00:00:36.000But we are back today after the primaries last night with some results, with some conclusions about what we saw in terms of turnout and who won and who lost, who's going to be facing off in the general.
00:00:50.000Generally, it's a white pill on the California primary.
00:00:54.000So we'll be looking at all those numbers.
00:01:00.000We're talking about everything that that represents for the country.
00:01:04.000In 2018, and we're going to think about the people that died at D Day 74 years ago and why they were fighting and what they would think of what they fought for today.
00:01:16.000So it's going to be a jam packed episode.
00:01:19.000It'll be a pretty full show, pretty fun show.
00:01:22.000There's no desk talk today, no sleep schedule talk.
00:01:26.000Unbelievably, I'm talking the other day.
00:01:30.000Monday, I talk about my desk, and people are commenting, Nobody wants to hear about your desk, Nick.
00:01:36.000We just want to hear about the content.
00:01:38.000I complained about these sentiments yesterday.
00:01:40.000Somebody leaves a comment on the video yesterday and they say, Nick, I love you, but you got to stop wasting my time talking about the desk.
00:01:49.000And I'm thinking, you get 10 hours, almost 10 hours, something like what would that be?
00:01:55.000Seven and a half hours of free content, audio, video, it's news.
00:02:02.000I go way over to accommodate everybody and people complain because there's a little funny part at the beginning for five minutes.
00:03:28.000If I ever reply to your email and I say, like, oh, I lost it or I've been really busy, it just gives me tremendous anxiety to be like, oh, hey, thanks so much.
00:04:34.000So, first of all, this guy, this dweeb, who'd soon his goofy show, this guy's nuts, can't give what I'm presenting as, which is like a young fan, just wants to get him on the show.
00:05:07.000If you want to see Bill Mitchell on the show, it gets like 500 retweets, no response, doesn't reach out.
00:05:13.000And then finally, I finally just posted a picture of myself imitating him with my second impression, which is this I don't know what it is.
00:05:23.000It's the Botox, it's the plastic surgery.
00:06:24.000I guess we'll talk about primary results first, and then we'll get into the feature of the show.
00:06:29.000But to talk about the California primary results, we did a pretty long coverage of it last night when polls closed at 10 o'clock Central Time.
00:06:40.000Do you guys want me to unprivate that?
00:06:43.000I only put that in private settings so you can't watch it because.
00:06:47.000The technical difficulties, in my opinion, were like embarrassing.
00:06:52.000And I think people are also giving me a hard time, but you know, they're complaining about the quality of the audio and it's only in one ear.
00:07:53.000It was like 12 30, and we were still, for most of the congressional races, had not exceeded more than 20% of the votes counted in most of the races.
00:08:04.000We were looking at 7 to 10 races in particular where you had a Republican incumbent or there were toss ups.
00:08:12.0007 in particular, these are the big ones we were watching.
00:08:15.0007 races where it was a Republican incumbent or it was an open seat that previously had a Republican and that Hillary won in 2016.
00:08:27.000Were determined by the end of the night last night.
00:08:31.000The only one we really got to see the result of was the governor's race, where Gavin Newsom, who is the front runner for the Democrats, he was secured as running in the general.
00:08:43.000And the number two guy was John Cox, the Republican who Trump backed.
00:08:47.000And just briefly, before we get into the results, before we get into why I thought it was a really great showing by Republicans last night, I have to explain just a little bit about the system.
00:08:57.000And my apologies for people that watched last night because we did explain this at length.
00:09:02.000On the coverage yesterday, the way the California primaries work is a lot different than the other primaries.
00:09:09.000Typically, for example, in my state of Illinois, you go in and they say, Are you a Republican or a Democrat?
00:09:16.000Do you want the Republican ballot or the Democrat ballot?
00:09:18.000Or, you know, you could select a third party.
00:09:46.000And unlike the other systems, not only do you have everybody on the ballot, but also the way it works is that everybody will make their vote.
00:09:53.000And the top two vote getters, regardless of party, they will be nominated then to do a runoff for the general.
00:10:29.000And the purpose of it, the designed purpose or intended purpose, Was that this would eliminate party polarization because the premise is that, especially in a state like California, what you have is that in the primaries, the conservatives will run to the right and the left will run to the left, and then it creates a situation where, for example, in the 2016 election, you had people that were ultra right on the Republican side and people ultra left on the Democrat side,
00:11:00.000So in 2010, they said, We'll eliminate that, and if everybody's on the same ballot.
00:11:06.000This kind of race to the middle that you typically see in statewide and federal elections after the primaries to appeal to moderates, independents, you would kind of just cut to that point.
00:11:16.000You would kind of cut to the chase, prevent this partisanship that happens during the primary season.
00:11:22.000Some people say it works, some people say it hasn't.
00:11:25.000The way that it has benefited Republicans, and this is what we were watching for all last night, is that if you have more candidates running in one of the major parties, it decreases their chances of getting.
00:11:40.000Because you imagine, you know, very, very simply, if you have five major Democrats with money and a good organization, good infrastructure, five Democrats are going to split a finite amount of Democrat votes.
00:11:53.000If they're going up against one or two Republican candidates who are competitive, if you split the Republican vote, which let's say is 50%, it's 25 and 25.
00:12:03.000If you split the Democrat vote five ways, if it's 50%, it's 10% across the board.
00:12:09.000And then the Republicans are the top two vote getters.
00:12:14.000More Democrats than Republicans, or an even amount.
00:12:17.000The Republicans, because of the way the system works, because there's less splitting of a finite amount of partisan votes, they get the top two spots.
00:12:25.000And this is what we were playing for in three particular races.
00:12:29.000We were trying to make this happen in the 39th, the 48th, and the 49th district of California.
00:12:35.000We're also looking at kind of the 4th and the 50th districts.
00:12:41.000That didn't really happen so much in any of them.
00:12:44.000The only district that really happened was in the 7th district, and Democrats really weren't competitive anyway.
00:12:49.000But besides that point, that was really the big tactical advantage we were looking at.
00:12:53.000On the Democrat side, the tactical advantage was kind of flipped.
00:12:57.000In the congressional races, people said that the jungle primary system would have benefited Republicans because, in many cases, you did have that kind of proportion.
00:13:07.000For example, in those five races, it was, for example, in one race, eight Democrats, six Republicans, and similar ratios for the rest of those races.
00:13:16.000In congressional races, that benefited Republicans.
00:13:19.000For the statewide races, it was a little different.
00:13:22.000Of course, this ended up happening in the Senate race, where the top two vote getters were both Democrats.
00:13:28.000So Republicans got locked out for the Senate race in California, which is nothing new.
00:13:33.000And then also in the governor's race, they tried to do that, but ultimately they failed.
00:13:37.000And that's why it was such a big victory for John Cox.
00:13:41.000And the reason being, they talked a lot about this in 538, New York Times, some of the other publications.
00:13:47.000The reason that was actually the first big white pill of last night's primary elections was that we had John Cox in the governorship prevents a very profound effect that would have happened if Democrats locked us out of both statewide races.
00:14:02.000People have anticipated that had the Democrats controlled the top two spots in both of those statewide races, they would essentially drag the turnout to the left.
00:14:13.000Because you imagine the governor's race, the Senate race, there's a lot more money in a statewide race, there's a lot more infrastructure, a lot more organization.
00:14:22.000And if it's just Democrats competing and no Republicans competing, you depress the Republican turnout in the eventual general and you increase Democrat turnout.
00:14:31.000So people said, well, if Democrats shut Republicans out of both of the statewide races, both governor and Senate, the effect that this would have, even though Republicans have this structural advantage in the congressional races that they could kick people out, lock people out, if Democrats control both the top spots in the statewide races, it wouldn't matter because it would drag the whole primary, or rather, drag the whole general election to the left.
00:15:13.000Additionally, Democrats were shut out of the 8th congressional district, which, you know, this wasn't really one of the competitive ones, but nevertheless, that was a big deal.
00:15:21.000If you looked also in the other primaries that were happening yesterday, There was the big primary in California, but there were also primaries in a number of other states South Dakota, New Jersey, Mississippi, Alabama.
00:15:34.000In Mississippi and Alabama, Republicans outvoted Democrats by two to one.
00:15:40.000And if you looked at the California primary, the Democrat shift, the partisan shift from 2016 to 2018 was only five points.
00:15:49.000So they said, let's look at how people vote in 2016 and let's contrast it with the turnout and the partisanship in 2018.
00:15:57.000And they measured that the Democrat shift, that voters went to the left by about five points.
00:16:04.000And people might say, well, That's catastrophic.
00:16:07.000People might say Democrats get a leftward shift by five points.
00:16:11.000That's a big deal because Democrats are obviously motivating people to leave the party that they voted for to some degree in 2016, which put Trump into office, not in California, but across the country.
00:16:23.000And of course, this is actually a great thing.
00:16:27.000This is not like everything's actually okay.
00:16:30.000This is actually part of a much bigger trend that's been going on for a long time.
00:16:35.000If you track this with the other primaries, if you track this with the other special elections, From the special election in Alabama, the special election in Pennsylvania, the special election in Arizona.
00:16:47.000You see that the Democrat swing, partisan swing from 2016 to 2018 went from about 20 points in Alabama, 20 points in Pennsylvania, I think less than 10 points in Arizona, down to five in California.
00:17:11.000But if you're tracking the leftward shift, which Democrats have been hailing, this is the blue wave, this is going to, this is the thunderclap, which will precede a lightning bolt or vice versa of a big Democrat wave in 2018.
00:17:28.000But of course, they were way overconfident months ago when they said Democrat shift by 30 points, then down to 20, then down to 10, then down to 5 in California.
00:17:38.000And so it's not great, but if you look at it over the course of time, it's a market improvement.
00:17:45.000With the generic ballot polling, where you saw similarly in December, which was right around the time when the Alabama special Senate election happened, you had the generic ballot advantage for Democrats at more than 10 points.
00:18:00.000Some polls said 15, some points said 12, but it was astronomical.
00:18:05.000Down to around 10 or so in recent months, and then down to between 3 and 5 in the last couple of weeks.
00:18:11.000So overall, some great trends, more specifically for California, and this is really great stuff.
00:18:18.000If you looked in the 10th, The 21st, the 25th, the 39th, the 45th, and the 48th districts of California last night.
00:18:27.000All these districts had Republican incumbents, but they were won by Hillary Clinton in 2016.
00:19:16.000So if you're looking at a state like California where 10 congressional races are up for grabs, 10 congressional races are considered toss ups by.
00:19:25.000Larry Sabato, or by any of the polling experts.
00:19:28.000If Democrats can flip all 10 of those, that's half of what they need.
00:19:32.000If they flip half of the competitive races in California, that's a quarter of what they need to get a Democrat majority in November.
00:19:40.000So that you have Republicans and they're outmatching Democrats, even in the primaries, just in terms of gross numbers, combine all Republicans, combine all Democrats, and they're getting more votes, that's a very good thing.
00:19:51.000If all those seats are secured now, I think we're in great shape for November.
00:19:55.000So generally speaking, if you're looking at the numbers in a comprehensive way, Democrats cannot say it's a win.
00:20:03.000And if they can't say it's a win, that means it's a win for us.
00:20:05.000Because, of course, the narrative has been blue wave, blue wave.
00:20:12.000And me and Brian were talking a lot about this yesterday.
00:20:14.000We said it's premature, but the numbers are looking very good.
00:20:18.000The results today are very, very good.
00:20:21.000Whereas Democrats were very enthusiastic like three or four months ago, that's all but evaporated.
00:20:29.000If we keep harping on the golden economy, on the congressional accomplishments, on the North Korea thing, I think we're going to be in really great shape for November.
00:20:38.000The trend line is solidly in our favor.
00:20:42.000And then, not only did we have white pills, my first favorite thing, my second favorite thing, we also had a vindication, my first favorite thing, my first love, which is being proven right.
00:20:55.000The one race, maybe a lot more people are watching, besides the other primaries and the California primary and John Cox and all the rest.
00:21:05.000Candidate, a lot of people were looking at.
00:21:07.000Maybe watch this show, maybe watch other shows.
00:21:11.000Was little Patrick Little, our old friend, Little Patrick, who everybody was telling me in the build up to the election, Oh, Nick, you got to support Patrick Little.
00:22:34.000And behaving in such a way that was embarrassing to people who hold very legitimate views and in some ways satirizing them, making them into a character to the point where.
00:22:44.000Caricature to the point where you wonder, is he doing more good for the enemy than for our cause?
00:22:50.000And so it did, I think, fill me with a lot of, I don't know, it made me feel good that this happened.
00:22:58.000This needed to happen to demonstrate to people that this is not going to work.
00:23:02.000The alt right, as it existed, this white nationalist 1.0 kind of thing, it's not going to work.
00:24:46.000And beyond that, somebody who's competent at running for Senate and becoming a senator or to lead any kind of a movement or even to make political decisions or considerations or.
00:24:56.000I mean, is this the kind of person we want representing us?
00:25:01.000Once we've exposed that there was massive voter fraud, the next step is explaining who did it.
00:25:07.000And it's the Jewish supremacists and the Zionists.
00:25:10.000So we got massive support in this state.
00:25:12.000I think it's safe to say we got first or second in this primary.
00:25:16.000And all we have to do is know that and move forward with the courts, moving forward with my new campaign, and also trying to get back in the Senate race by exposing the massive voter fraud.
00:25:32.000Well, Little Leon, you say 40,000 votes is good.
00:27:42.000It turns out, after running troubleshooter a hundred times and restarting and plugging, taking the cable out, plugging it back in, no real problem.
00:32:02.000And of course, the reason for that was because the poll that was taken, I believe it was by SurveyMonkey or something like that a few months ago, it had four candidates on it.
00:32:12.000It had Dianne Feinstein, DeLeon, Little, and one other Republican.
00:32:16.000So if it's a field of 20 candidates and only four are sampled in the survey, of course, you're going to get some kind of percentage.
00:32:26.000And if it's a Republican contrasted with the Democrats, you know, all the more reason you might get.
00:32:31.000Some kind of plurality, some kind of measure.
00:32:33.000But of course, in the second poll that they took, he got zero.
00:32:36.000And people said, well, that's disingenuous because he wasn't on that poll.
00:32:39.000How disingenuous really was it right after he gets one and a half percent?
00:32:45.000He posted a video, which I showed a clip of before we went off air, where he says that he actually probably had half a million votes that were destroyed by the Jewish supremacists.
00:32:58.000And then he took a hit of the vape and went on about the Muslim community, which he's been doing outreach to.
00:33:03.000And You know, I don't doubt that there's voter fraud at all times, and especially by the Democrats.
00:33:10.000But to say that he came in second or first place in a statewide election in California, the most populous state, is absurd and an absurd person.
00:33:52.000Today is the 74th, if my math is correct, which I just did in my head, the 74th anniversary of D Day, which was June 6th, 1944.
00:34:02.000Just the details of it, you had more than 160,000 Allied troops landing in northern France.
00:34:09.000And the point of this was to establish a beachhead in continental Europe so they could fight Nazi Germany.
00:34:16.000But really, we have to think about it as probably the biggest and most pivotal battle in the European theater in World War II.
00:34:23.000And we think about that sacrifice that was made.
00:34:26.000We think about our World War II veterans, which were great, fantastic people.
00:34:30.000And really, you look at the military from the 1940s where it was drafted, you know, where it was one day you're going off with your high school sweetheart to start a family and start a life together, and the next they pull your number and you're on a boat to Okinawa or to Britain or whatever.
00:34:47.000You know, so it's a lot different than today where it's a volunteer military.
00:34:51.000Not to say that there's not valor in both, but I mean, we understand that it is a different period.
00:34:59.000We remember the sacrifice they made today.
00:35:02.0009,000, more than 9,000 killed or wounded in that battle alone.
00:35:07.000And it was an Operation Overlord when they made this effort to go from Great Britain across the English Channel to, against all odds, to establish this beachhead on a highly fortified strip of coast.
00:35:22.000And we think about World War II, and there's a lot to be learned about it in terms of the mythology of it, which has been so important in informing and coloring our.
00:35:31.000Political views today and how we put history in context, how we put politics in context.
00:35:38.000In many ways, we still live in the shadow of World War II.
00:35:41.000Our national identity, the world order as it is, is in the shape, is in the shadow of World War II.
00:35:48.000But what I really want to focus on tonight is the idea of the troops themselves who went on this beach and they knew they were going to die.
00:35:55.000A lot of them knew they were going to die.
00:35:57.000You know, you can watch the movies or any of the videos of what happened there, recreations of it.
00:36:09.000They were expecting it in another area, but I mean, nevertheless, they did have fortifications there waiting for people to just run up onto the beach.
00:36:17.000And you had paratroopers, people coming off the boats.
00:36:20.000But people went in there thinking, well, you know, I could die.
00:36:26.000Every one of them, and, you know, some of them obviously were more reluctant than others because there was a draft, but they did go in there for a reason.
00:36:34.000To protect America, it was to protect the homeland, to protect freedom broadly.
00:36:39.000This was the effort by the Allies in World War II in Germany and Japan.
00:36:44.000But we have to think really long and hard about the country that they fought to protect because we invoke these mythos all the time these days about our political struggles in contemporary times.
00:36:57.000But we got to really think long and hard.
00:36:59.000They fought for a very different country than we're living in today.
00:37:02.000You know, they fought for the preservation of their people and their country in the 1940s.
00:37:08.000A Christian, a European, an Anglo Protestant country that just simply doesn't exist anymore.
00:37:15.000And all day long, we talk about on the show how the country is essentially occupied by demons, right?
00:37:21.000I mean, we look at Hollywood, we look at mass media, whether it's the music industry, whether it's film, whether it's television or the news media or anything like that.
00:37:32.000And it is downright sinister, it's downright evil in the things that they promote.
00:37:37.000You've always had leftism, you know, you've always had people advocating for high taxes.
00:37:41.000Government welfare, these kinds of things.
00:37:47.000They're not just promoting this tax plan, free trade, this kind of thing anymore.
00:37:51.000We see in the press, they're talking about hormone replacement therapy for toddlers, for children.
00:37:58.000They're talking about how gay teachers not only should be in the classrooms with your children, but that they should have a gay agenda in the classroom.
00:38:19.000I mean, we live in a society, and there always was sin, don't get me wrong, but we live in a society that truly, I think, can be described as hellish.
00:38:29.000And certainly the interests at the top can be described as transnational.
00:38:34.000Their allegiance is not to the national interest, but to an international collection of values and ideologies, which are progression, humanitarianism, these kinds of things.
00:38:46.000And we look at where we are in the country, what we fought for, and what we fought against in World War II, or rather what our ancestors did.
00:38:53.000And I think we have to look at ourselves.
00:38:57.000And we have to say, you know, people gave the ultimate sacrifice 74 years ago to protect the country, to protect what they loved.
00:39:05.000And it wasn't just the name, you know, it wasn't the United States of America, which is a transient name, which has meant many different things in many different times.
00:39:13.000But they defended something very specific, which was a Christian country with a set culture, with a set demographic, with a set set of values and virtues and governing principles.
00:39:31.000They were willing to give the ultimate sacrifice to protect that idea, to protect that society.
00:39:38.000You fast forward 74 years ago and 74 years later, and we look at ourselves today who among us is able to say that we have given a comparable sacrifice or even would be willing to give a comparable sacrifice for those things?
00:39:57.000And all Donald Trump, for example, was asking for was your vote.
00:40:02.000You know, all he was saying was, I'll fix it.
00:40:05.000You've thrown it in the garbage by voting in bad politicians and pursuing your own hedonistic interests, your own nihilistic pursuits, but I'll fix it.
00:40:15.000Because the population fell asleep at the wheel and let the country be penetrated by the third world and let the country be pillaged by free trade because we couldn't be bothered to look at politics for more than a second, look at Facts for more than a second.
00:40:59.000They fought for a very different country, and what would they think of it now?
00:41:03.000You know, you talk to your grandparents who lived during that era and say, you know, hey, grandpa, hey, grandma, did you fight so that homosexuals could have gay sex in the streets every June?
00:41:15.000Did you fight so that we could abort children basically when they're coming out of the womb?
00:41:20.000Did you fight so that we could have a country that is half speaks Spanish and half is English, and then increasingly a contingent will just speak Chinese?
00:41:28.000And I mean, did we fight for that, or did we fight for something else?
00:41:32.000And so ask them that, but then ask yourself, What am I willing to do for a just cause?
00:41:41.000Because too often, I think we look at ourselves, and this is the chief crime of liberalism, Protestantism, and Americanism the focus on the individual.
00:41:52.000We look at ourselves as we are just one cog in the machine, and maybe not even a part of a machine.
00:41:58.000We are an individual and unique person.
00:42:02.000And really, it's a shame that the snowflake thing has been so overdone and overused by all the wrong people.
00:42:08.000I mean, that's what we like to think of ourselves as.
00:42:09.000Not a snowflake in that they're fragile, but in the sense that they're unique.
00:42:14.000And we're all unique and we're all just trying to make our way, trying to make money or trying to pursue our dreams, pursue our passions.
00:42:38.000Is that something that takes place on the weekends?
00:42:41.000You know, while every other day it's just about, you know, I want to save a little money for this vacation or I want to make this happen for myself or that.
00:42:48.000And that's just kind of off to the side.
00:42:51.000Maybe nobody even thinks about it, right?
00:42:53.000But I think we have to get back to that kind of a mindset.
00:42:56.000And that's really what we're calling on people to do on this show not just to get engaged in politics.
00:43:01.000You know, don't get me wrong, we're not asking people to go fight and die in wars in the Middle East, but just think in terms of sacrifice.
00:43:08.000What are you willing to do for the greater good?
00:43:13.000And I think people tend to think of this as in a very strange way.
00:43:19.000You know, you tend to think of it as well, you give your life, for example, for your country, or you give your life to politics or to a political cause.
00:43:27.000And a lot of people, I think, look at it as well, but then I couldn't do the things I like to do, which is watch television or, you know, I can go on vacation or I can read my favorite book or work out or whatever.
00:43:41.000But I think that's fundamentally kind of a twisted thing, at least for me.
00:43:45.000At a very early age, when I was in college, I basically had the epiphany that what would give meaning to my life is.
00:43:52.000Serving that greater goal is serving that greater agenda.
00:43:56.000I could go ahead and make tons of money, get a degree, you know, not say anything, have a big family and all the rest, but would that be something worth living for?
00:44:07.000And so I think when we remember the troops today, when we remember D Day, we have to think about the sacrifice and we have to think are we worthy of our ancestors?
00:44:17.000How can we become worthy of our ancestors and reclaim the inheritance that they left for us?
00:44:22.000Because they fought and died for a great country.
00:44:25.000And the generations that came after turned around and sold it away for trinkets from China and for cheap labor from Mexico and for lobbyist money from Israel.
00:44:38.000And what are we willing to do to get on the right track to build a society then that we could say is sufficient for our next in line, for posterity?
00:44:48.000So that was the message that Zog didn't want you to hear.
00:44:51.000That was the message that Patrick Little didn't want you to hear.
00:44:56.000But it's just one of those things where.
00:44:59.000D Day, whether you agree with World War II or not, whether you agree with all the facts about World War II and those involved, was it a just war?
00:45:08.000Regardless of that, it's a visceral and a powerful mythos in our national history.
00:45:15.000You know, there really is something jarring to think of people that came before us, many people in our families, that's my experience, who went to fight and die in that war.
00:45:24.000And it was a great unifying moment for the country.
00:45:27.000And we look back on it and we understand what it means.
00:45:30.000And so, I think that should be a motivating thing.
00:48:20.000We had the audio issues on Tuesday, the email issues over the weekend, just a million complications with everything else I'm trying to set up.
00:48:30.000And it's like you can never catch a break.
00:51:53.000He goes into that radioactive chamber and he's absorbing all the radioactive energy and it's going crazy because the plane crashed and he's like flying all over the place.
00:52:04.000That's like me right now, trying to hold all it in.
00:53:35.000I know for some people it went out in the spam folder.
00:53:39.000But yeah, if you signed up on the mailing list, the email about premium content did go out this morning after dealing with Amazon, which is epic.
00:54:14.000You know, I'm feeling, I really wasn't feeling Kanye's first track in the Ye album, because I've never thought about killing myself before.
00:54:23.000But after everything that's gone on, it's not even so much killing myself, it's just doing something so explosive that the inevitable result would be that I died in it.
00:54:32.000You know, when you have to grapple with technology, Like I have, you're not thinking about, like, am I going to, like, hang myself in my room?