00:00:38.000President Trump tweeting out last week that they were looking into banning bump stocks, that the Justice Department was looking into banning bump stocks.
00:00:45.000So, not a great week, not a tremendous week last week, but that's all right.
00:00:54.000We weren't here on YouTube on Friday because I was debating Mike Tokes on the BA experience, which, if you watch that, as predicted, as promised, it was a pretty resounding victory.
00:02:44.000We're going to be talking about the omnibus spending bill and sort of reaction to that.
00:02:49.000We talked a little bit about it on Thursday, but it hadn't been, I don't think, looked into as much.
00:02:55.000If you recall, it's a 2,400 page bill, and it had barely even been read.
00:02:59.000It hadn't even been signed when we covered it on Thursday.
00:03:02.000And so we'll be getting into what this means for the presidency, what this means for the midterms, what this means for President Trump, what's exactly in the bill, white pills and black pills in the bill, white pills and black pills about the bill.
00:03:14.000Really some interesting takes, I think, we'll have on the show for you tonight about that.
00:03:18.000We'll also be talking, of course, about the March for Our Lives gun control protest that was nationwide over the weekend.
00:03:28.000I mean, we saw all these youngsters up there speaking in Washington, D.C., and really it was like a Jacobin revolt.
00:03:34.000I'm watching these youngsters go up on, and, you know, like I'm some old guy, but I'm watching these high school kids get up there on the stage, and they're yelling, and they're screaming, and they're crying.
00:03:45.000And one of them throws up my cousin, Samantha Fuentes.
00:03:48.000We're not related, but throwing up all over the place.
00:03:51.000And I thought it was really like the Jacobins.
00:03:54.000It was like watching the French Revolution, the way you have all these emotional, passionate people getting up there, and you should have seen some of the signs there.
00:04:03.000And then, last but certainly not least, we have to get into a new disclosure about the Pulse nightclub shooting.
00:04:10.000If you recall the Pulse nightclub shooting, the gay club shooting in 2016 in Orlando, Florida, the perpetrator of that shooting, Omar Mateen, his father, it came out today that the father of the Orlando nightclub shooting was an FBI informant.
00:04:26.000And we have to talk about that because everywhere you look, whether it's Vegas, Pulse, Boston bombings, the shooting in Parkland in February, There are feds everywhere.
00:04:39.000Why are there glow in the dark federal agents in every mass shooting?
00:05:09.000I wanted to get into, before we get into any of the news, I wanted to get into one thing.
00:05:12.000Before we get into the big stories and the omnibus spending bill in particular, I wanted to get into one thing which I saw on my timeline on Twitter, and this just made me lose my mind.
00:05:22.000You know me, I'm a very level headed guy.
00:05:38.000This morning, and you have to look at these things because we do a lot of like media watchdog stuff where we talk about the news, but we also talk about how the news is covered.
00:05:47.000I think there's no better example than this kind of blatant lying.
00:05:50.000I'm scrolling through my Twitter timeline today, and I follow The Hill because I think The Hill kind of gives you a good gestalt of what the left wing media is saying.
00:05:58.000I see one of the headlines from The Hill on Twitter today Afghanistan vet deported back to Mexico.
00:06:21.000I'm sure there was just an innocent Mexican man or an innocent veteran who happened to be Mexican who got deported by evil drunk.
00:06:29.000Click on the article, and lo and behold, we find out that this Mexican got his green card revoked after he was caught on a felony drug conviction selling cocaine to an undercover police officer.
00:06:42.000And so I look into this story, and this is just a brief thing before we get into the big stories, but this is just a small thing.
00:06:49.000But it's a small, it's one story that gives you an idea of what exactly is going on with the media today, folks.
00:06:56.000That if you're reading the headlines, if you're just, you know, flipping through, you catch the nightly news maybe one evening, if you're not in tune and you're reading the articles and you're thinking about what you're reading, you're getting what amounts to lies.
00:07:08.000You're getting effectively nothing but lies from the media.
00:07:12.000And they write the headlines deliberately like that.
00:07:15.000And they sit around in their teams and they write these stories deliberately like that to mislead, to deceive for a political agenda.
00:07:22.000And so we just have to point that out.
00:07:24.000We've been doing it just about every week.
00:07:26.000Maybe we'll have to make it a regular segment where we watch the media and what they do.
00:07:30.000But I just think there's no better example than this where you have a headline that says, Afghanistan veteran deported back to Mexico.
00:07:37.000And if you don't read the article, like most people, if you have a Twitter and you go into your analytics, how many impressions do you have versus engagements?
00:07:44.000How many people see the tweet versus how many people click the link?
00:08:24.000But it's one of those things where it looks like every week there's a story like this, whether it was the Putin thing, whether it was what was covered last week, which I forget, there was a big story we did like that.
00:08:35.000But to get into the omnibus spending bill, I know this was a very contentious thing on Twitter.
00:08:40.000This is a very contentious thing in the country.
00:08:42.000I kind of live in Twitter, so that's kind of my source of reference.
00:08:45.000But the omnibus spending bill is obviously a very contentious piece of legislation.
00:08:50.000Here we had a $1.3 trillion spending bill, second biggest omnibus spending bill in history, passed by the House and the Senate on Thursday, signed into law by the president on Friday.
00:09:04.000Now, to first of all, to go over what an omnibus spending bill is, because I know there was a lot of confusion.
00:09:09.000People were saying it's not a budget, and so that means there's different considerations, that means there's different rules.
00:09:16.000All an omnibus spending bill is, is an appropriations bill, but just many of them packaged into one.
00:09:21.000Omnibus just means that you package all things, a lot of things, into one bill.
00:09:27.000So omnibus can be applied to a lot of things, but an omnibus spending bill means you package many appropriations bills that would have happened several times throughout the year.
00:09:38.000Normally, in a year, you have 12 appropriations bills passed by the House and by the Senate.
00:09:43.000An omnibus spending bill, omni meaning all, packages all the appropriations bills into one big bill, a 2,400 page, $1.3 trillion spending bill, and they pass it at one time.
00:09:54.000Now, unlike a budget, a budget which is put forth by the president and by his economic council and his office of management and budget and then passed to the Congress, a budget does not have the force of law.
00:10:06.000So people are saying, Well, it's not a budget, and that means that it's actually a good thing.
00:10:21.000The president has his budget compiled by the Office of Management and Budget through the other agencies and departments in the federal government, and then he proposes his budget to the Congress, and the Congress then takes the budget and creates appropriations bills, which is a collection of which.
00:10:39.000So people are saying there were things about that that's actually not true.
00:10:42.000So the omnibus spending bill passed on Friday, and there were some very tricky components here which people were upset with.
00:10:49.000For starters, it did not fully fund the border wall.
00:10:51.000In fact, it didn't fund the border wall at all.
00:10:54.000President Trump was asking in January when these negotiations began and we had a government shutdown, and then we did a couple of stopgap measures.
00:11:02.000The proposal by President Trump for the wall was $25 billion, $18 billion for the actual construction.
00:11:10.000Of a 1,000 mile concrete wall and an additional $7 billion, actually up to $30 billion for border patrol agents, for ICE agents, for federal judges to process illegal immigrants getting deported from the country, and also surveillance, maintenance for the wall.
00:11:27.000I mean, you had $25 to $30 billion, a very decent chunk of money that the White House proposed as far back as January for what this border security package should look like, for what the wall and other things should look like to get our immigration situation in order.
00:11:41.000If you recall, President Trump initially wanted to trade.
00:11:44.000That $30 billion for wall and border and all that for DACA.
00:11:49.000He wanted the $30 billion for the wall, an end to chain migration, and an end to the diversity visa lottery system in exchange for DACA.
00:11:57.000Ended up that this omnibus spending bill that appropriated money through September 30th, that's key.
00:12:02.000Remember, omnibus spending bill funds the government through September 30th.
00:12:07.000He wanted all of that in the bill, but it turned out none of it ended up in the bill.
00:12:10.000Not diversity visa lottery, not chain migration, not DACA, and not the $25 billion to $30 billion for the wall.
00:12:18.000Instead, what we got in this bill for border was $1.6 billion.
00:12:24.000So we wanted $18 for the wall with $25 to $30 for additional things like agents and maintenance and all the rest.
00:12:43.000And here's the curious thing about that because he said in the press conference where he signed the bill, he said that, well, construction on the wall begins on Monday.
00:12:52.000And we got a down payment on the wall.
00:12:53.000He described the $1.6 billion as a down payment.
00:12:57.000And they could start on the wall and the rest of the funding would come later.
00:13:00.000But here's the curious thing about it it's embarrassing enough.
00:13:03.000It's bad enough that his own party put together an omnibus spending bill that didn't have remotely close to the money he needed for the wall.
00:13:11.000But if that wasn't enough to add insult to injury, there are specific provisions, very deliberate, specific language in the bill, which says that the $1.6 billion appropriated to immigration and customs cannot go towards any kind of concrete wall anywhere near the border.
00:13:29.000It can't go towards any kind of the prototypes that Donald Trump inspected last week in San Diego.
00:13:35.000And actually, most of the money has to go towards.
00:13:38.000Fencing on the border, and most of it is going towards repairing and replacing existing fencing.
00:13:45.000And get this here's the rich part, which I didn't hear anywhere, but somebody from the administration told me the vast majority of the $1.6 billion goes towards gates in the fence.
00:13:57.000So you got $1.6 billion out of the $18 for the wall and the $25 to $30 for border agents and all the rest.
00:14:04.000And not only could that $1.6 billion not be spent on a concrete wall, not Be spent on anything like Donald Trump inspected in San Diego.
00:14:12.000Not only can it only go towards building fences or repairing existing fences, but actually a big fat sum of it goes towards gates in the fence.
00:14:26.000Which, if you understand what we're trying to achieve here, if you understand what we're trying to accomplish with a border wall, is we're trying to build a barrier, we're trying to build a physical impediment.
00:14:42.000We're trying to make it so that you physically cannot get from point A to point B.
00:14:48.000And the majority of the money that was supposed to go towards that project is now going towards making entryways, making it so that people can get through the existing fences, which are already depleted.
00:15:01.000So people are understandably very upset with the bill, as I am, as many people are.
00:15:08.000People have described it, and excuse my French, but people have described it as.
00:15:12.000Donald Trump being forced to eat a shit sandwich when he signed it on the press conference because he came up there and he wasn't exactly enthused.
00:15:21.000He says, We're not happy with the bill.
00:15:23.000We're not happy with a lot of things in it, and I'll never sign a bill like this again.
00:15:27.000I mean, he said that explicitly, but people are rightfully upset.
00:15:31.000Here we are, more than a year after the inauguration, zero miles of border wall built.
00:15:37.000The farthest we've gotten, we have the proposal for it, we have the prototypes for it, and I guess some kind of a design.
00:15:46.000And here was the chance, here was the time to do it.
00:15:49.000And instead of getting any kind of money for the wall, we get a big fat slap in the face.
00:15:53.000We get a paltry sum that isn't even a fraction of what would be required to build a wall.
00:15:58.000And we get explicit language that says none of it even goes towards anything like a wall, anything resembling a wall, but actually the failed barriers that are already in place, which is fences and gates and all the rest.
00:16:10.000And so people are very upset about this, and I understand that.
00:16:28.000There's nothing encouraging, actually, about the bill.
00:16:30.000The bill is terrible, and, you know, there it is.
00:16:34.000It was constructed by Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, and I think they deserve the blame.
00:16:38.000President Trump signed it, I think, because it would only extend the process.
00:16:43.000I don't think we'd do any better with Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell.
00:16:46.000It would only delay the inevitable here.
00:16:48.000The silver lining might be here where I could maybe lift your spirits a little bit is think about when the appropriations for this bill expire.
00:17:25.000There are some things redeeming about the bill, which we'll get into in a moment.
00:17:28.000But maybe the silver lining here with the wall funding is that.
00:17:32.000In September 30th, we get to go through this process again.
00:17:35.000And President Trump said, I'll never sign another bill like this.
00:17:39.000We're going to get into why that's a good thing.
00:17:41.000But first, consider the fact that the appropriations run out September 30th.
00:17:44.000We'll have four weeks then, between then and Election Day, to put together another appropriations bill that'll have money for the wall, that'll have money for other things.
00:17:54.000And so there is a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel.
00:17:56.000I know this bill seems like the end of the world, and certainly there are very few good things in the bill, if any at all.
00:18:03.000And people have a right to be upset with President Trump because it is a setback.
00:18:07.000You know, people were hitting me on Twitter saying, you know, how's Nick going to defend this?
00:18:11.000How's Nick going to spin this and say it's all strategic?
00:18:42.000I see somebody in President Trump who was caught off guard, who was not able to close a deal on this omnibus spending bill, and who is, we had to take a step back here.
00:18:55.000But the way that we could prevent ourselves from totally blowing our brains out and saying this is the end of the world is to realize that we'll have another shot at this appropriations process on September 30th in that week, and that'll give us ample time in the remaining weeks to campaign.
00:19:11.000If we could get a significant amount of money for the wall then or for other things, I think we'd be in good shape.
00:19:17.000And additionally, here is the white pill about the bill.
00:19:20.000Here is the one thing in the bill which makes it, I don't know, I think a little bit interesting.
00:19:26.000Here's just a small detail where if you look in pages 580 through 595 of the Omnibus Spending Bill, there is a clause in the 580 section which allocates $245 million for the Office of the Inspector General.
00:19:43.000On page 595, the language says, No funds in this act shall be used to deny an inspector general funded under this act timely access to any records, documents, other materials to the department or agency over which the IG has responsibilities or to prevent access to records.
00:20:05.000What do I mean when I talk about the office of the inspector general?
00:20:09.000Well, the inspector general, which is a man by the name of Horowitz, who served under the Bush administration, the Obama administration, We've been talking about it on the show for a long time.
00:20:18.000But since a little bit of time before the inauguration, the Inspector General, Mr. Horowitz, has been looking into the Clinton email scandal, has been looking into the FBI's handling of the Clinton email scandal, has been looking into any kinds of leaks, any kinds of improprieties in the FISA scandal that happened with Nunes Mendo and all of that.
00:20:39.000The Inspector General has been looking essentially into the corruption of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for over a year now.
00:20:45.000And the report was due earlier in fall, but they've expanded the deadline several times.
00:20:50.000It's now expected sometime in the remainder days, in the remaining weeks of March or in the early weeks of April.
00:20:57.000And this inspector general support, if it is a good thing, if it's everything that it's hyped up to be, many people have expectations that it's really going to blow the lid on a lot of corruption and a lot of things that have been going on, not just with Democrats, but with everybody in Washington, D.C.
00:21:12.000Then I think the white pill here, the silver lining here, might be that if this bill allocates the money and the resources and there is language specifically for the IG in here, And the IG report is very explosive.
00:21:26.000Remember that we have until September 30th to change the rules.
00:21:29.000So imagine a hypothetical scenario, which this is a hypothetical.
00:21:32.000This is nothing, this is not an assurance.
00:21:36.000This is nothing anybody should take to the bank or anything like that.
00:21:40.000But if we have explicit language in here for the IG and the office for the IG and his report that's allocating money and that's preventing money from stopping him from doing what he needs to do, let's say that in April, this report is everything that it's cracked up to be.
00:21:54.000And Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and their allies and donors and funders and politicians are seriously looking at indictments, seriously looking at a major shakeup.
00:22:03.000And suddenly in the midterms, we see the ball or the pendulum shift in favor of the Republicans.
00:22:09.000This takes all the gas out of the Democratic Party.
00:22:14.000And this is used as a pretext to reform how bills are passed.
00:22:18.000This is used as a pretext to clean house in the party apparatus and the executive.
00:22:24.000In the executive branch of government and the legislative branch of government.
00:22:27.000And by September 30th, we have a party that reflects Donald Trump's ideology and his platform and his leadership, and we're able to pass something good.
00:22:49.000It could be a totally knock your socks off, bigger than Richard Nixon scandal, bigger than Watergate scandal, which could really decisively.
00:22:58.000Shift the momentum in favor of the Republicans.
00:23:01.000We have the infrastructure bill, which is still on the table, which is wildly popular among Democrats and Republicans, which seems like it would be relatively easy to pass.
00:23:10.000And I'm sure that Democrats would fund that.
00:23:12.000I'm sure there could even be wall funding in that if it were passed.
00:23:15.000You have the historic summit with North Korea set to take place either this month or next month.
00:23:20.000They were kind of unclear about whether or not they said by the end of May or by the end of, or by the beginning of May when that meeting would happen.
00:23:43.000And I think if you consider everything that we have going for us right now, which is that you have one president, one literally one guy who is single handedly fighting a 15 front war with a 100 year legacy system.
00:23:57.000He's fighting the deep state, the Democratic Party, the media.
00:24:12.000And so far, he's done a very good job.
00:24:13.000I think if you look at the bigger picture here, where he took out ISIS, he took out the TPP, the UN Climate Pact, the migration pact for the UN, the climate pact, the Paris Climate Accords, he's done so much in terms of trade, in terms of economy.
00:24:29.000And I know the wall was the big thing.
00:24:30.000I know immigration is the important thing.
00:24:32.000But I think for people that are saying the sky is falling, Trump has cucked on his promises, he's not our guy anymore, I think it's a little premature.
00:24:40.000I'll be the first one to concede that it was a bad week, it was a bad bill.
00:24:44.000Not to defend it or anything, but I think that's just how it has to be looked at.
00:24:48.000It's one bad bill, it's one bad week, and we have a new week next week, and we have many things on the horizon just in the short term that will be, I think, very good for the Republican Party, for our chances in the midterms, and there's a lot of time between now and the election.
00:25:04.000At this time last year, or at this time in 2016 during the presidential election, President Trump hadn't even won the primary yet.
00:25:11.000I don't even think Ted Cruz had dropped out of the race yet.
00:25:14.000So, imagine all the time between President Trump being very close to clinching the nomination during the primary season in 2016 and the election in November.
00:25:48.000And then additionally, I will say, President Trump tweeted over the weekend that he could, and he suggested this kind of ambiguously, kind of in a subtle way, that he could potentially use military funds to build the wall.
00:26:01.000And I don't see, it would be legal for him to do that.
00:26:04.000I don't think there are any legal impediments for him to use Department of Defense money for the wall.
00:26:09.000And if you recall, he got a $60 billion increase in military spending with this omnibus spending bill.
00:26:15.000If that's some kind of a hypothetical white pill here.
00:26:19.000$654 billion for the Defense Department, which is $60 billion more than last year.
00:26:24.000And he hinted over the weekend that he could possibly use money and appropriations for the military for the wall.
00:26:30.000Certainly, that wouldn't be outside the realm of possibility.
00:26:33.000He's already been working with the Army Corps of Engineers and the Department of Homeland Security for designing the wall, for putting plans together, and all the rest.
00:26:41.000I don't think it would be totally outside of reality to suggest that he might use that money to get it started sooner rather than later.
00:27:37.000The next big thing moving right along into, I guess, another depressing kind of a thing was this March for Our Lives rally where you had people from all over the world participating in it, even people in London, people in Europe, people all over the place, but especially in the United States protesting.
00:27:55.000They had massive protests in just about every major city.
00:27:58.000The biggest one was in Washington, D.C., where initially they reported there were 800,000 people in attendance there, and actually it was closer to 200,000, which, you know, Devil's in the details there, where NBC is saying it's 800,000, there's millions of people taking to the streets, and actually it's about a quarter of that number.
00:28:18.000It was a big effort, the March for Our Lives rally, and you had all of our favorite activists, David Hogg, Emma Gonzalez, Cameron Kasky, and all of our favorite characters from Parkland.
00:28:34.000I was watching coverage of it on Saturday and just thinking, this is actually doing more harm than good for their cause.
00:28:40.000I think, you know, in some ways, We look at that rally and we look at the kinds of people that turned out for it and the speeches and what they were cheering for and the signs, which were all despicable for their own reasons.
00:28:52.000But I think we look at all of that, and on the one hand, we can say, isn't it sad that so many people have bought into this?
00:28:57.000Isn't it sad that so many people have bought into these lies about gun violence and about AR 15s and gun control and all the rest?
00:29:06.000But by the same token, I think it's important to realize that just as many people will be looking at it in the way that we are.
00:29:13.000Then people are looking at it favorably.
00:29:15.000Maybe even more people be looking at it the way we are.
00:29:17.000Because you imagine people that are in swing states, people that are in West Virginia, people that are in Pennsylvania, people in Ohio, people in New Hampshire, where you have white working class people, then maybe they vote for Democrats because they liked Obamacare.
00:29:31.000Maybe they voted for Barack Obama because they didn't like the bank bailout, because they didn't like the way George W. Bush bailed out all these different Wall Street firms.
00:29:40.000Maybe they were for Democrats because they supported the worker and they supported economically.
00:29:46.000But then when these Ohioans and these Pennsylvanians and these people in New Hampshire and West Virginia, they see, you know, the Mystery Meat collection from high school get up on stage yelling the Jacobin rallying cry of, we're going to take your guns.
00:30:00.000We're going to take semi automatic rifles.
00:30:02.000And suddenly, Democrats' odds at taking back the House or the Senate become a little bit more dubious, become a little bit more questionable.
00:30:11.000You have to remember that in 2018, you have 15,000.
00:30:15.000Contested Democrat states, or rather, there's 15 contested Democrat seats in the Senate.
00:30:21.000You have many states up for grabs in the Senate and in the House that Trump won in 2016, where you have Democratic incumbents in states where Trump won in 2016, or you have Republican governors or Republican legislatures, or a combination of all three, or two, or one of them.
00:30:36.000And so you look at this rally and you look at where the Democratic Party is headed in terms of how they've pursued their messaging.
00:30:43.000And even something like this, where you would think that many people are on board with it because you see the numbers that show up in these.
00:30:48.000Big urban and liberal cities, it actually might be doing a lot more harm than good.
00:30:53.000You look at, for example, in Montana, where the Democrats have an incumbent defending his Senate seat in Montana, and Montana's not exactly a liberal state.
00:31:04.000And you imagine in Missouri, where the Democrats have an incumbent, or some of these other states in the West, in the Midwest, in the South, and you realize that it's going to be a lot harder for the Democrats to hold on or to contest some of these seats in 2018, when on the one hand, We saw in Pennsylvania, they're pulling out a surprise victory because they have a working class message, a moderate message, one that's explicitly anti Democrat.
00:31:28.000But on the national level, if you look at what they're pushing with millions, billions of dollars in the media with their political activism, it's messaging that is anathema to a centrist, to a moderate, even to some of the average white Democratic voters.
00:31:42.000So I don't think it was necessarily the end of the world in terms of electoral politics.
00:31:47.000Now, that said, we heard some very disturbing things.
00:31:50.000We found out that suddenly these activists who were a couple of weeks ago in favor of sensible gun reform and sensible background checks and raising the age limit.
00:32:00.000Are now in favor of banning semi automatic rifles.
00:32:02.000And I think this should tell us everything we need to know about the left, everything we need to know about gun control at all, which is to say that they will come to the rally, they will come to the debating table, they will come to the town hall, and they will tell you with a straight face and with their fingers crossed behind their back that they are in favor of common sense gun reform.
00:32:24.000They don't want to take your guns, they don't want to take your rifle, they just want sensible reform that everyone can agree on.
00:32:31.000They just want to make sure that people with mental illnesses can't get.
00:32:36.000They just want to make sure that you have a proper background check when you buy a firearm and that you're an appropriate age when you buy a firearm.
00:32:44.000But when they're among their own, when they really take the mask off and they show you their cards the whole time, the entire time, until the end of time, they are for the confiscation of firearms.
00:32:54.000And they said it at the rally yesterday.
00:32:57.000Whereas they went on that town hall and they said the NRA is controlling politicians and we just want reasonable background checks.
00:33:03.000And they were in support of raising the age limit.
00:33:06.000And all these half measures, we heard over the weekend, every single one of the speakers said, We're going to take your semi automatic rifles.
00:33:12.000We're going to take your guns, your military style assault weapons.
00:33:20.000That means any kind of semi automatic rifle.
00:33:23.000You look at even the language of the moderate things they propose, for example, the bump stock ban.
00:33:28.000And one of our good friends of the show, Joe the Boomer, Joe the Serb, was in our call in show one of those weeks talking about how the language and some of the bills being put forth by Congress. Was so ambiguous that just about anything that could be used to modify the rate of fire of a firearm would fall under that bump stock ban.
00:33:46.000And so you look at these things, you look at the whole of their message, you look at what they say when they're with their own versus what they say when they're with us.
00:33:53.000And this is why we can never give an inch on gun control.
00:33:57.000This is why when President Trump announced last week that he was looking into a bump stock ban in the Justice Department, this is why that was so misguided.
00:34:05.000You're not going to win any new voters, you're not going to win any new converts with.
00:34:09.000These half measures, with these small concessions, these gradual incremental concessions, because they're coming for the whole House.
00:34:16.000They're coming for the whole thing, and they'll never be satisfied.
00:34:19.000You notice that when President Trump tweeted out after he passed the omnibus spending bill, after he put John Bolton in charge, when he tweeted out that he was looking into a bump stock ban, did the left welcome him with open arms?
00:34:31.000Did Cameron Kasky and David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez get on Twitter and say, Thank you, Mr. President.
00:34:36.000Thank you, Mr. President, for making common sense gun reforms?
00:34:40.000For them, and there's a lot more work to be done, but this is a great step.
00:34:43.000Did they get on television and say, This is a step in the right direction?
00:34:47.000Or did you see all the blue check marks and all the leftists and all the mainstream media say, This is never good enough, this is not good enough, and all the rest?
00:34:54.000Of course, we saw the latter, and we will continue to see the latter until they confiscate every single firearm.
00:35:01.000And I don't think there's any other way around that.
00:35:04.000And that's why we can't give on age limits, on background checks, no matter how much you might agree with that, no matter how much you might think that's a good idea.
00:35:12.000And certainly, I think there are things that could be done to shore up the system.
00:35:15.000I think Wayne LaPierre made a lot of good points in his speech at CPAC that the regulations in place aren't being enforced, aren't being effectively utilized, they're being neglected.
00:35:24.000For example, many of the states don't even submit their criminal records to the database for background checks.
00:35:30.000But, you know, there are some things that can be done, I think, legally to prevent some firearms from falling into the wrong hands.
00:35:49.000Fortunately for us, it remains an unpopular issue in terms of.
00:35:53.000You may look at the polling where it says that people are in favor of banning semi automatic rifles, but the fact has been that for just about 50 years, gun control has been highly unpopular.
00:36:04.000And just now, because the party has shifted so far to the left, the Democratic Party has just taken and they're just sprinting as far left as Carl Marsh and all the rest as you could possibly imagine.
00:36:16.000Suddenly now they think it's a great idea because they're in this bubble.
00:36:20.000I think it still remains unpopular, and I think in the end it'll be a net negative for them.
00:36:24.000That doesn't mean we can't be vigilant, but I think in the end it'll all work itself out.
00:36:29.000I will say, though, that all those pundits, all those talk radio hosts that we heard about in the 2000s, I'm talking about the Mark Levins, the Glenn Becks, the Alex Jones, the Sean Hannity.
00:36:41.000I mean, the rhetoric during the Obama administration from these people was Hitler went after the children, Mao went after the children, the Democrats are going after the children, and then they're going to take your guns.
00:36:51.000And I have to say, Many people laughed at them 10 years ago.
00:36:55.000Many people made fun of them when they were making those predictions.
00:36:58.000I remember because I was one of these very basic conservatives talking about these things and getting laughed at.
00:37:16.000So I guess they weren't too crazy after all.
00:37:19.000And I have to say, maybe the worst element of the march was not the repulsive speeches, the vomiting, the schizophrenic kids up there.
00:37:27.000Out of control, passions, emotions flying.
00:37:30.000The worst part about this rally were the signs, the signage.
00:37:34.000You know, you imagine that these kids are in some way see themselves as the ideological descendant of Vietnam War protesters or Woodstock.
00:37:42.000And I think that's baloney because they're in support of the establishment, they're in support of the corporations and the banks, and they have a reciprocal support for each other.
00:37:52.000But you see some of these signs, and it's SpongeBob, it's Harry Potter.
00:37:56.000One of the signs was like, well, all the kids in the Hogwarts school had wands.
00:38:03.000Or, you know, they have SpongeBob means somebody had a Star Wars poster where it said, Blasters are so uncivilized, which is a quote from Star Wars 3.
00:38:13.000And I'm just thinking to myself, is this where we are as a country?
00:38:16.000Is this what kind of a clown country do we have our policy?
00:38:21.000I mean, think about it in this context that our policy is dictated by children and man children, people that are 20 and 30.
00:38:32.000Worldview is informed by television shows.
00:38:35.000Their worldview is informed by pop garbage, by Kim Possible and Sweet Life of Zack and Cody and Star Wars.
00:38:42.000These are the people dictating our policy, whereas formerly you had people showing up and protesting and doing things because they were reading Henry David Thoreau, they were reading Ralph Waldo Emerson, they were reading Julius Evela, they were reading another conspicuous revolutionary from the 20th century, they were reading Karl Marx, they were reading.
00:39:05.000You know, all kinds of writings from the French Revolution, socialists, they were reading Proudhon.
00:39:09.000I mean, all kinds of really revolutionary stuff.
00:39:12.000And today, the revolutionaries, the people informing our policy, they're coming with their Harry Potter signs and their Star Wars signs.
00:39:20.000And what kind of a vulgar population have we cultivated in this country where these are the proles that are showing up in the streets?
00:39:30.000These are the people that have inherited the great cities, these are the people that have inherited this great civilization.
00:39:42.000I think that was maybe the most profoundly sad thing just how many people are showing up like this screaming and yelling and cussing and they're bringing their children and the signs and the Terry Potter.
00:40:23.000You can ask your question for the last 15 minutes.
00:40:25.000But the last big story of today small story, one that went pretty much unnoticed on social media and in the mainstream news, but I found it nonetheless.
00:40:36.000Omar Mateen, the shooter in the Pulse nightclub shooting in 2016 in Orlando, Florida, his father was an FBI informant.
00:40:44.000And, you know, this stands out because.
00:40:46.000We've seen so many unexplainable events in the past year, and even the big events, the Las Vegas shooting, the Parkland shooting.
00:40:53.000We've talked about it at length on this show.
00:40:55.000How many different discrepancies, contradictions, things that cannot be explained with the story we've been told by the police and by the intelligence community.
00:41:05.000And now we're finding that conspicuously in every one of these cases, everywhere surrounding the tragedy, everywhere surrounding the shooting and the victims are federal agents, are people that work for the government.
00:41:18.000The best example of this was Stephen Paddock in Las Vegas, where throughout his career he worked first as a mail carrier for the United States Postal Service.
00:41:56.000In the Parkland shooting that happened in February, how many unexplainable things do you have there?
00:42:01.000How many questions do you have about that shooting?
00:42:04.000Where you have all those contradictory witness reports of multiple shooters, of somebody in full metal armor and in a mask.
00:42:11.000I mean, all kinds of ridiculous things, negligence that just shouldn't be possible at every level from the police to the school to the FBI.
00:42:19.000And then you find that David Hogg, One of the most popular, one of the people that's been given a voice by the media, by Ellen, and all the rest, his father's retired FBI.
00:42:29.000You find out Omar Mateen today's father was FBI.
00:42:32.000You find out the uncle of the Boston bombers, married to the daughter of a CIA agent, and it really, really activates the almonds there.
00:42:42.000Because for the past eight years or so, I mean, really, even since 9 11, maybe even further back, you've just seen case after case of these kinds of tragedies, these highly publicized tragedies.
00:42:55.000Visceral, visual terror attacks or shootings or what have you, and all around are things that cannot be explained.
00:43:02.000Contradictions, missing documents, lack of evidence, and federal agents.
00:43:08.000I think it's worth pointing out that the federal government has planned many times throughout history to impose false flag attacks or perpetrate false flag attacks against the United States citizenry to achieve their political objectives.
00:43:21.000If you don't believe, if you think this is crazy talk, if you think this is outside the realm of possibility, look up a little something called Operation Northwoods, which was a plan put together by the CIA in the 1970s.
00:43:34.000To perpetrate terror attacks all over the United States against the American public, kill American civilians, and then blame it on the Cubans so we could go to war with Cuba.
00:43:47.000This is not anything anybody would deny.
00:43:49.000This is nothing a mainstream news outlet would deny.
00:43:51.000This is nothing the federal government would deny.
00:43:54.000This is something that is declassified, which is all there for anybody looking for it.
00:43:59.000Operation Northwoods, where our government said we actually did conspire to kill people in terrorist attacks and blame it on foreign governments or other nefarious actors.
00:44:08.000So that we could pursue our interests with the support of the public.
00:44:12.000And here you see many cases from Vegas to Parkland to the Boston bombing to the Pulse nightclub shooting, I think even 9 11, where you see all kinds of contradictions, you see all kinds of weird coincidences and federal agents.
00:44:25.000And by the way, if you even suggest a conspiracy theory, what do they do?
00:44:30.000YouTube removes your video from the search results on YouTube, Google removes your listing from the search results there, Facebook removes it from your timeline, you get banned from YouTube, you get banned from Twitter, you get banned from Facebook.
00:44:41.000You got to ask yourself, What's going on there, folks?
00:44:43.000But that was just a small thing we got to get into our Super Chats and our Stream Labs donations.
00:44:49.000You just got to be vigilant about that stuff.
00:44:52.000You know, when there's a mass shooting, when there's a tragedy, you want to make sure you're looking at the source material from the day of, and you also got to keep an eye out for the glow in the dark people.
00:45:18.000You know, I got to be honest, the memes are just getting stale.
00:45:22.000You know, whenever Trump does something, I mean, this is kind of the mindset of people who blackpill about Trump, people who are so pessimistic about Trump.
00:45:31.000You know, bad headline, bad headline, I no like Trump now.
00:45:36.000Trump do thing I don't like, I no like Trump now.
00:45:40.000And then if you try to explain it in any kind of nuanced fashion, which I do on the show and on my timeline, I say, well, this was bad.
00:46:06.000And then the other one is, it's 100 dimensional underwater checkers, it's four dimensional chests, it's five dimensional hungry, hungry hippos every time.
00:46:53.000For most people, it's a modest increase.
00:46:55.000And even for people that are seeing a big increase, this is not going to close the enthusiasm gap, right?
00:47:02.000I mean, you had a tax cut in December, which for some people is more modest than others.
00:47:06.000I know a lot of people are making a little bit more.
00:47:08.000And when you factor in lower expenses for some people, like ComEd and other utilities are cutting their rates, when you factor in a lot of the bonuses that are being given out, not so much for construction, but for, you know, for example, a lot of the big multinational corporations, as much as we hate them, they're giving out bonuses, pay raises to a significant extent.
00:49:26.000But remember that Congress writes the bills and he understood that it was a bad bill and we have another opportunity on September 30th.
00:49:32.000So, you know, people have this weird conflation where they hear something they disagree with, they hear something they don't like, and then they hear something totally different than what was said.
00:49:41.000I'm upset about the bill, and that means that we can't think about it for longer than five seconds.
00:49:46.000I expect you to go on there and burn your MAGA hat.
00:49:50.000And it's, we have to look at it a little bit differently.
00:49:53.000So it's not, I wouldn't necessarily call it a white pill.
00:49:55.000It's not a white pill or a black pill.
00:49:57.000It's just context, just giving you a little bit of context.
00:49:59.000If all we had was this week, it would be the end of the world.
00:50:03.000But fortunately, there are many weeks to come, there's many months ahead of us, and this is a big struggle.
00:50:08.000We are in the political fight of our lives for the fate of our nation.
00:50:12.000And anybody who tells you, That one politician has all the answers, one politician is going to solve it in one year, and any of that other kind of stuff is a liar.
00:50:24.000I mean, these people really expect that if Trump hasn't unraveled and reversed 50 years of corruption, 50 years of political entrenchment, if he hasn't fixed a systemically broken Congress and gotten everything he wanted in 15 months, then we can't trust him.
00:53:23.000I mean, people just have an unrealistic expectation that Trump will get out there and say, you know, something like, for all my fasci goys out there, it's just not going to happen.
00:53:33.000Douchebag says, happy to make you all laugh on BA.
00:54:45.000Billion dollar capital injections in infrastructure and factories.
00:54:50.000We see companies putting money into existing factories, opening new ones.
00:54:54.000You've seen this all across the country.
00:54:55.000Companies coming from Mexico to the United States.
00:54:58.000Foxconn, which is a Chinese company, coming to Wisconsin.
00:55:01.000So I think, you know, not every single person in the 330 million person country is going to see, you know, they're going to hit the lottery.
00:55:10.000But I think a lot of people in these swing states are feeling the economic effect.
00:55:13.000And that's a big part of why people go to vote.
00:55:16.000And even health care, I think, is why people go to vote.
00:55:20.000I guess immigration would be the one thing.
00:55:22.000But, I mean, even there, if you look at refugees, Being resettled in the United States, if you look at illegal crossings in the United States, if you look at deportations, all these numbers are looking good under Trump in terms of refugees being blocked, illegal border crossings are being stopped at a record rate, deportations have increased, arrests have increased.
00:55:41.000So I think there's a lot of good stuff there.
00:55:44.000I mean, that's the most striking and the most obvious thing, which is a disappointment.
00:55:48.000I understand why it hasn't happened, but we should see a little bit more action on that.
00:55:52.000I don't see why Trump couldn't have done that with the executive, or rather through the Department of Defense.
00:55:58.000But I think overall we're in a pretty good position.
00:56:01.000Cream of the Meme says, not so much a question, but I'm pretty sure the Parkland kids are going to be as mentally unstable as Shia LaBeouf within the year.
00:56:10.000Yeah, I would screen cap that because it's true.
00:56:13.000They're going to be some messed up kiddos.
00:56:16.000And I don't say that in a derisive way.
00:56:18.000I think it's actually kind of unfortunate what happened to them.
00:56:22.000They got picked up by the media, forced into the national spotlight, pigeonholed into this partisan role.
00:56:29.000For the sake of corporate and political interests.
00:56:32.000And to the detriment of these kids' health.
00:56:34.000I mean, you see it already with Emma Gonzalez.
00:56:36.000You see it with some of these kids where they're beginning to unravel.
00:56:40.000And that's not anybody who's looking after the health and the well being of these kids, you know, that is not going to be a good thing for them.
00:57:04.000But, I mean, these kiddies, they think they know everything.
00:57:07.000Everybody thought they knew everything at one point.
00:57:09.000Everybody went in in a youthful crusade in some way, shape, or form, had a youthful act of rebellion, except these kids, because of very corrupt and evil, malicious people, are forcing them into a place where they're never going to recover from this.
00:57:24.000And yeah, it's good for them in the short term.
00:57:26.000They get the dopamine rush from the Twitter followers.
00:57:28.000I'm sure they're making loads of money.
00:57:30.000They get on Ellen, a lot of once in a lifetime things.
00:57:35.000Health consequences of this, and it's going to be a short time that they'll be in the spotlight, then they're out of the spotlight, and then they're going to have to live with this for the rest of their lives.
00:58:59.000I don't think anybody goes straight from college into the machine.
00:59:02.000To really have influence, you have to build up your own network.
00:59:04.000I think that's one takeaway we can learn from history a lot of the entryists don't have very much clout.
00:59:12.000And to explain what I mean by this, if you just walk into elected office like many people do, where they're a community leader or they're a party apparatchik or something, and they get thrust into the spotlight, a good example of this is.
00:59:49.000But because he didn't have clout, he got shotgunned because he did like an expensive redecorating of his office.
00:59:56.000And I think if we learn from history, You look at people like Nixon, you look at people like Ronald Reagan, and not just for president, but for anything.
01:00:03.000The people that have been most effective in electoral politics do so because they form a party coup, basically.
01:00:10.000They form their own connections, their own network, their own donor lobbying, and all the rest, and they put together their own machine, essentially.
01:00:19.000And that's when you're able to exercise the most clout.
01:00:21.000So, you know, many people have asked me, Nick, are you going to run for office?
01:01:35.000But I don't have any plans to run in the near future.
01:01:39.000I got to say, you know, it would inhibit my role as a commentator if I were planning to run because then I couldn't say everything I want to say.
01:01:46.000I couldn't do everything I want to do.
01:01:48.000You know, imagine the Catboy tapes they would bring up if I ran for office.
01:01:52.000I'd run for office, and the next day, Washington Post, rising GOP star Nick Fuentes, Catboy fixation?
01:02:01.000And then I'd be like, coming out of my house, there'd be like one reporter there with a camera, and I'd be like, I was hacked.
01:02:10.000So, Barry says, Haven't been able to watch the live show while it was live the past couple of weeks, so here is a good old five banger for some hearty T Bell.
01:02:23.000Literally shaking says, Our diet consisting of McDonald's and black pills is rough to digest, but we must not stop training our mind, bodies, and souls.
01:02:32.000And I don't mean IFLS, Reddit, CrossFit, and Harry Potter.
01:02:36.000Let's get those home cooked meals, white pills, and sunlight back soon.
01:03:07.000You got to become a dignified and responsible human being again.
01:03:11.000In order to master the country, you have to master yourself first.
01:03:15.000So many people, they're like 500 pounds.
01:03:18.000They show up to these rallies, they're 500 pounds.
01:03:22.000They don't clean their hair, they don't clean their face, they can't pay for their car insurance, and they expect they're going to master the country.
01:05:32.000And look, a lot of people can say really smart things, maybe useful things.
01:05:36.000But if you're not a Christian, if you're not supporting, number one, if you're not supporting Jesus Christ and the Christian religion, I don't see how it happens for you.
01:05:48.000You know, a lot of people hit the Christians.
01:05:51.000You know, we saw this with the Trad Thought controversy where, you know, Faith Goldie, for example, is hit with a lot of accusations and people said, oh, well, how could she say this or that?
01:06:01.000Look, people are going to misstep, people are going to fall off.
01:06:05.000It's not to say that everybody has to be perfect.
01:06:07.000You know, when I say we have to be a Christian country, a lot of people hear we have to be Puritan, we have to be moralizers, we have to be this and that.
01:06:15.000And if you watch my show, you know I'm not over the top with that kind of stuff.
01:06:18.000You know, we like to joke, sometimes we cuss, we swear, and that kind of thing.
01:06:22.000But the overall direction of the country must be moved back towards a wholesome, a religious end.
01:06:29.000It must be geared back towards something that makes sense, something that explains the great mysteries, which is that, something which is the truth fundamentally.
01:06:37.000So, you know, I know for a lot of people it's off putting because they.
01:06:41.000There's a lot of connotations that come with that, which is like this evangelical, you know, kind of stuff.
01:06:47.000Not that there's anything wrong with evangelicals, but you know how the media portrays it these days, which is very, you know, anti Christian and all the rest, and people could be off put.
01:06:55.000But we say Christian, we mean family values, traditional values, that kind of stuff.
01:08:43.000I think the most powerful tool at our disposal is ridicule, you know, because these are such patently ridiculous and subversive claims that they deserve nothing more than ridicule.
01:08:53.000They don't deserve a serious argument, they don't deserve a serious answer.
01:08:56.000You know, if you have somebody that genuinely believes in And secularism, they can be debated.
01:09:01.000But for a lot of people with these memes and these ideas they get in their head about Christianity, it just simply doesn't deserve a serious response.
01:09:08.000It doesn't deserve anything more than that Shrek meme where he tips his fedora.
01:09:12.000I think that's done more for Christianity than many things in the country today, right?
01:09:17.000So I guess ridicule would be the answer.
01:09:19.000Just got to ridicule and marginalize these people, you know?
01:09:22.000And I think they have to be seen as unserious, and that should be known by everybody.
01:09:26.000But looks like those are all our super chats and stream labs.
01:09:29.000We're a little bit over the time here.
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