00:12:20.000Obviously, I'm 21, but I've been around the blocks, so to speak, in this political thing for a few years now.
00:12:27.000So I kind of get how it works, I kind of get how the program works.
00:12:30.000And I'd like to think that I'm sober minded about it and I understand the realities.
00:12:35.000But on the other hand, I still, maybe it's because I'm young or idealistic, but I still do have somewhat of an idealistic, perhaps it's a hubristic idea that the power of my will and charisma can overcome traditional limitations or realities.
00:15:08.000Now, before somebody clips that, he said go in guns blazing.
00:15:11.000That means, you know, in other words, do I go balls to the wall right out of the gate?
00:15:19.000And get myself, you know, a target painted on my back and get everybody to disavow me and so on, but push through, or do we retreat, appease, concede, all that?
00:16:40.000I like the work Ryan Dawson does on neocons, he does great work.
00:16:44.000But when we had our discussion on the public space, like, he told me his opposition to Israel comes from the fact that Israel is an ethnostate.
00:17:00.000Which the human rights angle and the, you know, I don't love this term, but the civic nationalist angle is a very liberal, like Wilsonian idea.
00:17:15.000My beef is the spying, it's the foreign aid, it's the, you know, dual allegiance.
00:17:21.000So, you know, where there's overlap in terms of some of the conclusions or some of the issues that we diagnose, you know, the worldview is obviously completely different.
00:17:31.000And people didn't listen to me at the time.
00:17:33.000They said, oh, like Nick is just lying.
00:17:35.000But I mean, you see that on full display this week, and he's coming right out and saying it.
00:19:50.000If, let's say that if the guy, whatever, was a politician, that would be something different and he represented a certain community.
00:20:03.000The community is supposed to get involved and make the politician do the right thing.
00:20:08.000But if it's just an organization and this organization has decided.
00:20:14.000That they're going to promote abnormal behavior, then they have a right to do that.
00:20:20.000And you have a right to disagree, but you don't have a right to impose on their meetings to make them talk about it or do what they want them to do.
00:21:06.000I think that it's okay to ask questions, but I know if you're leading in a direction that that group is not trying to go in, then in that respect, you're kind of causing a disruption, so to speak.
00:21:22.000So, what's happening is, I believe, I think I'm getting it right now.
00:22:45.000And so I just don't think that these people have a right to impose on Turning Point to try to force them during the question and answer period.
00:22:53.000But if they stand for something, shouldn't they represent it?
00:26:55.000By Ron Oons called American Pravda, which is a pretty long read, and it's, you know, maybe I would encourage people that, you know, it's just something interesting.
00:27:04.000But, you know, look, I don't really know all the facts about it, but, you know, I've heard about the stacks and I've heard about the soil and I've heard about these criminology studies.
00:27:28.000It's sort of like a tongue in cheek winking, like, oh, like I'm going to talk about smokestacks and I'm going to talk about soil and the Red Cross and all this.
00:27:36.000Now, what this represents is not entirely a joke, but it's also not like me staking out a position, right?
00:27:43.000You understand that my job on America First is it's information and it's entertainment.
00:27:50.000It's to be funny, it's to be sensational, it's to be provocative, it's to get a conversation started, it's to get people thinking.
00:27:57.000If you've watched my show, I'm on the show every night.
00:28:01.000And I would say that my views are evolving all the time.
00:28:05.000And sometimes I like to play devil's advocate, or sometimes I like to make an argument.
00:28:09.000Some days I'm experimenting with this rhetoric or with this argument or whatever, right?
00:28:30.000I was going to put back on our music, but I forgot I had to turn up the volume way up to hear JLP.
00:28:35.000But, point being, it's like, so, again, it comes back to the idea of context denial.
00:28:42.000You see that clip, and it's sort of hard to convey exactly the context in the sense that, you know, is it like a stand up joke where I say, knock, knock, who's there, you know, whatever?
00:28:54.000But it's also not me staking out a position and saying, well, I believe this.
00:28:58.000It's sort of somewhere in the middle where, you know, you say things that are just sort of floated out there.
00:29:05.000You know, this is what happens in conversations, this is what happens when you have a conversation with somebody.
00:29:11.000You know, when you talk to your friends and family about religion or about race or about, you know, serious things, serious topics that are worthwhile, is everything you say your statement?
00:29:25.000You know, this is my official position and, you know, and I'm staking out my position.
00:29:30.000This is what I want on the front page of the New York Times.
00:29:33.000Or in a discussion, do you sort of play with it?
00:29:44.000The joking sort of tone, tongue in cheek, is a very low stakes, unserious way to poke fun but also to provoke thought.
00:29:53.000And here's what bothers me it's all these fucking assholes that have to come out here and pretend like they're so offended, they're so appalled.
00:30:01.000Why don't I believe in making light of the Holocaust where six million died?
00:31:41.000You know, nobody is losing sleep over the fact that me, I was 20 years old at the time, some 20 year old punk kid who has a thousand people watching a show every night made an edgy joke.
00:35:39.000You could see throughout the video, I'm smirking, it's lighthearted, it's a joke.
00:35:47.000You know, 20 year old kids can't make jokes, frankly, about things that are irrelevant that happened 100 years ago, that everybody's going to clutch their pearls and it's an international smear campaign and so on.
00:35:58.000Do we have free speech in this country?
00:36:06.000Because, you know, sure, you might be able to say these things on a very technical level, but if you even think the wrong thing, look at what happens to you the ostracism, the bullying, the intimidation.
00:36:26.000And if I were a little bit smarter, if I were a little bit more prudent, and I'll admit, it's dumb to say this for me at this point, I would participate in it too.
00:37:30.000Look at how they mock Jesus Christ every day.
00:37:34.000And I don't mean to like throw my religion out there as like a shield or anything, but it's a worthwhile point to illustrate that, you know, the Son of God actually.
00:37:44.000Gets blasphemed every day, and nobody cares, and nobody's disavowing that, and nobody's offended by that, and nobody's talking about making light of that.
00:37:59.000Look at what happens every day making light of sex abuse, making light of all kinds of terrible things, and nobody cares, and nobody talks about it.
00:38:10.000And everybody knows it's jokes, or it's lighthearted, or it's whatever.
00:38:15.000Even the most grave things, matters of eternal life and death, people don't even, you know, bat an eye.
00:38:20.000They'll do this, well, I don't like the way Christians are being discriminated against.
00:38:49.000I'm really more concerned about immigration, actually.
00:38:52.000I'm really more concerned about the state of the country, you know, this country now than, you know, things that happened 80 years ago.
00:39:00.000So, whatever you need me to say, you know, the Holocaust Museum can type up a statement of, you know, all the things I have to believe about that event.
00:42:05.000I'm, and he says later on the thread, What does he say about me?
00:42:10.000He says later on, and we'll get to the tweet, it's not showing up right now, but he says, Nick Flintchus is a tiny kid in front of a tiny green screen and he should be left behind.
00:44:55.000Mom put the V neck in with the crew neck.
00:44:57.000And now they're all mixed together and he can't find them because five minutes before he's supposed to go live, he procrastinated too long.
00:45:04.000He's got to throw on a crew neck under a button down shirt.
00:52:38.000A lot of people had to face a lot of different things.
00:52:41.000You know, Italians were the number one, we were the biggest lynching.
00:52:45.000We were the victims of the biggest lynching in American history.
00:52:49.000You don't see Italians crying and carrying on and complaining.
00:52:53.000You know, my ancestors faced discrimination as Irish, as Italians, as Mexicans.
00:52:59.000You see me peddling the racial grievance stuff.
00:53:01.000And notice all these people are against the racial grievance politics until they're not too.
00:53:08.000You know, if somebody went up to Benny Johnson and said, Oh, Jim Crow is the reason why I'm not succeeding, Benny Johnson would say that's not true.
00:55:11.000I said his guests are Jewey Joostine, not Dave Rubin himself.
00:55:16.000If you listen carefully, you want to talk to Jewey Joostine who says, I like the remarketing, I like capitalism, but I think something else about social issues.
00:55:28.000You know, that's who you want to have on your show.
00:57:55.000Am I going insane or am I the only person that is right on this?
00:58:01.000Is it just me or is it everybody else?
00:58:04.000Because I see this video and I see what is clearly meant to be lampooning the nature of the show, which is that everybody in the intellectual dark web is Jewish and the only thing they want to talk about is economics, right?
00:58:18.000Everybody in there, Dave Rubin, Shapiro, all these guys are all, you know, they're all in the club.
00:58:24.000And they don't want to talk about anything actually interesting.
00:58:27.000They don't actually have any real dissent.
00:58:29.000They want to talk about, well, I believe in socialism, or I believe in capitalism, or I'm more left wing.
01:00:42.000You know, Louis C.K. can do in a Netflix comedy special, he could say that he was jerking off between the collapse of the first Twin Tower and the second Twin Tower.
01:04:12.000Because, you know, when it comes to them, race doesn't play a factor.
01:04:16.000But when it comes to white people, oh, you know, very quick to throw them under the bus and make it a race thing and say, oh, it's white trash, it's white hillbillies.
01:04:24.000I have a problem with that because I know a lot of good people who would be described as white trash or whatever.
01:04:29.000And so when you racialize it like that, I know, you know, White people have been kicked around forever, and that's the convenient thing to do nowadays.
01:07:06.000Then you've got atheists, who certainly there are some atheists who have animosity towards Christians or Christ himself, but a lot of atheists, again, like Buddhists and Hindus, would regard Jesus as a spiritual teacher.
01:07:20.000And some of the things that are in there, they see Jesus Christ as, you know, fundamentally a good guy putting out a moral philosophy, even if they don't believe that he was real or whatever, right?
01:07:29.000So it's really only like, it's really only some, like a very tiny percentage of the population that says things like, he deserves to have gotten killed.
01:07:38.000He was a rebel who got killed for his trouble.
01:07:40.000You know, that's the kind of rhetoric that's coming from Shapiro.
01:07:44.000And Matt Walsh is a Catholic that works for him.
01:08:01.000But, you know, if you work for other non Christians, I don't think they believe that.
01:08:05.000And moreover, it's not like you're a plumber, it's not like you're an electrician or a mechanic.
01:08:14.000You're working for a taste making, opinion making publication where you're trying to make political and cultural change.
01:08:24.000And you're supporting somebody who's in a position of influence over young people and millions of Christians who says things like this.
01:08:32.000So it's hardly the same thing to say nobody can work for non Christians as is to say you're working for somebody who said Jesus Christ deserved to get killed and you're working for somebody who's influential over millions of Christians in a particular young people.
01:09:57.000But if he's going to shit on white people and he works for somebody that shits on the Son of God, I'm sorry, but that's unacceptable to me.
01:13:41.000She asks this question, which is hyper specific, for a reason, obviously, because she's recording.
01:13:46.000She hits the record button and says, Do you think having sex with a black man is the same as having sex with a dog?
01:13:51.000When the conversation is about all, you know, interracial relationships, which I believe that you marry with your own, which is the same position as Muhammad Ali, by the way.
01:14:03.000And I say, No, it's not the same, but they're both, they would both be degenerate.
01:15:45.000It's like, have you ever stopped and considered that maybe if you get offended, there's such a strong emotional reaction to political opinions you disagree with across the board?
01:15:59.000Maybe that's one of the reasons why you shouldn't be making political decisions.
01:17:07.000It's like, you know, what is the role of women in politics?
01:17:10.000And if you have any other opinion other than everyone should be able to be involved, they freak out.
01:17:16.000And it's like, well, you know, maybe if you hear something you don't like and you freak out, maybe that's indicative of a certain emotional state or a certain emotional temperament that would lead you to believe that, you know, maybe they are not able to make tough decisions.
01:17:31.000Decisions based on an impersonal, justice based ethic, right?
01:17:37.000And that is the argument, which is, of course, completely true, which is a completely airtight argument that nobody would dare oppose.
01:17:43.000Nobody would dare oppose that argument because it's 100% correct.
01:17:47.000And I also said it in a funny way, and people are laughing, and everybody's saying Nick is so right, and it's funny, and I'm laughing that he said that.
01:17:55.000You know, I said, We're not attacking whores.
01:17:58.000Okay, obviously it's tongue in cheek, but it's also very true.
01:19:24.000This is in reference to Brock Turner, where Brock Turner, they accuse him of being a rapist and he's not one because he fingered a girl at a party.
01:19:32.000And obviously, when I said, do you know what I'm saying?
01:19:35.000What I said to Beardson is, You know, you wouldn't rape somebody in such a way that would just be malicious, right?
01:20:05.000Whereas fingering somebody is done for the benefit of the girl, which must be done with consent.
01:20:10.000You wouldn't do that in just Purely a malicious way, which is what I was humorously making about Brock Turner, which is again 100% factual and undeniable.
01:20:20.000And then clearly we're joking at the end saying, oh, it's not a big deal.
01:21:18.000I don't want to play this one because it's like super long.
01:21:20.000But basically, he says, so he says, oh, well, he tried to distance himself from alt-right leader Richard Spencer, but he agreed with him on many things.
01:23:12.000It's not everything, but it's not nothing when it comes to nationalism.
01:23:16.000That is to say, you can't be a nationalist and be for the wholesale replacement of the population.
01:23:22.000Would you be a nationalist if you were in favor of bringing over 300 million Africans as a thought experiment?
01:23:28.000Would that be a nationalistic position if within 100 years all the people that were here are dead and their bloodline stopped and it was a totally different gene pool as a thought experiment?
01:23:57.000But it also doesn't mean that, you know, just anybody can come here and a whole other population could come here in the span of half a century and completely rewrite the social fabric and it'll be the same nation.
01:24:09.000It'll be a nation, but it won't be the same one.
01:24:13.000And I said, I said, white nationalist has lost all its denotative value.
01:24:18.000It does not have a definition in this clip.
01:24:20.000It is just a pejorative, it's just a slur.
01:24:23.000And that's why I said that in that clip.
01:24:25.000It is a nuanced thing, and it requires careful thought and subtlety.
01:24:30.000But people hear a clip like this and say, oh, he's on the screen with this guy, and he said this, and that means he's a white nationalist.
01:24:38.000That's exactly what I was pushing back on in this clip the reductive nature of that term, which again is just used to smear people and doesn't actually mean anything.
01:26:32.000Richard Spencer says, important thread saying that I'm worse for nationalism than Charlie Kirk.
01:26:38.000Frank Luntz says this turning point versus Groyper War is especially ironic since both sides will vote the same way in less than 12 months.
01:28:05.000I remember Dinesh D'Souza got Sam Francis' career destroyed because he's a fucking liar.
01:28:11.000Sorry for the language, but you know, really, Dinesh D'Souza is going to roll up to our shore from India, from smelly open defecation India, and he's going to tell us that Robert E. Lee was a racist and our ancestors were villains, as long as they were Democrats, you know.
01:28:26.000So Dinesh D'Souza can go to hell, and all these people can.
01:29:53.000This guy's coming from a country where, like, half the population does open defecation in the streets.
01:29:59.000In other words, a country that clearly doesn't work.
01:30:01.000He comes here because we are gracious and beneficent and benevolent, and he starts complaining and he starts saying, Oh, Robert E. Lee was bad, and Franklin Roosevelt was bad, and these people are bad, and these white racists were bad.
01:30:14.000I think you should be a little more gratitude and not this entitled tone of, You know, I'm going to tell America what makes it great.
01:32:53.000If that's okay, that's the country you want to live in, by all means.
01:32:56.000We can live in a country where the only thing you can do is, you know, Benny Johnson can go to these young women's leadership summits and do the fucking whatever dance.
01:33:20.000Everybody's constantly going to be living in fear of what if I have to defend everything I've ever said in front of an audience of millions of people?
01:33:27.000What if I joke and it doesn't land or it doesn't come across well or you take a 30 second part of it and it doesn't look right?
01:33:40.000Fuentes is a believer in leftist authoritarianism and identity politics.
01:33:43.000Fuentes said that if Antifa were waving the banner of Mussolini or calling for fascism, he would be joining them and it would be a great thing for them to storm DC and take over the country.
01:33:51.000You know, the unironic statement here.
01:33:53.000Oh, man, if Antifa were marching down the streets and they were waving the banner of Benito Mussolini or Francisco Franco, I'd be joining them, frankly.
01:34:01.000If Antifa was waving the banner of Falangism, if they were waving the banner of Franco and they were saying, you know, Catholic fascism now, I would join them.
01:34:15.000Yes, take over the country, storm D.C., take over the Capitol, raise the banner of Mussolini and Franco and, you know, some notable others, right?
01:34:24.000Oswald Mosley, that would be a great thing.
01:34:26.000No, man, if Antifa were marching down the street.
01:34:29.000Also, he cuts this clip short, 33 seconds out of like the original one was like two or three minutes long.
01:34:34.000The point was to illustrate, again, the context of this video is everybody says Antifa are the real fascists.
01:34:42.000And if you watch the whole clip, which I don't have on me right now, I should probably do a video where I have the full clips and I could go through and show.
01:34:50.000Because right now you just have to take my word for it.
01:34:52.000But the whole context of the clip was.
01:34:54.000After Andy Noh got attacked by Antifa in Portland, everybody said, Oh, look, these guys are the real fascists.
01:34:59.000The point of this was to say, obviously, they are not the real fascists, right?
01:35:05.000The point was to say, Oh, if Antifa was supporting Catholicism and they were supporting a kind of nationalist economic program and they were supporting a non interventionist foreign policy, yeah, then I'd sign up with them.
01:35:21.000If that were the case, if Antifa truly were the real fascists, And they were marching down the streets and they were against degeneracy and they were in favor of Christianity and nationalism and all that.
01:35:31.000Yeah, I mean, I'd want to see them win the country.
01:35:33.000But the point was to say, but that's not what's happening, obviously.
01:35:36.000If that, oh, they're just like Mussolini, they're just like Franco, it's like, oh, well, Franco would be a lot better than what we have now.
01:35:43.000But the point was to say, they're not.
01:35:46.000It's a point to exaggerate and make it hyperbolic and say, well, if Antifa truly were the fascists, oh, then you're saying they're Catholic, they support X, Y, and Z.
01:35:57.000Well, in that case, You know, it's true.
01:36:00.000If they were supporting some kind of Catholic integralist state, yeah, I'm in favor of Catholic integralism.
01:44:14.000I'm talking about this pretend game that we have to play where we say we're all so offended and we're all so hurt by this and we're all supposed to disavow and we're all supposed to unperson.
01:45:48.000I'm trying to be tactical with a lot of this stuff.
01:45:50.000But, you know, look, if you can see that they have this moral high ground and that, you know, we have to participate in this disavowal game, you lose.
01:47:16.000My boy text me told me dream big Like the cars that we own now Remember used to lease it now we're undefeated look at what the team did It says I'm such a genius do they know who they're dealing with here?
01:47:31.000Do they know who they're dealing with here?
01:47:33.000I pulled this up in two seconds I've read that I read this book like two years ago Anyway, I'm just I don't know who they're messing with bruh.
01:47:42.000They think look I and here's the bottom line I'm more talented than all these people.
01:47:46.000I'm smarter than all these people I know that doesn't sound good, but it's true.
01:48:01.000It elevates the most meek, the most submissive, the best at administrative tasks, the most cunning or clever, and I don't mean that in a good way.
01:48:35.000It says, but it was on British soil, too, that the rationalistic catchwords had one and all sprung up, and their relation to the principles of the Manchester School was intimate.
01:48:48.000Liberty self evidently meant intellectual and trade freedom, an opposition between fact, politics, Politics, enthusiasm for abstract truths was as impossible in the England of George III as it was inevitable in the France of Louis XVI.
01:49:06.000Later, Edmund Burke could retort upon Mirabeau that, We demand our liberties not as rights of man, but as rights of Englishmen.
01:49:15.000France received her revolutionary ideas without exception from England, as she had received the style of her absolute monarchy from Spain.
01:49:23.000To both, she imparted a brilliant and irresistible shape that was taken as a model far and wide over the continent, but if the Employment of either, she had no idea.
01:49:33.000The successful utilization of bourgeois catchwords in politics presupposes the shrewd eye of a ruling class for the intellectual constitution of a stratum which intends to attain power but will not be capable of wielding it when attained.
01:49:48.000Hence, in England it was successful, but it was in England too that money was most unhesitatingly used in politics.
01:49:55.000Not the bribery of individual high personages, which had been customary in the Spanish or Venetian style, but the nursing of Of the democratic forces themselves.
01:50:05.000In 18th century England, first the parliamentary elections and then the decisions of the elected commons were systematically managed by money.
01:50:13.000England, too, discovered the ideal of a free press and discovered along with it that the press serves him who owns it.
01:50:20.000It does not spread free opinion, it generates it.
01:50:24.000Let me see if the next paragraph is relevant here.
01:50:30.000It says, but together constitute liberalism in the broad sense.
01:50:33.000That is, freedom from the restrictions of the soil bound life, be these privileges, forms, or feelings, freedom of the intellect for every kind of criticism, freedom of money for every kind of business, but both to unhesitatingly aim at the domination of a class, a domination which recognizes no overriding supremacy of the state.
01:50:52.000Mind and money, being both inorganic, want the state not as a matured form of high symbolism to be venerated, but as an engine to serve a purpose.
01:51:08.000I think there's something more relevant later on, but it says the most critical passage is it says that basically you have free discussion, but you also have free money inherent in liberalism, to summarize.
01:51:20.000And it says that they use bribery not to bribe high profile people in government, but to nurse democratic forces like the free press.
01:51:36.000You know, the end result, I guess, of the democratic process.
01:51:41.000But they're buying the forces that generate the democratic government.
01:51:45.000They're buying these opinion making, taste making forces that generate the state.
01:51:49.000So they don't even bother, in some cases, to buy the so called high personages in the government, but they're bribing the media, the democratic forces themselves.
01:52:00.000It says, you know, first they buy the elections, and then the decisions of the election were systematically managed by money.
01:52:06.000They discovered the ideal of a free press and discovered that the press.
01:55:18.000It says, Gunpowder and printing belong together, both discovered at the culmination of the Gothic, both arising out of the Germanic technical thought as the two grand means of Faustian distance tactics.
01:55:52.000In the beginning of the civilization, witnessed the first tempest of pamphlets in the autumn of 1788 and the first mass fire of artillery at Valmy.
01:56:01.000I think that's how you pronounce that.
01:56:03.000But with this printed word produced in vast quantity and distributed over enormous areas, it became an uncanny weapon in the hands of him who knew how to use it.
01:56:12.000In France, it was still in 1788 a matter of expressing private convictions, but England was already past that, deliberately seeking to produce impressions on the reader.
01:56:22.000Fly sheet spurious memoirs that was waged from London on French soil against Napoleon is the first great example.
01:56:29.000Today, we live so crowded, or rather so cowed, under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that is required for a clearer view of the monstrous drama.
01:56:43.000The will to power operating under a pure democratic disguise has accomplished its task so well that the object's sense of freedom is actually flattered by the most thoroughgoing enslavement that has ever existed.
01:57:04.000For the multitude, that which is continually read and heard.
01:57:08.000A forlorn little drop may settle somewhere and clad grounds on which to determine the truth, but what it obtains is just its truth.
01:57:15.000The other, the public truth of the moment, which alone matters for effects and successes in the fact world, is today a product of the press.
01:57:30.000Three weeks of press work and the truth is acknowledged by everybody.
01:57:33.000With the political press, is bound up the need of universal school education, which in the classical world was completely lacking.
01:57:40.000In this demand, there is an element quite unconscious of desiring to shepherd the masses as the object of party politics into the newspaper's power area.
01:57:50.000The idealist of the early democracy regarded popular education without some French phrase that I can't read, an enlightenment pure and simple, and even today, one Find here and there weak heads who become enthusiastic on the freedom of the press, but it is precisely this that smooths the paths for the coming Caesars of the world press.
01:58:09.000Those who have learned to read succumb to their power.
01:58:12.000And the visionary self determination of late democracy becomes a thoroughgoing determination of the people by the powers whom the printed word obeys.
01:58:24.000It says the press today is an army with carefully organized arms and branches, with journalists as officers and readers as soldiers.
01:58:34.000But here, as in every army, the soldier obeys blindly, and war aims and operation plans change without his knowledge.
01:58:40.000The reader neither knows nor is allowed to know the purposes for which he is used, nor even the role that he is to play.
01:58:46.000A more appalling caricature of freedom of thought cannot be imagined.
01:58:50.000Formerly, a man did not dare to think freely.
01:59:26.000If in the world of truths it is proof that decides all, in that of facts it is success, success means that one being triumphs over the other.
01:59:34.000Life has won through, and the dreams of the world improvers have turned out to be but the tools of master natures.
01:59:40.000In the late democracy, race bursts forth and either makes ideals its slaves or throws them scornfully into the pit.
01:59:46.000It was so too in Egyptian Thebes and Rome and China, but no other civilization has the will to power manifested in so inexorable a form as this of ours.
01:59:56.000The thought, and consequently the action of the mass, are kept under iron pressure, for which reason, and for which reason only, men are permitted to be readers and voters, that is, in a dual slavery, while the parties become the obedient retinues of a few, and the shadow of coming Caesarism already touches them.
02:00:14.000Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer.
02:01:01.000I'm not going to be a little disappointed, but you get the picture.
02:01:09.000You know, to sort of summarize all of that, what it means is that, you know, what we're up against is this ruling elite, right, that is controlling the population with these.
02:01:21.000And the reason that it's almost impossible to defeat them is because money equals press and press equals political control.
02:01:29.000I mean, that's the bottom line of that lengthy and sort of complicated passage, very dense reading, and there's some, you know, rough areas where the translation is sort of tough between German and English.
02:01:42.000But the gist of it is this democracy allows the triumph of free speech and free money, you know, free expression and the free movement of business and trade and all that.
02:01:51.000And what it does is empower these interests and empower certain individuals even above the state.
02:01:57.000Insofar as an individual like a George Soros or a Warren Buffett or a Jeff Bezos can command large amounts of capital, they can subvert the authority of the state.
02:02:07.000And what they fund, they don't bribe politicians in the government, which would make the government sovereign, but maybe they answer to these oligarchs or these plutocrats.
02:02:16.000But instead, they manipulate the forces that generate the democracy.
02:02:20.000They manipulate the forces of democracy itself through the press, the voters, and the readers.
02:02:28.000Money equals your market share of the print market, and increasingly now in media, in terms of obviously mass media, mass communications technology, radio, television, internet.
02:02:39.000The more money you have, the more of a megaphone that you have, right?
02:02:44.000And the more of a platform you have, the bigger your microphone is.
02:02:48.000The bigger your microphone, the wider your reach.
02:02:51.000And as it says in this book, you know, people don't think you only have this public truth.
02:02:56.000You have what is repeated, what is heard over and over again, which you reach some kind of consensus through this sort of media programming.
02:03:02.000And that is this public truth at the moment.
02:03:05.000That is this democratic force, which then inspires the movements and the political.
02:03:15.000And so, so long as the billionaires control the media, as long as the billionaires are funding all the people that get to peddle these lies, it really doesn't matter.
02:04:25.000I can only say so much, but, you know, so long as we can't fund as many engagements, so long as we're relying on these guerrilla homemade tactics, you know, there's only so much impact we can make.
02:04:37.000But anyway, so that's all from Decline of the West by Spengler.
02:05:02.000Maybe we can have a miracle and we can win.
02:05:04.000But, gotta tell you, sometimes you look around at what's going on with these people, Stefan and all these others, and you gotta wonder, oh, I don't know.
02:06:58.000You know, the Suravich tweet's actually not bad.
02:07:01.000I ignored Nick Fuentes, way too offensive.
02:07:04.000Until a member of Congress attacked all viewers.
02:07:06.000These guys begged to go on CNN, sit down with the abortion doctor, go on Al Jazeera, you blast everyone who watches Fuentes, Congress should be better.
02:07:14.000You know, if people say I'm too offensive, it's like, I think the sanctimony is gay, but, you know, if this is the message, I'm fine with that.
02:07:23.000You know, like Alex Jones said the same thing.
02:07:25.000He said, oh, the joke was distasteful, and I think that's pretend, and I think that's, you know, he has a right to say that, and I think Cernovich has a right to do that.
02:07:33.000I think there are tactical reasons for doing this, and I don't oppose it, but, you know, fundamentally, that's the right message.
02:07:40.000So, this is actually a great frame for what we've been talking about.
02:07:44.000I would, yeah, I would normally not include something like that.
02:07:47.000I think that's, you know, Serves a clear tactical purpose, even though it's silly.