00:00:35.000I did reach out to him on Friday, and we originally planned for Monday, but it turned out that he had some kind of a prior engagement with his church, which we respect.
00:01:06.000And as we talked about the week before, remember, if you go to my PayPal, if you send me money and you leave a note that you want me to buy a certain book, I will buy it.
00:04:23.000Got to buy the IMAX ticket, but I'm like, okay.
00:04:26.000You know, because I was reading in Richard Roper's review of the movie in the Chicago Tribune, he said that you want to see it on the biggest screen possible.
00:07:08.000Like an art house for me, you know, no dialogue, no character development.
00:07:13.000It was really just more of a visual thing.
00:07:16.000So I guess Blade Runner was better than Dunkirk, not as good as Boss Baby, but definitely one of the best of the year.
00:07:21.000I highly recommend people to go see it.
00:07:24.000Normally, I'm against Hollywood, pop culture, that sort of thing, but if you get something out of it, I think it's worth it.
00:07:30.000I don't want to go too much into spoilers about the movie, but the message, I believe, I don't know if I'm getting this right or not, but the message was basically an existentialist message.
00:08:03.000Very, you know, hits hard, hits at home, because this is the clown world that we live in, where nothing is authentic, everything's fake and artificial.
00:08:12.000But through his struggle, through his revolutionary struggle, he creates meaning for himself and his life.
00:08:19.000Very Nietzschean, very existentialist in that.
00:10:05.000The other thing I saw today, and I'll get into more broadly what I want to talk about today, because I know we've been fixated on this Israel thing for a long time, but I got one more thing to say about it.
00:10:17.000Before, or rather, yeah, before we get into the main thing, which what I want to talk about today is President Trump's strategy for 2018.
00:10:26.000We're hearing a lot of stuff from Bannon.
00:10:41.000I want to get into what the strategy is for 2018, what we're looking at, what our prospects are for the remainder of this presidency and onward.
00:10:51.000But before we get into that, I want to talk about something I saw on Twitter today.
00:12:27.000He's in his office, and he says the gist of it was basically that the foreign minister of Iran tweeted the other day that all boys and girls in Iran.
00:12:41.000Are in their heart members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
00:12:45.000And of course, this is in response to President Trump, who is putting sanctions or wants to put sanctions on the IRGC, which is the paramilitary wing controlled by the supreme leader, by Ayatollah Khamenei in Iran.
00:12:59.000They do sponsor terrorist activities, they do sponsor extraterritorial adventures in the Middle East and elsewhere.
00:13:06.000And so, President Trump, as part of amending the Iranian nuclear deal, So that he can certify it in the next 60 days.
00:13:14.000He wants to see sanctions put on that group so they cease their activities, so they cease their extra legal activities in the international community.
00:13:25.000And so, Bibi Netanyahu tweeted about that tweet by the foreign minister that he doesn't see regular, everyday Iranians as the IRGC.
00:13:34.000He says, How could the Iranian foreign minister compare the innocent boys and girls of Iran to the IRGC, which blows up?
00:13:44.000Poor Jewish children and they're terrorists and they're evil.
00:13:48.000And Bibi Netanyahu says that he thinks better of the Iranians than their own leaders because he knows that deep down in the hearts of the Iranian people, they don't support the dictatorial regime established by the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
00:14:04.000And they don't support, in Netanyahu's words, the Iranian ISIS, which is the IRGC.
00:14:11.000And he tells finally, here's the best part here's the rich.
00:14:15.000Final part, he tells the Iranian foreign minister in neoliberal clown world fashion to delete your account.
00:14:26.000And if you understand what happened in 2003, if you understand what's been going on in the Middle East for 30 years, you see some very disturbing, very troubling strains and subtext in a video like this.
00:14:44.000Number one, this is designed, obviously, beyond a shadow of a doubt, Anybody with eyes can see this.
00:14:49.000This is designed for American consumption, Western consumption at large, but in particular American consumption.
00:14:57.000Why else would BB Netanyahu make a video in American English using Western internet slang?
00:15:04.000Delete your account, for example, using the sympathy card of terrorism, using the freedom card of Iranians are freedom loving people, they're oppressed.
00:15:12.000This is obviously designed for American consumption.
00:15:16.000Now, before we get into any of the details, Anything where anybody can quibble with, you know, analysis or assessments of the facts, or, you know, are you reading too much into it?
00:15:26.000From the very beginning, I think everybody can agree, if you're an American, that this is troubling because this prime minister, this foreign head of state, is making an overture to the American public.
00:15:37.000And you have to ask yourself why that is.
00:15:39.000You have to ask yourself, why is a foreign head of state hundreds, thousands of miles away from us making essentially English language propaganda for our people?
00:15:50.000When Russia does it with their Russia Today outlet, which speaks English, and everyone accuses them of meddling in the election, it's an assault on democracy.
00:16:06.000But when Israel, when the foreign head of state, B.B. Netanyahu makes an English language video calling Americans in their native tongue to be sympathetic to the plight of the Jewish people and the plight of Israel's geostrategy.
00:16:21.000There's something very off about that.
00:16:22.000There's something very troubling about that.
00:16:24.000And if you don't think so, you have to at least ask yourself why he's making those videos?
00:17:00.000But what you see in Bibi Netanyahu's statement is the projection of Western values onto non Western people.
00:17:07.000The Persian people, and we know they are Muslims, we know they are Shiite Muslims, but the Persian people in particular have a long history, a long heritage.
00:17:18.000A long history of customs, of language.
00:17:20.000They speak Farsi, unlike any other country in the region, that is not Arab, that is not Muslim in the traditional sense, that is not Turkish or Mongolian in its influence, like the rest of the Arab world.
00:17:34.000It is something separate and unique, and it is a very closed society.
00:17:40.000They love their people, they love their culture, and ultimately they are patriots for their government, whether or not they think it's tyrannical or illiberal.
00:17:49.000There was an uprising in 2009 called the Green Revolution.
00:18:53.000As we stated, number one and number two, this is where it becomes a problem.
00:18:57.000If Netanyahu wants to complain about Iranian terrorism against the Jewish people, by all means, you have a right to defend your own people.
00:19:07.000You have an obligation, I would say, a responsibility to bring attention to the suffering of your people and the interests of your people.
00:19:16.000But when you marry that concern for your people, this obligation to your people, with the aforementioned two pieces, which is number one, Intended for a Western audience.
00:19:27.000Number two, projecting Western concerns and strategy onto something that is totally irrelevant.
00:19:34.000That's when the third part becomes malicious.
00:19:37.000Fine and well if Bibi Netanyahu wants to go before the UN General Assembly and tell the world in his native language about what Iran is doing, how it's hurting their interests, and why people should act.
00:19:50.000But when you manipulate that and you turn it into propaganda and you say these things disingenuously, he says that Iran, international sponsor of terrorism.
00:19:59.000There have been no Iranian sponsored terror attacks in the United States.
00:20:53.000I see American patriots retweeting it, and it's just very troubling to me.
00:20:57.000It would be a real shame if we were to go to war again in Iran.
00:21:01.000It'd be a real shame if we were to spend another $6 to $10 trillion, another 10,000 innocent American lives in the desert.
00:21:12.000For something that we have no interest in, for something that we have no stake in the matter.
00:21:17.000And it looks like we're heading down that path again.
00:21:20.000I don't know if President Trump is convinced.
00:21:23.000I don't know if President Trump will be led down that road.
00:21:25.000I really don't believe he would be susceptible to that.
00:21:28.000But every time we see this kind of behavior from Israel, every time we see this kind of propaganda, because that's what it is this disingenuous propaganda from foreign states, whether it's Russia, whether it's China, Saudi Arabia, Or even Qatar with Al Jazeera or Israel.
00:22:00.000Hopefully, we can put that to bed for now on this show.
00:22:03.000What I really want to talk about, what I really want to get into today, is this strategy with Steve Bannon's civil war against the GOP establishment and what this means for the remainder of President Trump's.
00:22:16.000I've seen a lot of people blackpilling about President Trump.
00:22:20.000Leading the charge are people on the alt right and Coulter on the side of the conservatives.
00:22:26.000I understand where the blackpilling comes from.
00:22:28.000I understand where it comes from that people are pessimistic about President Trump's potential to save the country and to address the immigration issue in the next two years, or rather three years, that remains in his first term.
00:22:44.000And that's assuming he'll have a second term or whatever.
00:22:48.000I understand where they're coming from.
00:22:54.000We were burned by McCain, Romney, and on and on and on.
00:22:57.000We've not really had a president that's defended our interests since 1963, since Jack Kennedy.
00:23:03.000So I understand where it comes from that people might be skeptical of this president or eager maybe not eager is probably not the word but might be quick or reluctant to trust that we're going in the right way, reluctant to have faith that we are on the right course.
00:23:20.000But I think if you look at this strategy that's unfolding before our eyes and has been unfolding before our eyes in the past two or three months, and I think will continue to play out in the next two or three months, I think it's important to analyze the facts and really look at what's going on here.
00:23:36.000Now, what prompted this was last night, Mark Meadows, the representative from North Carolina, he's the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus.
00:23:44.000He came out and he basically said that it's time to go.
00:23:47.000All the congressmen who don't support the president.
00:23:51.000In the House and in the Senate, all the GOP leadership that is not supporting the president's agenda, not voting with the president, it's time for the voters to remove them from Congress.
00:24:01.000Now, if you'll recall, Mark Meadows was the leader of the first resistance to the first health care bill.
00:24:08.000Early on in President Trump's term, when he just got inaugurated and they were looking at the American Health Care Act to replace the Affordable Health Care Act, Mark Meadows, leading the House Freedom Caucus, led the charge to.
00:24:22.000Force President Trump to remove the American Health Care Act from the agenda and not get it voted on and ultimately not get it passed.
00:24:29.000This was kind of like the first embarrassment, the first humiliation of this administration that they weren't able to get this passed.
00:24:37.000And so now, Mark Meadows, it's sort of a change of pace because you saw initially that Mark Meadows was one of these people who didn't support the president's agenda, who led his coalition in the House and in the Senate to not support the president's agenda.
00:24:50.000And just six months later, he comes out and says very conveniently, After Steve Bannon declares war on the GOP establishment, that all the rank and file GOP members, all the establishment out of touch globalists in the establishment not supporting President Trump should be removed by the voters.
00:25:09.000I think his history with this president demonstrates the effectiveness already and some of what we will see in the next three months with Steve Bannon and President Trump's strategy.
00:25:21.000And you remember that a couple of weeks ago, Steve Bannon announced that there would be an all out war that he's declaring with Breitbart.
00:25:27.000And with his allies in the media against the GOP establishment.
00:25:31.000I think Mark Meadows shows how effective this is going to be and how effective it already is.
00:25:36.000And I laid out some points last night as to why I think that, which is number one, what you're going to see in the next three to six months as we get into the GOP primary season, and that'll last from spring to the summer, from the earliest primaries to the latest primaries.
00:25:52.000Number one is Steve Bannon will be running candidates directly against the GOP establishment.
00:26:00.000Tennessee, Alabama, Arizona, and a few other states.
00:26:04.000He's directly running several candidates.
00:26:06.000One of them was Judge Roy Moore in the Alabama Republican primary, and there are many others across the country that he's running directly, giving funding, pushing them on Breitbart, using his connections in the Republican Party, and certainly that he's gained from the White House.
00:26:22.000The weakest links will be targeted, will be sought after by Steve Bannon directly, that he'll be challenging.
00:26:29.000That's one of the smartest parts about it, because If he's going after these people directly, if in a word he's concentrating his forces, he has an advantage that the entire GOP establishment cannot respond to, which is that he can concentrate.
00:26:44.000He doesn't have to defend 230 congressional seats like the GOP establishment does.
00:26:50.000He doesn't have to defend 50 Senate seats like the GOP establishment does.
00:26:55.000He can focus directly, him with his resources, with his media machine, on five or six or seven races.
00:27:03.000And dedicate himself and his team solely to those.
00:27:05.000So, those candidates will have money, they will have strategy, they will have top notch connections, and ultimately the GOP establishment will not have that same coordination.
00:27:15.000They can't dedicate money to everybody that's running, and certainly not to 10 or 15 safe seats when they have battleground seats they have to defend and fight to win for.
00:27:26.000Is Bannon going after directly the weakest links in the GOP establishment ranks, the so called safe seats?
00:27:33.000It's brilliant right out of the gate because the GOP establishment cannot afford.
00:27:38.000To do both, to win battleground states like Missouri and others, and also to win safe seats that Bannon is concentrating on.
00:27:47.000Number two is Bannon will inspire other people to run.
00:27:50.000He's got a finite amount of resources financial, logistical, in terms of staffing, media attention, and everything else.
00:27:57.000But what Bannon can do, and what he's demonstrated to do in Alabama, is inspire other people to take it up and run against safe seats in their districts and their states by themselves.
00:28:08.000When Steve Bannon ran against Luther Strange in Alabama, In Alabama, or rather, he ran Judge Roy Moore against Luther Strange in Alabama.
00:28:17.000Consider he was up against President Trump's endorsement.
00:28:20.000President Trump himself went down to Huntsville, Alabama, to give a big rally for Luther Strange.
00:28:28.000He talked about him all day long, gave him his full throat and endorsement, and he lost.
00:28:32.000Luther Strange lost, even with the endorsement of the president, even with the endorsement of the GOP establishment and millions and millions of dollars from the coffers of the Republican National Committee.
00:28:43.000What Steve Bannon demonstrated in Moses like fashion was that it is possible.
00:28:55.000And so, in addition to him challenging people directly and winning these races, secondarily, he's inspiring other people in Wisconsin, in other states, in Missouri, in California, you see it already, for people to find their own funding, to find their own team, to find their own media backing, and launch their own bids.
00:29:12.000And here's the beauty of that part it doesn't even have to be, it doesn't even have to come close to winning.
00:29:28.000The very fact that you have an uprising, that you have a revolt, that you have an option on every congressional race for every seat that the Republicans are defending, what this does, and it compounds the effect of the previous part, the direct campaigns, is it forces the Republican National Committee to spread their resources in even more of a thin manner, to spread them even thinner across the country.
00:29:52.000Steve Bannon can challenge maybe seven people, but imagine if for every one race, Steve Bannon inspires five, five other challengers to launch a primary bid against Republican safe seats.
00:30:06.000The Republicans don't have $350 million to spend on 2018 to spread out in addition to battleground states, in addition to risky seats and everything else.
00:30:22.000Thirdly, what you're going to see is that as People lose faith in Mitch McConnell as people become terrified of this machine, as they understand that Steve Bannon has the money, he's nuts, he's going to do this.
00:30:35.000People all over the country will rise up against the establishment.
00:30:39.000The beauty of this, the beauty, the genius of this plan is that by virtue of the previous two effects, the third effect is that people that are in the Republican establishment will jump ship from the Mitch McConnell ship, whatever, they'll jump ship with Mitch McConnell and they'll join President Trump.
00:31:00.000And not only will they jump ship with Mitch McConnell, not only will they say, Oh my God, I don't want to fight Bannon.
00:31:07.000I don't care what Mitch McConnell has to offer me.
00:31:10.000I'm going to side with the president to be spared from this genocide, from this GOP genocide.
00:31:16.000Not only will they jump ship, but the fourth effect is that when they jump ship in the coming six months, they will vote with President Trump on border wall funding.
00:31:25.000They will vote with President Trump on health care reform in March.
00:31:28.000They will vote with President Trump on tax reform.
00:31:31.000And all of this will have a Reciprocal and compounding effect.
00:31:36.000If you're looking at how from point number one to point number four, all of these things affect each other and strengthen each other in reciprocal ways.
00:31:45.000As people are jumping ship for McConnell and they join President Trump, they will start to vote with President Trump.
00:31:51.000And as they vote for President Trump, President Trump will get things passed.
00:31:55.000And in the eyes of the GOP voter, you'll see President Trump gain insane legitimacy versus Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell.
00:32:05.000Whereas Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell now owned the failures of health care, of immigration, of DACA, of tax reform, of everything else, from Sean Hannity to Mark Levin to Rush Limbaugh to whoever you want to talk to, the GOP establishment, the GOP congressional leadership owns Republican failures.
00:32:24.000As people jump ship from the establishment and they join President Trump, and President Trump gets to say, look, I passed tax reform.
00:32:34.000Look, I got another $15 billion for wall funding, that will only strengthen his hand.
00:32:39.000Going into the midterms, because you'll have the Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell candidates, and then you'll have the President Trump candidates.
00:32:46.000And not only can President Trump say, I'm not them, he can also say, I'm not them, and look at all these things I passed with this Congress that I'm smashing.
00:33:10.000When he released Steve Bannon, how he released Steve Bannon, and that he released Gorka as well.
00:33:16.000A lot of people freaked out about that.
00:33:18.000A lot of people got really blackpilled that Stephen Miller's really the only one left in the West Wing that's super right wing, that's still our guy.
00:33:27.000But I said from the beginning no, no, there is a plan here.
00:33:30.000Everything that Steve Bannon is doing, everything that we just talked about that Steve Bannon is capable of doing if he plays his hand right, he could not accomplish in the West Wing.
00:33:39.000He could not accomplish as somebody inside the White House.
00:33:44.000When you're in the White House, there is a certain degree of decorum.
00:33:48.000There is a certain degree of, I suppose, the what do you call it?
00:33:56.000President Trump can say that he truly was ignorant to what Steve Bannon was doing.
00:34:01.000He can't say that, you know, if Steve Bannon worked directly for President Trump, President Trump couldn't play both sides and say, well, Mitch McConnell's a good friend of mine and I welcome people to join my team, and also have Steve Bannon working directly under him as his chief strategy advisor.
00:34:18.000Launching a guerrilla war against every GOP establishment safe seat in the country.
00:34:45.000So that's what will happen, I think, for the midterms.
00:34:48.000And I believe that this entire two years, maybe not.
00:34:52.000Maybe it didn't start out this way, but I think it's slowly evolved to this point that President Trump is not really playing for this first two years.
00:35:00.000I don't really think he's going for the issues, going for policy, busting people's balls on Capitol Hill.
00:35:07.000I think his overarching, his grand strategy is to strengthen his hand electorally, strengthen his hand in the Congress, so that in 2018 to 2020, he can pass everything he wants.
00:35:20.000He'll play it sort of both ways in the meantime.
00:35:24.000I think more as a circus, more as a charade to say, you know, look what's going on at the federal level.
00:35:29.000Meanwhile, things are going on at the state level that'll be far more impactful in 2018.
00:35:34.000But then, by the same token, you know, as we talked about with number three and number four, as he's waging this war electorally and on Congress, people will jump ship and they'll start to join his agenda.
00:35:45.000So I think all along, this has been a very indirect route.
00:35:49.000It's been a very strategic and indirect route that people have not been willing to see, have not been willing to analyze.
00:35:56.000Because there's so much media noise from.
00:35:59.000You know, whether it's the print media, whether it's the New York Times or Washington Post, or it's the online media or television that says this is a chaos White House.
00:36:19.000The GOP establishment is not freaking out.
00:36:22.000That on the ground, forces are underway for a real political revolution, right?
00:36:29.000President Trump won an election in 2016.
00:36:31.000In 2018, there will be the infrastructure.
00:36:35.000There will be the numbers in the Congress and in the Senate to get what he wants done.
00:36:39.000So I think it's all been this long term, this long game setup for a grand slam in 2018 to 2020.
00:36:47.000And if President Trump runs for a second term and if he wins his, if there's even going to be a primary or whatever, if he gets a second term, then you will see some serious, serious reform.
00:36:58.000If it doesn't get passed, In the next two years, you'll see things like the RAISE Act.
00:37:03.000You'll see things like I think we've never even thought possible.
00:37:06.000But as I've watched what's going on, I've realized slowly but surely that this is the only way that it could have been done.
00:37:13.000This is the only way that you could have done this.
00:37:15.000People will say this is like a 4D chess theory.
00:37:19.000This is like, oh, it's underwater or 45D chess backgammon.
00:37:27.000If you look at what's going on in the country, if you look at how things move in this country in terms of who pulls the levers of power, It's not so simple as we win the presidential election and now everything changes.
00:37:49.000But if you really look at who pulls the levers of power here, you understand that President Trump could have fought and fought and fought and wasted all his time and all his energy trying to get congressional leaders on his own party to vote for things that he wants.
00:38:26.000I mean, we'd look at the trade deals and they'd come out moderately better than they were before, but they'd remain.
00:38:33.000And President Trump would have been an abject failure.
00:38:37.000So, as hard as he could have fought to get these things passed directly, as hard as he could have fought to actually pass policy and start on the border wall immediately, as soon as possible, in the fastest way, in the most direct way, it would have sucked.
00:38:54.000It would have been impossible to get as much as we needed.
00:38:57.000And the stuff that we could have come up with would have been a Herculean effort and for nothing in the long term.
00:39:04.000What President Trump is doing is attacking it at the root of the problem, which is.
00:39:09.000This swamp, which is the corruption, the establishment that controls the Congress.
00:39:14.000If you have Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, and all these other people that are outright hostile, downright hostile to the intentions and the wishes and the agenda of the president, it doesn't matter.
00:39:27.000All these people are like, he could just figure it out.
00:39:29.000And he's figured out a pretty genius way, the most forward thinking strategy since Richard Nixon.
00:40:01.000And they're having a heart attack and they want to start putting out the fire before they, I don't know, take their beta blockers or whatever prevents a heart attack.
00:40:10.000So you got to look at the bigger picture.
00:40:13.000That's a big thing people have to look at.
00:40:15.000Ann Coulter, she posts every day border wall progress zero, next update tomorrow.
00:40:19.000And you know, while I get the rhetorical benefit of that, that you're keeping the president motivated, I think it's very silly for people to think that he's forgotten his promises or he won't deliver or he suddenly doesn't care.
00:40:32.000It just is offensive to common sense when people say this.
00:40:37.000If you watch the interviews that President Trump's been doing about politics since 1979, he's been saying the same things.
00:40:46.000Close the border, end the trade deals, end foreign wars, reform taxes for the middle class.
00:41:00.000So, he's been saying the same political program for 38 years.
00:41:05.000He put his entire life on the line, his entire fortune, his reputation, his legacy, his television show, his fame, his connections, his friends, even probably.
00:41:26.000He's put them subject to ridicule to an eternity, essentially, if he doesn't win, of infamy that is negative, that is not good, that is humiliating, so that he could run for president.
00:41:39.000And there was no guarantee that he would win, right?
00:41:41.000I mean, when he announced, he was not at the top of the polls.
00:41:45.000It wasn't until after he didn't back down from his announcement speech that he climbed in the polls.
00:41:52.000There was no guarantee that that would last, that that didn't have a ceiling, that that would endure through the primaries, or that he would win the general election, even if he won the nomination.
00:42:03.000So, when he announced his campaign and when he went on this scorched earth campaign and he ruined his reputation and he put everything aside, there was no guarantee that it would be the president.
00:42:13.000And finally, he wins in the most historic victory that we've ever seen, that I've ever seen in my lifetime, probably that I will ever see in my lifetime.
00:42:21.000He gets into the White House, he has a real opportunity.
00:42:24.000To change things that he's been wanting to change for 38 years.
00:42:28.000And the alt right tells us, and Coulter, the conservatives tell us that he has done a complete 180 degree on all of that.
00:43:00.000There is not a single convincing reason that they give for this.
00:43:03.000They say he liked the positive media coverage when he worked with the Democrats to fund the government and to give hurricane relief.
00:43:10.000Okay, so you're telling me this guy's deepest political and philosophical convictions for 40 years, his entire life, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, he said, no, screw all of that because New York Times was slightly less vindictive in their coverage of me.
00:43:28.000When I made this deal with Democrats, you think you're smarter than the president?
00:43:31.000You think he doesn't see that the media hates him?
00:43:33.000You think he doesn't see that that was a temporary thing?
00:43:36.000You think you're smarter than President Trump, who won the election?
00:43:41.000You think, well, not even that, but you think you know that and he's not aware of that?
00:43:45.000You think he is not aware that that was a transient thing?
00:44:02.000How these memes that are funny, that are destructive because they're based in ridicule, like calling somebody Bill Mitchell or using 4D chess and all the other things, how people will substitute a meme for thinking.
00:44:16.000They will substitute a meme for analysis of what's actually happening.
00:44:21.000Because every time I talk about this stuff, every time I talk about a congressional strategy, an electoral strategy that's being played out, people tell me, oh, what are you, Bill Mitchell?
00:44:47.000So I get really pissed off about that kind of thing because if anybody's really looking at it and trying to make sense out of it, this picture becomes very clear.
00:44:56.000And it kind of hurts me because you see that Trump is the only one really making a huge sacrifice.
00:45:01.000He's probably making, out of everybody that's in this movement, The biggest sacrifice.
00:45:07.000People might, you know, maybe I'll get flack for that because, oh, well, he's rich and he's in the White House and all of that.
00:45:13.000President Trump is literally putting his life on the line.
00:45:22.000He put, you know, and I don't even know if you could measure a sacrifice by if you give up nothing to pursue a career.
00:45:28.000You know, like some people who didn't have a whole lot going for them said, you know what, screw it, I'm just going to become this revolutionary.
00:45:36.000President Trump had so much going for him, and he said, No, I will push that all away.
00:45:46.000He took it up as a job for four years, and to get scrutinized and all the rest, it really does hurt me when people say that that's a trivial component of that.
00:45:56.000I really think people underestimate what a personal investment many people in the country have made in this president and what this president has made in this country.
00:48:01.000They wanted me to come talk to them on Discord, jump in and tell them what I do, my podcast, give them some advice and everything.
00:48:09.000And one of them, it really did warm my heart.
00:48:12.000One of them, he watched the show later and he dropped in a dollar and he left some kind of a comment and he DM'd me and he was like, oh, I was the one that donated that dollar.
00:49:40.000One of these days, I'm going to get organized.
00:49:42.000I keep saying it, but I got to get on that.
00:49:45.000It's just, it's hard to motivate myself because, you know, just to do anything anymore, the monotony, the clown world, it's just very isolating to be in this movement.
00:51:34.000Now that I got my sip of water in me, here's the thing.
00:51:39.000You understand that the goals, the policies of economic nationalism are indistinguishable from what needs to be done to achieve white nationalism.
00:51:51.000That's not to make a judgment call on white nationalism.
00:51:53.000Not to say I'm not a white nationalist.
00:51:55.000Not to say I support that or anything like that.
00:51:58.000However, if you are white nationalist leaning, if you have these sympathies, look at what it would take.
00:52:48.000This number, this rate of displacement, is the result of two variables.
00:52:53.000Number one is the rate at which new natives are coming into the world, which is Births and also the death rate, but that's not a whole lot you could do about that.
00:53:02.000And the number two, the second variable, is the foreign birth rate or the number of foreign people, which is influenced by immigration, the foreign born birth rate.
00:53:10.000To rectify our demographic situation, we have to boost this native birth rate, decrease the foreign birth rate.
00:53:18.000Now, if you look at some of these programs here, some of these procedures, which are tax reform for the middle class, incentivizing marriage, incentivizing home ownership, wealth building, saving, higher interest rates.
00:54:35.000That's easily 11 to 30 million people between self deportation and regular deportation.
00:54:40.000And even if you go after regular welfare, You'll decrease the foreign born birth rate of legal people that are here, not even counting illegals.
00:54:47.000So, when we look at what needs to be done to solve the demographic problem, guys, it's identical to what economic nationalists want to do.
00:54:55.000That's why it's so silly to me that people want to not care about optics, that people think, well, you know, your optics cucking if you don't talk about things explicitly.
00:55:06.000Here's the thing what needs to be done requires no talk, no talk of Heidegger.
00:55:13.000Or equality or IQ or anything like that.
00:55:18.000Economic nationalism is something that is palatable to every Republican voter.
00:55:23.000And in consequence, in effect, what it does effectively is no different than what white nationalists would do to achieve their goals.
00:55:31.000So that's what I would say look at the policies, look at what it entails.
00:55:35.000You might not like the rhetoric, it might not say everything you like, it might not say everything the way you'd like it to be said.
00:55:58.000The rhetoric to someone who knows the truth about what's going on, it sort of hurts you a little bit because it's like Uncle Steve, it looks like he's with the rest of them.
00:56:10.000He could come right out and say what he means or what the effect would be of his policies.
00:56:16.000Or he could be like the Democrats or other subversive internationalist elements in the country and just tell you different things and mean other things.
00:56:48.000People must recognize Bannon's concept of economic nationalism as the logical, palatable starting point for overthrowing the Beltway right.
00:57:07.000People think that if we talk, if we say crazy, outrageous stuff on Twitter.com, that, whoa, everyone will change their minds and they'll vote.
00:57:19.000For a party that doesn't exist, that has no infrastructure.
00:57:51.000Unless you're planning on overthrowing the federal government, unless you have a million man army that has technologically achieved technological parity with the Defense Department of the United States, you have to win elections.
00:58:08.000If you want to win elections, you need to win people over.
00:58:22.000It kills me to see so many smart people who know what's going on and yet they take a saw and cut off their own legs and they bleed out on the pages of 4chan, on the forums of 4chan, and at least they didn't cuck.
00:58:39.000They're no better than Bill Crystal, in my humble opinion, no better than Bill Crystal.
00:58:45.000You know, these armchair generals who want to preach and yell and they want to rhapsodize about their principles and everything else and they don't want to do anything.
00:59:14.000And another thing this is unrelated, pick unrelated, but this is just something I've noticed in general.
00:59:20.000How many people on the nationalist right who care so much about nationalism, they quote Oswald Mosley and other nationalists.
00:59:30.000They quote Oswald Mosley, Mussolini, other nationalists all day long about how important it is national sovereignty, tradition, culture, and everything else.
00:59:40.000And then it's just, guys, it troubles me.
00:59:43.000It troubles my mind when I hear this stuff.
00:59:46.000The nation is important, history is important, tradition, ancestry, culture, ritual is important.
01:00:07.000They say to hell with the Star Spangled Banner and the American flag, to hell with the patriotards they call them.
01:00:15.000It's like we have one clown world, and then everybody was so sick of that one that they opened the door, left, and then they went to work constructing their own clown world.
01:01:03.000You shouldn't have to say these things, but it's like you do.
01:01:06.000I mean, I would have many, many nickels if I had a nickel for every time that someone on the alt right or someone on the fringe, and this is not, by the way, notice this is not, nobody tell me, nobody better tell me that I'm counter signaling here because I'm not.
01:01:24.000Totally different to counter signal on content versus tactics.
01:01:28.000Tactics is something that must be discussed.
01:01:31.000Counter signaling someone on ideology, that's what Ben Sass does.
01:01:34.000But you notice when some of these people on the fringe right, Back to my analogy about nickels.
01:01:41.000You've never heard this before, but if I had a nickel every time for someone on the alt right or the fringe right talked about Europe, instead of taking the opportunity to talk about America, what really was America, I'd be a rich man.
01:01:55.000And if I had a nickel for every time I heard someone on the fringe right talk about America and its exceptionalism and its traditions, I would have no nickels.
01:02:49.000Or what about if you gave him something that was subtextually white nationalist, but had overtones of Thoreau, self reliance, Walden, things like this?
01:03:21.000I think it'll be a good moment because it'll demonstrate.
01:03:24.000The one thing that I will say, I was critical on Saturday of the optics, but the one thing that I will say is when they go and they do these events, what they do for people who are interested in politics, I think it does have the effect of red pilling people because they see that Florida is declaring a state of emergency because Spencer is speaking.
01:03:44.000They're demonstrating that their ideas are dangerous.
01:03:47.000They're demonstrating that their ideas are really edgy and really.
01:03:53.000When the New York Times and Washington Post talk about the truth, like it's difficult and it's hard to attain, when Spencer rolls up to Florida and he has to have, like, the cost millions of dollars to secure an event, it just goes to demonstrate maybe there's something to that.
01:04:25.000As on the one hand, I critique about tactics and people say you're counter signaling, and then I say I don't want to counter signal, and people say you're cucking, give them hell, give them a criticism.
01:04:36.000But when I critique the tactics, I don't mean to degrade the sacrifices that people make.
01:04:42.000I don't mean to degrade the work that people are doing.
01:04:44.000I don't mean to get on my high horse and take a dump on things that people are out there doing activism and thinking and trying to solve problems.
01:06:45.000But that's really not a letter or like an intonation that we hear in the American English language.
01:06:52.000But so, yeah, no, and if you've even read A.J.P. Taylor, who is an historian, super anti German historian nonetheless, but an historian, he said that National Socialism was the fulfillment essentially of German history, that German culture, the German people could only have produced something like National Socialism.
01:07:18.000And Only the German people could do it, and it was uniquely German.
01:07:24.000If you break it down for what it was and how it functioned, that is something that was unique to Germany.
01:07:29.000And traditionalism has it that every country must have something that is fitted to their traditions.
01:07:35.000And in America, this will be influenced by the founding fathers, this will be influenced by the transcendentalist philosophies of Thoreau, of others, I'm blanking on Emerson.
01:07:49.000On the rugged individualists, and on and on, you know, and we have something worth preserving in America.
01:07:54.000It didn't start to get paused until like 1910.
01:07:57.000I mean, that's when it originated, it didn't become widespread or mainstream until the 70s.
01:09:35.000Your destiny is to go into college to be some student ID number, to study a class number, and you come out with a numbered degree, and you go and you live in a little shoebox in a tall building on some street in some glass tower, and you work and you do meaningless work for your entire life, selling magazines or selling trinkets to people who don't want them.
01:10:01.000And we're taught that nothing that we do matters.