America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - Shall Not Censor | America First Ep. 93

00:00:04.000 Good evening, everybody.

00:00:05.000 You are watching America First.

00:00:06.000 My name is Nicholas J. Fuentes, and we have a great show for you tonight.

00:00:10.000 We have a very friendly show, a very kind show for people that are tired of me starting fights, for people that are tired of me burning bridges and being excitable.

00:00:23.000 We have a very friendly show.

00:00:24.000 Tonight is the show for you.

00:00:26.000 If you have a problem with my recent behavior, today is National Compliment Day, and so we'll be giving out some compliments to some past rivals and adversaries, and hopefully, Hopefully, if we're all in this together, we can mend some bridges with some kind words for our other people in the movement.

00:00:45.000 There are not so many news things going on in the greater world and the greater globe and in the nation, but there are lots of things going on within the movement.

00:00:55.000 Of course, Paul Nealon was banned from Twitter for seven days, and you have to ask yourself, what was it he was banned over and why?

00:01:03.000 He was banned because he posted several images which showed Jewish representation in media, and you have to ask yourself, Why would a factual graph like that, why a factual chart like that, which simply shows which people are pulling the levers at the media, who they affiliate with, what religious affiliation they have, why is that ban worthy?

00:01:25.000 Why is that hateful?

00:01:26.000 We'll get into that.

00:01:27.000 And then if we have time, we'll get into the Logan Paul redemption.

00:01:31.000 I didn't talk about it when it happened initially, but there are some important things to go over with that, which I think are interesting.

00:01:37.000 It pertains to some of the false gods of liberalism, which among these, of Course, our democracy and so on and so forth.

00:01:45.000 And so we'll get into that.

00:01:46.000 Very good stuff there.

00:01:46.000 But before we get into any of the news, before we get into the analysis, some announcements about the show going forward.

00:01:55.000 Last night, I had a very productive night.

00:01:57.000 A lot of projects are in the works.

00:02:00.000 Once I get my buyout from America First Media, we're redoing our entire set.

00:02:05.000 I've decided on a basic design, a basic premise of what I'd like, and you're going to like it a lot.

00:02:10.000 I think it's a vast improvement over what we have right now.

00:02:14.000 And it'll look really great.

00:02:16.000 Decided on some things I'd like to get, how I'd like to change the show up a little bit.

00:02:20.000 Also, we will be launching, and tell me if you're interested in this, tell me if you're interested in this in the live chat, in the comments, on Discord, wherever you can communicate with me.

00:02:30.000 I'm thinking about launching an America First Premium Plus subscription.

00:02:35.000 Now, the Premium Plus, and this is just an idea, we're just spitballing here.

00:02:39.000 The Premium Plus would be $10 a month, and in exchange for that, you would get all of the premium membership.

00:02:47.000 And you would also get a special Sunday morning podcast, which I'm thinking will be a little bit less political, a little bit less intense, a little bit more personal, a little bit more maybe philosophical, a different side of Nick, a more personal, a more humble side of Nick for a Sunday two hour podcast.

00:03:05.000 And then in addition to that, we might do some other kinds of content.

00:03:09.000 I was thinking maybe a weekly 30 minute featurette, book reviews, movie reviews every week.

00:03:15.000 Maybe you have two, maybe you have one.

00:03:17.000 I'm not totally sure, but just let me know if you'd be interested.

00:03:20.000 Interested in something like that because I know people want different kinds of content.

00:03:24.000 Maybe if they're not wild about the nightly news format, I know people are very interested in the books I read and what I have to say about some of the cultural things and maybe a more personal side.

00:03:34.000 So if you're interested in me making that kind of content, in addition to the show, let me know if you'd be interested in the premium plus plan, which would be $10 a month.

00:03:43.000 And we probably launch that in a couple of weeks.

00:03:46.000 And then additionally, there is another thing, there's another very fun thing I've been thinking about.

00:03:51.000 A Saturday night board game stream. 0.91

00:03:54.000 And this sounds a little goofy, sounds a little silly.

00:03:57.000 I didn't consult with anybody, so maybe this is just a fever dream at 3 a.m. and not something that people would enjoy.

00:04:04.000 But I've been thinking, what if we had Saturday nights, maybe 5, 6, or 7 o'clock, a board game stream with some of your favorite personalities from Twitter?

00:04:12.000 We got on the tabletop simulator on Steam and we played Monopoly or Risk or other fun board games.

00:04:19.000 I think that would be very fun.

00:04:21.000 And I would be thinking that that would be free, that would be for everybody.

00:04:24.000 So let me know what you think about those ideas.

00:04:27.000 First, if you'd be interested in the premium plus membership, which would be the Sunday morning podcast, as well as the 30 minute featurettes.

00:04:36.000 And then let me know what you think about the board game stream.

00:04:38.000 I think those would be some more fun, different kinds of things that we could do on the show.

00:04:42.000 I'm a content machine, I pump it out all day long.

00:04:45.000 You know, I work hard, I play hard.

00:04:48.000 So let me know what you think in the comments.

00:04:50.000 The last thing before we get into the news, before we get into our compliments, is Patreon.

00:04:55.000 I don't know what's going on over at Patreon.

00:04:58.000 They've been down for about a month.

00:05:00.000 So, if you're contributing right now on Patreon, go ahead and cancel that.

00:05:04.000 I don't care if you switch it over to Maker Support or not, or where you put that, but just cancel it from Patreon because I don't believe they're charging people and I don't believe they're giving me any money.

00:05:14.000 They've been down for about two months because I think their bank accounts were closed or frozen or something.

00:05:20.000 So, if you're still donating on Patreon, pull that in.

00:05:24.000 And if you'd like, if you were giving a contribution before, if you put it in Maker Support, you can get those perks.

00:05:29.000 If you're not interested in contributing anymore, then just cancel it.

00:05:33.000 It's just kind of silly to have that going on still.

00:05:36.000 I'm not quite sure what's going on over there.

00:05:37.000 But so that's the housekeeping stuff.

00:05:40.000 A lot of housekeeping stuff these past two weeks as we figure out the transition into a more independent show.

00:05:46.000 And I think it's very much a step in the right direction.

00:05:48.000 Now that I have complete creative and financial control, it seems like we are finally moving onward and upward here, doing a real upgrade.

00:05:57.000 And so we'll be doing a big anniversary special.

00:06:00.000 I don't know if we'll just do a special stream or if we'll do a week.

00:06:04.000 Of streams the week of February the 6th.

00:06:07.000 I should have my PC built in time for that, so I'm thinking about doing a lot of guests that week to celebrate one year of America first.

00:06:15.000 I'm having that fellow from Boston Ross, the guy that edited Sam Hyde's Boston Ross video, will be editing a one year anniversary video for me and will have that done in time for February 6th, which is the anniversary.

00:06:30.000 So lots of stuff to look forward to.

00:06:32.000 With that out of the way, with all of that, I know it's a lot, it's very tedious.

00:06:36.000 And I hate the tedium.

00:06:37.000 You know, I just like to stick to the politics, but that's what happens when you're doing it independently.

00:06:42.000 But, like I said before, today is National Compliment Day.

00:06:49.000 And I know people have been saying, Nick, they say to me, Nick, I like you a lot.

00:06:55.000 I think you're a smart guy.

00:06:56.000 You got a good head on your shoulders, but you start drama with everybody. 0.99

00:07:01.000 Every day, you can't go 48 hours without starting shit with somebody in the movement. 0.97

00:07:07.000 You're starting stuff with Richard Spencer, you're starting stuff with. 0.98

00:07:10.000 Tara McCarthy, James Alsop, and so on.

00:07:13.000 And I say, you know what?

00:07:14.000 That's fair.

00:07:15.000 I say, you know what?

00:07:16.000 You're right.

00:07:17.000 You're right.

00:07:18.000 I start too much drama.

00:07:20.000 Admission.

00:07:21.000 I admit it.

00:07:22.000 And I should probably restrain myself.

00:07:24.000 I'm a little bit impulsive.

00:07:25.000 And you'll have to forgive me as a young, precocious, 19 year old, rebellious youth.

00:07:30.000 It's just sort of my nature, it's just sort of intrinsic to who I am.

00:07:34.000 But today, I hope I can mend some fences a little bit.

00:07:37.000 I hope I can build some bridges tonight with some of my past.

00:07:42.000 Rivals and adversaries here on National Compliment Day.

00:07:46.000 So, we have some very kind words for some people that we've gotten into fights with on the show before.

00:07:52.000 And I hope everyone is listening.

00:07:54.000 I hope everybody enjoys this. 0.65

00:07:56.000 Really, a heart to heart moment between me and my fellow white brothers. 0.72

00:08:00.000 H.H. Brother, in the words of Hulk Hogan.

00:08:04.000 Our first compliment goes out to Tara McCarthy.

00:08:07.000 Tara, you have a beautiful smile.

00:08:11.000 Our next compliment goes out to Patrick Casey.

00:08:14.000 Patrick, you have a very calm demeanor. 0.95

00:08:19.000 Millennial Woes, you have a lovely accent.

00:08:23.000 I really, I listen to his streams and I don't always agree with what he says, but.

00:08:27.000 I hear that Scottish accent flowing through, and it really is a beautiful thing.

00:08:33.000 I really do enjoy that.

00:08:35.000 Brittany Pettibone.

00:08:37.000 I imagine that you would make a great cook in the kitchen, really.

00:08:41.000 I imagine, you know, I look at Brittany Pettibone, very pretty girl, and I imagine her barefoot in the kitchen, whipping up a meatloaf, a pie, you know, something like that.

00:08:50.000 And I really think she would really do that very well.

00:08:53.000 I wish she'd stick to that, but I like that.

00:08:57.000 James Alsop, my friend, my brother, you're a very kind person.

00:09:03.000 I will say about James, in all the fights that we had, in all the disagreements we had, all of my issues that I have with the work ethic, with other things, he was always a kind guy, always very nice guy.

00:09:16.000 You know, me, I don't really pull any punches in terms of politics or personal.

00:09:21.000 When I engage, I engage.

00:09:23.000 And maybe that's a flaw, maybe it's not.

00:09:25.000 Some certainly would say it's not.

00:09:26.000 But James is always a sweet, kind fellow.

00:09:29.000 And so, James.

00:09:31.000 You're a kind person.

00:09:33.000 Richard Spencer.

00:09:34.000 Dickie.

00:09:35.000 Dickie Do.

00:09:36.000 Now, Dickie had some very unkind things to say to me on Thursday when he called me up.

00:09:43.000 And we'll see what happens with that.

00:09:44.000 But he called me up on Thursday.

00:09:46.000 He had some very not nice things to say to me.

00:09:48.000 But, you know, I am a Christian.

00:09:50.000 I turn the other cheek.

00:09:51.000 And so I'll say, Dickie Do, you have a way with words.

00:09:55.000 I must say, you know, I watch him speak, and you can tell that what he's saying is very important.

00:10:00.000 Because he believes it's very important.

00:10:02.000 So when he's out there and he's talking about fundamentally and all the rest, and he's, you know, however many times he says Richard B. Spencer himself, I really think the guy's got a way with words.

00:10:13.000 Evan McLaren, you're a really smart guy.

00:10:16.000 You can tell he's a smart guy because his cranium, you can tell a big brain is contained in this cranium.

00:10:26.000 Mega mind.

00:10:27.000 That was almost an insult.

00:10:29.000 I take that back.

00:10:30.000 But he's a very smart guy.

00:10:31.000 Very smart guy.

00:10:32.000 I really believe that.

00:10:34.000 And last but certainly not least, the last rival who I engaged with this evening, just shortly before the show, a lot of not nice things he had to say to me.

00:10:43.000 I don't know where it came from.

00:10:45.000 Really, I've never had a problem with the guy before.

00:10:47.000 And I watched his videos occasionally and I followed him for a time.

00:10:51.000 He never followed back, so I unfollowed, not very respectful to not reciprocate.

00:10:56.000 But I never had a problem with this guy.

00:10:57.000 And all of a sudden, he comes at me today with this vitriol, with this hatred.

00:11:02.000 Does he have a crush on me?

00:11:04.000 I don't know.

00:11:05.000 Who could say?

00:11:06.000 Who could say, all I'm saying is if he has a crush, going about it the wrong way?

00:11:10.000 But the old hype, better known, I believe, as Faulkner, I'm not totally sure the real identity.

00:11:17.000 I have to say, Mr. Faulkner, you are fierce, girlfriend.

00:11:22.000 And so those are our compliments for National Compliment Day.

00:11:25.000 I think it's a fun little thing that we do on this show.

00:11:28.000 Usually it's very nasty, it can be very negative, very pugnacious, but just a nice little thing I thought I would do here on National Compliment Day to pay it forward a little bit. 1.00

00:11:39.000 In the Christian way. 0.69

00:11:40.000 And so we hope everybody was listening to those compliments.

00:11:43.000 We hope the haters and the rivals, we can all come together. 0.99

00:11:48.000 I hope that's better for all the fags out there who wanted to be touchy and feely and sweet that we got our compliments in there. 0.99

00:11:55.000 But so those are our compliments. 1.00

00:11:57.000 Now, to get into the news on a more serious note here, on a more serious note, we have to get into the news here about our good friend Paul Nealon.

00:12:08.000 Now, Paul Nealon, we touched on this briefly yesterday. 0.58

00:12:13.000 We talked about how he really went hard at Ben Shapiro, he really went hard on all these Israel First.

00:12:18.000 Type characters.

00:12:19.000 He really went hard on the Ben Shapiro.

00:12:22.000 And that was a really big thing because Ben Shapiro, you know, and we touched on this briefly yesterday, but Ben Shapiro is, in the words of Fox News, in the words of many conservative magazines, and I think it's basically indisputable at this point.

00:12:35.000 In terms of the conservative establishment, he's the number one conservative in the country right now, number one conservative commentator.

00:12:43.000 And that was a role, I don't really know who held that before.

00:12:47.000 I guess it was kind of a little bit loose.

00:12:49.000 Under Barack Obama, who was the number one guy?

00:12:51.000 Was it Hannity?

00:12:51.000 Was it Rush?

00:12:52.000 Was it O'Reilly?

00:12:54.000 But Ben Shapiro's really risen up in a big way.

00:12:56.000 He's got a million followers.

00:12:57.000 And so that Paul Nealon was able to engage with Ben Shapiro.

00:13:00.000 That Ben Shapiro touched on this, I think, was a massive thing.

00:13:04.000 And I don't know if I understated that yesterday, but I really want to drive that home.

00:13:08.000 That you had, because it's one thing if you have Ali Stuckey comment on it, it's one thing if you have one of the flying monkeys from Daily Wire commenting on it, like Elliot Hamilton or Aaron Bandler.

00:13:19.000 But when you have Ben Shapiro, who in many people's estimation is.

00:13:24.000 The whiz of the conservative movement debating Paul Nealon on whether or not Jewish people go to hell according to the Bible. 0.99

00:13:30.000 That's a very big step in the right direction. 1.00

00:13:32.000 The other thing we didn't really touch on so much is the significance of the fact that he got banned from Twitter for seven days.

00:13:39.000 I didn't really know that yesterday.

00:13:40.000 I wasn't really sure.

00:13:41.000 People told me he was suspended, but his account was still there.

00:13:45.000 And then later I saw on Gab that he was suspended for seven days.

00:13:49.000 And this is really something peculiar with the social media.

00:13:53.000 We are living in a time right now where social media.

00:13:56.000 That's the way that you are able to communicate with the masses.

00:14:00.000 If you are a political dissident, if you do not fall into line with the neoliberal, the neoconservative establishment, if you don't fit into the mainstream kind of center left, center right paradigm, that is your only output or your only outlet.

00:14:16.000 That's your only recourse.

00:14:18.000 When you consider that in the age of mass communication, people are not getting their information, and even today from newspapers, but more broadly from Word of mouth, from people they know, from going to speeches.

00:14:29.000 They get it from their newspapers, and that's diminishing.

00:14:32.000 They get it from television.

00:14:33.000 They get it from radio.

00:14:35.000 And you think very carefully about these mediums of communication, the media, media being plural for medium.

00:14:42.000 Think about the media of communication here, which are the newspaper, the print, the radio, and the television.

00:14:49.000 Think about how you would be able to spread your political message in the absence of the internet.

00:14:55.000 You have to, if you want to write for a newspaper, you have to go through an editor.

00:14:59.000 You know, and think about what it would take to start a newspaper, even.

00:15:02.000 To start a newspaper, it's not exactly a competitive market in the same way that social media is or YouTube is.

00:15:09.000 If you have a profound message that resonates with people on YouTube or on Twitter or on Facebook, it will get heard.

00:15:16.000 It has the potential to go viral, and you can bypass these things.

00:15:19.000 It really is, in many aspects, kind of the, I guess, really a manifestation of this market mentality in media, in the sense that with the newspaper, There's tremendous investment capital that goes into this.

00:15:33.000 You have to buy a printing press.

00:15:35.000 You have to hire people.

00:15:36.000 You have to know what you're doing.

00:15:37.000 There are significant, in technical language, barriers to entry in this market.

00:15:43.000 And so, if you're Paul Nealon and you're out there preaching a radical message, which in my opinion is not radical, but in maybe the opinion of the media, the mainstream media, is a radical message, if you want to go to start a newspaper or to work at a newspaper or to write for a newspaper, you either have to go through an editor, you have to go through probably 10 or 15 different people to get published, whether that be emailing somebody or writing a letter to them or getting it through an editor and then another editor and then it gets to go ahead and so on.

00:16:13.000 Or you're left with starting your own newspaper, and good luck with that, right?

00:16:16.000 I mean, we know who runs the newspapers.

00:16:18.000 It's people with money.

00:16:19.000 And you look at who controls the newspapers.

00:16:20.000 The circulation for the biggest newspapers is controlled by very small corporate hands, people who can afford to take losses.

00:16:29.000 You know, people that can afford either through their reputation or through them having lasted a long time or people reading them for a long time.

00:16:38.000 These are the only ones that are left out there to put their message into print and go out there.

00:16:42.000 So you have these significant barriers to entry.

00:16:45.000 That's not an option.

00:16:46.000 You think about television.

00:16:48.000 Television is tightly controlled not only by those barriers to entry, in the sense that it's very difficult to get on the television, not the internet, but to get on television and broadcast the television channels, digital television channels.

00:17:03.000 You have to get a station, you have to broadcast with a big effing antenna, you have to get cameras, you have to get producers.

00:17:10.000 The investment capital is there too.

00:17:12.000 The same factors in, the same consideration factors in with smaller and smaller corporate hands.

00:17:19.000 Controlling all the television stations.

00:17:21.000 You know, you have a local NBC, a local Fox, a local ABC, CBS, and every major city in the country.

00:17:29.000 And on top of that, to compete with these people is impossible.

00:17:31.000 And then you add the FCC into the equation, where in order to get a license to broadcast, you have to go through the government as well.

00:17:39.000 So you think about how you'd be able to spread your message on television. 0.96

00:17:42.000 And again, you're either going through 10 or 15 or 20 different people to get on television, 10 or 15 or 20 different people who are covering their own ass.

00:17:51.000 Who are not going to put out a political message that is maybe in the fringe, maybe a little bit outside of the mainstream, or you're left with the near impossible task of starting your own television station, right?

00:18:02.000 And then there's radio, and all the same things apply to radio the same FCC things, the same monopoly or oligopoly by major corporations, the same barrier to entry.

00:18:12.000 And so you think about 21st century mass communications, and particularly in a democracy, a democracy, a quote unquote democracy, or a democratic republic, at least we have a democratic system and that people vote.

00:18:25.000 For the representatives, it hinges on people being informed.

00:18:29.000 People being informed about the issues, people being informed about the candidates.

00:18:34.000 It hinges on the sort of competitive and market aspect to politics in the sense that if your representatives are not representing you well, if your party is not going in the right direction, the reason, supposedly, that we have democracy is that somebody who is a dissident, somebody who's a mover and shaker, would come in and replace them.

00:18:53.000 But we imagine this empire that we've constructed of 330 million people from coast to coast.

00:18:59.000 And you imagine how these mechanisms can function in the absence of a free and open network for communication, in the absence of somebody being able to get fair time on television or on the radio or in the newspaper, somebody who's able to jump into the market.

00:19:15.000 And when you don't have that, the only other alternative is social media.

00:19:20.000 The only other alternative is Twitter, it's YouTube, it's Facebook.

00:19:25.000 And a lot of, I think, old people maybe don't quite understand this.

00:19:28.000 They think Twitter is a silly thing.

00:19:30.000 And I think that's because they don't quite understand it.

00:19:32.000 They don't quite understand.

00:19:33.000 The consequences of this.

00:19:35.000 That if we're talking about censorship on Twitter, if we're talking about censorship on YouTube, it's not something as simple as, well, you can't post about what you eat for lunch, which is the common boomer neg at social media.

00:19:47.000 Well, we don't care what you're eating for lunch. 0.59

00:19:49.000 Why are you tweeting about what you're eating?

00:19:52.000 But this is the only way.

00:19:53.000 This is the democratization, the decentralization of mass communications.

00:19:57.000 It's the only way in the 21st century that you can get a dissident message out there.

00:20:03.000 And forget even a political message, forget a political candidate.

00:20:06.000 Forget Paul Nealon for a moment.

00:20:08.000 Just think about information.

00:20:10.000 What he was suspended on Twitter for saying was a simple chart.

00:20:15.000 He posted a simple chart which showed Jewish representation in media.

00:20:20.000 And it didn't say Jewish people were controlling the world because nobody believes that.

00:20:25.000 It didn't say that Jewish people conspired to do this and it's this big conspiracy.

00:20:31.000 And I don't think that's what Paul was saying.

00:20:33.000 It wasn't to say that this is even necessarily a bad thing, it wasn't even necessarily to say that this should be reformed.

00:20:39.000 It was simply to observe and acknowledge that this is the state of our media.

00:20:44.000 And we think about how important media is.

00:20:46.000 We think about how most people get their political positions from media.

00:20:50.000 You know, how do you get your news?

00:20:51.000 You go on Twitter and you check out what the Associated Press is saying.

00:20:55.000 You turn on the television and you see what Fox News is saying.

00:20:58.000 And so it's kind of important who is running the media, right?

00:21:01.000 It's kind of important to see if the media has a particular bias, if the media is covering things in a certain way, in a prejudicial way.

00:21:09.000 They're not covering some things and they're covering other things and they're covering in a certain way.

00:21:14.000 We have to start asking if they have such a strong sway over the country and its politics, it matters.

00:21:21.000 It then matters who is pulling the switches, who is pulling the levers.

00:21:24.000 And so all Paul Nealon was saying was look, look at some of these patterns about the media.

00:21:31.000 And you can agree or disagree with whether that's legitimate information.

00:21:35.000 You can agree or disagree or whether that's a problem, whether that's a conspiracy.

00:21:38.000 Who knows, right?

00:21:39.000 I mean, maybe it got that way because of IQ differences.

00:21:43.000 Maybe it got that way because of.

00:21:45.000 Group evolutionary strategy, maybe, you know, who knows?

00:21:47.000 Maybe it's just a big coincidence.

00:21:49.000 But the fact that he was putting out information and he got suspended, think of that as wholly divorced from politics, where things that they don't teach you in school, things that they don't teach you in college, things that they don't tell you about on television or the radio or print, you cannot now put out information that is outside of those parameters.

00:22:08.000 Isn't that a terrifying thing?

00:22:11.000 It's become a meme to talk about free speech, free expression, the free press, and so on and so forth.

00:22:17.000 But we really have to come to grips with the reality that in five to 10 years, if things continue on their present trajectory and there's no action by government, there's no action grassroots by the people to stop this kind of thing, will we be living in a world where the only place that we can get information or hear about news or learn about political candidates is through these tightly controlled, censored, and suppressed outlets?

00:22:43.000 Is that something that even a liberal would think is a good idea?

00:22:46.000 And, you know, they say, oh, well, it's hateful.

00:22:50.000 It's Nazi, it's this and that, but then of course the question becomes and it's trite, no doubt, but who decides?

00:22:56.000 Who decides what is a Nazi?

00:22:58.000 Who decides what is hateful?

00:23:01.000 I think everybody could agree that there are some things that should be left off the internet.

00:23:04.000 And I'm not even talking about quote unquote racist things, but for example, I don't know, death threats or something like that.

00:23:12.000 But although we can all agree that there are some things that we would not like to see on the internet, although we can all agree that there are some things that we would rather not see on the internet, the question then becomes in the absence of some kind of omnipotent, omniscient force that can judge perfectly what is and what is not distasteful, who is going to call?

00:23:34.000 Who is going to make the call as to what is acceptable and what is not acceptable?

00:23:37.000 And that's the question, I think, for a lot of things, but more particularly for social media.

00:23:42.000 Many liberals, many center.

00:23:44.000 Type people might say, well, you know, it's a good thing he got censored.

00:23:48.000 And again, it's trite, but what happens when they come after you?

00:23:50.000 What happens when they decide that you're the Nazi? 0.96

00:23:53.000 What happens when they decide that you are the hateful, the racist one?

00:23:58.000 You know, at what point do we decide that we are going to have to talk about groups?

00:24:02.000 We're going to have to say negative things about groups.

00:24:04.000 We're going to have to cite statistics that have negative consequences for groups.

00:24:09.000 This is the problem they're having in Europe, where if you even observe the fact that there is a gross misrepresentation or rather overrepresentation of Muslims in rape crimes and violent crimes and terrorism, the police show up at your house.

00:24:24.000 This happens in the United Kingdom.

00:24:26.000 In Canada, a good friend of mine who was living in Canada, he lives in Scotland, but I guess he was in Canada for some reason.

00:24:32.000 His phone was confiscated from him and they downloaded everything the police did to investigate him for hate speech. 0.89

00:24:39.000 Is that the country we're going to live in?

00:24:41.000 And then, of course, that's only within the information, but then just think about the political consequences.

00:24:46.000 If a politician is left at the mercy of these information gatekeepers, Keepers.

00:24:52.000 If Paul Nealon, if any one of us tries to run for office and we are at the mercy of whether Twitter or YouTube deems our message acceptable, at what point do we nationalize social media?

00:25:02.000 At what point do we recognize that the media and social media in particular is controlling our government, is to some degree influencing the outcome of political elections and other political events?

00:25:15.000 And so we really have to start thinking about that in a serious way.

00:25:17.000 And Paul Nealon has legislation ready to go, shall not censor legislation, which I think is brilliant.

00:25:24.000 It was written by a lawyer.

00:25:26.000 And he has it ready to go if he gets elected.

00:25:28.000 And it's just dubious why nobody else has taken a look at this because this is probably the best solution I've seen so far to address this.

00:25:36.000 And we wish him the best.

00:25:38.000 Godspeed to Paul Nealon.

00:25:40.000 He's out there, he's pushing the envelope, and he's really going at it hard with the Shall Not Censor stuff.

00:25:45.000 And you really have to admire the guy.

00:25:47.000 This is somebody who sees something wrong in the country, and instead of whining about it, instead of complaining about it, he goes out there and he does something about it.

00:25:57.000 This is a guy who.

00:25:58.000 Who did a wonderful job in the private sector, was a blue collar worker, a good, God fearing Christian, a family man who decided towards, you know, after he's accomplished, he's reached the heights in business, he's reached his zenith in business, and, you know, maybe that's not the case.

00:26:15.000 Hopefully he still has room to grow there as well.

00:26:17.000 But he's decided now it's my obligation, it's my duty to go out there and make these reforms, and I have to go out there and do it myself.

00:26:25.000 And so God bless him for that.

00:26:27.000 We really wish him the best.

00:26:28.000 I'll be out there campaigning for him.

00:26:30.000 Over the summer, you should be too, and go and check them out.

00:26:33.000 But this is some groundbreaking stuff.

00:26:35.000 And so that's Paul Neal, and that's the censorship.

00:26:37.000 It just really is important that we revisit the free speech question because I think a lot of people have maybe been turned off to it a little bit because it's been co opted by people who don't know why they're really fighting for it.

00:26:50.000 You know, Ben Shapiro claims he's for free speech, Dave Rubin claims he's for free speech.

00:26:55.000 All these people claim they're for free speech, and they don't know why.

00:26:58.000 They don't know to what end they're for free speech.

00:27:00.000 They believe in free speech in and of itself as though it's.

00:27:04.000 By some arbitrary decision, a virtue or something good in itself.

00:27:10.000 There's not a why.

00:27:10.000 There's not a consequentialist explanation for why they're fighting for it.

00:27:15.000 And I think that leads them then to not fight for it in the right way.

00:27:18.000 You know, Dave Rubin and Ben Shapiro talk about free speech, and then they talk about how the real racists should be hunted down and eliminated from the internet and fired from their jobs.

00:27:29.000 And we have to fight for it at this point for a tactical advantage.

00:27:33.000 So there's that.

00:27:35.000 And then the question becomes and then just outside of Paul Nealon entirely, why was he banned for that particular infographic?

00:27:42.000 Why was he banned for that particular infographic?

00:27:44.000 You simply have to ask yourself that question, honestly.

00:27:49.000 Not even to try and put in a subversive message, not even to try and subconsciously dog whistle at anybody, but simply to ask a very honest question.

00:28:01.000 He posted an infographic saying, This is the overrepresentation of this class of people in a very important institution.

00:28:08.000 Why?

00:28:09.000 Why was that taken down?

00:28:11.000 And then, moreover, you have to ask yourself about the overrepresentation.

00:28:14.000 But why was that infographic taken down? 0.91

00:28:17.000 When Jake Tapper talks about how Donald Trump's cabinet is all white people, when I believe it was The Atlantic said that Donald Trump's cabinet was all Irish people, all the conservatives are mixed, they're all brittle boned Irish people.

00:28:30.000 It was very hateful stuff from, I believe it was The Atlantic, it might not have been, but there was some paper a couple of weeks ago or a month ago who was talking about how there was this disrepresentation or misrepresentation or overrepresentation of Irish people.

00:28:46.000 In the conservative movement, but particularly among the Trumpist or Trumpian conservatives.

00:28:51.000 And so, why is it okay for Jake Tapper?

00:28:53.000 Why is it okay for Jake Tapper and The Atlantic and The Huffington Post and The Root to talk about how the 1% is all white men and the media is controlled by white men and the government's controlled by white men and the richest people are all white men?

00:29:08.000 Why is it okay to always point out how many men are represented, how many white people are overrepresented, the historical crimes of white people?

00:29:17.000 When you start talking about over representation of, oh, I don't know, blacks in violent crimes, when you start talking about the over representation of Muslims in terrorism, when you start talking about the over representation of Jewish people in media, then suddenly it becomes a big problem. 0.55

00:29:33.000 Then suddenly you're a hater. 0.82

00:29:34.000 Then suddenly you're not allowed on Twitter.

00:29:36.000 You're not allowed on YouTube.

00:29:37.000 You're not allowed on Facebook.

00:29:39.000 Why is that?

00:29:39.000 Why the double standard?

00:29:41.000 You have to ask yourself why political correctness functions in the way that it does.

00:29:46.000 People all, I think, can contend with political correctness.

00:29:49.000 They all.

00:29:50.000 Have dealt with it in some capacity, and I think intuitively they kind of understand what it's about.

00:29:56.000 And at the core of it, it is about simply you can criticize white people and nobody else.

00:30:02.000 White people are fair game, white men in particular. 0.99

00:30:05.000 Their ancestors were evil, fair game. 1.00

00:30:09.000 They are overrepresented in everything and they need to be taken down, that's fair game. 1.00

00:30:13.000 White people are dying out, they're being genocided, and that's a good thing, fair game. 1.00

00:30:17.000 White people have no culture, their culture is silly, they can't dance, they're goofy people, fair game. 1.00

00:30:23.000 Black people are overrepresented in crime. 1.00

00:30:25.000 That's not acceptable. 1.00

00:30:26.000 Martin Luther King Jr. was a philanderer. 0.99

00:30:28.000 He was a degenerate and a communist. 0.99

00:30:30.000 That's not okay. 0.96

00:30:31.000 It's about what he represented. 0.97

00:30:33.000 Muslims are overrepresented in terrorism. 1.00

00:30:35.000 Their prophet was a murderer. 1.00

00:30:37.000 You can't say that.

00:30:37.000 That's not okay.

00:30:38.000 Jewish people are overrepresented in media and they established their ethnostate through massacres, through genocide, and through hijacking our government through foreign lobbies. 0.94

00:30:47.000 That's not okay. 0.86

00:30:48.000 And not only is that last one not okay, but by the way, that one's not okay anywhere.

00:30:52.000 Right? 0.98

00:30:52.000 The black over representation, the Muslim over representation, they'll touch that on Fox News. 0.98

00:30:57.000 The last one, they don't get to that so much. 0.99

00:30:58.000 Why?

00:31:01.000 All we want to do here is put America first and they force our hand.

00:31:05.000 All we want to do here is put America first, and they come at us with the speech codes.

00:31:10.000 They hunt us down, and we have to say these things.

00:31:13.000 We have to ask the tough questions.

00:31:15.000 So that's Paul Nealon.

00:31:16.000 The last thing we want to get into today is this Logan Paul scandal here.

00:31:23.000 And I didn't want to talk about it, I really didn't want to talk about this because, and this happened a couple of weeks ago, if you recall.

00:31:29.000 Logan Paul, who I guess is some kind of a YouTube person, he was on Disney Channel, and then he got on YouTube to do vlogs.

00:31:37.000 And, um, I didn't really know who he was until this whole thing happened.

00:31:41.000 A couple of weeks ago, he was filming a video in the Japanese suicide forest where people, sad people in Japan, go to kill themselves, I guess.

00:31:51.000 It's a popular destination for that kind of activity.

00:31:54.000 Logan Paul was in the suicide forest filming a video and he saw somebody who had killed them, a fresh corpse, essentially, and he made fun of it.

00:32:02.000 He was joking about it.

00:32:03.000 I guess he wasn't serious enough.

00:32:05.000 As we got all kinds of backlash, he got a strike on YouTube and I forget, like some sponsors pulled out.

00:32:11.000 Like he was severely penalized for it.

00:32:12.000 And now, Now he's back today with this seven minute video about suicide prevention.

00:32:18.000 And the reason why I'm talking about this, there's a reason why I'm talking about this.

00:32:23.000 I don't care about Logan Paul.

00:32:24.000 I don't care about vlogs and things that go on.

00:32:26.000 I would have been happy not to address it.

00:32:28.000 But you see this story play out where, and it's also phony, by the way, right?

00:32:33.000 I mean, this is somebody who is not very funny, is not very interesting, but he's loud and he's obnoxious.

00:32:39.000 And you know what?

00:32:39.000 God bless him.

00:32:40.000 He's making money.

00:32:40.000 He's out there.

00:32:41.000 He's doing very well for himself.

00:32:43.000 I don't mean to wish him harm simply because he's doing well for himself.

00:32:46.000 If people are doing well, God bless him.

00:32:48.000 But, you know, just descriptively, this is not somebody who's particularly funny.

00:32:53.000 I don't think he's particularly talented.

00:32:55.000 You know, he's not like a singer.

00:32:56.000 He doesn't dance.

00:32:57.000 He's not, you know, even like with a Jacob Sartorius, for example.

00:33:01.000 This is somebody who's talented.

00:33:02.000 This is somebody who is a musical person.

00:33:04.000 But Logan Paul, I think he just goes out there and he, I guess he just creates good, entertaining content, which is what we try to do on the show as well.

00:33:12.000 And so he goes out there and he does this kind of goofy thing and people get very angry.

00:33:16.000 And now he comes back and he does the suicide thing.

00:33:19.000 And it's all very phony.

00:33:20.000 People get very upset about this.

00:33:22.000 People get very upset about him in the suicide force.

00:33:25.000 There's all this outrage against him.

00:33:28.000 There's still outrage about the suicide thing.

00:33:30.000 I see people tweeting the prevention video today, or people are tweeting, this is not good enough.

00:33:35.000 He doesn't mean it, and so on.

00:33:37.000 And the lesson here, the broader cultural and political lesson of Logan Paul, is that the masses get what they deserve.

00:33:48.000 They get what they deserve.

00:33:50.000 This idea that there is some kind of unique Value in popular opinion, like the people, the people with a capital P in terms of the mob, is righteous or just or they should govern.

00:34:04.000 This is a very liberal idea.

00:34:05.000 And who's the fellow who talks about this a lot?

00:34:09.000 The linguistics fellow.

00:34:11.000 Noam Chomsky talks a lot about this.

00:34:13.000 I watched his documentary on Netflix about how the United States has been becoming less democratic or more democratic or so on.

00:34:20.000 And there's this fixation, I think, in the left and in the broader American mythology, I think, in the last 50 to 100 years has been.

00:34:27.000 We have to expand the franchise.

00:34:29.000 We have to democratize.

00:34:30.000 The more the people get to choose, the more the people get to decide, the better. 0.97

00:34:35.000 And this Logan Paul episode illustrates why that is wrong, why the mob gets what they deserve, why nine times out of ten, when people are not feeling so hot, when they're not doing a great job, of course, there are some nefarious actors and malicious actors involved, but they get what they deserve in the sense that they propped up this guy, Logan Paul, who is a silly person. 0.83

00:34:56.000 This is not a responsible person. 0.57

00:34:58.000 And yet they expect responsibility.

00:35:00.000 This is not somebody who they've given a platform who is going to treat this subject with earnestness, with seriousness, and then they're outraged when he isn't.

00:35:08.000 And then on top of that, then they all get played.

00:35:10.000 I mean, that's kind of the beautiful part Logan Paul is playing them like a fiddle.

00:35:15.000 He goes out with the apology, he comes out with the redemption video, and people eat it up, and they deserve this.

00:35:21.000 They deserve to get played.

00:35:23.000 And more broadly, the skepticism of the mob expands to the hypocrisy of the mob in the sense that in the beginning of it, Everybody came after Logan Paul because of the video.

00:35:34.000 And I had to defend the guy because whenever a lot of people get mad at somebody, I tend to sympathize with them because a lot of people get mad at me.

00:35:41.000 And the reason being is because these are people who every day watch violent movies.

00:35:48.000 They watch violent movies. 0.83

00:35:50.000 They support people like Barack Obama, who does real heinous things in the Middle East, who commits real war crimes, someone like Hillary Clinton, who is really a criminal, who really is responsible for killing people. 0.67

00:36:01.000 You know, they go around.

00:36:02.000 I'm sure all the people who are very offended and very upset about Logan Paul making fun of the suicide force, these are the same kinds of people who will tell people like me or people like James or other people to kill themselves, right?

00:36:15.000 On Twitter.

00:36:15.000 And we've seen this behavior before.

00:36:18.000 And so the lesson of the Logan Paul episode is just that the mob, the people, is not this vaunted, righteous, and justified entity in and of itself.

00:36:27.000 This is a faction like any other.

00:36:28.000 This is a faction with its systemic flaws, with its malice.

00:36:33.000 With its mistakes, just like any other faction.

00:36:36.000 And so, when we think about politics, when we think about culture, and there is this prevailing mythology in the minds of the American people that does motivate people, I think, which does change the way people think about things, we have to be skeptical of the mob.

00:36:49.000 We have to look at examples like this and other examples in pop culture, which are illustrative, and say the mob should not be absolutist.

00:36:58.000 The mob should not govern the country.

00:37:00.000 And so, while that doesn't mean that the people shouldn't have a say, while that doesn't mean that the people should be franchised or have enfranchisement to an extent, Just this obsession.

00:37:09.000 You know, I saw an article the other day by, I think his name is like Jack Smith or something for Mike.com, talking about felons' rights, how we need to expand the vote to felons, to the millions of felons who are disenfranchised.

00:37:23.000 And I think, what is this driving force?

00:37:26.000 What is this driving impulse and pathology of the American people to see people not being able to vote as necessarily a bad thing?

00:37:35.000 Why is it that you want felons to vote?

00:37:37.000 Why do people vote?

00:37:38.000 Why should people vote?

00:37:40.000 You know, should just anybody be voting?

00:37:42.000 Should just anybody be able to go out there and give a qualified political opinion?

00:37:47.000 I think we have to get away from a lot of these things.

00:37:50.000 I think we have to really restructure our government and our society on the basis of some kind of a hierarchy, on some kind of a balance of power between the different estates, you know, and this was what the founders intended from the beginning.

00:38:04.000 So that's Logan Paul.

00:38:05.000 Maybe people are saying that's an extrapolation.

00:38:07.000 Maybe people are saying that's a stretch.

00:38:09.000 But I really think when you see these kinds of things, when you look at The VMAs, when you look at Logan Paul, when you look at what people are attracted towards in the modern day, and you have parallel with this, this political impulse on the part of many, this presumption on the part of many that democracy should be the natural state, it's the just state, democratization should be the North Star.

00:38:31.000 I think you have to become skeptical of this.

00:38:34.000 And so we look back in history at all the times when the vote was expanded, and it was expanded first to non property owning people, and then it was expanded to not just white people, and then it was expanded to women.

00:38:44.000 And then it was expanded to felons and communists and foreigners and illegals.

00:38:49.000 At what point does it end? 0.51

00:38:50.000 You know, if you're for democratization, if you're for enfranchisement, why should an illegal not be able to vote, right?

00:38:56.000 I mean, at what point do you draw the line?

00:38:58.000 Why should a welfare recipient not be able to vote?

00:39:00.000 Why should somebody who's living in Africa not be able to vote?

00:39:03.000 Isn't their opinion just as good as anybody else's? 1.00

00:39:06.000 And then when you start explaining to yourself, oh, well, they shouldn't be able to vote because they're not here and they have no skin in the game.

00:39:11.000 Okay, well, then why does somebody on welfare have skin in the game?

00:39:14.000 Why does an illegal have skin in the game? 0.99

00:39:15.000 Why does a first generation immigrant have skin in the game? 1.00

00:39:18.000 Why do people who don't own property have skin in the game? 1.00

00:39:20.000 And on and on and on.

00:39:22.000 And so we have to really take a hard look at this system, which we take for granted, which we take for a given, and start really asking questions about it on what.

00:39:30.000 Legs, does it have to stand?

00:39:32.000 Is there a foundation there or is it built on a pile of sand?

00:39:36.000 In the words of Patrick Buchanan, I think it is.

00:39:38.000 So that's Logan Paul.

00:39:40.000 Kind of a stretch, kind of an extrapolation.

00:39:42.000 Slow news day, admittedly, but I do see these pop culture things and I just get very skeptical when people start talking about the people and the mob and, well, people think this and people think that.

00:39:56.000 It's simply not about that.

00:39:58.000 So that's Logan Paul.

00:39:59.000 We will get into your super chats tonight and we will see what the people are saying this evening.

00:40:07.000 Let's see.

00:40:07.000 Let me pull out the live chat here.

00:40:11.000 Dominic Liberator signed me up for a Premium Plus Platinum Game of the Year edition.

00:40:17.000 I'd love a Sunday show.

00:40:18.000 Okay, so we have one vote for the Premium Plus show.

00:40:23.000 And, you know, again, we're just trying to experiment with some different forms of content.

00:40:28.000 You know, maybe it'll make me a little bit more human.

00:40:30.000 People get five hours a week of, you know, Nick punching and doing the new stuff.

00:40:35.000 And then it's fun.

00:40:36.000 It's what we do.

00:40:37.000 But, Maybe some other fun kinds of things would be interesting.

00:40:41.000 Forrest says First 30 premium plus members get a free America First mug.

00:40:49.000 Well, I'll have to look into doing some more merch.

00:40:51.000 I can promise you there is more merch on the way.

00:40:54.000 I've been thinking about designs.

00:40:56.000 I have a crack team of merch distributors that live with me that are ready to go on that.

00:41:02.000 And so we are looking at that.

00:41:04.000 We're just trying to get on our feet here.

00:41:06.000 It's funny because after every show, I go into the Discord and I say, okay, we got the PC coming.

00:41:11.000 We have a new set designed.

00:41:13.000 We have this and that, and we're ready to go.

00:41:15.000 Nick, what are you doing in the summer?

00:41:16.000 Nick, what are you doing in 2019?

00:41:18.000 Nick, when's the college?

00:41:19.000 It's like, I just lost my company a week ago.

00:41:22.000 We're taking it a day at a time.

00:41:24.000 You know, so there's that.

00:41:27.000 But we will be figuring out some merch in February.

00:41:31.000 I will say we will have it figured out.

00:41:33.000 We'll get that started.

00:41:34.000 We will initiate that in February, I imagine.

00:41:37.000 We have our PC.

00:41:39.000 Which should all the parts should be coming here by the first?

00:41:42.000 I know now we have our motherboard, we have our what the hell, what is that?

00:41:48.000 We have our memory stick, we have, I don't know what that is, we have another thing.

00:41:56.000 I just got my case in the mail, and so I'll be putting that together hopefully by February first.

00:42:01.000 We'll have the anniversary week, that'll be pretty hectic.

00:42:04.000 Once the buyout comes through, and we're working on that, they still I am still a 33% shareholder in America First Media, even though they operate the company like I don't.

00:42:13.000 Own anything, or like I don't work there anymore.

00:42:16.000 I still own 33% of that company because they haven't bought me out and they haven't dissolved.

00:42:21.000 And so we're looking at that.

00:42:23.000 Once I get that money, I'll be able to pull the trigger on the set.

00:42:25.000 It's just simply, you know, that I never got a check from America First Media.

00:42:29.000 So don't have a lot of disposable income to drop a couple of grand on a new set.

00:42:34.000 But that is forthcoming.

00:42:36.000 The new kinds of content, hopefully we have all that sorted out in the next couple of weeks.

00:42:41.000 And then we should be able to do the merch.

00:42:42.000 But that's a good idea.

00:42:45.000 And let's see.

00:42:47.000 Alcibades, Alcibades, I can never pronounce the name, says, Ever go to Latin Mass, Nick?

00:42:54.000 Ironically, I have to go to San Fagsico just to see one. 0.59

00:42:58.000 Love it because Lingua Latina Dicto. 0.99

00:43:01.000 Yeah, no, I've never been to the Latin Mass.

00:43:03.000 I'm a little bit intimidated only because I don't know what the protocol is. 0.97

00:43:08.000 I don't want to go there and look like an idiot and be the only one who doesn't know the program, doesn't know what's going on. 0.93

00:43:20.000 So, sorry, I had to take a little sip there. 0.98

00:43:23.000 So, I want to be able to go there and know the protocol.

00:43:26.000 I'll have to ask around.

00:43:27.000 I know Sean.

00:43:28.000 Has been to the Latin masses. 0.96

00:43:29.000 Maybe I'll ask Faith because she's an expert on that.

00:43:32.000 And also, the other one is pretty close to me. 0.88

00:43:35.000 The Latin mass is a little bit out of the way, but you know, for the Lord, nothing should be out of the way, right? 0.92

00:43:40.000 Simon Scola is saying Hail Victory bad optics. 0.78

00:43:43.000 It is, it is.

00:43:44.000 Unless you're saying it ironically, it's bad optics.

00:43:46.000 Look, it's very simple.

00:43:49.000 It's very simple.

00:43:50.000 People come to me all the time and they say, Nick, is liking Catboys bad optics?

00:43:54.000 Nick, is having a weird e relationship with Paul Town bad optics?

00:43:58.000 Nick, is Minecraft bad optics?

00:44:00.000 Really, guys, it's so simple.

00:44:02.000 Bad optics falls under two categories.

00:44:02.000 It's so simple.

00:44:06.000 Talking about Nazis, that falls into not waving swastika flags, not quoting Hitler.

00:44:12.000 That would fall under the first category of bad optics, which is unironically looking like a Nazi.

00:44:18.000 And then number two, the bad optics, is not looking professional. 0.77

00:44:22.000 And this is a simple thing. 0.85

00:44:24.000 You know, I called them on two things, which was the Nazi stuff, which is goofy and has to go, and number two, just that they look like slobs. 0.98

00:44:31.000 Just the sheer incompetence. 0.96

00:44:33.000 If the message is white people are competent, if the message is that white people should inherit this country, you don't show up to a rally and have no podium. 0.62

00:44:44.000 You know, that was particularly in reference to the Gainesville rally where Spencer's doing a QA and it's just him. 0.52

00:44:51.000 It's just him on a big empty stage, a big black empty stage, and he's just there with a microphone with his hand in his pocket.

00:44:58.000 And while he's taking these questions, behind him is fat Eli Mosley and fat Mike Enoch slouching in clothes that don't fit.

00:45:05.000 They don't know what to do with themselves.

00:45:07.000 They're kind of giggling at what Spencer's saying.

00:45:09.000 They're not really sure what the program is here.

00:45:12.000 And look, that's not to say it in a nasty way.

00:45:15.000 That's simply to say if you're going to go on and put on an event, if you're going to go out and pay 10 grand to put on an event and you're going to get all this media coverage, it's wasteful to not do it right, to not do it and make it look good.

00:45:28.000 You know, if this is the next competent political movement, show up there with great objects, show up there with flags and a podium, and it's quick, it's efficient, people know what they're doing.

00:45:39.000 It's clean, you know.

00:45:41.000 So, those are the two categories for optics. 0.83

00:45:43.000 Don't wave a swastika flag.

00:45:45.000 Don't quote Hitler, or at least don't cite Hitler when you quote him.

00:45:49.000 And then, secondly, have a little bit of professionalism.

00:45:54.000 They teach these guys this stuff at the Leadership Institute.

00:45:57.000 Donors pay the Leadership Institute millions of dollars to teach kids something as simple as rent an auditorium a third the size of the people that say they're going to show up.

00:46:09.000 Rent an auditorium that is a third of the size in terms of its capacity.

00:46:13.000 As the people that have promised to show up.

00:46:15.000 So, if you have 300 people that promise to show up, you book a space with a capacity for 100 people.

00:46:20.000 Leadership Institute gets paid millions of dollars to teach kids things like this so that when you host an event, it looks like it's packed because probably half will show up.

00:46:30.000 And if half show up, it'll be standing room only.

00:46:32.000 It'll look like a big event, lots of excitement.

00:46:34.000 Little things like get a table, little things like get a tablecloth, little things like check the microphone in advance, check the AV in advance.

00:46:44.000 Set up a video camera, film it, simple things, and they get paid millions of dollars to figure these things out.

00:46:51.000 And I say that, people say, oh, these criticisms are not coming from a good place.

00:46:55.000 They're coming in bad faith.

00:46:57.000 Nick is just doing this to start drama.

00:47:00.000 Do you think I wanted to burn bridges and lose friends and lose followers to counter signal people over podiums, over furniture?

00:47:09.000 Do you think I'm saying that for my health? 0.97

00:47:12.000 Do you think that when I see an organization spend $10,000 and they get people to risk life and limb to come out to this thing and people fly over there to see it and they get a big media circus and they look like assholes?

00:47:25.000 Do you think I'm criticizing that and saying you can tweak these little things to star drama, to drive attention to my brand?

00:47:33.000 Hey, if you're going to do something like this, if you're going to have this big opportunity, you should make these minor adjustments so it'll go farther.

00:47:39.000 Oh, yeah, I know that's really controversial.

00:47:42.000 I know that's really asking for trouble, right?

00:47:44.000 So, sorry to go on a tangent there, but you can tell people have been really on my case for the drama stuff, and I will not relent.

00:47:52.000 I will not relent.

00:47:53.000 The criticisms are valid, and as time progresses, People will see this.

00:47:58.000 And I have the fortitude to wait.

00:48:00.000 I have the fortitude, I have the patience, I have the courage of my convictions to put these criticisms out there and to simply wait for them to bear themselves out, as I have before and I will again.

00:48:11.000 So there it is.

00:48:12.000 I want nothing but the survival of my people, but there's a way to do it.

00:48:16.000 There's a right way to do it, there's a wrong way to do it.

00:48:20.000 And let's see.

00:48:21.000 Tim Gar, you blocked me on Twitter today for questioning your views on the kingdom of God.

00:48:26.000 What's up with that?

00:48:27.000 P.S. Jesus' plan for the kingdom of God is for here, God's green earth.

00:48:32.000 I block people when they're rude.

00:48:32.000 No, no, no, no.

00:48:34.000 I block people when it's F this and F that, are you dumb, bop, bop, and all of this. 0.99

00:48:40.000 And also, you aren't following either. 0.97

00:48:42.000 If you're a follower and you're giving me constructive criticism, if you're a follower and you're saying, you know, Nick, I like you a lot, but this is a lot of drama, you're not going to get blocked.

00:48:51.000 But if you come at me, you're not following me, and it's a nasty atheist diatribe, you're getting blocked.

00:48:59.000 Barry, stream yourself building the computer.

00:49:02.000 I may actually do that.

00:49:02.000 I may do that.

00:49:04.000 Who knows?

00:49:05.000 Who knows what could happen?

00:49:07.000 You might see Angry Nick make an appearance.

00:49:10.000 If it's a little bit too hot, if I haven't eaten that day, if I'm not quite getting it, if I get stuck on a part, you may see Angry Nick come out.

00:49:19.000 Who knows?

00:49:21.000 John Shepard Smith, there is a young lady in the chat who has been asking every day, What is Americanism?

00:49:27.000 Would you enlighten her?

00:49:29.000 Americanism is.

00:49:31.000 It's American nationalism.

00:49:32.000 It's American patriotism.

00:49:35.000 Right?

00:49:35.000 I mean, Americanism is the belief in the American culture and that it should be put first.

00:49:40.000 And if you don't know what American culture is, I would refer you.

00:49:43.000 There's a very good book about the subject.

00:49:45.000 And the book can probably explain much better than I can because it's by somebody who's very smart and very educated, by Sam Huntington.

00:49:52.000 It's called Who Are We?

00:49:54.000 And he talks about how America, up until 1600 until 1775, When America was founded, or when the English Puritan settlers came to America in 1600, and then again in 1603, I think, and then in 1620, the culture of America was a political one, or excuse me, it was an ethnic one, an ethnic, a racial, and a cultural identity.

00:50:21.000 When the original English Puritan settlers came here in 1600, America was an ethnic, a racial, and a cultural identity.

00:50:28.000 That's from 1600 to 1775.

00:50:32.000 From 1775 until 1924, I believe it was, or 1900, from 1775 until 1900, America was an ethnic, a racial, a cultural, and a political identity.

00:50:46.000 So, in the first half of America's existence, from 1775 until 1900, America was ethnic, racial, cultural, and political.

00:50:54.000 In other words, it was English, it was characteristically English. 0.75

00:50:58.000 It was also white, European. 0.69

00:51:00.000 In terms of culture, it was Christian, it was individualist, it was liberal.

00:51:04.000 It was to some extent capitalist and it was political.

00:51:07.000 There was this union of 50 states and we all knew what that meant and we're all part of the same country.

00:51:12.000 I guess with the brief intermission between 1860 and 1865 with the Civil War.

00:51:16.000 From 1900 until, or was it?

00:51:21.000 Or maybe it was until, maybe it wasn't 1900, maybe it was until, I believe it was, yes, until 1945.

00:51:25.000 So 1775 until 1945, it was ethnic, racial, cultural, and political.

00:51:31.000 From 1945 until 1965, it was racial, cultural, and political.

00:51:36.000 No longer ethnic, because of course, then you had Italians, you had Russians come in, Polish come in, you had all kinds of Southern and Eastern Europeans come in that made it not ethnic.

00:51:46.000 But to be an American from 45 to 65, it was still racial, cultural, and political. 0.72

00:51:51.000 It was still white.

00:51:52.000 It was still this characteristically Protestant values type system, still English in character, still kind of American having evolved in character, and then political, of course, 50 states, all of that. 0.68

00:52:05.000 And then from 1965 until 1990, it was merely a cultural and political identity.

00:52:10.000 Simply, what remained of the culture with this, I guess, Protestant and English upper class that decided the trends and decided the culture at large and the political system.

00:52:21.000 From 1990 until today, there's no cultural identity, and soon there may be no political identity.

00:52:26.000 So people often say, Well, Nick, American identity has eroded.

00:52:31.000 They say, Nick, America is no longer ethnic or racial or cultural.

00:52:35.000 But then they say, therefore, it never was.

00:52:37.000 And that's not true.

00:52:39.000 That's not true.

00:52:40.000 The question is, do we want to rebuild American identity or do we want to continue to let American identity generate?

00:52:48.000 That's the question.

00:52:49.000 So people say, oh, well, Nick, if you go in Alabama today, it's different than it is in New York. 0.98

00:52:54.000 And there's Mexicans and there's blacks and they all have their own culture and their own identity.

00:52:58.000 And are you saying they're not American?

00:53:00.000 The question is not, does America not have an identity now?

00:53:04.000 Which I think it would be hard to argue that it does.

00:53:07.000 But that was not always the case.

00:53:08.000 And the majority of the country's case, we at least had a cultural identity.

00:53:13.000 For the majority of the country's history, we at least had a cultural and a racial identity and also an ethnic identity.

00:53:20.000 And so the question then becomes moving forward, do we encourage that trend or do we start moving in the other direction?

00:53:26.000 We start rebuilding what we had before. 0.50

00:53:29.000 And I think we could at least get back to a racial identity, a cultural and a racial and a political identity.

00:53:34.000 So that's what Americanism is, in my estimation.

00:53:37.000 When I talk about Americanism, and I don't think I talk about Americanism in particular because it is kind of an ambiguous term, it's about bringing back.

00:53:46.000 That America, bringing back the America of maybe 1945. 0.71

00:53:51.000 I think that's about as good as it's going to get for now, in terms of, you know, when people say, oh, Nick says it's as good as we can get as 1945, and then at the same time they say, I'm too optimistic. 0.97

00:54:02.000 I think that's probably the best we can do at this juncture.

00:54:07.000 Simon Scola, have you seen The Man in the High Castle?

00:54:10.000 I have not.

00:54:11.000 I have not seen this show on Hulu, but I hear it's good.

00:54:14.000 I hear it's okay.

00:54:17.000 So, I don't know.

00:54:17.000 I feel like the Hulu shows, people don't watch them so much, right?

00:54:20.000 I mean, I see all the different shows that are on Hulu that they do the advertisements for, and I think, who the hell watches this stuff?

00:54:27.000 That was the only one that looked interesting to me.

00:54:29.000 Is that an interesting concept?

00:54:31.000 You know, it had an interesting premise.

00:54:33.000 But like with Netflix, it just doesn't have the same draw because Netflix has the star power, they have big reviews, and they surpass, I think, some cable stations in terms of their monthly users.

00:54:44.000 So I don't know what the hell Hulu is doing.

00:54:46.000 It used to be, to me, Hulu was always just where you'd go to watch clips of television shows for free.

00:54:53.000 But it looks like that's the last of our super chats here.

00:54:56.000 We're coming up a little early, so maybe we'll jump into the live chat and just start taking some regular questions here.

00:55:05.000 Let's see.

00:55:10.000 Can you list the systemic problems of Protestantism?

00:55:13.000 I can tell you the biggest systemic problem with Protestantism. 0.85

00:55:16.000 And you know, look, we need Protestants in the country. 0.67

00:55:19.000 You know, I mean, we would like Protestants in our movement.

00:55:23.000 I'm not opposed to Protestants as people, but Protestantism is fundamentally a system which doesn't work, has systemic problems, as you have inquired about.

00:55:34.000 So, I would not say to any Protestants, don't be turned off and think I have animosity towards you or towards you as a person, personally.

00:55:41.000 But I think Protestantism has some of these fundamental problems which cannot be rectified. 0.76

00:55:46.000 The biggest problem is sola scriptura.

00:55:48.000 The biggest problem is in the absence of a clergy.

00:55:51.000 And what I mean by a clergy is an apostolic church, a church governed by people who wield apostolic succession or the legitimacy of apostolic succession, and people who have an authority, a final say on matters of doctrine, on matters of the faith.

00:56:07.000 And here's why this becomes a problem systemically.

00:56:12.000 If you have, for example, in Latin America, they have the cult of the saint of death, I believe in Mexico.

00:56:20.000 And Catholics condemn this.

00:56:21.000 They consider themselves part of Catholicism, but the Catholics have condemned them.

00:56:25.000 It's a folk religion where they champion the saint of death, and a lot of drug cartels kill people in the name of this cult.

00:56:32.000 If you're a Protestant and you believe in the Bible alone, and there's no church to say what is Christianity and what isn't, Well, those people in Latin America, these animals who practice this folk religion, have just as much of a say as to what the Bible says as you do. 0.77

00:56:46.000 They have just as much of a claim to be Christians as you do. 0.62

00:56:49.000 So, you know, this is a common refrain among born again Christians, among others.

00:56:54.000 They say, I'm not Protestant, I'm just a Christian.

00:56:56.000 I just follow the word of Jesus Christ, I just follow the word of the Bible.

00:56:59.000 And that's fine.

00:57:00.000 That's fine.

00:57:01.000 But then the question becomes what translation are you reading?

00:57:04.000 What interpretation of it do you have?

00:57:06.000 Why is your claim better than anybody else, better than the folk religions, better than people who don't have an education?

00:57:12.000 Who can't even read, you know, in some cases, better than some people who pervert it to their own ends.

00:57:18.000 How?

00:57:19.000 How can you say then that that's the only Christianity? 0.93

00:57:22.000 Right? 0.90

00:57:22.000 I mean, that becomes the problem. 0.90

00:57:24.000 You need somebody to interpret it.

00:57:26.000 And the Catholic Church is the only church, the Bishop of Rome, Petrine Supremacy.

00:57:32.000 This is the only church which has the legitimacy, the infallibility to decide these matters.

00:57:38.000 Christ said that he prays for Peter and for his faith.

00:57:43.000 And he confirmed the supremacy of the Bishop of Rome on three separate occasions to say that he has the final say in these matters. 0.73

00:57:52.000 And so, look, you might not be wild about the papacy, you might not be wild about Rome, but these problems of Protestantism don't go away. 0.57

00:58:01.000 Simply because there is corruption in the church and there are sinners in the church, as there are sinners everywhere, that doesn't make that problem go away.

00:58:09.000 And so, intrinsic to Protestantism is this belief that you are necessarily wrong.

00:58:13.000 Because if there are countless Protestant sects, And you believe, oh, well, I just happen to be the right one.

00:58:19.000 Us, Seventh day Adventists, us Pentecostals, us Baptists, us whoever it might be, well, we're the right ones.

00:58:28.000 You have an apostolic church that has lasted 2,000 years.

00:58:31.000 You have the Orthodox church, which has lasted 1,000 years. 0.98

00:58:35.000 Well, but we're the right ones. 0.99

00:58:36.000 Me and my little sect, me and the followers of John Calvin, me and the followers of John Knox, me and the followers of Martin Luther.

00:58:42.000 Well, we're just the ones that are right.

00:58:45.000 There is necessarily an assumption that you are at least a little bit wrong.

00:58:48.000 The idea that, oh, well, all the Protestant denominations are a little bit wrong.

00:58:52.000 And that is not the way to treat the Word of God.

00:58:55.000 That is not the right way to treat divine revelation.

00:58:58.000 That is not.

00:58:59.000 That is not something that you can say, oh, well, we're not really certain about it.

00:59:02.000 Well, we're probably a little bit wrong.

00:59:03.000 They don't take themselves seriously if that's the doctrine.

00:59:06.000 They don't.

00:59:07.000 You cannot take it seriously if that's the doctrine.

00:59:09.000 The Catholic Church is the only church which treats the faith with the gravity it deserves.

00:59:16.000 And I encourage everybody to read, if you don't believe any of this, I'd encourage everybody to read G.K. Chesterton, a great author, magnificent.

00:59:24.000 He was a convert from, I believe, he was a Unitarian or he was raised Unitarian, and he became a Catholic.

00:59:30.000 As he has a really great short book called On Conversion in the Catholic Church, very short.

00:59:35.000 He has a lot of really good books like Everlasting Man and some others.

00:59:39.000 He was a big influence on C.S. Lewis, who I'd encourage people to read, another Catholic. 0.93

00:59:44.000 So check those out.

00:59:45.000 Those are some other good sources on the subject.

00:59:47.000 But, you know, that's my faith.

00:59:49.000 But we welcome all Christians into the movement, we welcome all Christians into the fold.

00:59:53.000 You know, obviously it's better than being pagans or secularists or atheists, but these are theological details here.

00:59:59.000 But that's going to do it for us tonight.

01:00:02.000 Looks like we got one more super chat from Tim Gar with the single shekel. 0.98

01:00:05.000 Thank you. 1.00

01:00:07.000 And so it looks like that's going to do it for us here tonight.

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America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - January 24, 2018

Shall Not Censor | America First Ep. 93

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