00:00:06.000My name is Nicholas J. Fuentes, and we have a great show for you tonight.
00:00:10.000We 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.
00:00:26.000If 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.
00:00:45.000There 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.
00:00:55.000Of 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?
00:01:03.000He 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?
00:01:27.000And then if we have time, we'll get into the Logan Paul redemption.
00:01:31.000I 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.
00:01:37.000It pertains to some of the false gods of liberalism, which among these, of Course, our democracy and so on and so forth.
00:02:16.000Decided on some things I'd like to get, how I'd like to change the show up a little bit.
00:02:20.000Also, 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.
00:02:30.000I'm thinking about launching an America First Premium Plus subscription.
00:02:35.000Now, the Premium Plus, and this is just an idea, we're just spitballing here.
00:02:39.000The Premium Plus would be $10 a month, and in exchange for that, you would get all of the premium membership.
00:02:47.000And 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.
00:03:05.000And then in addition to that, we might do some other kinds of content.
00:03:09.000I was thinking maybe a weekly 30 minute featurette, book reviews, movie reviews every week.
00:03:15.000Maybe you have two, maybe you have one.
00:03:17.000I'm not totally sure, but just let me know if you'd be interested.
00:03:20.000Interested in something like that because I know people want different kinds of content.
00:03:24.000Maybe 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.
00:03:34.000So 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.
00:03:43.000And we probably launch that in a couple of weeks.
00:03:46.000And then additionally, there is another thing, there's another very fun thing I've been thinking about.
00:03:54.000And this sounds a little goofy, sounds a little silly.
00:03:57.000I didn't consult with anybody, so maybe this is just a fever dream at 3 a.m. and not something that people would enjoy.
00:04:04.000But 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?
00:04:12.000We got on the tabletop simulator on Steam and we played Monopoly or Risk or other fun board games.
00:04:21.000And I would be thinking that that would be free, that would be for everybody.
00:04:24.000So let me know what you think about those ideas.
00:04:27.000First, if you'd be interested in the premium plus membership, which would be the Sunday morning podcast, as well as the 30 minute featurettes.
00:04:36.000And then let me know what you think about the board game stream.
00:04:38.000I think those would be some more fun, different kinds of things that we could do on the show.
00:04:42.000I'm a content machine, I pump it out all day long.
00:05:00.000So, if you're contributing right now on Patreon, go ahead and cancel that.
00:05:04.000I 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.
00:05:14.000They've been down for about two months because I think their bank accounts were closed or frozen or something.
00:05:20.000So, if you're still donating on Patreon, pull that in.
00:05:24.000And if you'd like, if you were giving a contribution before, if you put it in Maker Support, you can get those perks.
00:05:29.000If you're not interested in contributing anymore, then just cancel it.
00:05:33.000It's just kind of silly to have that going on still.
00:05:36.000I'm not quite sure what's going on over there.
00:05:40.000A lot of housekeeping stuff these past two weeks as we figure out the transition into a more independent show.
00:05:46.000And I think it's very much a step in the right direction.
00:05:48.000Now that I have complete creative and financial control, it seems like we are finally moving onward and upward here, doing a real upgrade.
00:05:57.000And so we'll be doing a big anniversary special.
00:06:00.000I don't know if we'll just do a special stream or if we'll do a week.
00:06:04.000Of streams the week of February the 6th.
00:06:07.000I 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.
00:06:15.000I'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.
00:08:37.000I imagine that you would make a great cook in the kitchen, really.
00:08:41.000I 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.
00:08:50.000And I really think she would really do that very well.
00:08:53.000I wish she'd stick to that, but I like that.
00:08:57.000James Alsop, my friend, my brother, you're a very kind person.
00:09:03.000I 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.
00:09:16.000You know, me, I don't really pull any punches in terms of politics or personal.
00:09:51.000And so I'll say, Dickie Do, you have a way with words.
00:09:55.000I must say, you know, I watch him speak, and you can tell that what he's saying is very important.
00:10:00.000Because he believes it's very important.
00:10:02.000So 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.
00:10:13.000Evan McLaren, you're a really smart guy.
00:10:16.000You can tell he's a smart guy because his cranium, you can tell a big brain is contained in this cranium.
00:10:34.000And 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.
00:11:06.000Who could say, all I'm saying is if he has a crush, going about it the wrong way?
00:11:10.000But the old hype, better known, I believe, as Faulkner, I'm not totally sure the real identity.
00:11:17.000I have to say, Mr. Faulkner, you are fierce, girlfriend.
00:11:22.000And so those are our compliments for National Compliment Day.
00:11:25.000I think it's a fun little thing that we do on this show.
00:11:28.000Usually 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.
00:11:57.000Now, 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.
00:12:08.000Now, Paul Nealon, we touched on this briefly yesterday.
00:12:13.000We talked about how he really went hard at Ben Shapiro, he really went hard on all these Israel First.
00:12:19.000He really went hard on the Ben Shapiro.
00:12:22.000And 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.
00:12:35.000In terms of the conservative establishment, he's the number one conservative in the country right now, number one conservative commentator.
00:12:43.000And that was a role, I don't really know who held that before.
00:12:47.000I guess it was kind of a little bit loose.
00:12:49.000Under Barack Obama, who was the number one guy?
00:12:57.000And so that Paul Nealon was able to engage with Ben Shapiro.
00:13:00.000That Ben Shapiro touched on this, I think, was a massive thing.
00:13:04.000And I don't know if I understated that yesterday, but I really want to drive that home.
00:13:08.000That 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.
00:13:19.000But when you have Ben Shapiro, who in many people's estimation is.
00:13:24.000The whiz of the conservative movement debating Paul Nealon on whether or not Jewish people go to hell according to the Bible.
00:13:30.000That's a very big step in the right direction.
00:13:32.000The 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.
00:13:41.000People told me he was suspended, but his account was still there.
00:13:45.000And then later I saw on Gab that he was suspended for seven days.
00:13:49.000And this is really something peculiar with the social media.
00:13:53.000We are living in a time right now where social media.
00:13:56.000That's the way that you are able to communicate with the masses.
00:14:00.000If 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.
00:14:18.000When 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.
00:14:29.000They get it from their newspapers, and that's diminishing.
00:14:35.000And you think very carefully about these mediums of communication, the media, media being plural for medium.
00:14:42.000Think about the media of communication here, which are the newspaper, the print, the radio, and the television.
00:14:49.000Think about how you would be able to spread your political message in the absence of the internet.
00:14:55.000You have to, if you want to write for a newspaper, you have to go through an editor.
00:14:59.000You know, and think about what it would take to start a newspaper, even.
00:15:02.000To start a newspaper, it's not exactly a competitive market in the same way that social media is or YouTube is.
00:15:09.000If you have a profound message that resonates with people on YouTube or on Twitter or on Facebook, it will get heard.
00:15:16.000It has the potential to go viral, and you can bypass these things.
00:15:19.000It 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.
00:15:37.000There are significant, in technical language, barriers to entry in this market.
00:15:43.000And 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.
00:16:13.000Or you're left with starting your own newspaper, and good luck with that, right?
00:16:16.000I mean, we know who runs the newspapers.
00:16:19.000And you look at who controls the newspapers.
00:16:20.000The circulation for the biggest newspapers is controlled by very small corporate hands, people who can afford to take losses.
00:16:29.000You 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.
00:16:38.000These are the only ones that are left out there to put their message into print and go out there.
00:16:42.000So you have these significant barriers to entry.
00:16:48.000Television 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.
00:17:03.000You have to get a station, you have to broadcast with a big effing antenna, you have to get cameras, you have to get producers.
00:17:12.000The same factors in, the same consideration factors in with smaller and smaller corporate hands.
00:17:19.000Controlling all the television stations.
00:17:21.000You know, you have a local NBC, a local Fox, a local ABC, CBS, and every major city in the country.
00:17:29.000And on top of that, to compete with these people is impossible.
00:17:31.000And 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.
00:17:39.000So you think about how you'd be able to spread your message on television.
00:17:42.000And 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.
00:17:51.000Who 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?
00:18:02.000And 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.
00:18:12.000And 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.
00:18:25.000For the representatives, it hinges on people being informed.
00:18:29.000People being informed about the issues, people being informed about the candidates.
00:18:34.000It 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.
00:18:53.000But we imagine this empire that we've constructed of 330 million people from coast to coast.
00:18:59.000And 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.
00:19:15.000And when you don't have that, the only other alternative is social media.
00:19:20.000The only other alternative is Twitter, it's YouTube, it's Facebook.
00:19:25.000And a lot of, I think, old people maybe don't quite understand this.
00:19:35.000That 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.
00:19:47.000Well, we don't care what you're eating for lunch.
00:19:49.000Why are you tweeting about what you're eating?
00:21:49.000But 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.
00:22:11.000It's become a meme to talk about free speech, free expression, the free press, and so on and so forth.
00:22:17.000But 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?
00:22:43.000Is that something that even a liberal would think is a good idea?
00:22:46.000And, you know, they say, oh, well, it's hateful.
00:22:50.000It's Nazi, it's this and that, but then of course the question becomes and it's trite, no doubt, but who decides?
00:23:01.000I think everybody could agree that there are some things that should be left off the internet.
00:23:04.000And I'm not even talking about quote unquote racist things, but for example, I don't know, death threats or something like that.
00:23:12.000But 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?
00:23:34.000Who is going to make the call as to what is acceptable and what is not acceptable?
00:23:37.000And that's the question, I think, for a lot of things, but more particularly for social media.
00:23:44.000Type people might say, well, you know, it's a good thing he got censored.
00:23:48.000And again, it's trite, but what happens when they come after you?
00:23:50.000What happens when they decide that you're the Nazi?
00:23:53.000What happens when they decide that you are the hateful, the racist one?
00:23:58.000You know, at what point do we decide that we are going to have to talk about groups?
00:24:02.000We're going to have to say negative things about groups.
00:24:04.000We're going to have to cite statistics that have negative consequences for groups.
00:24:09.000This 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.
00:24:26.000In 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.
00:24:32.000His phone was confiscated from him and they downloaded everything the police did to investigate him for hate speech.
00:24:39.000Is that the country we're going to live in?
00:24:41.000And then, of course, that's only within the information, but then just think about the political consequences.
00:24:46.000If a politician is left at the mercy of these information gatekeepers, Keepers.
00:24:52.000If 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?
00:25:02.000At 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?
00:25:15.000And so we really have to start thinking about that in a serious way.
00:25:17.000And Paul Nealon has legislation ready to go, shall not censor legislation, which I think is brilliant.
00:25:26.000And he has it ready to go if he gets elected.
00:25:28.000And 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.
00:25:40.000He's out there, he's pushing the envelope, and he's really going at it hard with the Shall Not Censor stuff.
00:25:45.000And you really have to admire the guy.
00:25:47.000This 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.
00:25:58.000Who 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.
00:26:15.000Hopefully he still has room to grow there as well.
00:26:17.000But 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.
00:26:28.000I'll be out there campaigning for him.
00:26:30.000Over the summer, you should be too, and go and check them out.
00:26:33.000But this is some groundbreaking stuff.
00:26:35.000And so that's Paul Neal, and that's the censorship.
00:26:37.000It 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.
00:26:50.000You know, Ben Shapiro claims he's for free speech, Dave Rubin claims he's for free speech.
00:26:55.000All these people claim they're for free speech, and they don't know why.
00:26:58.000They don't know to what end they're for free speech.
00:27:00.000They believe in free speech in and of itself as though it's.
00:27:04.000By some arbitrary decision, a virtue or something good in itself.
00:27:10.000There's not a consequentialist explanation for why they're fighting for it.
00:27:15.000And I think that leads them then to not fight for it in the right way.
00:27:18.000You 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.
00:27:29.000And we have to fight for it at this point for a tactical advantage.
00:27:35.000And then the question becomes and then just outside of Paul Nealon entirely, why was he banned for that particular infographic?
00:27:42.000Why was he banned for that particular infographic?
00:27:44.000You simply have to ask yourself that question, honestly.
00:27:49.000Not 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.
00:28:01.000He posted an infographic saying, This is the overrepresentation of this class of people in a very important institution.
00:28:11.000And then, moreover, you have to ask yourself about the overrepresentation.
00:28:14.000But why was that infographic taken down?
00:28:17.000When 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.
00:28:30.000It 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.
00:28:46.000In the conservative movement, but particularly among the Trumpist or Trumpian conservatives.
00:28:51.000And so, why is it okay for Jake Tapper?
00:28:53.000Why 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?
00:29:08.000Why is it okay to always point out how many men are represented, how many white people are overrepresented, the historical crimes of white people?
00:29:17.000When 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.
00:30:38.000Jewish people are overrepresented in media and they established their ethnostate through massacres, through genocide, and through hijacking our government through foreign lobbies.
00:31:16.000The last thing we want to get into today is this Logan Paul scandal here.
00:31:23.000And 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.
00:31:29.000Logan 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.
00:31:37.000And, um, I didn't really know who he was until this whole thing happened.
00:31:41.000A 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.
00:31:51.000It's a popular destination for that kind of activity.
00:31:54.000Logan 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.
00:33:02.000This is somebody who is a musical person.
00:33:04.000But 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.
00:33:12.000And so he goes out there and he does this kind of goofy thing and people get very angry.
00:33:16.000And now he comes back and he does the suicide thing.
00:33:50.000This 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.
00:34:30.000The more the people get to choose, the more the people get to decide, the better.
00:34:35.000And 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.
00:35:00.000This 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.
00:35:08.000And then on top of that, then they all get played.
00:35:10.000I mean, that's kind of the beautiful part Logan Paul is playing them like a fiddle.
00:35:15.000He goes out with the apology, he comes out with the redemption video, and people eat it up, and they deserve this.
00:35:23.000And 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.
00:35:34.000And 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.
00:35:41.000And the reason being is because these are people who every day watch violent movies.
00:35:50.000They 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.
00:36:02.000I'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?
00:36:18.000And 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.
00:36:28.000This is a faction with its systemic flaws, with its malice.
00:36:33.000With its mistakes, just like any other faction.
00:36:36.000And 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.
00:36:49.000We have to look at examples like this and other examples in pop culture, which are illustrative, and say the mob should not be absolutist.
00:36:58.000The mob should not govern the country.
00:37:00.000And 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.
00:37:09.000You 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.
00:37:23.000And I think, what is this driving force?
00:37:26.000What is this driving impulse and pathology of the American people to see people not being able to vote as necessarily a bad thing?
00:37:35.000Why is it that you want felons to vote?
00:37:40.000You know, should just anybody be voting?
00:37:42.000Should just anybody be able to go out there and give a qualified political opinion?
00:37:47.000I think we have to get away from a lot of these things.
00:37:50.000I 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.
00:38:05.000Maybe people are saying that's an extrapolation.
00:38:07.000Maybe people are saying that's a stretch.
00:38:09.000But 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.
00:38:31.000I think you have to become skeptical of this.
00:38:34.000And 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.
00:38:44.000And then it was expanded to felons and communists and foreigners and illegals.
00:38:50.000You know, if you're for democratization, if you're for enfranchisement, why should an illegal not be able to vote, right?
00:38:56.000I mean, at what point do you draw the line?
00:38:58.000Why should a welfare recipient not be able to vote?
00:39:00.000Why should somebody who's living in Africa not be able to vote?
00:39:03.000Isn't their opinion just as good as anybody else's?
00:39:06.000And 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.
00:39:11.000Okay, well, then why does somebody on welfare have skin in the game?
00:39:14.000Why does an illegal have skin in the game?
00:39:15.000Why does a first generation immigrant have skin in the game?
00:39:18.000Why do people who don't own property have skin in the game?
00:39:22.000And 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.
00:39:40.000Kind of a stretch, kind of an extrapolation.
00:39:42.000Slow 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.
00:41:39.000Which should all the parts should be coming here by the first?
00:41:42.000I know now we have our motherboard, we have our what the hell, what is that?
00:41:48.000We have our memory stick, we have, I don't know what that is, we have another thing.
00:41:56.000I just got my case in the mail, and so I'll be putting that together hopefully by February first.
00:42:01.000We'll have the anniversary week, that'll be pretty hectic.
00:42:04.000Once 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.
00:42:13.000Own anything, or like I don't work there anymore.
00:42:16.000I still own 33% of that company because they haven't bought me out and they haven't dissolved.
00:44:24.000You 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.
00:44:33.000If 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.
00:44:44.000You know, that was particularly in reference to the Gainesville rally where Spencer's doing a QA and it's just him.
00:44:51.000It'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.
00:44:58.000And while he's taking these questions, behind him is fat Eli Mosley and fat Mike Enoch slouching in clothes that don't fit.
00:45:05.000They don't know what to do with themselves.
00:45:07.000They're kind of giggling at what Spencer's saying.
00:45:09.000They're not really sure what the program is here.
00:45:12.000And look, that's not to say it in a nasty way.
00:45:15.000That'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.
00:45:28.000You 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.
00:45:45.000Don't quote Hitler, or at least don't cite Hitler when you quote him.
00:45:49.000And then, secondly, have a little bit of professionalism.
00:45:54.000They teach these guys this stuff at the Leadership Institute.
00:45:57.000Donors 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.
00:46:09.000Rent an auditorium that is a third of the size in terms of its capacity.
00:46:13.000As the people that have promised to show up.
00:46:15.000So, if you have 300 people that promise to show up, you book a space with a capacity for 100 people.
00:46:20.000Leadership 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.
00:46:30.000And if half show up, it'll be standing room only.
00:46:32.000It'll look like a big event, lots of excitement.
00:46:34.000Little things like get a table, little things like get a tablecloth, little things like check the microphone in advance, check the AV in advance.
00:46:44.000Set up a video camera, film it, simple things, and they get paid millions of dollars to figure these things out.
00:46:51.000And I say that, people say, oh, these criticisms are not coming from a good place.
00:46:57.000Nick is just doing this to start drama.
00:47:00.000Do you think I wanted to burn bridges and lose friends and lose followers to counter signal people over podiums, over furniture?
00:47:09.000Do you think I'm saying that for my health?
00:47:12.000Do 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?
00:47:25.000Do you think I'm criticizing that and saying you can tweak these little things to star drama, to drive attention to my brand?
00:47:33.000Hey, 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.
00:47:39.000Oh, yeah, I know that's really controversial.
00:47:42.000I know that's really asking for trouble, right?
00:47:44.000So, 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.
00:48:00.000I 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.
00:48:34.000I block people when it's F this and F that, are you dumb, bop, bop, and all of this.
00:48:40.000And also, you aren't following either.
00:48:42.000If 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.
00:48:51.000But if you come at me, you're not following me, and it's a nasty atheist diatribe, you're getting blocked.
00:48:59.000Barry, stream yourself building the computer.
00:49:07.000You might see Angry Nick make an appearance.
00:49:10.000If 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.
00:49:54.000And 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.
00:50:21.000When the original English Puritan settlers came here in 1600, America was an ethnic, a racial, and a cultural identity.
00:50:32.000From 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.
00:50:46.000So, in the first half of America's existence, from 1775 until 1900, America was ethnic, racial, cultural, and political.
00:50:54.000In other words, it was English, it was characteristically English.
00:51:21.000Or maybe it was until, maybe it wasn't 1900, maybe it was until, I believe it was, yes, until 1945.
00:51:25.000So 1775 until 1945, it was ethnic, racial, cultural, and political.
00:51:31.000From 1945 until 1965, it was racial, cultural, and political.
00:51:36.000No 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.
00:51:46.000But to be an American from 45 to 65, it was still racial, cultural, and political.
00:51:52.000It 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.
00:52:05.000And then from 1965 until 1990, it was merely a cultural and political identity.
00:52:10.000Simply, 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.
00:52:21.000From 1990 until today, there's no cultural identity, and soon there may be no political identity.
00:52:26.000So people often say, Well, Nick, American identity has eroded.
00:52:31.000They say, Nick, America is no longer ethnic or racial or cultural.
00:52:35.000But then they say, therefore, it never was.
00:53:08.000And the majority of the country's case, we at least had a cultural identity.
00:53:13.000For the majority of the country's history, we at least had a cultural and a racial identity and also an ethnic identity.
00:53:20.000And so the question then becomes moving forward, do we encourage that trend or do we start moving in the other direction?
00:53:26.000We start rebuilding what we had before.
00:53:29.000And I think we could at least get back to a racial identity, a cultural and a racial and a political identity.
00:53:34.000So that's what Americanism is, in my estimation.
00:53:37.000When 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.
00:53:46.000That America, bringing back the America of maybe 1945.
00:53:51.000I 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.
00:54:02.000I think that's probably the best we can do at this juncture.
00:54:07.000Simon Scola, have you seen The Man in the High Castle?
00:54:31.000You know, it had an interesting premise.
00:54:33.000But 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.
00:54:44.000So I don't know what the hell Hulu is doing.
00:54:46.000It used to be, to me, Hulu was always just where you'd go to watch clips of television shows for free.
00:54:53.000But it looks like that's the last of our super chats here.
00:54:56.000We're coming up a little early, so maybe we'll jump into the live chat and just start taking some regular questions here.
00:55:10.000Can you list the systemic problems of Protestantism?
00:55:13.000I can tell you the biggest systemic problem with Protestantism.
00:55:16.000And you know, look, we need Protestants in the country.
00:55:19.000You know, I mean, we would like Protestants in our movement.
00:55:23.000I'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.
00:55:34.000So, 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.
00:55:41.000But I think Protestantism has some of these fundamental problems which cannot be rectified.
00:55:46.000The biggest problem is sola scriptura.
00:55:48.000The biggest problem is in the absence of a clergy.
00:55:51.000And 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.
00:56:07.000And here's why this becomes a problem systemically.
00:56:12.000If you have, for example, in Latin America, they have the cult of the saint of death, I believe in Mexico.
00:56:21.000They consider themselves part of Catholicism, but the Catholics have condemned them.
00:56:25.000It'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.
00:56:32.000If 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.
00:56:46.000They have just as much of a claim to be Christians as you do.
00:56:49.000So, you know, this is a common refrain among born again Christians, among others.
00:56:54.000They say, I'm not Protestant, I'm just a Christian.
00:56:56.000I just follow the word of Jesus Christ, I just follow the word of the Bible.
00:57:26.000And the Catholic Church is the only church, the Bishop of Rome, Petrine Supremacy.
00:57:32.000This is the only church which has the legitimacy, the infallibility to decide these matters.
00:57:38.000Christ said that he prays for Peter and for his faith.
00:57:43.000And he confirmed the supremacy of the Bishop of Rome on three separate occasions to say that he has the final say in these matters.
00:57:52.000And 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.
00:58:01.000Simply 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.
00:58:09.000And so, intrinsic to Protestantism is this belief that you are necessarily wrong.
00:58:13.000Because if there are countless Protestant sects, And you believe, oh, well, I just happen to be the right one.
00:58:19.000Us, Seventh day Adventists, us Pentecostals, us Baptists, us whoever it might be, well, we're the right ones.
00:58:28.000You have an apostolic church that has lasted 2,000 years.
00:58:31.000You have the Orthodox church, which has lasted 1,000 years.
00:59:07.000You cannot take it seriously if that's the doctrine.
00:59:09.000The Catholic Church is the only church which treats the faith with the gravity it deserves.
00:59:16.000And 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.
00:59:24.000He was a convert from, I believe, he was a Unitarian or he was raised Unitarian, and he became a Catholic.
00:59:30.000As he has a really great short book called On Conversion in the Catholic Church, very short.
00:59:35.000He has a lot of really good books like Everlasting Man and some others.
00:59:39.000He was a big influence on C.S. Lewis, who I'd encourage people to read, another Catholic.