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00:05:11.000And people don't realize what they have.
00:05:16.000And then nowadays, I am so upset that the things we did and the things we fought for and the boys that died for it, it's all gone down the drain.
00:05:30.000Our country's gone to hell in a handbasket.
00:05:35.000We haven't got the country we had when I was raised.
00:07:14.000This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
00:07:18.000We're being slowly poisoned and, in some cases, quickly murdered and assassinated.
00:07:25.000And we're killing ourselves every day, inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
00:07:32.000People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.
00:07:40.000People have got to start to get courageous.
00:07:43.000And this is the time for everybody to turn and look to God and to pray and to ask for strength and to ask for wisdom to get through this time and to transform and sanctify this country.
00:07:57.000And the alternative is that there will be no country.
00:08:01.000Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
00:08:05.000Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
00:08:11.000It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.
00:08:15.000It's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.
00:08:45.000My own narrative is not one of some sudden looming bolt of lightning out of the blue.
00:08:50.000It was a slow and steady, unrelenting stream of blips and blinks, glimmers and glares, low beams and high beams of light, some of which I did not want to see.
00:09:05.000And then finally, a point of no return reckoning.
00:09:15.000I think it was because I fiercely came out during the Griper Wars of 2019 when so many of these brave young men were on college campuses challenging the likes of Zio Schill, Dan Crenshaw, questioning him about his undying loyalty and, of course, defending Nick Fuentes and so many of the stars of the burgeoning America First movement, who, through an increasing amount of activism, are really going to ensure the future and the success of that movement.
00:09:45.000America is a nation of believers, dreamers, and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics, and cynics.
00:09:56.000These interests have rigged our political and economic system for their exclusive benefit.
00:14:52.000Because if there are thousands and millions and tens of millions and hundreds of millions of Christians ready to meet their final destiny, then nothing can stop us and nothing will.
00:16:54.000Lawrence, I found something really interesting.
00:16:57.000In 2016, Donald Trump vowed that the United States would buy and, more importantly, hire Americans.
00:17:08.000But in June of 2024, during the All In podcast hosted by his donor, David Sachs, he committed that he would not only expand work visas, but he would staple green cards to them.
00:17:26.000And I will not encourage my followers to turn out in November to vote for this or campaign for this.
00:17:34.000It is not an unreasonable demand to say that we will not vote for a candidate that promises to import more legal immigrants.
00:17:44.000And it is not unreasonable because for the first time in 20 years, it is the majority opinion that there are too many legal immigrants coming into the country.
00:20:22.000I should have supported Groy for War II. Some
00:26:20.000of them may look back and ask themselves whether they've made the right choice, whether they've made the most of the opportunities they've been given.
00:32:00.000Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American people.
00:32:11.000The Washington establishment and the financial and media corporations that fund it exist for only one reason, to protect and enrich itself.
00:32:22.000The establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election.
00:32:27.000For those who control the levers of power in Washington and for the global special interest, they partner with these people that don't have your good in mind.
00:32:37.000Our campaign represents a true existential threat.
00:32:45.000This is not simply another four-year election.
00:32:48.000This is a crossroads in the history of our civilization that will determine whether or not we, the people, reclaim control over our government.
00:33:00.000The political establishment that is trying to stop us is the same group responsible for our disastrous trade deals, massive illegal immigration.
00:33:13.000And economic and foreign policies that have bled our country dry.
00:33:19.000The political establishment has brought about the destruction of our factories and our jobs as they flee to Mexico, China, and other countries all around the world.
00:33:31.000It's a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth, and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities.
00:33:48.000This is a struggle for the survival of our nation.
00:33:53.000And this will be our last chance to save it.
00:33:57.000This election will determine whether we're a free nation or whether we have only the illusion of democracy, but are in fact controlled by a small handful of global special interests rigging the system, and our system is rigged.
00:37:30.000As long as we are led by politicians who will not put America first, then we can be assured that other nations will not treat America with respect, the respect that we deserve. the respect that we deserve.
00:50:20.000And the concessions that were given from Canada was really just the continuation of a program that they had authorized in December over a month ago.
00:50:33.000So they put in these very disruptive tariffs.
00:51:05.000However, I support the use of tariffs.
00:51:10.000Not as a political tool, although I think that's useful, but I believe that we should have a robust across-the-board tariff system to raise money for the government and to foster economic growth in the United States, and I think that that should happen regardless.
00:51:30.000If you want to use tariffs as political leverage, add it on top of a tariff system.
00:51:37.000So that is my only concern because I like tariffs.
00:51:44.000I support using them on our adversaries, allies, but I wish that they would be systematized and used in a coherent trade policy rather than just being used.
00:52:02.000But we'll talk about that because it looks like there may be a pathway for more in the future, certainly.
00:52:08.000We're also going to talk tonight about a brand new arms transfer to Israel.
00:52:14.000$1 billion in military equipment is going over to Israel, authorized by Trump, and that includes the 2,000-pound bombs, which the Biden administration would not give to Israel.
00:52:28.000And it's interesting, it's being described in the media as an arms sale.
00:52:41.000Because the sale is being paid for by the foreign aid that we give to Israel.
00:52:48.000So we are buying the equipment from ourselves and giving it to Israel.
00:52:55.000And by the way, This is on top of what many analysts believe will be another $8 billion package that may be going to Israel tomorrow when Trump meets with Netanyahu in Washington or at some other point in the future.
00:53:15.000So they freeze all foreign aid for 60 days except for Israel, Egypt, and Jordan.
00:53:23.000And not only do they keep the foreign aid flowing, but they're adding to it.
00:54:38.000So Joe Kent, the Green Beret CIA agent who ran for Congress twice in Washington's third district in 2022 and in 2024. As a Republican, he lost both times.
00:54:54.000He has now been appointed by Trump to lead the National Center on Counterterrorism under the office of the Director of National Intelligence.
00:55:08.000And Trump announced this today on True Social and said congratulations to Joe Kent, the CIA officer and Green Beret.
00:55:19.000Who is now the head of the Center for Counterterrorism.
00:55:26.000And if you have watched this show for a long time, you may be aware that I have an ongoing feud.
00:55:33.000Really, at this point, it's one-sided with Joe Kent.
00:55:38.000And that feud has driven so many of the developments in my career over the past.
00:56:05.000So if you've heard this before, or maybe you haven't heard it, it's a very important story because it shows you what is going on.
00:56:14.000So in 2021, This was after January 6th.
00:56:19.000I had a small group of people that I'm no longer with that were working for me.
00:56:25.000And we plotted how we would endorse America First candidates for the U.S. Congress.
00:56:32.000And we thought that it was vitally important that we had other people inspired by Trump, ideologically aligned with Trump, that were moving up the ranks.
00:56:46.000If Trump left office or if Trump were jailed or banished or something else, you know, if something happened to him, that the movement would not die or retire or be exiled with him.
00:56:58.000So we called our project America First Candidates.
00:57:03.000And we were looking for younger, previously unknown or unheard of candidates to support using our interns and social media.
00:57:13.000And maybe even appearances by me, using my celebrity, to get America First fellow travelers in office.
00:57:21.000And not only could they promote an America First agenda in Congress, but also we could use them to infiltrate the government.
00:57:28.000And by we, I mean me and the Groypers.
00:57:32.000So I went to a friend of mine named Ryan Gerdusky.
00:57:35.000This is in 2021. I'm no longer friends with him, but years ago I met him on a handful of occasions.
00:57:42.000And I talked to Ryan Gerdusky, and he had been putting together a consulting firm in 2021. He was consulting with a number of candidates in those midterms in 2022. And at that time, he released a national populist newsletter, national populist book.
01:00:53.000And then he comes back in for seconds and says, I think that his focus on whiteness and Christianity He said, and it's contrary to my message of inclusive populism.
01:01:08.000That's the word he used verbatim, inclusive populism.
01:01:14.000And I clocked that immediately, immediately as subversive.
01:01:28.000Who comes from the national security world.
01:01:31.000He didn't even live in the United States for 20 years.
01:01:35.000He lived in the Middle East, in Somalia, I think.
01:01:38.000For 20 years, he lived abroad, working for the CIA, working for military intelligence, comes back to the United States, starts putting out this America First message, and out of nowhere, disavows me.
01:01:54.000Over Israel, over being white, and over Christian nationalism, says that he's an inclusive populist.
01:02:02.000And the commonality that I noticed is that all of these projects from Steve Bannon, from Peter Thiel, from Tucker Carlson, from Ryan Gerdusky, they all use that label.
01:02:18.000Steve Bannon calls himself a populist nationalist, populist nationalist.
01:02:23.000Ryan Gerdusky wrote a book, The Populist Nationalist Movement.
01:02:29.000Many of the Teal-backed candidates described themselves as multiracial working class populists.
01:02:37.000There was the American Populist Union, a group called APU, which was created to replace me, or to split the difference, split right down the middle between me and the conservative establishment.
01:03:16.000I said, there is a concerted effort to steer the energy of Trumpism and the voters, the Trump base, away from radicalism, away from white racial consciousness, away from Christian identity, away from actual far-right politics, and back into neoliberalism, steer it back into something else.
01:03:42.000Inclusive populism, working class, whatever you want to call it.
01:03:46.000But basically, it's going to be secular, it's going to be multiracial, multicultural, and they're going to be in favor of fiscal restraint, cutting taxes, cutting spending, economic nationalism, trade war with China, and beefing up national security.
01:04:05.000And I said, you know, that sounds to me basically...
01:04:08.000Exactly like the old GOP. That doesn't sound like Trumpism or America First or a step beyond Trumpism at all.
01:04:15.000So I said, instead of helping Joe Kent, we're going to punish Joe Kent.
01:04:19.000I said, this is a guy who betrayed me.
01:04:23.000He made a promise on the phone, and this is not the first time that one of these people, these people, has broken a promise like this.
01:05:06.000All of the energy behind this politics will be stolen and redirected and channeled into the old establishment mantra, the old establishment ideology.
01:05:20.000So I said, instead of helping, we're going to try to sink his campaign.
01:05:24.000So I invested a very small sum of money.
01:07:15.0002022, he comes out of nowhere in February, February or March 2022, and says, I disavow Nick's views about Israel, white identity, Christian nationalism, more inclusive populists.
01:09:17.000Is a massive three-part hit piece released over the course of a week, accusing me of everything that you can imagine, of being a bad boss to my employees, of being a federal agent at January 6th, of sabotaging Trump with Yay 24, of sabotaging Joe Kent in 2022. And the thrust of the piece is that I am deployed.
01:09:44.000By some organization, by the government or by the left to derail the populist right in America.
01:09:53.000Now this piece comes out and I go on my show and I go line by line and I rebut all of the accusations.
01:11:01.000They would go to Influencible and pay them $10,000, let's say.
01:11:06.000And Influencible would disperse that money to influencers and say, okay, everybody, we want you to make a TikTok about this candidate and we'll pay $200 for every post that you make with a maximum of three posts.
01:11:21.000So it's a firm that mediates between these like GOP organizations, candidates, and the influencers.
01:11:29.000And it gives them contracts to promote campaigns.
01:11:33.000So I get called by one of their influencers, a dear friend, and he calls me and says, there is a campaign that has been taken out to call you a federal agent and to share the link to the Gray Zone article, and he sent it to me.
01:14:46.000Both received millions of dollars from Teal to run Senate races in 2022. Gurdusky also consulted for congressional candidates that Teal backed in 2022. Max Blumenthal, who wrote the hit piece, his father, Sidney Blumenthal, was the hatchet man for Bill and Hillary Clinton and had been for many decades.
01:15:09.000Max Blumenthal's Jewish and he is Israel-critical.
01:15:59.000Gerdusky's consulting for him, as well as Vance Masters, this guy Witt in Georgia.
01:16:05.000Among others, I'm not going to blow up everybody's spot.
01:16:09.000And then when Kent loses, Max Blumenthal, a dear, dear friend of Tucker Carlson, Well, he and Tucker collaborate to write a giant hit piece on me, accusing me of everything.
01:16:22.000This was supposed to destroy my reputation, destroy my career, and they pay a company called Influensible to promote it among the Twitter influencers.
01:16:31.000And the rumor is that Tucker was even going to do a spot about it on his show, but canceled because I started to unravel the whole thing on my show when it was going on.
01:17:03.000Tucker Carlson's dad ran Voice of America, which is a big deal.
01:17:07.000He was appointed by Reagan, and he's worked for all sorts of foreign governments.
01:17:11.000Tucker applied for the CIA. He was in Nicaragua during the Contras scandal.
01:17:18.000J.D. Vance is the protege of Peter Thiel.
01:17:20.000He got a job in Silicon Valley because of Thiel.
01:17:24.000He worked for Peter Thiel at Mithril Capital.
01:17:26.000Then when he worked for Revolution and got his own hedge fund, it was funded by Thiel.
01:17:31.000And Vance directed his venture capital money into Teal-backed projects like Anduril, among others.
01:17:38.000Vance gave $15 million through the Rockbridge Network and a subsidiary of Rockbridge Network to Tucker Carlson Network when he left Fox News a couple of years ago.
01:17:52.000Then you have Max Blumenthal, the son of Sidney Blumenthal, Clinton, Hatchet Man, and best friend of Tucker Carlson.
01:18:05.000And they are the ones accusing me of being the Fed.
01:18:10.000They accuse me of being divisive, of splitting up the right, giving everybody a bad look, when they have made it very clear that their issue with me is that I'm critical of Israel, maybe too critical of Israel, that I promote white identity, explicit white identity, and Christian nationalism.
01:18:31.000Are there any of them that are not connected to military intelligence or to the CIA? What exactly is being foisted upon us?
01:18:41.000And now, by the way, Vance is the vice president.
01:18:46.000Kent has been appointed by Trump, who basically named him, basically blew up his spot as a CIA agent.
01:18:54.000He's now running the center on counterterrorism.
01:18:59.000Peter Thiel's people are running the government.
01:20:49.000It's this brutal seven-minute struggle session.
01:20:52.000Despite all the wink-wink, nudge-nudge, despite the dog whistles, despite the innuendo that Tucker always does, the fake laughter, the sarcasm, the sardonic humor, you know, despite all that, when push comes to shove and they ask point blank, okay, do you support America supporting Israel?
01:21:14.000Do you support America supporting this war?
01:22:30.000But now, we are supposed to believe that our government, this scene being taken over by the CIA, is nothing to scrutinize because the CIA got red-pilled?
01:22:44.000So now the CIA became, our guys are running the CIA or our guys from the CIA are running the government?
01:24:05.000The deep state we were fighting against were the black DMV workers at the Department of Education.
01:24:13.000So when the CIA, Mossad, Hungarian embassy, Israeli compromised people, when they come in and institute a coup to take over the government, It's okay.
01:24:32.000No, the deep state were those brown communists that were running the Department of Education.
01:24:39.000It was those brown communists that were stuffing their pockets with bloated government salaries being functionaries in the federal bureaucracy.
01:28:16.000When are we going to get these mass deportations?
01:28:19.000Or was that a false promise to trick the base into voting for this administration so that they could get what they really wanted, which is austerity, which is the contracts for their various federal contractors?
01:28:50.000There has been a sharp divergence ever since 2021 in this movement, in this Groyper movement, in the America First movement, between people who are...
01:29:02.000Paying attention and have some conviction about what is happening, about this subterfuge, about this populist skin suiting, this populist usurpation, and people that are going along with it.
01:29:16.000People that for personal advantage, for personal gain, or because they're just stupid, are going along with it.
01:29:26.000I mean, I don't know about you guys, but my position has not changed since I started the show.
01:29:30.000If you go back six years ago to 2018, 2019, I was saying the same stuff about green cards, deportations, the border, tariffs, the wars, Israel, white identity.
01:29:43.000I mean, I've been saying the same thing for nearly 10 years.
01:29:46.000And, you know, so it's not like I had some dire change of heart or drastic change of heart.
01:29:56.000It seems to be everybody else that has been lulled into this false sense of complacency or false sense of security.
01:32:53.000Well, that's your first sign that it's not going to be different because they gave a waiver to the number one and number two recipients of foreign aid that have the biggest foreign lobby.
01:33:04.000And as I explained when we covered it on the show, the foreign aid to Egypt, you can really roll into the foreign aid to Israel because it's a bribe to Egypt to be at peace with Israel.
01:33:15.000In perpetuity, that's what our foreign aid to Egypt is.
01:33:18.000So that was the first big sign that things were not fundamentally going to be any different.
01:33:25.000Now today, there's a new story that actually we're giving a weapons transfer to Israel.
01:33:30.000Not only are we not ending the foreign aid, we're increasing the foreign aid.
01:33:39.000It says, quote, The deal includes 4,700 1,000-pound bombs worth more than $700 million,
01:33:59.000$300 million worth of armored bulldozers, which the Israeli military will use to demolish homes and infrastructure in Gaza and the West Bank.
01:34:09.000The request for the new arms transfer.
01:34:13.000It comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Washington and set to meet with President Trump at the White House on Tuesday.
01:34:20.000He is expected to push for U.S. support for Israel to restart its genocidal war in Gaza instead of fully implementing the ceasefire.
01:34:28.000The Journal report said Netanyahu is also expecting Trump to push ahead with an $8 billion deal that Biden notified congressional leaders about in early January.
01:34:39.000The report said some Democrats in Congress put a hold on the massive sale and that the Trump administration is now pushing Congress to unblock it.
01:34:48.000The $8 billion deal includes munitions for fighter jets and attack helicopters as well as artillery shells.
01:34:55.000The administration also released a hold on a shipment of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel.
01:35:01.000Israeli officials suggested that the increased military aid was part of a deal.
01:35:06.000To get Netanyahu to agree to the Gaza ceasefire.
01:35:09.000Trump's envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, has said he's pushing for the full implementation of the agreement, but the ceasefire is fragile as Netanyahu does not want to implement the second phase.
01:35:22.000So we now learn that the ceasefire, which went into effect a day before Trump was inaugurated, was only agreed upon.
01:35:39.000It is supposed to point towards a permanent ceasefire, permanent cessation of hostilities and end to the war in Gaza.
01:35:47.000We're now learning that Netanyahu only agreed to the first part, to the first out of three phases, which is 32 hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners and a temporary ceasefire.
01:36:00.000We're also learning new details, which is that Trump promised Israel up to $9 billion in weapons transfers, including attack helicopters, bulldozers, etc.
01:36:14.000He promised to clear all of that through Congress to make the deal, which Netanyahu is expected to break.
01:36:58.000Today, a consortium of five Gulf countries came out with a statement and said, no, we are not taking the people.
01:37:04.000Now Netanyahu and Trump are going to meet tomorrow.
01:37:08.000Now you're going to see what this was all about and for whom since the very beginning.
01:37:16.000People were really under the impression coming into January.
01:37:20.000It's honestly the naivete, the stupidity.
01:37:24.000It is shocking that people seriously thought Trump receiving $230 million from the Israel lobby, every Zionist from Bill Ackman to Ben Shapiro to Jacob Helberg to Netanyahu himself, all of them falling in line behind Trump and Vance for Trump to win in 2024, and they thought Trump was going to pull the Uno reverse card on his first day in office?
01:37:50.000Actually, You're not going to get the settlements.
01:38:11.000Because again, people hinge this argument on the deal that was made by Steve Whitcoff.
01:38:19.000They never agreed to a permanent ceasefire.
01:38:22.000They agreed to this fully intending, and by the way, saying publicly that they have guarantees when they resume the fighting later in the year.
01:38:32.000Netanyahu and the other members of the coalition said, it's okay.
01:38:38.000We're going to break the agreement in 60 days.
01:38:41.000They said, we have got guarantees from the administration.
01:38:43.000They will back us when we reopen the fighting.
01:38:47.000Later on in the year, when they get a refill, when they go and get rearmed by the United States, after Trump takes office, after Congress is sat, after they do their appropriations, and Israel gets $9 billion worth of munitions, helicopters, fighter jets, bulldozers, missiles, bombs, artillery, shells, then they're going to pick up the fighting again.
01:39:45.000You take all of it together over the past two weeks of the presidency.
01:39:49.000You take it all together after the past nine months, ten months, whatever, since about June.
01:39:56.000It was so clear that we were headed in this direction, but it's either a willful ignorance or it's some sort of cover-up about what's really going on inside this administration.
01:41:48.000It'll be an interesting show tomorrow because we'll get the results and maybe we'll have some idea of whether things really will be different this time.
01:42:14.000But when you see these statements that are coming out of the Oval Office every day about the conflict, when you see what is – it is a gathering storm in the Middle East.
01:42:25.000Iran has rejected diplomacy with the United States.
01:42:28.000Israel is carrying out operations in the Northwest Bank.
01:42:32.000Trump and the Gulf countries are currently in an open dispute, although it is not receiving adequate coverage about whether there will be a population transfer of all the Palestinians out of Gaza and into Jordan and Egypt.
01:42:45.000I don't know if people have been paying attention.
01:42:51.000But there is an ongoing diplomatic dispute in the first two weeks Where Trump has said, we will force Jordan and Egypt to take all of the expelled Palestinians.
01:43:52.000You know, for anybody that's going to accuse me of being one-sided, if you watch the show, I think I'm very fair.
01:43:57.000I think I praise Trump when it is appropriate, and I believe that certain things will improve, but this is one area that I think people are not taking the risks seriously enough.
01:44:09.000They're not looking at the trade-offs.
01:44:11.000They're not paying attention to it because it is inconvenient.
01:44:14.000Everybody wants to pretend that it's all going according to plan, and it is, but it's just not our plan.
01:44:21.000So people are already counting out the possibility of a war with Iran and some of these other proposals, like the population transfer.
01:44:36.000Like I said, this is one of the good things that Trump is doing that I actually support.
01:44:41.000And the Trump administration, if nothing else, it is moving very quickly.
01:44:46.000It is very dynamic, and I don't know about you, but there's a tangible feeling that things can change right now in the country.
01:44:54.000It's hard to explain, but it felt like throughout the Obama years, throughout the first Trump and Biden administrations, it felt like nothing could or would ever change.
01:45:07.000It felt like the West and the United States were on this trajectory, and it was going to be a slow, freezing death.
01:45:16.000Of our country, where gradually we would be suffocated by diversity, political correctness, censorship, political persecution, like a mother smothering an infant in the crib.
01:45:28.000We were going to be killed by this maternal nanny state, everybody's sensitivities and feelings and trigger warnings, wokeism, all that sort of stuff.
01:45:40.000It felt like you could predict all of it.
01:45:44.000Every day it was another black stormtrooper, another transgender Disney princess.
01:45:50.000It was another regulation to destroy conservative nonprofits.
01:45:54.000It was another gun grab, another white guy arrested for nothing.
01:45:59.000It was always more of that, always increasing until the end of time.
01:46:04.000And it felt like nothing could change that.
01:46:07.000It felt like even if a nuclear bomb went off, even if we got hit with an asteroid, that nothing could...
01:47:23.000Colombia refused military cargo planes full of expatriated illegal immigrants.
01:47:29.000Trump threatened crushing sanctions that would go up to 50%.
01:47:33.000Tiered sanctions enforced over the course of a week on all Colombian goods.
01:47:39.000And the Colombian government crumbled in 20 minutes and said they would take the illegals with their own presidential plane.
01:47:46.000Then today, the Panamanian government said that they would allow U.S. naval vessels to cross through the Panama Canal without charging them and that they were withdrawing from the Belt and Road Initiative, which is sponsored by China.
01:48:49.000It says, quote, To postpone the imposition of hefty tariffs on goods exported to the United States.
01:49:02.000Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, after speaking twice by telephone with Mr. Trump, said U.S. tariffs on his country's goods would be postponed by 30 days as negotiations on a border deal took place.
01:49:15.000That announcement came hours after Mexico negotiated a similar delay, agreeing to send thousands of troops to the U.S.-Mexico border.
01:49:23.000Earlier Monday, Mr. Trump said he would likely discuss the tariffs with China's leader Xi Jinping within the next 24 hours and described the 10% tariff that he planned to impose on Chinese imports as an opening salvo.
01:49:37.000China was still preparing its response on Monday.
01:49:40.000Its ambassador to the United Nations, Fu Chong, said that China was filing a complaint with the World Trade Organization over the tariffs and would consider retaliatory action.
01:49:52.000So this is what Mexico and Canada agreed to.
01:49:55.000Mexico agreed to deploy 10,000 members of the Mexican National Guard to the US-Mexico border to interdict fentanyl and illegal migrants.
01:50:05.000They would also establish high-level working groups with US officials on security and on trade.
01:50:12.000Canada agreed to implement a spending plan at the border, which they had already launched in December, worth $900 million.
01:50:22.000And that includes Black Hawk helicopters and 60 drones and other technical equipment deployed at the border.
01:50:29.000They would also, under that spending plan, bolster personnel at the border, including 10,000 frontline personnel.
01:50:37.000and they would redouble their effort to tackle the opioid crisis by establishing a new position for a fentanyl czar.
01:50:44.000So they have postponed the implementation of the tariffs by 30 days, and Trump said they are going to continue to negotiate on a more structured economic plan with both countries.
01:50:58.000Now, I have two reactions to this, which I will get into later.
01:51:07.000There's two things to me that I'm not happy with.
01:51:11.000The positive aspect of all of this is that We are now in a multipolar world that is emerging.
01:51:23.000There is no longer one pole or one locus or source of power in the world, on Earth.
01:51:32.000You now have major regional powers that have their own attributes like Russia and China.
01:51:38.000You have emerging middle powers like Brazil, Mexico, Indonesia, Ethiopia, South Africa, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, they're conducting an independent foreign policy.
01:51:52.000They seem to be acting more like free agents interacting with both China and the United States than they are loyal to one bloc necessarily or at least to Washington.
01:52:04.000And so now that we are in a multipolar world where there is great power competition and conflict, The United States has to use its power to shore up its alliances.
01:52:15.000It needs to use its economic, trade, and military power to make these other countries work for us.
01:52:27.000We dominate trade with countries like Panama and Colombia.
01:52:31.000If they are ceding market share, if they're ceding trade, infrastructure, dual-use infrastructure to China, That's a problem.
01:52:42.000And countries like that can't actually have the best of both worlds.
01:52:47.000You can't have American security with Chinese credit.
01:52:51.000You can't have China building dual-use infrastructure and facilities in your country, which could eventually be used as military facilities.
01:53:02.000You can't receive Chinese credit, which indebts you to Beijing while America protects you, while America provides for your domestic and international security.
01:54:47.000And they can be used unilaterally by the president, by the executive branch.
01:54:52.000So this is another area where the president can claw back Power and authority from the rest of the government to actually carry out a coherent national policy.
01:55:03.000It's very difficult for the United States to function as a great power when there's so much bureaucracy and gridlock and inefficiency.
01:55:13.000If we can have a unitary executive, if we can have just one actor, one office with one initiative directing multiple facets of the government, maybe we can actually implement long-term plans and strategies and things that maybe we can actually implement long-term plans and strategies and things that might be unpopular But if there's leadership to see them through, can deliver gains for the countries.
01:55:40.000So I think all of that is positive, and I do think that Trump has been swift and aggressive and extremely effective.
01:55:49.000And for that, I have to give him credit.
01:55:51.000Like I said, four trade wars in two weeks.
01:55:59.000We got Panama to a draw from the BRI. We got Canada and Mexico to come to the negotiating table and agree to some concessions.
01:56:08.000Here are my other reactions, my other two issues with this, however.
01:56:13.000And the first one, I've said it before on the show, and I'm not trying to nitpick.
01:56:19.000But there's two ways that you can look at tariffs.
01:56:23.000And there are two ways that tariffs are looked at inside the Trump administration.
01:56:29.000There are some people inside the Trump administration who are protectionists.
01:56:35.000Ideologically, they reject free trade.
01:56:38.000They think that free trade doesn't benefit our country.
01:56:41.000They think it has impoverished our country.
01:56:43.000It has sent all the good jobs overseas, all of the production, factories.
01:56:49.000All of the important things that we should make, the industries that make us competitive in the future, and again, the things that make our country rich with goods and with money, we're sending all of that overseas because we don't actually have a robust trade policy that's built on a careful management of balance of payments,
01:57:14.000of bilateral trade deals and with close monitoring and consideration of these emerging sectors of the economy and advanced manufacturing and certain specific supply chains.
01:57:27.000So some people in the administration think that we need a very active government.
01:57:33.000We need the federal government to manage the economy.
01:57:37.000And that doesn't mean manage the personal checkbook of every person.
01:57:43.000It doesn't mean major social welfare programs.
01:57:46.000It means steering research and development.
01:57:49.000We know what the technologies of the future are.
01:57:52.000We know, therefore, which industries will make us rich in the future.
01:57:57.000So the government should steer subsidies, investment, tariffs and import duties to protect those industries and grow those industries and foster an entire ecosystem that makes America competitive in finished products that, again, will make us wealthy in the future.
01:58:16.000Some people ideologically believe that the government can do that, should do that, it's advantageous to do that, and tariffs are going to be a massive part of executing that policy.
01:58:38.000They don't believe that tariffs are advantageous or good.
01:58:42.000They don't believe that the government should be super active.
01:58:45.000There are many people inside this administration who are free traders.
01:58:51.000They think that we should let the currency float, that we should let the goods and services flow across the oceans, across the borders, and we should not manage it.
01:59:01.000They think that tariffs are only useful, strictly speaking, as leverage.
01:59:07.000That tariffs are meant to punish a country and really act more as a foreign policy tool than an economic tool.
01:59:14.000And they're meant to extract political concessions from uncooperative nations, like what we just saw.
01:59:27.000Trump didn't come into office and slap a 25% tariff on all goods across the board coming into the United States, which would be a robust tariff trade program.
02:00:10.000Trade policy that is meant to foster economic growth in the United States, job creation, bringing certain industries and supply chains back to our shores.
02:00:21.000Instead, they're meant as a threat, as a negotiating tactic, a bargaining chip, a bluff.
02:02:08.000And so they've said that they're going to put together a more structured bilateral deal with Canada and Mexico related to the economy next month when the negotiations expire again.
02:02:24.000And maybe these tariffs are a starting point.
02:02:27.000Maybe he had to put these down because this is classic Trump as a negotiating tool in itself.
02:02:35.000Not just using tariffs, but being willing to slap them down without even giving a concrete demand in a very unpredictable way, very swiftly, announcing them on Friday, dropping them on Saturday, causing chaos.
02:02:52.000This is a form of knocking the other side off balance, shock and awe, startling them, whatever you want to call it.
02:02:59.000I think that even doing it in this way is to reset maybe the diplomacy between America and the USMCA participants, between America and its allies, and maybe even to send a message to China to say If we're willing to do this to Canada and Mexico, we will surely do this to the European Union and China.
02:03:52.000If Trump drops 25% tariff on Mexico and Canada and lets the stock market tank, lets Mexico and Canada panic because it would have been major disruption to the auto industry, to the construction industry, to everything.
02:04:10.000This would have been majorly disruptive.
02:04:12.000Even the China tariff is still majorly disruptive.
02:04:15.000If he's willing to do that, then they know who they're dealing with.
02:04:20.000Maybe that's part of why he did it in this way.
02:04:23.000But I would like to say at the very beginning that if Trump does not implement a robust all-in-one industrial policy by the end of the term, I consider that a major failure.
02:04:36.000And by a full industrial policy all in one, I mean not just tariffs and import duties, but we need research and development.
02:05:30.000But it cannot just be used as an attack on other countries for the sake of a short-term concession because a lot of this just sounds like bullshit.
02:05:39.000I mean, what Canada agreed to was something they had already put in place.
02:05:46.000What Mexico agreed to really doesn't change anything.
02:05:50.000It's similar to what he did in June 2019 when he used the threat of tariffs to get Mexico to secure their southern border.
02:06:46.000The three pillars were pulling Assad in the Middle East and reducing our footprint abroad.
02:06:53.000ending illegal immigration and reducing immigration overall, and then industrial policy, implementing a tariff regime.
02:07:00.000If he could do the tariff regime, that would be like one out of three major pillars, revolutionary transformative pillars of Trumpism fulfilled, manifested.
02:07:12.000So I hope that we do see that, and I have actually more confidence that he'll do that than the other two.
02:07:17.000I have more confidence that he'll do that than anything else because I think the leadership in the United States, the elites, I think they actually have had a change of heart because the Biden administration continued those policies.
02:07:32.000So they must have thought they were a good idea.
02:07:34.000Trump changed the free trade doctrine, implemented tariffs on China, EU, Canada, Mexico, really transformed things or at the minimum destroyed the free trade consensus.
02:07:47.000Biden came in and continued all of that.
02:07:52.000Inflation Reduction Act, he actually crippled Europe to help the United States.
02:07:57.000You can actually thank Biden for crippling the EU economy and forcing them with incentives and subsidies and tax credits and energy to move everything into the United States.
02:08:11.000Like, if you really understand what took place after the Ukraine war, the Ukraine war increased us at the expense of the European Union, thanks to the IRA, thanks to Biden.
02:08:23.000And that was the continuation of those Trump-era policies.
02:08:27.000And now if Trump continues them further, that's 12 years.
02:08:31.000And it's inadequate so far, but it's far better than what we had before.
02:08:37.000That's 12 years of soft protectionism.
02:08:44.000Now, the second thing I was going to say is, and I alluded to it already, But I actually don't know what concessions specifically he wanted, if he wanted anything here.
02:08:54.000For example, on Canada, one of the major concessions he extracted was a fentanyl czar.
02:09:02.000And that Canada would interdict more drugs at their border.
02:09:07.000But Canada is responsible for a small fraction of the fentanyl that comes over the southern border.
02:09:14.000And I don't have the numbers in front of me, but it's quite literally like one-tenth or one-one-hundredth the amount of fentanyl that comes over our northern border that comes over our southern border.
02:09:25.000And obviously immigration is far worse at the southern border too.
02:09:31.000So Trump was going to put a 25% tariff on Canada, majorly disruptive, in order to get them to...
02:09:40.000To recommit to a program they had already passed in December to interdict more drugs, even though fentanyl doesn't really come from Canada as much as it does from Mexico or from China.
02:09:54.000So it seems that the purpose of this whole, understanding that, the purpose of this whole thing was maybe more political in nature.
02:10:06.000Than it is, strictly speaking, economic or related to the drugs themselves.
02:10:12.000It seems that this was more of a gesture and more of a performance than it was about the concessions in themselves.
02:10:20.000Because if you watch the press conference, Trump said, I have no demands.
02:10:24.000I actually don't want anything from Canada and Mexico.
02:10:30.000And then he agreed to postpone them today, really getting not...
02:10:34.000Like I said, not addressing some of the actual trade, outstanding trade issues, but instead getting these symbolic concessions.
02:10:45.000And so maybe the whole purpose of it was just to go through the motions to demonstrate a willingness to actually put down a major sanction or a major tariff so that going forward, Canada and Mexico might be more...
02:11:56.000Things that you never thought were possible.
02:11:59.000The idea that a capitalist, and let's just say ostensibly, a capitalist is moving into Washington, moving into the bureaucracy, and just gutting it the way that he is.
02:12:12.000Getting access to this data, which I'm suspicious of, but getting access to it.
02:12:19.000And anybody that protests is being fired, government websites being taken offline, people being told don't come back to work, severance packages, they're cutting through the bureaucracy in a way that I never thought was possible.
02:12:32.000It felt like yesterday, the USAID, these NGOs, the State Department, the blob, it felt like yesterday, it was this Kafkaesque fixture, just like the blob in the basement of Chernobyl.
02:12:49.000It felt like it was this unmovable object, like it was never going to move, like it could never change, like it was there since the beginning of the world.
02:12:57.000You had this foreign policy blob, this bureaucratic blob, and nothing could ever touch it.
02:13:03.000It was just covered in layers of redundancy and political cover and patronage, and it seemed like yesterday, That's just how it is, how it would always be.
02:13:14.000And then today, it's like, nope, their Twitter account's disabled, their website is offline, and anyone that has a problem with it has been fired.
02:13:22.000They're cutting all the spending, cutting all the personnel, everybody's going.
02:13:28.000And they're talking about challenging it in court, and they're cutting so fast.
02:13:33.000They're moving more quickly than the courts, because that was the problem in the first term.
02:13:37.000Trump would do something, it would be too little too late, and then the courts would throw up a roadblock, and then everybody would say, oh well, that's all we could do.
02:13:48.000And now between Trump with trade and diplomacy, Elon in Washington, it just seems like months have gone by in weeks.
02:13:59.000Trump has been president for two weeks, and yet it feels like a year.
02:14:17.000And maybe the hope, and this is what Andrew Tate said on our election stream.
02:14:23.000He said, maybe the hope, aside from the details and the people that are there now who may or may not be suspicious, he said what it will do is energize the young people.
02:14:35.000He said it'll make the young men more masculine, more energetic.
02:15:03.000In a world where you can only have one alternative or another, is it better to have venture capitalists in charge or piece of shit fat feminists?
02:15:31.000Yes, it's going, maybe it could awaken the country and maybe it could energize the country.
02:15:35.000On the other hand, if these people hate white nationalists and hate anti-Semites, which they do, they're a far more competent opponent than the fat libschitz and the fat brown women on the other side of the deep state.
02:15:53.000So we have to have a balanced perspective.
02:15:56.000It's important to consider a lot of different perspectives because for what it's worth, this is a period of reorientation for everybody, for the left, for the dissonant right.
02:16:24.000We can be suspicious of it, but something changed.
02:16:26.000And now everybody has to pick up the pieces after the old way of thinking was completely shattered.
02:16:32.000The old way of thinking, the old plans, mental model.
02:16:38.000Of what we're doing, of what the left is doing, of what the right is doing.
02:16:41.000It's all been shattered after November, and everybody now has to pick up the pieces and first figure out what has happened and the new reality, but also figure out what we're going to be doing in the midst of all this.
02:16:55.000And that's why in this time, on the one hand, many of my predictions are coming true.
02:17:02.000These are things that are, you know, short-term predictions.
02:17:07.000At the same time, I've been very ambivalent.
02:17:13.000I've been a little bit, I don't want to say confused, but I've been a little bit more open-minded about things that are positive and negative.
02:17:21.000People have accused me of flip-flopping.
02:17:23.000I don't think I've been flip-flopping.
02:17:24.000I think I've been saying things that are true.
02:17:29.000And so the things that I'm concerned about, the negative things, I'm concerned about.
02:17:36.000The things that I've praised, the positive things, they make me a little more optimistic.
02:17:40.000But, you know, I'm sort of of two minds about it.
02:17:43.000And, you know, for somebody like myself, who has on the one hand been victimized by many of these people and actually persecuted by these people, obviously I can't be a complete cheerleader.
02:17:54.000If they're trying to tie the noose around anti-Semites, well, who the fuck do you think that is, you know?
02:18:00.000So I can't cheerlead an administration that's...
02:18:04.000Crushing criticism of Jews in Israel and is backed by Israel and is run by CIA agents that disavowed me for speaking on Israel.
02:18:13.000At the same time, ostensibly they are more right-wing than what came before.
02:18:21.000And as a rightist, we have to point out some of the positive features of that.
02:18:26.000So, like I said, I'm up to two minds on this and I think we have to have at least in this.
02:18:34.000Transitional period, when everybody's kind of collecting themselves and reeling a little bit from November, this is a time where we really do need to assume a new form.
02:18:48.000If we don't, we will be irrelevant, really.
02:18:53.000If we, in other words, stick to the same playbook, the same...
02:23:27.000And the law is connected to their covenant.
02:23:32.000And it has transmuted itself into this form of racial idolatry.
02:23:37.000You know, instead of worshiping goodness and the word and the law itself, what it became, which was Jesus, what it became incarnate as, it is turned and diverted in a different direction where now they worship themselves.
02:23:52.000They worship the Jewish people because they received the covenant, because they received the law, but it never belonged to them.
02:27:01.000Both of you guys, he's like, this is like when I was working on Life of Pablo and like Kendrick and Drake, because they both rapped and worked on Life of Pablo.
02:27:29.000Because on the one hand, he thinks Drake is corny and they have this rivalry, but he also has massive respect and he actually likes his music.
02:28:48.000Do you think the conservative attack on universities is a good thing?
02:28:50.000A major part of Western university education is the deconstruction of the social order, not in the sense of agreement or disagreement, but as a critical realization that it is not static.
02:28:56.000The extreme left and right both recognize this but reach different conclusions.
02:28:59.000Critical thinking is not only left wing.
02:30:12.000The trades are in huge demand, and they get paid a lot of money, and there's no shortage of work for them, and they make a really good living.
02:30:19.000There are many millionaires that are plumbers and electricians.
02:30:24.000Contractors make a ton of money these days.
02:30:27.000So no doubt about it, it's a good job.
02:30:29.000The thing is, if you want to get into the halls of power, you've got to go to college.
02:31:15.000But if you want a political revolution, we need a cadre of professional revolutionaries.
02:31:22.000And the professional classes that will wind up in those positions are lawyers, this day and age, business people, people in finance, people in business.
02:31:40.000And people with tech expertise, people with computer knowledge, and not so much of anything else.
02:31:48.000So people go to school and they're being told to be an electrician.
02:31:52.000I mean, that's great, but what's the pathway for an electrician to meet a billionaire?
02:31:58.000What's the pathway for an electrician to become a senator?
02:32:01.000It's not as clear-cut as these other ones.
02:32:22.000And, you know, so it actually doesn't help us when Charlie Kirk is telling all these really intelligent young people like, hey, go be a plumber.
02:32:31.000It's a good job for a lot of people, but if you're super high IQ... And you want to be a revolutionary, you got to go to university.
02:32:45.000And it's a form of penetrating our society.
02:32:50.000recommendations nick i want to learn more about this subject what should i do like bro just watch the show these kids just expect you to hand them a fucking packet yo okay don't yeah i don't need you to glaze me jesus king sent five dollars if anyone debates you on slavery in the bible jesus answers matthew chapter 19 moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard those laws in leviticus like divorce were not god's ideal but he slowly works with our hard hearts true omega friend sent five dollars in 2019 when the brenton terry True.
02:33:55.000And in the cases where it is, a lot of those billionaires are liberal and they oppose the Netanyahu government.
02:34:01.000They actually support a two-state solution.
02:34:03.000Like Soros and Netanyahu are against each other.
02:34:06.000But Soros is in favor of unlimited immigration.
02:34:09.000Like they oppose Netanyahu because he's supporting right-wing parties in Israel or rather in Europe.
02:34:16.000He's supporting Trump in the United States.
02:34:21.000You know, just because Jewish people are competing with each other in the realm of politics doesn't mean it's not Jewish-controlled, you know?
02:34:31.000Like, most of these Palestinian groups are super liberal, and I don't necessarily align with them.
02:34:36.000Like, a lot of them are coming from very left-wing groups, and that's for a reason.
02:34:42.000Mavericks trading Luca Donchich to the Los Angeles Lakers for Anthony Davis.
02:37:17.000How do I know about what goes on in your fucking house?
02:37:20.000You're going to send me a 100-character message and think I'm going to know all the facts and I'm going to have a better idea than you will about what will happen?
02:41:11.000But when it comes to the Catholic faith, how can you condemn good Catholics for disagreeing with you on the disputed questions like the limits of papal infallibility and ultramontanism?
02:43:28.000And that firm, which is led by Chris Buskirk, who's a friend of Vance's and he's also on Rockbridge, they gave TCN $15 million.
02:43:36.000And yeah, and then Tucker, along with Elon and Teal, made calls to convince Trump to tap Vance as VP. And then Vance hired Tucker's son to work in his press office.
02:44:07.000Man being Canadian right now is so fucking embarrassing.
02:44:09.000The whole country's identity has always circled around the fact that we're not like the Americans, but in reality, everyone's a gay snow faggot.
02:44:13.000I refuse to associate with anyone here.
02:45:38.000The only thing that's going to stop them is if they either agree to stop it or some other government comes to power that does not want a nuclear arsenal or a threshold capability.
02:45:52.000And so the question is whether that is in our best interest.
02:45:57.000And that is something that Israel wants.
02:45:59.000I don't think that it's in our interest to overthrow the government.
02:48:57.000That's the deep state, the deep state one. - Russians be 35 cent, $5.
02:49:00.0002020 black lives matter, 2025 Jewish lives matter.
02:49:03.000- Dude, kill yourself. - Hey Nick, I just wanna thank you for this show.
02:49:06.000I was reflecting earlier today on how fortunate it is that every weeknight at exactly 8:00 PM CST, we are treated with two hours of the most insightful and entertaining content on the internet.
02:56:36.000I think that the only way forward is to put out our message.
02:56:40.000The whole point, when these people fund hit pieces, when they're putting out the gray zone hit piece, you could spend years telling people, oh no, no, that's lies and here's why.
02:57:51.000Two weeks in, I need another month off.
02:57:53.000Or we got to raise the limit to a million dollars.
02:57:56.000Can we just do like one $1 million super chat?
02:58:00.000Is there an ultra high net worth individual that can just give me a one $1 million super chat so I don't have to read these for like a couple of years or something?