every woman in politics is basically mentally ill.
01:45:13.000And basically the whole room, like everybody's jaw hit the floor.
01:45:58.000You know, And, you know, a lot of people are critical of me because I support Trump or this and that, but I mean, I get where they're coming from, Wignats and all that.
01:46:19.000Trump isn't like exactly what we want or, you know, this or that qualification.
01:46:24.000But if you want to get involved with politics, you involve yourself in a question not of, you know, What is ideal and what is defective, but what is better and worse.
01:46:34.000And that is just naturally what happens.
01:46:36.000You know, that's what happens when you try to do anything in the real world, when you try to build or create anything, is scarcity and choice.
01:46:46.000And particularly in politics, it's not enough just to point out defects, it's not enough to point out problems.
01:46:55.000Oh, well, he's this way, he's that way, this one's no good, this one's no good.
01:46:58.000You know, we could disqualify everybody if we wanted to.
01:47:02.000But to really make change, you have to get involved and say, well, what's better?
01:47:28.000We just need to, you know, basically just say whatever we want and, like, you know, never have any reasonable expectations for how things are going to change.
01:47:57.000And that doesn't mean do things that are immoral.
01:48:01.000It means to say that, you know, you've got to make decisions, you've got to make compromises, you've got to, you know, in an attempt to do something, you got to crack some eggs, you know?
01:49:42.000I was just thinking about the, you know, Trump being all gay with the vaccine.
01:49:48.000And I was thinking about going way back to, you know, the original Trump back in like 2015.
01:49:56.000You know, back when he was actually anti vax, it seemed that he wasn't just going against the, you know, He wasn't just going against the establishment in terms of him being anti vaxx and saying that it was causing autism and shit.
01:50:14.000It also seemed to be that he was going against the constituents of a great deal of the Republican base itself, which is a pretty far cry from what we have now.
01:50:30.000Now it's like he's selling out the main constituents of the Republican Party for the establishment rather than.
01:50:41.000Because a lot of people, you remember when like CNN and Fox News and stuff like that, I can't remember which one had the original, the one where it was basically they were trying to get him, like, they're trying to pit him against Ben Carson.
01:50:55.000And it seemed to be that a lot of people, if they weren't going to be voting for Trump, they would be voting for Ben Carson.
01:51:02.000And Carson's opinion on vaccinations was, of course, informed by him being a doctor.
01:51:13.000His information about it was the result of him being a part of the medical establishment.
01:51:18.000And a lot of people were going to vote for Carson.
01:51:21.000So it seemed to be that even a lot of the Republicans probably thought that Trump was crazy back when he was being anti vax.
01:51:31.000And even still then, he held the line back when, you know, he held the line against like a huge percentage of his potential voters.
01:51:41.000And now it's like he's not just going against.
01:51:45.000He's going against a large part of his voter base.
01:51:52.000Back then, he was able to hold the line for even a fundamental core, you could say, radical part of his constituency, even for the majority of his voter base, against the establishment.
01:52:06.000But now he's taking the side of the establishment, even when it seems that the grand majority of the Republican Party is now anti vax.
01:52:14.000So I don't know what happened between then.
01:52:17.000And now, but it's kind of like a perfect example of how much he's fallen since then.
01:52:22.000Like the original Trump that we all voted for compared to now.
01:52:49.000You know, he was changed by the political system because he came in and revolutionized politics with this outsider perspective.
01:52:58.000He said, you know, he had that perspective of somebody that isn't sort of, you know, blinded by precedent and the so called way things are done.
01:53:06.000You know, sometimes you need somebody who is from the outside to come in and recognize, you know, where things are sort of out of date or not working.
01:53:16.000He, from the outside looking in, said, you know, this is all bullshit.
01:53:20.000I'm just going to talk to the people and I'm going to basically dispense with a lot of the sort of affect, with the sort of put on facade, you know, the fake aspect of it.
01:53:30.000And politicians didn't, you know, they're like, what?
01:54:09.000I think that, I mean, at this point, like you wouldn't be able to, now, since he was in such a rush, it seemed like, since he was getting so much shit for the pandemic, it seemed like he didn't have, at this point, it doesn't seem like he has anywhere to go other than to fall back on his original plan with the vaccine.
01:54:33.000So he probably was hoping from the beginning.
01:54:37.000That the Republicans' constituents would have allowed for him to, for the vaccines to go through, and that we would just put up with it because, you know, he made it.
01:54:49.000But now that he already ran with that plan, he can't really fall back on being like anti vax, since that was his plan from the beginning.
01:54:58.000And maybe I think that a part of him wishes that he could have been anti vax from the beginning, but now he just can't.
02:13:28.000Modern Monarchus says, We have gained so many good Groypers, and Christmas is the time I take to get a little emotional and bear.
02:13:33.000And the ones we lost in recent history, like Shalit, I know we can get through anything.
02:13:39.000Modern Monarchus says, I am thankful for you this Christmas, a guiding light and a beacon for all of us.
02:13:43.000Every day I endeavor to be a little smarter and more knowledgeable so I could give more to the movement.
02:13:48.000Modern Monarchus says, I do not have too much weirdness inside me tonight, just warmth and big, huge memory of the past and a vision for the future.
02:13:57.000One has to look their demons in the face.
02:13:59.000We are told early in life we are too young to do anything, and in later life we are told we are too old to do anything.
02:14:05.000The peddlers of these inhibitions really mean they are against anything being done.
02:14:09.000The tendency of the world is to flight from the world back to the womb or on to the tomb, but you have embraced manhood with all the rigors of its brutal responsibility.
02:14:17.000I know you prefer the airs of dynamism to the religion of lethargy.