00:01:10.000Well, not really, but early for me, which would be six.
00:01:14.000So I woke up, had some breakfast, played a little Fortnite.
00:01:18.000And what I've been meaning to do for the show is to get a new desk because right now, I'm going to let you in on a little America First secret.
00:01:26.000What I use for the table here is just like a side table, but with a black screen on top of it.
00:01:34.000So when I got sent for Right Side Broadcasting, when I got sent my green screen, I also got sent a black screen and I think a white screen as well.
00:01:42.000And I picked this because it doesn't reflect the light.
00:01:47.000I have very bright lights shining on it.
00:01:49.000And I got a couple of different tablecloths I tried out before, but the light reflects off of it and messes with the green screen.
00:01:55.000So I've been using this, but it's a very weird fabric where it attracts like dust and it makes me sneeze and all the rest.
00:02:02.000So I've been meaning to get a new desk.
00:02:15.000And I didn't know that the program was that you can't just, like other stores, you can't just say, I want the desks, I'll go to the desk section.
00:02:24.000You have to go up and go all the way around the whole store to get where you need to go.
00:04:07.000I wanted to get one I needed to go for, and they didn't even have it.
00:04:11.000But then I leave, drive a half hour back, and then I go to Best Buy because I need a VGA cable for my monitor.
00:04:17.000And I'm sure this is very interesting, but we have to talk about this part.
00:04:22.000Then I go to Best Buy to get my VGA cable because I'm going to do dual monitors because a good friend of mine, a viewer, sent in a monitor, an extra one.
00:04:31.000So I go to get the cable, and I got this.
00:04:34.000Oh, breathing down my neck the whole time.
00:04:36.000What is it about this place where I walk in and I kid you not, I'm in there for about 60 seconds and the two ton tunic waddles over to me.
00:04:48.000Hey, do you need any help with anything?
00:05:08.000And then they say, okay, I just kind of want to look around, see what they have.
00:05:12.000You know, I was looking for another earpiece, looking for these lights, you know, where you stick them on top of a shelf or on top of the ceiling and it's like a little light because I want that for my other desk.
00:05:24.000I was looking at the drones, looking at the video games to see if GTA 5 is still $60 for PS4.
00:05:31.000And he comes up to me not another time, but two more times, coming up to me, hey, you're still doing all right?
00:06:33.000You don't have to deal with people in general.
00:06:37.000But anywho, there are some important housekeeping things before we launch into the news, before we launch into Roseanne Bar and North Korea.
00:06:45.000That's the other thing we got to catch up on because we didn't talk about it yesterday.
00:06:49.000But before we get into that, I just want to tell you a very exciting announcement.
00:06:53.000There is a brand new America First Twitter account.
00:06:57.000We have the official Twitter account for the show, which is at America First NJF.
00:07:10.000So be sure to follow that Twitter account for all the latest updates about the show, clips from the show, links, all the rest.
00:07:18.000I'll still be tweeting things on my own account.
00:07:20.000I run both accounts, but just follow it and you can get the latest updates.
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00:07:41.000It is coming, it is hurtling towards us very quickly.
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00:07:48.000Link is down below to get on there, and that is where I will update people on where it is.
00:07:53.000Because I know people are always asking me, Nick, when's a new paywall?
00:08:39.000I missed the first episode when it debuted.
00:08:42.000I think it was the 10th season, it was the comeback season.
00:08:46.000And they had already greenlit her for a second season.
00:08:48.000It was going to be, I think, 8 o'clock on Tuesdays.
00:08:51.000And they were going to do another round of shows.
00:08:53.000And I believe this time it was a full season.
00:08:55.000This one was an abbreviated, it was a shorter season.
00:08:59.000And they brought her back, I believe, for a full season, twice the length.
00:09:04.000And to come back for another recap season.
00:09:07.000And they said it was going to be less political, which was kind of a first warning sign.
00:09:12.000But then it was outright canceled tonight after some of the things that Roseanne Barr had been tweeting.
00:09:19.000And so, like I said, I had watched this show from the beginning, and my original take on the comeback season was that this was a positive development.
00:09:27.000At the time, surprisingly, it was very controversial, I think, among young people, among traditional people, far right people.
00:09:36.000Because although the show was ostensibly right wing, because Roseanne Barr is a Trump supporter, she was a vocal Trump supporter in the show.
00:09:46.000And what was different about how she portrayed herself and her family in the show is that typically you see that white families or conservative people in network television, they're portrayed as imbeciles or racists or goofballs.
00:10:02.000And although it was a comedy show, Roseanne Barr and her family were portrayed in a very serious way.
00:10:21.000And so while a lot of conservatives said this is great, we've got a very visible, very relatable, sympathetic portrayal of a Trump supporter on network television and of a white working class family, which is what I said, a lot of people took issue with the fact that there was a lot of not very traditional things in the show.
00:10:40.000For example, I think one of the kids in the show was like this gender non conforming character, whereas a boy who was dressing up like a girl.
00:10:49.000And then additionally, there was I don't know the storyline because I didn't watch it when it was on.
00:11:05.000And so, although a lot of conservatives said this is a great thing, a lot of very picky people on the far right said, no, no, we have to throw it all out.
00:11:15.000And they said not only was it not a good thing, but it was a bad thing because it was almost programming Trump supporters to be okay with and accept Roseanne Barr, who's a feminist, who's very pro gay, and this genderqueer kind of stuff, and this adopting kind of stuff, which adopting is not really the issue.
00:11:34.000I guess the issue would be an implicit interracial type situation.
00:12:42.000And from the start, I said, look, this is a powerful show because, as I said earlier, it's a sympathetic, a relatable, and a visible representation of Trump supporters.
00:12:53.000And in many ways, the success of Roseanne Barr paved the way for the Tim Allen show.
00:13:01.000The Tim Allen show, which a lot of people said was much more conservative, which was Last Man Standing.
00:13:06.000I think that was originally on CBS or something.
00:13:09.000And they got recently brought back, but on Fox this time.
00:13:13.000And I believe in a big way that because Roseanne did so well, they said, well, obviously, there's money to be made.
00:13:20.000There is an untapped market here in this kind of conservative, family oriented sitcom.
00:13:27.000Because, of course, and we know this if you have a family, if you're an older person, if you still watch network television, You know, as well as anybody, there's nothing that's on television for families anymore.
00:13:38.000Even when I was growing up, this was a big problem where, you know, you try to watch something that would be fun for the whole family, that would be entertaining for parents and kids, and you couldn't find anything that wasn't, you know, had sex in it or had swearing or, you know, all kinds of bad stuff in there.
00:13:56.000And so these kinds of shows, I think, are really tapping into something that has been maybe the silent majority market where a lot of people have felt this for a long time, but because it's liberals.
00:14:07.000Liberals, liberals, not an ethno religious clan that runs the media and entertainment in Hollywood.
00:14:14.000They might not have known that, or maybe it was by design.
00:14:24.000Now, I'll read you the full statement by ABC, and I'll read you the tweets that caused it to go off the air.
00:14:31.000So the statement by ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungie, Channing Dungie, what a name.
00:14:39.000He said, Roseanne's Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant, and inconsistent with our values, and we have decided to cancel her show.
00:14:48.000And what she tweeted was very, very straightforward, very simple.
00:14:52.000She tweeted, quote, Muslim Brotherhood and Planet of the Apes had a baby equals VJ, which is an abbreviation for Valerie Jarrett, who served in the Obama administration.
00:15:02.000And if you look at a picture of her, you know, she does kind of look like one of the characters in Planet of the Apes.
00:15:10.000Or anything like that, but I know she looks like one of the characters in Planet of the Apes, but she tweeted that, which people thought was racist because she was calling a black person an ape, you know, God forbid.
00:15:21.000And then she also tweeted Chelsea Soros Clinton and claimed that Chelsea Clinton was married to a nephew of George Soros, which Chelsea Clinton denies.
00:15:30.000I don't know if that's true or not, but of course, you start talking about Soros, maybe you run into some trouble.
00:15:36.000And this is not something that's really concerning to me or really surprising.
00:15:41.000You know, I think for a lot of young people, it's like, Network television.
00:16:31.000The point to be demonstrated here is, I think, a pretty interesting one, which is to say that they don't care about money.
00:16:39.000The mainstream media, the people that control the mainstream media, the people that control Hollywood, the people that control the press, what's disturbing about these people is they don't care about money.
00:16:55.000To have a bottom line and to keep their operation going, but that's not why they run these businesses.
00:17:00.000When you look at, for example, ABC, who runs this show, or you look at NBC, or you look at the Washington Post, any one of these major media companies, whether it's television or what have you, they are subsidiaries of much larger conglomerates.
00:17:18.000Rarely do you find a television station that is just itself and all they want to do is make content.
00:17:25.000Nine times out of ten, it's owned by a major conglomerate.
00:17:28.000And so you look at these television networks, and a lot of people look at it as well, this is entertainment.
00:17:34.000They're trying to put out shows that are good, that people want to watch, that people are going to, you know, that is going to get them advertising money.
00:17:42.000And that's really fundamentally the wrong way to look at it.
00:17:45.000I know a lot of people look at it that way, maybe even people in the industry.
00:17:49.000But it becomes apparent time after time when you see the politicization, when you see that they're ready, willing, and able.
00:17:58.000To sacrifice money, to sacrifice big properties, to sacrifice viewership, advertising money, all the rest, because of ideology, you understand that the purpose of these major media empires is as a propaganda arm, the propaganda arm of the Globo Homo Industrial Complex.
00:18:19.000So, for example, the New York Times, which is doing terribly, they have to sell out all their office space, their circulation is down, they print out a big letter.
00:18:29.000After the election, because so many people are mad at them because they called the election wrong.
00:18:33.000And they say, you know, we're so sorry, all the rest.
00:18:36.000And they go right along doing the same thing.
00:18:38.000They say, we're going to hire a conservative editorial writer.
00:18:41.000They hire Brett Stevens, who might as well have come from the National Review Online, came from Wall Street Journal, but might as well have came straight from National Review Online.
00:18:52.000He basically did, though, because he actually came from the Jerusalem Post.
00:19:03.000They are trying to appeal to a new audience, and a lot of the circulation now is going to be online.
00:19:09.000And instead of saying, let's just present the facts, let's just do our job, let's just hire good journalists, nope, they go right along printing the same liberal, biased kind of stuff.
00:19:20.000And that's because they're owned by a Mexican billionaire.
00:19:23.000You look at the Washington Post, the same is true there.
00:19:26.000Another failing paper, a paper that's not doing well.
00:19:29.000Maybe they could recoup some of their costs, maybe they could gain a wider audience or something.
00:19:34.000By, as I said, reporting the facts, doing the right thing.
00:19:38.000But of course, they're owned by Jeff Bezos.
00:19:40.000And so, the purpose of the Washington Post is not to report the truth, write the truth, you know, save democracy, as they say in their headline.
00:19:49.000It's to serve the interest of the conglomerate that owns them.
00:20:20.000But time and again, you see in Million Dollar Extreme, which was a comedy show on Adult Swim, Sam Hyde's show, they were doing crazy numbers.
00:20:28.000They did a million viewers on their premiere episode, a million viewers on their finale.
00:21:12.000I mean, they were doing record numbers that no sitcoms were doing.
00:21:15.000And network television is dying, and they're doing crazy numbers.
00:21:20.000And you see how many new, what do you call it, new pilot shows get greenlit every other season, and they all turn out to be terrible and they get canceled.
00:21:30.000How many shows have they cycled through in the past two years?
00:21:36.000They're already, they're leading in terms of their New York advertisers.
00:21:40.000They're leading with Roseanne Barr's show for the second season, and they cancel it because Roseanne Barr made a controversial tweet for which she apologized shortly after.
00:21:53.000That's what's kind of disturbing is that there is simply no winning here.
00:21:58.000They canceled Last Man Standing, a big successful show.
00:22:01.000There's no winning because they're not actually looking to make good content.
00:22:04.000They're looking to advance a very specific and particular agenda.
00:22:10.000And that just goes to show the future lies outside of those institutions.
00:22:15.000So, you know, all these people who are saying, and they tell this to me, they tell this to others, that we have to kind of bite our tongue.
00:22:23.000And hang back and kind of conform and be a chameleon and try and work our way into these institutions, that's not really going to cut it.
00:22:33.000In politics, you know, there's always this idea that you have to have good optics, that you have to have good rhetoric.
00:22:39.000But in terms of you have to go to school and you have to wage slave and you got to, you know, work on a network and maybe one day we'll be able to dictate the course of events, I mean, that just simply isn't true.
00:22:51.000And it's borne out by examples like this, where You can be Roseanne Barr, who is as kosher as possible.
00:22:57.000She didn't even vote for Trump, I don't think, totally because of immigration.
00:23:01.000Do you think Roseanne Barr is somebody who cares if the country becomes less than 50% white?
00:23:07.000Do you think that Roseanne Barr is somebody who cares about who is really in control of the media?
00:23:55.000So, Roseanne Barr's show was one of these things that it Probably did challenge the status quo.
00:24:00.000And moreover, not only was it that they rejected the money, the bigger issue was that here was somebody who was rising to prominence.
00:24:09.000Roseanne Barr was going to actually wield cultural power.
00:24:14.000When she was tweeting this kind of stuff in the 2016 election, or she was tweeting this stuff before her show came out, it was like, oh, that old actress, Roseanne, who used to have a show, who cares if she's talking about QAnon?
00:24:52.000If she starts to say things as somebody that is on a major network and has the de facto stamp of legitimacy from the establishment, she could do some real damage.
00:25:02.000And the same is true of people like Elon Musk and Kanye West.
00:25:06.000These people, journalists, the media industrial complex, the entire globo homo system, they are terrified of people like this.
00:25:16.000That's why they were terrified of Donald Trump.
00:25:18.000That's why they came after Kanye West.
00:25:20.000They came after Elon Musk, Roseanne Barr.
00:25:23.000And look, we don't agree with these three big celebrities.
00:25:26.000We're not totally on board with everything Kanye says or everything Elon Musk is about or everything Roseanne Barr is about.
00:25:34.000There are significant differences and a lot of shortcomings in terms of.
00:25:37.000They're not totally on it in terms of where we are.
00:25:41.000But nevertheless, because they are dissident, because they are not going to go along and conform to the bigger narrative, go along with the crowd, do what's expected, do what's predictable, that's why they have a big target on their backs.
00:25:56.000And so I think that's even the bigger narrative here is not so much anything to do with the show, but more to do with Roseanne Barr.
00:26:03.000The fact that every single celebrity, sports player, television show star, newscaster, Actor in a major motion picture, major rapper or singer in the music industry, no matter who it is,
00:26:18.000every celebrity, everybody that you see on television, everybody with tens of millions of fans and who's a major cultural player who wields influence, it is required that they have the stamp of approval by a very small cadre of corporate players.
00:26:37.000Every single person without fail that you and your neighbors know about, in the sense that that is a common denominator that everybody knows about, that is Culturally relevant, that is ubiquitous in the culture, that you could, you know, put in a board game like Cards Against Humanity, or you could put in a trivia game.
00:26:54.000And, you know, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Jay Z, people you know about, people of prominence, every single one of them, with few exceptions, had to have gone through a very small and narrow collective group of people to gain access to their resources, to gain access to these markets, to really put on the boosters and get into the mainstream.
00:27:17.000People say, well, those traditional avenues are dying.
00:27:20.000The legacy entertainment complex and the legacy music industry and all these things are dying.
00:27:26.000Of course, that is just simply not true.
00:29:14.000That's the one thing she did wrong, she apologized.
00:29:18.000And I guess I will say it's a little bit different for Roseanne because what's really sad, I gotta think, is that her whole cast is out of work.
00:29:28.000You imagine that all these people come back together for the show.
00:29:32.000And that's production people, that's actors, that's all.
00:29:35.000Well, should we really feel so much sympathy for actors?
00:29:37.000But nevertheless, all these people come back together for the show.
00:29:43.000We've got a great gig here, a great thing going.
00:29:46.000And because she lets out a couple of tweets, now they're all out of a job.
00:29:49.000So maybe, you know, normally I say never apologize under any circumstances.
00:29:56.000But in this case, it's actually maybe a noble thing.
00:29:59.000I bet Roseanne, maybe she wouldn't have apologized.
00:30:02.000But, you know, if her show's getting threatened to be canceled, it's like, well, I got to put myself aside and try and save and not hurt the people that I'm working with.
00:30:12.000So I guess I could maybe understand that, but still, I don't think it's effective.
00:30:16.000Obviously, it didn't matter in the end.
00:30:18.000But at Roseanne, such a shame to see another one fall.
00:30:22.000It's so hard to, it really is hard to be this way in this climate.
00:30:28.000You know, you just think about everything that we're up against.
00:30:31.000Like, I was watching the Today Show the other day, and, you know, they have like a, they're having some music guest on, and they're out there, and they're talking, and blah, blah.
00:32:35.000And many people say, well, you have to live a little before you can say anything about politics.
00:32:40.000This is what very not intelligent people say.
00:32:43.000People who are threatened by how much I know, people who are threatened by the fact that I basically know what I'm talking about, and I'm smarter than people many years older than me.
00:32:51.000They're very threatened by that, and so they pull out the old experience card.
00:32:55.000Well, you know, I may not be able to answer anything you've just said, but you really have to live before you're able to say anything about politics.
00:33:04.000And journalists have told me this, other people have told me this.
00:33:09.000But the reason I talk so much about my predictions is to say I'm a young guy, I haven't lived very long, but if you just look at the facts, you can basically predict these things.
00:33:19.000And that's for you, but it's also about me.
00:33:21.000It's also to say, It doesn't matter that I'm 19.
00:33:24.000I'm still predicting it better than people two, three, four times my age.
00:33:28.000People with much bigger audiences, bigger budgets.
00:34:06.000And before they could even finish their whining and their crying, North Korea came out with a gentle statement saying, we'd love to have the meeting still, all the rest.
00:34:15.000Over the weekend, Moon Jae in, the president of South Korea, held a snap summit with Kim Jong un where they reaffirmed their commitment.
00:34:24.000North Korea reaffirmed their commitment to denuclearization and having a summit with President Trump.
00:34:31.000On Sunday, a U.S. delegation was sent to North Korea to begin preparations for a potential summit on June 12th in Singapore.
00:34:40.000The U.S., and this is from President Trump, he tweeted this over the weekend.
00:34:44.000He said, Our United States team has arrived in North Korea to make arrangements for the summit between Kim Jong Un and myself.
00:34:51.000I truly believe North Korea has brilliant potential and will be a great economic and financial nation one day.
00:35:02.000Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump administration declined to impose new sanctions on North Korea, which would have happened today.
00:35:10.000And today, Kim Jong-chul, who's Kim Jong-un's right-hand man, he traveled to America today, traveling to New York City to speak with Mike Pompeo to make arrangements for the summit.
00:35:23.000And so it looks like all indicators are showing that the summit will go forward on June 12th in Singapore.
00:35:30.000If nothing, If nothing drastic happens, it looks like it's back on track and both parties are committed to it.
00:35:38.000And this just goes to show before we talk about, you know, is it going to happen?
00:35:45.000Does Kim Jong un really want denuclearization or is it all a show?
00:35:50.000To get away from all of that for a moment, it goes to show, to analyze a very small part of it, to do a very close reading of something to get a larger understanding.
00:35:59.000We look at Trump's letter to North Korea, where he said, we're going to cancel the summit.
00:36:05.000The black pill panic mindset would say, let us read that exactly as is tunnel vision.
00:36:12.000Let's just focus on that with a microscope.
00:36:53.000This is the same kind of analysis that we heard during the serious strikes, the same kind of analysis we heard during the DACA negotiations, the same kind during the Iran protests, the first round of DACA negotiations, the first serious strike.
00:37:09.000Every time, every time there's a headline we don't like, Trump does something we don't like, and people reflexively, because they're incapable of not being emotional and reacting emotionally, they have this knee jerk reaction that, you know, the sky's falling, everything is exactly what it appears to be, there's no ambiguity, there's no alternative explanation, it just is what it is.
00:37:32.000And not only that, but anybody who tries to actually look at the details, it's coping.
00:37:37.000It's a co post, and it's rationalizing behavior and all the rest.
00:38:00.000He sent the letter, and North Korea responded very gently.
00:38:03.000And within seconds, Trump said, you know what?
00:38:06.000Actually, let's just keep going with the summit.
00:38:08.000Within hours of the letter being posted, his State Department said, we're still working towards the June 12th date for the summit.
00:38:16.000And now there's the U.S. delegation going to North Korea, North Korean delegation coming to the U.S.
00:38:23.000And it just goes to show that, of course, of course, Trump plays four dimensional chess.
00:38:27.000That's because it's not four dimensional chess.
00:38:29.000It is called strategy, it is called a negotiation.
00:38:33.000And this is the difference between the Obama administration and the Trump administration.
00:38:39.000The Obama administration would never do anything that would upset his base, they would never do anything that would upset anybody, really, day by day, week by week.
00:38:49.000Their goal was to have good poll numbers.
00:38:52.000Their goal was to have a good news cycle.
00:40:48.000But what we do know is how Trump operates.
00:40:51.000We can look at his behavior, we can look at how he's behaved in the past, how he's reacted to this.
00:40:58.000If he was really said, you know what, no summit, I don't like North Korea, I don't want peace.
00:41:03.000The door wouldn't be opened in the statement and then open wide a day later.
00:41:08.000What we know is that he's a deal maker.
00:41:10.000This is how he operates, and this is how we have to judge present and future events.
00:41:15.000And so I basically take a victory lap with this.
00:41:18.000I said this from the beginning that the carrier strike group drills, the three carrier strike group drill in the Pacific Ocean, the Minutemen missile launches, the serious strikes, all the rest, the bombastic rhetoric, it was all about getting.
00:42:46.000It's people, dealing with people, operating with leverage, operating with concessions, closing.
00:42:52.000I mean, these are all components of the same skill set, which Trump has in spades, which he had to have had to be so successful and to win the election and to get along so well as president.
00:43:03.000So we really, I think we could not be in better hands.
00:43:07.000And there's a great quote by, I believe it's Carlyle who said this, but he said basically, find the most competent man in the country and make him the dictator, and that is the best system of government that you could possibly achieve.
00:43:23.000Forget about democracy, forget about parliaments.
00:43:26.000You find the most capable man among the population, you make them the king, and you're basically set.
00:43:32.000And that's effectively what we did with President Trump.
00:43:34.000We found the most competent, the most capable person, and he's the president, which is truly a great thing.
00:43:42.000You know, I guess the trouble here is that with that quote, it kind of assumes that that's a given.
00:43:51.000We can find, and then who's going to elect the most capable person?
00:43:55.000The way our system is supposed to work is that through the democratic process, through these mechanisms, we're able to find more people with more merit or the best people with the most merit.
00:44:06.000And I think that's effectively what we did.
00:44:09.000In the absence of this political kind of system, I think that's inevitably what happens.
00:44:15.000So we're in great hands with the president we have right now.
00:46:01.000Maybe I'll take a small ferry, and if you have like a house that's on the lake or on the channel or on the ocean in the North Sea, you can kind of like take me in.
00:46:12.000I'll take a small dinghy and I'll go from France into England.
00:46:16.000Somebody's got to smuggle me in there.
00:48:31.000I mean, like, for example, I would call Millennial Woes a she.
00:48:35.000I would call Millennial Woes by girl pronouns, not because Millennial Woes is biologically a woman, but because to degrade him, to make him sad, because he's such a bitch.
00:48:46.000In the same way that Chelsea Manning calling it a she is simply to indicate that this person presents as a female.
00:49:29.000If it's just you're referring to them casually and it's just, I don't know, just force a habit to call the person a she, it's like, it's not the end of the world, fucks.
00:50:57.000I mean, that's, and this is why the alt right is doomed to failure.
00:51:01.000There is, you know, I go on the stream and I throw them a bone.
00:51:07.000I say about the Holocaust some very interesting things, things that are very different in terms of, it would be very easy for me to simply say, I believe the official story.
00:52:22.000And the expectation of gradual reform, of having voices intimate these views, is not reasonable.
00:52:30.000And so you go on a stream like this, and not only are people just flat out wrong and sick about this kind of thing, but they don't even accept people that are adjacent to them, that are 95% of the way there.
00:53:25.000And it seems like people like Paul Nealon and others were content to sell out all the rest of the country to appease this small group of about 200 people.
00:54:47.000If you're on the train that you want to have real things happen to the country, you really want to defeat the forces that are arrayed against us, my show's for you.
00:58:53.000And that's because I think, in a big way, part of the problem was Spencer and TRS, in the sense that for a long time, They really did turn a blind eye to very unhealthy elements of the movement, particularly TRS.
00:59:10.000Kowtowed to these people, was always winking at these people, high fiving these people, kind of bringing them into the movement.
00:59:17.000And I think they realized what a toxic culture they cultivated, and they did a lot to reform that, in big part because of Ricky Vaughn.
00:59:37.000And I mean, just generally speaking, not so much this month, but I mean, this year as a whole, we really don't attack the left so much.
00:59:43.000That's one of the things I've been trying to do is to refocus and reorient.
00:59:48.000The hard thing is, I do this show, and I come on and talk about North Korea and Roseanne, and I'll get 20 super chats saying, F you, you're a cock, you're this, you're a shill, you're that.
01:00:00.000And so all these people want to say, no infighting, Nixon infighter.
01:00:04.000And then they come on my show and attack me.
01:01:42.000In the book of Acts, he was the pivotal figure in the entire New Testament.
01:01:46.000And so to reject the Pope is to reject Peter.
01:01:50.000Peter was the Bishop of Rome, and because of his succession, and by the way, all the early church fathers recognized this as well.
01:01:56.000They all recognized, every bishop in the Pentarchy recognized that the Bishop of Rome was the guy, was the number one, was the vicar of Christ on earth.
01:06:31.000Because, okay, so Ryan, I appreciate the super chats, but you know I'm Catholic.
01:06:37.000You know the responses to these questions.
01:06:40.000I don't know what you hope to achieve here.
01:06:42.000It's not about blind belief in the Pope, and this is, I guess, the misconception.
01:06:46.000There's nothing really blind about it.
01:06:49.000The reason that we believe the Pope is protected from error by Christ in matters of doctrine is because Christ said to Peter that he prays for his faith, because Peter was given the keys.
01:07:00.000Peter was the rock on which the church is built, so he has the gift of infallibility.
01:07:05.000He establishes the church, and really it dates back to the early church fathers who said, Unity proceeds from one.
01:07:13.000In order to have one holy, Catholic, and apostolic church, unity proceeds from one.
01:07:20.000To have that mass organization, you have to have one, and that's Jesus Christ, but on earth, his vicar is the Bishop of Rome.
01:08:06.000I think that when God said that he hardened Pharaoh's heart, I think that that actually doesn't mean that Pharaoh's heart hardened because he was such a hateful person.
01:08:19.000I actually believe that God's heart actually went in and violated his free will and therefore killed all the people in Egypt, killed all the first children.
01:08:36.000Well, the tradition was the Pope, and that got overwritten 500 years ago by Martin Luther, or 1,000 years ago by the schismatics in 1054.
01:08:47.000So the problem is the problem of authority.
01:08:50.000If you're God and you send your only begotten Son to save the world, and you have the Bible, you have all the rest, you have to have a church.
01:09:02.000Jesus Christ understood this, and Jesus Christ also understood that you needed to have basically like a prime minister to your head of state.
01:09:09.000You have to have somebody that's on the earth making sure that we get the message.
01:09:14.0002,000 years is a long time for a message to stay properly conveyed, both in translation, in interpretation, in execution.
01:09:25.000So to say that, oh, well, you know, the Pope is just a man, it's very easy to say, oh, you think this guy's infallible.
01:09:33.000It's a lot harder to justify any other way to believe that is coherent, that makes sense.
01:09:39.000And I don't see any other way that that makes sense.
01:09:41.000You know, when I was in my debate with Jay Dyer, he said that was circular logic to say, well, we know that the Pope is infallible because Jesus Christ made the Pope infallible.
01:10:04.000If you appeal to other men for logic, I mean, that's what's circular.
01:10:08.000And it's also ironic, he said, well, we can figure it out.
01:10:12.000That goes against the entire tradition of Eastern Orthodoxy.
01:10:15.000The Western tradition is of vigorous debate, scholasticism, all the rest.
01:10:19.000The Eastern tradition is of just purely about the experience of it.
01:10:24.000And so I don't understand how you achieve a proper understanding of what Christ came and died and all the rest in the Bible if you do not have an authority on it.
01:13:19.000But, you know, when I'm having a bad day, you know what you got to do when you have a bad day?
01:13:23.000You got to have something set aside for yourself for when you're having a bad day.
01:13:27.000This is my best advice for people that are having a bad day.
01:13:30.000Because, you know, generally I have many bad days where you live a life where people are coming after you, where it's like one day half your income is erased because Stripe decided that maker support is racist.
01:13:43.000Or it's like, You know, one day a journalist wants to accuse you of being a terrorist and ruin your life.
01:13:48.000Or one day somebody says, I don't like this spick.
01:17:27.000So, Ron Paul and Ryan Dawson, I think they're so wedded to this ideology of radical non intervention, anarchism, they just can't see what's going on in front of them.
01:18:36.000But if you want to be by development, there are sacrifices you have to make.
01:18:39.000I don't know where your grandparents live, but I guess there are zoning laws that can be put in place to protect that kind of thing.
01:18:46.000The real trick you're talking about is.
01:18:48.000Is really these negative market externalities, which is something that Ronald Coase, I believe it was.
01:18:54.000It was either Coase or Becker wrote a lot about this problem, which is, and the example they used is, what was it?
01:19:02.000It was like, what happens if there's a factory and pollution goes over into somebody's house?
01:19:08.000And it was either Coase or Becker, both from the Chicago School of Economics, said that, well, the way to settle these kinds of externalities is through like contracts and, you know, that kind of thing.
01:19:22.000It's tough because how do you balance the property rights of a factory versus the property rights of another business owner?
01:19:30.000On the one hand, the business owner has a right to have their business not have pollution on it or not have these other externalities affected.
01:19:39.000But at the same time, how far does their right extend?
01:19:42.000Do they get to control all the sky in the sea and everywhere around?
01:19:46.000So it's one of those things that has to be negotiated basically on a case by case basis.
01:19:50.000But more broadly, I mean, there's so much uninhabited land that.
01:19:55.000It's like if you want nature, I mean, you know where to find it.
01:19:58.000Let's see, do we have any more super chats slash Streamlabs?
01:21:28.000When will we unite the Pentarchy and make Catholicism great again.
01:21:31.000As soon as these schismatics submit to Rome, they have to do it.
01:21:34.000They almost did it at the Council of Florence, may I remind you, in the 15th century, during the siege of Constantinople and eventual takeover.
01:21:45.000The Council of Florence was going on, and the schismatics basically agreed okay, we recognize the primacy of Rome.
01:21:52.000Actually, I'll read it to you because it's so striking.
01:21:54.000This basically defeats all their arguments about the Pope.
01:22:00.000Because I'll show you what they decided at this council.
01:22:29.000And I'll see if I can find it for you.
01:22:32.000But basically, the gist of it is that look, if they recognized the Pope at the Council of Trent, and the only reason that they did not come together at the Council of Florence was because.
01:22:43.000The Muslims pressured the Orthodox Church in Constantinople to diverge from the Latin Church because, well, you have to understand the historical context.
01:22:55.000The Turks were invading Anatolia, which is where the Eastern Roman Empire was.
01:23:02.000And it was actually today when the Roman Empire fell.
01:23:14.000So it was actually today all that time ago, but in 1453, the Turks, the Muslims, that empire was moving into Anatolia, where Rome was, where the seat of the Eastern Church was in Constantinople, present day Istanbul.
01:23:30.000And they invaded, and while they were invading, what was ongoing was the Council of Florence, where the Latin Church and the Eastern Church had come together and they were trying to hammer out the differences finally, which among these were the idea of the Pope, the idea of the Filioque and all kinds of other issues, and they had basically come to an agreement.
01:23:50.000But then what happened was once Constantinople was sacked by the Muslims and the siege was complete, the Muslims forced down through pressure the leaders of the Orthodox Church who were going to make peace with Rome, and they instead installed and pressured into power people that were dissenting against the leadership that wanted to make a reconciliation with Rome.
01:24:13.000And so eventually the Council of Florence fell apart, and the rest is history.
01:24:56.000It says, so here, during the Council of Florence, it proclaimed both Latins and Greeks that the Roman pontiff was the foremost ecclesiastical authority in Christendom.
01:25:11.000If the Eastern Church was ready and able to affirm that the Bishop of Rome was the foremost ecclesiastical authority, I mean, you've solved the schism, and they acknowledge that.
01:25:22.000Even the Eastern Orthodox acknowledge that until they were pressured by the Saracens to rescind that.
01:25:47.000Because I had this shirt on with the buttons unbuttoned, and I had the long hair with the sideburns, so I felt like a real hippie.
01:25:57.000But let's take a look and see do we have any other Streamlabs?
01:26:00.000If not, we're going to call it a night.
01:26:03.000Let's see, we've got a couple more here.
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