00:00:21.000Of course, the memo, which is slated to be released later this week.
00:00:25.000It looks like the FBI and the DOJ are not too happy about its release, and with the president, who was promised to sign it yesterday, and the chief of staff also has promised to release it.
00:00:36.000And then, of course, we have new text messages, new reveals from the Peter Sturzok and Lisa Page scandal.
00:00:42.000And we'll get into that, but lots to get into tonight.
00:01:25.000Dave Rubin, who you might know him, he does the Rubin Report on YouTube, which is this show where he brings on people like Ben Shapiro, he brings on Jordan Peterson, these internet intellectuals, most often Jewish.
00:01:40.000But he'll have people that are liberals, people that are conservatives.
00:01:43.000Miley Yiannopoulos got his start really on the Ruben Report.
00:01:46.000Ben Shapiro really blew up on the Ruben Report.
00:01:49.000And he's been doing this show independently for a while now.
00:01:52.000He used to do it as part of a bigger network, but now he just does it by himself.
00:02:00.000He says he's the quote unquote last liberal.
00:02:03.000He says that unlike the leftists, unlike the progressive left, or as he likes to call them, very tongue in cheek, the regressive left, unlike them, He is a real classical liberal in the sense of John Stuart Mill, John Locke, the Enlightenment thinkers.
00:02:20.000He's a liberalist, like Sargon of Akkad would say.
00:02:24.000And so earlier this week, Dave Rubin released a video about, quote, the intellectual dark web.
00:02:32.000The premise of the video was that there is this eclectic group of intellectuals, this dissident, clandestine, eclectic group of intellectuals, such as.
00:02:47.000Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson, who constitute what people are calling the intellectual dark web, where unlike the pundits on television, unlike the pundits on Fox News or the mainstream media, these people are the most influential.
00:03:03.000They're kind of a parallel institution, this black market for ideas, a dark web, he says.
00:03:10.000And it is up to them to discuss the controversial and oftentimes dangerous ideas in the intellectual dark web.
00:03:17.000And I'm watching this video and I just have to laugh out loud.
00:03:21.000The thought, the idea that Ben Shapiro, the number one conservative podcast in the country, regular appearances on Fox News and CNN, Jewish, all he talks about is Israel, all he talks about is this and that.
00:03:37.000He's a neocon shill, neoliberal shill.
00:03:40.000The New York Times writes glowing articles about Ben Shapiro, calling him a gladiator.
00:03:45.000He writes for National Review, for God's sakes, that he is part of the intellectual dark web.
00:03:50.000And then Jordan Peterson, another one.
00:03:52.000The New York Times writes shining articles about him.
00:04:02.000And then, of course, this evening, earlier this evening, and this is the, here's to get to the point, to arrive at the point, here's the contrast.
00:04:09.000This evening, Dave Rubin has a conversation, as he calls it, between Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson.
00:04:44.000You have this stream with Ben Shapiro, Dave Rubin, Jordan Peterson, and all of them combined will not address topics like race realism, will not address topics like the influence of rootless transnational elites, they won't discuss populism and globalism.
00:04:59.000There are a lot of things that are off the table for these.
00:05:01.000They won't, you know, Dave Rubin, for example, won't bring on people from the alt right.
00:05:05.000And I don't consider myself alt right, but he won't bring on somebody like Jared Taylor, for example, won't bring on somebody like Vox Day or Richard Spencer or Ramsey Paul, you know, even people that were considered more alt right orbiters than actually in the inner circle.
00:05:19.000And you contrast this with Andy Worski, who at the same time tonight, while Dave Rubin is having in this very, very big, colorful Jewish set, on the other hand, you have the Andy Worski stream where he has Jared Taylor on.
00:05:32.000And JF, and they're talking about racial differences in IQ.
00:05:38.000And I just think this is a beautiful contrast of what is actually going on and then what is kind of the fake, what is the phony thing that's going on.
00:05:47.000In the sense that if you want to look at the quote, intellectual dark web, it's happening on Andy Worski.
00:05:54.000It's happening with JF and Andy Worski.
00:05:56.000I don't know how often they do it every other night.
00:05:59.000And just for the fun of it, it's not happening in a big, glossy set.
00:06:03.000There's not these big, Obnoxious, loud furniture pieces.
00:06:07.000It's not, they don't have a cool intro.
00:06:09.000They don't have a cool, glossy animation.
00:06:12.000They don't have like a sexy theme music.
00:06:15.000It's just Andy Worski jumps on, just a guy with the microphone and, you know, with the back wall going on, on Google Hangouts, and they just throw it out there and they just say what they're thinking, and it's no holds barred.
00:06:28.000It's live, and they're taking super chats, and that's the intellectual dark web, if anything.
00:06:33.000So I just thought that was very interesting because I'm getting ready for my show and While I'm looking through Twitter, seeing what's going on in the news, I see these two things.
00:06:41.000I see the Jared Taylor stream, and then I see the Ben Shapiro Jordan Peterson stream.
00:06:46.000And I just think to myself, this one is talking about free speech.
00:07:47.000I gave it an A. You know, my overall feel for it, my overall premise was that it was a positive speech.
00:07:54.000It was a bipartisan speech, unifying speech, one that was supremely effective in achieving what it set out to do, which was to frame the Democrats, to frame the midterms, and in the short term, to frame the DACA negotiations, which have been going on since last Monday.
00:08:20.000Yeah, last Monday and going on until February 8th.
00:08:23.000And I said that he did that very successfully in the way that he rolled out his four pillars for immigration reform and the kind of rhetoric he used.
00:08:30.000There was also a report, and I thought this was interesting.
00:08:33.000This is something that I picked up on as well, but the numbers weren't available last night.
00:08:37.000If you compare this State of the Union to Barack Obama's first State of the Union, the amount of times that Donald Trump used personal pronouns in the sense that he referenced himself by saying I, me, or mine, or something like that, he did that.
00:08:53.000He did that 25%, the rate at which Barack Obama did it.
00:08:56.000So Barack Obama referred to himself, I did this, I did that, I'm responsible for this, my this, my that, four times more than Donald Trump, which I think, again, speaks to these very deliberate, very particular rhetorical choices that the president is making.
00:09:13.000And, you know, people watched that speech and they might have thought it was boring.
00:09:17.000They might have thought it was, it's not the usual bluster.
00:09:20.000Sometimes people say that he's not very controlled, but that's a very, That's a very significant and not a trivial detail that Donald Trump, instead of saying I, me, mine, was saying we, we, our movement, what we're going to do as Americans.
00:09:35.000That's a very important rhetorical choice, a very important difference between the two presidents.
00:09:40.000It's just something that was reported earlier this morning.
00:09:47.000And so we can kind of put it to the test.
00:09:49.000And I tweeted the other day, a little bit braggadociously, that my prediction last night basically was proven true in real time, in the sense that my prediction last night.
00:09:58.000Was that the speech would be well received.
00:10:00.000People who were watching it would have this particular kind of reaction.
00:11:03.000There's absolutely room for improvement.
00:11:05.000But if you consider the context of that figure, that 43% of Democrats like the speech, in the context of the fact that you looked at the 2016 election and by party affiliation, Democrats did not go for Trump very strongly at all, not even in comparison with previous years.
00:11:22.000If you look at how the media has berated him, how Hollywood, all these typical Democrat left wing institutions have gone after Donald Trump and basically made it so that he is.
00:11:33.000Radioactive, unlike any other president.
00:11:36.000Even Reagan, Democrats could have rallied around him.
00:11:39.000And of course, Ronald Reagan won almost all 50 states in 1984.
00:12:18.000If Republicans liked the speech, if they were enthusiastic about the speech, they were watching it, that means that the energy is still there.
00:12:33.000I think this is one sign of a rebuke of the results of the Alabama special Senate election in the sense that in that election, turnout was down by 600,000 votes in an election that was decided by 10,000 votes.
00:12:48.000This number here is a testament to the fact, in some way.
00:12:51.000I think this starts to build the case.
00:12:52.000It begins to build the case that that might have been a special scenario.
00:12:57.000And that if you look at this, that the nearly 100% approved of the speech, that we're probably in a good position for the midterms with our base.
00:13:05.000So that's number one is that Republicans will be there to turn out of the midterms.
00:13:08.000Number two is that the Democrats will not be there in the same numbers.
00:13:12.000If 43% of Democrats, if almost half of Democrats say they approve of the speech, people that approve of the speech, You know, they're not going to be out there in the midterms.
00:13:21.000They're not going to be out there with the same energy, with the same righteous indignation that the left requires, essentially requires, to be out there in these contested elections in 2018.
00:13:32.000In 2017, for the Alabama special Senate election, you had the advantage of concentration.
00:13:39.000You had the advantage of scandal in the sense that the Democrats could focus all of their energy.
00:13:43.000They could focus like a laser beam on Alabama, all the discontent, all the indignation at this one election.
00:13:51.000This one night in this one state over this one guy and this pretty terrible scandal, and they could pull it off.
00:13:57.000I don't think you'll see the same kind of turnout with these kinds of numbers if Democrats are approving of Donald Trump in that strong of a measure.
00:14:05.000But probably the most important number there is the 72% independent approval rating.
00:14:09.000I think that is probably the harshest rebuke of some of the trends we've been seeing in polling for the past year.
00:14:16.000This idea that President Trump has had record low polling and all of this.
00:14:20.000This is the kind of stuff, these are the kinds of numbers that really give you an idea when it's fair.
00:14:25.000And when it's not biased, when we're not talking about questions that may be a little bit silly or a little bit leading questions, or they can't mess with the sample size of the polling, and also the message isn't obfuscated by the media.
00:14:39.000When independents sit down and they watch President Trump's speech, when they sit down and they just see him talking to the American people, three quarters of them are for the president.
00:15:05.000It made 14% of people feel scared and 21% angry.
00:15:10.000Overall, 75% of people approved, 25% disapproved.
00:15:14.000And overall, this is a very solid win for the president.
00:15:17.000And we talked about this last night, but today we have the data to prove it.
00:15:20.000Today we have the hard and concrete figures to say, without a doubt, that this was a solid victory.
00:15:25.000I think beyond even how successful the State of the Union went, What made this an unequivocal victory is how poorly the Democrat response to the State of the Union was.
00:15:40.000Yeah, Joe Kennedy, who got up there, and I don't know what was going on there, folks, but if you saw it, and at first I turned it on and I'm thinking, what's going on?
00:15:50.000I go over to Twitter and it's all over the place.
00:15:52.000It's on Twitter moments, everybody's talking about it.
00:15:56.000For whatever reason, and I don't know if everybody who's watching this has seen it yet, but for some reason, the corner of his mouth was shiny throughout the speech.
00:16:06.000And so people were speculating, was this saliva?
00:16:13.000Is that why it was reflective and shiny?
00:16:15.000Because he was drooling while giving the speech?
00:16:18.000Or was it because he was overzealous in applying his chapstick?
00:16:23.000He didn't want to get his lips dried out, so he maybe smeared the chapstick?
00:16:27.000I think that's probably the likely scenario because, you know, that wouldn't go away because it's a little bit more viscous, because it's a little bit thicker.
00:16:36.000If you're talking about chapstick and you apply it the wrong way, it would kind of stick.
00:16:40.000It would kind of have this like gel effect.
00:16:46.000But he gets up, and not only do you have this, not only do you have, he looks like this drooling baby.
00:16:50.000It's impossible to listen to anything that's coming out of his mouth because this is so loud.
00:16:56.000But on top of that, he gets up and he's in front of like a Mustang.
00:17:00.000He's in front of what appears to be some kind of an auto shop, which is supposed to present, I guess, to the blue collar workers, to the union workers.
00:17:10.000This is supposed to recapture kind of the white, blue collar effect.
00:17:16.000This is supposed to be some kind of desperate last ditch appeal to the people that turned the election in Trump's favor in 2016, which were those Rust Belt states, which were those Midwestern states, states like Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania.
00:17:31.000And so you have the Kennedy name, you have the auto shop in the background, he's got the sleeves rolled up.
00:18:00.000This is what we think you are you're going to be won over by Joe Kennedy in an auto shop.
00:18:05.000And this was the same with the response to the joint session last year, where he had this schmuck in, I don't know, some kind of a diner.
00:18:13.000He was sitting, I think he was just sitting, I don't know if he was sitting with the back of the chair in front of him or maybe he was just like this.
00:18:20.000But it was a very ridiculous showing last year.
00:18:22.000And this year, you had, of course, Joe Kennedy.
00:18:24.000And not only is the premise ridiculous because it's pandering and people can see right through it, but also you're talking about a guy from the most blue blood political dynasty, political royalty in the country from Boston, Massachusetts.
00:18:40.000You know, you expect some blue collar machinist in Pennsylvania who lost his job due to a trade deal and his house is underwater and dead and his car is underwater and dead.
00:18:51.000He's underwater on his credit card debt and his kids are going to school and they can't pay for it.
00:18:55.000You think he's going to be able to relate to political royalty from Boston, Massachusetts, who's never wanted for anything, you know, who gets to mosey on up there and tell everybody, hey, I'm one of you now.
00:19:22.000Joe Kennedy shows up in a shirt that doesn't fit.
00:19:25.000If you're going to go for the button down shirt look, at least, and this is a good look to pull off, by the way, if you have a nice tight shirt, you know, and it looks clean and crisp and you have a nice tie and it looks all put together, this can be an effective look.
00:19:39.000This can be a good look, but it's oversized.
00:20:18.000And Joe Kennedy, he could have pulled off, I think, a blue collar thing if he didn't try so hard, if he showed up in a suit and said, You know what, I am a Kennedy, but I'm going to be your champion like Donald Trump is their champion.
00:20:30.000But he didn't show up with a suit jacket.
00:20:40.000The rhetoric, it was all over the place.
00:20:42.000It was so, it was trying so hard to be two things at once.
00:20:45.000Like I said yesterday, it was these two polls, the far left base, and the pragmatic blue collar Democrat union vote that they need desperately this kind of independent, white, working class, moderate appeal that they need.
00:21:03.000In the sense that at once he tried to appeal to white working class people, and at the same time, he did this little bit where he's going to pretend that he can speak Spanish and he's going to say Black Lives Matter and all this other stuff.
00:22:06.000But when there's a pattern of it, when there's this systemic pattern of just little things, no American flags at the DNC, you have Joe with the saliva, you have all these goofy things going on in the Democratic Party, things that are just indicative of people not caring, not putting in thought, it just goes to show that the morale is not there on the Democrat side, and that's what they need.
00:23:11.000We talked about the analysis last night, and it looks like that was vindicated what the overall effect of that will be moving forward.
00:23:18.000It's also worth saying that Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer have been very down on the speech, which indicates that the framework laid out by the president last night is probably not going to be passed in the Congress anytime soon.
00:23:33.000I know a lot of people were worried about the $1.8 million getting amnesty, and it came out today that not only did Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer reject the speech and they They didn't like it, so it's safe to assume that they are still not okay with the framework.
00:23:47.000But also, it came out of the White House that that's the final deal.
00:23:50.000That there is no negotiating down from that.
00:24:07.000The other major story we had here from today and from this week is the memo.
00:24:13.000And this was basically overshadowed by the State of the Union address.
00:24:16.000But the memo, of course, which was voted on to be released by the House Intel Committee on Monday, is getting a lot of pushback from the Department of Justice and the FBI.
00:24:40.000It's like if the Warren Commission got a lot of pushback from the CIA, right?
00:24:44.000You know, it's just a little bit curious.
00:24:46.000You know, murderers don't like laws against murderers.
00:24:50.000You know, so this came out today that the FBI director, Christopher Wray, expressed his quote, grave concerns, grave concerns about the memo, the four page memo, which details possible abuses at the hands of the FBI of the FISA warrant system, which may have led to targeting of political dissidents by Hillary Clinton and the DNC.
00:25:12.000And so Christopher Wray said he expressed grave concerns.
00:25:15.000He says that there are things in the memo.
00:25:18.000Which are inaccurate, which are out of context, which are misunderstood.
00:25:23.000And so he's very concerned about this.
00:25:24.000He goes over to the White House today with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to make their overture to the White House and say, please, please don't release the memo.
00:25:33.000And it looks like it's falling on deaf ears.
00:25:36.000Chief of Staff John Kelly, who a lot of people are down on, but I said was probably a good pick, he said earlier this week that the memo would be released pretty quickly and that the whole world would see it.
00:25:46.000President Trump was caught on a hot mic last night saying that it would be released 100%.
00:25:53.000We talked about the significance of it earlier in the week and last week, and in late December, too, the impact that this information from the OIG report ultimately will have on the intelligence community and will have at politics at large.
00:26:08.000And I think, again, it just goes to show.
00:26:12.000And we talked about some of the signs of this earlier in the week and last week of why we might know this is serious.
00:26:17.000But if you have the FBI, if you have McCabe stepping down earlier in the week, The night that the memo was voted to be released.
00:26:26.000If you have Christopher Wray panicking, rushing to the White House to go and shut it down, you have the DOJ going to shut it down, and those are the two people named in the memo McCabe, Wray, Rod Rosenstein.
00:26:38.000I think it gives us an insight into the gravity of what will be revealed.
00:27:21.000And the Congress is going about their work and their oversight function in intelligence and other things.
00:27:26.000And they start to find some of these abuses.
00:27:28.000They start to find that these bureaucrats, these unelected people in the intelligence community, which have a lot of power, a lot more power than was ever intended by the Constitution, that they might have abused this.
00:27:38.000And not only abused it, but might have abused it in one of the most Serious offenses in a democratic republic, which is to target a political opponent.
00:27:46.000And so they start digging, they start looking into it, they begin to prepare this document at the behest of the inspector general with information from the inspector general, from the Justice Department.
00:27:57.000And they put together this memo and they say, okay, we are going to release this to the public.
00:28:01.000There's been a lot of rumors about what went on here, there's been a lot of confusion about what went on here, rumors about conspiracy, collusion, and fundamentally that is undermining the legitimacy of the government.
00:28:13.000You know, and this is written about in Henry Kissinger's World Order.
00:28:16.000This is written about by just about every major international relations scholar that a government is able to function because of two things power and legitimacy.
00:28:26.000These are the two things that allow a government to exercise authority in a given geographic area over a given population.
00:28:32.000It's number one that they have the power to do it, and number two that they have the legitimacy to do it.
00:28:38.000So, for example, the United States has both of these things they have the power to enforce their laws.
00:28:43.000They have the power to make probably all of the combined other institutions submit by way of physical military coercion.
00:28:53.000People, when they're walking to work, when they're driving to work, when they're sitting in their homes, they understand that if the police gives them an order, well, they have basically an obligation to follow it.
00:29:02.000If the government passes a law, they have an obligation to follow it.
00:29:06.000There is a legitimacy to what the government is saying.
00:29:08.000And so, these two things in concert are why the government is able to function, why the government has.
00:29:14.000A sovereignty has sovereignty over the land and has authority over the people.
00:29:19.000And so, when you have these abuses, when you have corruption and collusion, when people become skeptical that the election process has integrity, when they doubt the credibility, the viability of this system, and they say, I don't think who I voted for, I don't think my vote was counted, I don't think my vote was tallied, I think there's influence going on, I don't think I'm really the sovereign anymore in a Republican system.
00:29:44.000And that causes, of course, a crisis of legitimacy, and that creates big problems for a A government that's trying to exercise authority.
00:29:50.000And so that's why this is a very serious thing.
00:29:53.000When we talk about FBI abuses and FISA warrant abuses and surveillance, they are doing nothing short of undermining the credibility and the viability of the U.S. government.
00:30:02.000And you understand, once that happens, it's civil unrest.
00:30:05.000You challenge the legitimacy of the government, and that opens up the door to a lot of problems mass protests, insurrections, intrastate conflict and warfare, urban conflict.
00:30:16.000I mean, it's a very bad thing, it's a very dangerous thing.
00:30:19.000And so the House Intel Committee, which is exercising their oversight function over the Intelligence Committee, or community rather, puts together this memo with intelligence from the Office of the Inspector General with information from the OIG.
00:30:33.000And they say the American people have a right to know there's these rumors.
00:30:36.000It's undermining the credibility of this government and its ability to pass laws.
00:30:41.000And we're going to be transparent and we're going to let them know what's going on.
00:30:44.000And the FBI, which is unelected, which no congressman appointed, Or rather, well, they did.
00:30:50.000They appoint the chief, but I mean, everybody else in the FBI is basically picked.
00:31:09.000They go out there, they go up to the White House, to the people's house, to the people's president, the head of the civilian government, and they say, Stop what you're doing.
00:31:19.000You know, and they don't say it that way.
00:31:22.000That might be a little too on the nose, but they go out there and they say, We're expressing our grave concerns.
00:31:26.000It would be a very bad idea for you to publish that, President Trump.
00:31:32.000And the Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein, goes up there too and says, Yeah, it'd be a very bad idea if you were to do that, Donald Trump.
00:31:41.000Of the madness that is going on in our country.
00:31:43.000If you don't believe in the deep state, if you don't believe in conspiracies as they are, if you don't believe in these kinds of things, just think about that the House is exercising their sovereign right.
00:31:54.000And I think their obligation to the people in showing transparency, in helping to ameliorate a lot of the people's concerns about whether or not their government is legitimate, is a civilian government, is sovereign, truly, in the sense that Donald Trump is calling the shots and not some puppet master, not some oligarch, not some moneyed interest.
00:32:29.000And I think this lends a lot of credence to what Q Anon has been saying.
00:32:32.000These little things where I don't know if Q Anon was totally legitimate.
00:32:36.000I haven't been keeping up with that too much because it got, admittedly, it got to be a lot to handle.
00:32:40.000And for the uninitiated, Q Anon was somebody who claimed.
00:32:44.000To be on 4chan, which is an anonymous message board.
00:32:47.000And I have to say this for some of the boomers watching, maybe.
00:32:50.000QAnon was somebody who claimed to be on this anonymous message board on the internet, somebody with Q level clearance, security clearance, somebody who knew essentially what was going on at the highest level, somebody who was in the know on the inside and understood some of the most classified information, things that were going on around the world, internationally, domestically, and who came on and purported to know that in the coming months,
00:33:15.000There would be a massive purge of this international crime syndicate of connections as far as Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, North Korea, Iran, basically actors all over the globe in concert with the Democratic Party and forces within this country to bring about a very corrupt and dark order that was thwarted essentially by, I guess, this parallel force going on.
00:33:38.000And it lends a lot of credence to some of the things that that person was talking about.
00:33:42.000He, for example, noted that it was very peculiar how President Trump has surrounded himself with generals.
00:33:48.000How President Trump has surrounded himself with people like John Kelly, the chief of staff, who is a general, you know, and Mattis, who is a general, and Mueller, even, who is a Marine.
00:33:59.000And it's kind of interesting how the military is playing a role.
00:34:02.000And when we start talking about challenges to sovereignty, when we start talking about challenges to legitimacy, and we've been talking about this all week, if the Democrats can successfully contest the legitimacy of the Trump administration, and you take out legitimacy as one pillar of the government's able to exercise authority in the country, and what's left?
00:34:23.000Power, raw military power that comes out of the end of a long rifle.
00:34:27.000And if that's the case, it comes down to who has the allegiance of the military?
00:34:37.000And that's, I know that's a pretty wild thing to say.
00:34:39.000That's a pretty, pretty wacky thing to say.
00:34:42.000You're not going to hear that on Fox News, but it does lend a little bit of credence to this theory that if we're seeing that the Democrats are building up and the special counsel is building up to contesting the legitimacy of the presidency, and I say legitimacy not as like this arbitrary word, but.
00:34:59.000They're undermining the legitimacy of the Trump administration to govern the country, the legitimacy of the Trump administration's sovereignty over the country.
00:35:08.000And if they challenge that, well, then, of course, the government rests only on a monopoly on force.
00:35:13.000The only reason that people follow the laws is because they know that if they don't, they'll get killed.
00:35:18.000We've done a great job in this English Protestant inspired country, and more broadly, even in our ancestral homeland in England, in the United Kingdom, this Anglosphere in the past 1,000 years.
00:35:31.000To build up this Lockean concept of not just this Hobbesian order of everybody submitting to power because they're afraid to be killed by a big powerful state, but also legitimacy that we submit to the state not only because we have to, but because we want to, because we understand that the rule of law benefits everybody and that peace benefits everybody.
00:35:52.000And it's just better off when we understand that we're a part of this process and we get a hand in passing the laws.
00:35:58.000And that's this contract, that's the social contract, which is society.
00:36:02.000And so if you erode the legitimacy and we just have power, Then it simply comes down to if Hillary Clinton's going to play it that way, if the Democrats are going to play it that way, and they're going to make it out like Trump is an illegitimate president and must be removed either by the 25th Amendment or through impeachment or through something more dubious, something extra legal, then it simply comes down to a Praetorian Guard.
00:36:24.000It simply comes down to can General Kelly, can Donald Trump retain the allegiance of the military?
00:36:30.000Can they physically protect themselves from an overthrow?
00:37:01.000Nobody should like how much power the CIA has, the FBI has, the NSA has.
00:37:06.000You know, it's kind of this trite thing, but.
00:37:09.000It's not so much in a democracy like who counts the ballots and who's the face of it, but it really is about who's pulling the levers.
00:37:16.000If the NSA can spy on everybody all the time, if the CIA can operate extrajudicially, extra legally in all countries and even our own, if they can kill people without a trial, if they can kill people and search people without a warrant, without going through the judiciary, without going through the Congress, if they can be at war with the country without an act of Congress, without anybody even hearing about it, they can conduct these black operations.
00:37:41.000Who really holds the reins of power in the country?
00:38:58.000And I talked about this the other day the framing of the president.
00:39:02.000And moreover, here's the kicker, here's the catch.
00:39:06.000Not just the Republican Party, but the white Republican Party as American.
00:39:11.000We are reclaiming the label of Americanism, of American nationalism.
00:39:16.000And I will say this watch the State of the Union last night, and you see the Democrats, and the Democrats have Asians, and they have blacks, and the blacks are in their traditional African garb, and they have the Hispanics.
00:39:29.000And they're all sitting there with their arms crossed.
00:39:31.000And during the USA chant, Luis Gutierrez leaves because he's so disgusted.
00:39:36.000And people get on television the next day, Jews, Hispanics, blacks, and they say, Oh, I was so scared.
00:39:44.000It sent chills down my spine in a bad way that I heard the USA chant.
00:39:49.000And after the State of the Union, you have Luis Gutierrez, or excuse me, that other Hispanic who got elected in Virginia, giving their response in Spanish.
00:39:57.000And you see that Donald Trump is reclaiming the America brand, American history, America as a country.
00:40:03.000Not for Republicans, but for white people.
00:40:06.000Notice this, whether you agree with it or not, whether you think that's a good thing or not, that's what's in effect happening.
00:40:12.000Who are the remaining people who believe in America as Donald Trump has seized the brand?
00:40:17.000Who believes in Make America Great Again?
00:40:19.000Who believes in saluting the flag, loving our military?
00:40:23.000Is it the blacks who kneel during the national anthem?
00:40:26.000Is it the blacks who set cities on fire and they do their rap songs about how they hate cops and they're smashing cop cars and everything else?
00:40:34.000Is it Hispanics who refuse to learn the language?
00:40:37.000Who say that the southwestern United States is actually Mexico?
00:41:26.000And if you do ignore it, it's only a matter of time before it all comes tumbling down.
00:41:31.000And we're seeing that today where an embrace of the American flag, an embrace of the United States, of patriotism, of the vets, and you get blacks showing up in their African garb.
00:41:40.000To accentuate their differences, to accentuate their distinction.
00:42:11.000Thoughts on Representative Trey Gowdy resigning?
00:42:13.000He mentioned it was time for him to, quote, return to the justice system.
00:42:17.000Could he have something up his sleeve?
00:42:18.000Well, I certainly think the timing is peculiar.
00:42:20.000And it's peculiar not just for Trey Gowdy, but for everybody.
00:42:23.000I mean, you're seeing a lot of Republican governors resigning, a lot of Republican representatives and senators resigning, Orrin Hatch resigning, Jeff Flake resigning.
00:42:32.000You know, there are many people that are being taken out of the playing field here.
00:42:35.000And you've got to wonder what Trey Gowdy's motive here is, because Trey Gowdy is not like the other people resigning.
00:42:41.000He's not one of these establishment type characters.
00:42:43.000So, I definitely think he could have something up his sleeve.
00:42:46.000Of course, he resigned from the House Ethics Committee earlier in the year, or I think in late 2017, and that was a move that was pretty puzzling.
00:42:53.000I think he's setting up for something, though I'm not quite sure what.
00:42:58.000And Clappy Clapsalot says, That tie sucks.
00:43:01.000Well, that's not a very nice thing to say, but I appreciate the shekels.
00:43:17.000Matt Williams, Nick, what do you think about the, quote, Polish death camps fiasco going on?
00:43:22.000It really makes you think that an occupied nation during World War II is being blamed as much as the occupier.
00:43:27.000Yeah, I did think that was interesting.
00:43:29.000On Holocaust Remembrance Day, if you recall, and this was a couple of days ago, people were blaming Poland for Nazi death camps on Polish soil.
00:43:39.000And if you're familiar with this, this is pretty interesting too.
00:43:43.000After 1945, after Germany was liberated by the Allied powers, and I say liberated in quotes because then it was immediately put under occupation by foreign powers, after Germany was liberated, after Germany was invaded from all angles and occupied for half a century, They discovered the concentration camps and the death camps.
00:44:05.000Now, initially, after 1945, they said that there were these death camps, there were these extermination camps where prisoners were not only brought to work and basically to be contained because they were political enemies of the Nazi regime, but also they were put to death.
00:44:21.000After 1945, they said, well, there were death camps all over Germany and all over Poland.
00:44:26.000And then they sent some criminologists from the United States, they sent some forensic scientists over to.
00:44:33.000These quote unquote death camps in Germany, and they couldn't find any evidence to substantiate the claims that these were used as death camps.
00:44:40.000And there were initial reports after the war that they used steam engines to kill people, that they turned people into lampshades and bars of soap, and that turned out to be atrocity propaganda.
00:44:52.000There was some obscure, there's some crazy number out there that said that something like 50% of Holocaust survivors said that Joseph Mengele operated on them, who he was the Famous scientist of death who did all these experiments and everything, which of course he didn't operate on all those people, they just made that up.
00:45:11.000So it was pretty interesting after the war ended.
00:45:12.000And I'm only saying this is interesting the historiography here, where it came out that they did traces from the walls, from the soil.
00:45:20.000They said there couldn't have possibly been any death camps in Germany.
00:45:24.000So the people that were claiming there were said, oh, actually, they were all in Poland.
00:45:29.000There were only four or six in Poland, which conveniently was under occupation by the Soviet Union.
00:45:35.000And therefore, not subject to inspection by the United States or the other Allied powers.
00:45:41.000And actually, two of them, two of the four, I believe, were completely decimated.
00:45:46.000And you couldn't even tell what they were.
00:45:47.000And so it took 50 years to discover what was there.
00:48:46.000And then the same is true of slavery, the same is true of discrimination.
00:48:49.000Never mind that there's vicious, vile discrimination against Malays by the Chinese, or vice versa, excuse me, Chinese in Malaysia by the Malays.
00:48:57.000Never mind, there is gross, horrible discrimination in all throughout Africa by different tribal and religious groups.
00:49:03.000Never mind, there's discrimination in China, where they say that we will not, in China, they say this.
00:49:08.000A Communist Party member has said this.
00:49:10.000We will not let a thousand years of Chinese blood be tainted by African blood.
00:49:15.000That's what they, a Chinese Communist government official said this.
00:50:29.000You tell them about the Levon affair, the Levon affair, when they plotted.
00:50:33.000The Israelis, the Zionists at the time, plotted to blow up the United States post office, the United States theaters, the United States government buildings in Egypt, so that they could blame it on the Egyptians and have the United States disavow their relationship with Nasser, which was a very strategically beneficial alliance for us.
00:54:36.000So it's just very, very broken, very, it's built on a pile of sand, much like some of the other ideologies that we've deconstructed over the course of the show.
00:54:45.000And so when you talk about racial versus ethnic, particularly in America, you'll find, and you'll find in America, this was written about in Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone.
00:54:54.000And this is where I really woke up to this.
00:54:56.000In Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone, he talks about how ethnic heterogeneity, racial heterogeneity, religious heterogeneity, Makes community suffer.
00:55:06.000Community, trust, social trust, a lot of these things that we've come to value in a very communal society, in a Lockean society, a little throwback to our previous conversation, is the result of homogeneity in demographics.
00:55:21.000Same ethnic groups, same racial groups, religious, so on and so forth.
00:55:25.000When the country was founded, the country was something like, I think it was 90% English and 97% Protestant.
00:55:32.000This was a homogeneous country, and this was unlike the other kinds of colonialism.
00:55:36.000The French came here and they did business with the Native Americans and they incorporated the Native Americans in.
00:55:42.000Even in Africa, the French model of colonialism was to make Africans like French citizens.
00:55:47.000The Spanish came in and they intermixed with the Native Americans.
00:55:51.000That's why you have mestizos and castizos and so on and mulattoes.
00:55:57.000And the English model for colonialism was to simply make their own society, that there was a border for it.
00:56:03.000And that's why we pushed the Native Americans out and we destroyed them because this was going to be an English country, an English Protestant country.
00:56:11.000Well, Robert Putnam wrote in Bowling Alone that even between, even in a place like North Dakota, between groups as similar as Nords and Swedes, you still had, you still had, because of this minor friction.
00:56:26.000What do they call that in international relations?
00:56:29.000What did we call that in comparative government?
00:56:35.000But basically, because of this ethnic fault line between Swedes and Nords, which anybody would say is arbitrary, which Americans, a lot of Americans would say, That's arbitrary.
00:56:44.000Swedes and Nords, they're on the same peninsula.
00:57:34.000Because you will have people from Italy who fight with each other.
00:57:37.000You'll have people from Sicily and people from Naples and people from Northern Italy fighting with each other.
00:57:42.000You'll have people from Spain, people from Catalonia and people from Madrid fighting with each other.
00:57:47.000You'll have people from France, you'll have some people from Paris, and some people from Marseille, and they'll be fighting with each other.
00:57:53.000Germany, you'll have people from East and West, and Russia, you'll have people that are Muscovites, and you'll have people that are Kazakhs or Chechnyans.
00:58:02.000And that is why identitarians, they simply do not have an answer for this.
00:58:07.000They want homogeneity, and they don't know how to define it.
00:58:58.000Ethnicity is a greater draw because it's a closer.
00:59:01.000Affiliation in the same way that you relate more to your community than to your county, and more to your county than to your state, and more to your state than the rest of the country.
00:59:10.000So, of course, the smaller the group, the stronger your affiliation.
00:59:14.000This is basic tribalism, and that's why I don't think you'll have it.
00:59:18.000I don't think you can build it on racialism alone.
00:59:20.000There has to be another form of identity which can lubricate these differences, which can accommodate these differences.
00:59:28.000Why were white people able to live together for so long in the same place when you had all these different groups?
00:59:33.000It's because you had a civic identity.
00:59:37.000That's not to say you should have civic and political alone, or rather, cultural and political alone, but it's to say that those are necessary.
00:59:46.000They're necessary to smooth things over.
00:59:49.000So there's this meme going around in the alt right that it's like, mug Constitution.
01:00:44.000I say what is bad optics and what is good optics because I have good instincts, because I have good intuition.
01:00:49.000What's good optics is everything that isn't Nazism.
01:00:52.000Here's why the food review is good optics.
01:00:54.000Here's why, and I have a tendency, I can be a little bit silly, I can be a little bit off the wall, I can be a memester, I can be a shit poster.
01:01:03.000When you disarm people and you make them laugh, or you show them that you're not a scary person, they're more receptive.
01:01:10.000Believe it or not, When Richard Spencer and even to an extent Daily Stormer and just generally people in the alt right make it out like we're this intimidating force, you should be afraid of us.
01:01:21.000This is off putting to a lot of people.
01:01:23.000And I've said it before, I'll say it again.
01:01:25.000One of the reasons why Donald Trump was able to say a lot of the things he was able to say is because he was funny.
01:02:14.000Evan McLaren is just playing a weirdo.
01:02:16.000Yeah, that's all a pretty accurate assessment.
01:02:19.000And that's not even in a mean way, not even in a vindictive way.
01:02:22.000We have to soberly assess the state of our movement.
01:02:25.000You know, you could just as easily say to me in a totally impersonal way that I'm scrawny and I'm a kid and I'm a castizo and I have a big head and it's silly that I put on a suit and do a show every night.
01:05:46.000I'm not familiar with his position on that.
01:05:48.000But no, if you're anti Christian, you shouldn't be in the movement.
01:05:51.000If you're anti Christian, you don't understand what needs to be done.
01:05:55.000You don't understand what questions need to be addressed.
01:05:58.000Christianity, to ignore Christianity, is a monumental miscalculation in the sense that the symbols of Christianity, the stories of Christianity, The physiognomy of Christianity is absolutely necessary to reconstitute any coherent form of Western identity.
01:06:19.000You understand that Western identity is, it essentially is Christian identity.
01:07:13.000This is how the evolutionary story goes.
01:07:14.000And we formed these settlements, we formed these civilizations.
01:07:17.000We discovered that, like tools, we could fashion crops in the ground, we could domesticate animals, we could form these civilizations.
01:07:23.000And for a long time, for about 8,000 years, we had these basic civilizations.
01:07:28.000Eventually, they became more advanced civilizations.
01:07:30.000And for a long time, we had this problem where we woke up one day, we figured out, like, okay, I'm like five or 10 years old, and I'm here, and I got a hunt to eat, and we got to do these other things.
01:07:42.000But we had this problem as people where we noticed we were awake for a long time, we were conscious for a long time, and then we went away, then we expired.
01:07:49.000Then people we knew, people we loved, eventually just expired after a while.
01:07:53.000After about 50 to 100 years, depending on the time and place, people stopped moving around.
01:07:59.000And this was the fundamental question of our existence.
01:08:05.000And everything became sort of evolved around this idea of mortality, of time, that we have to produce certain things, we have to account for short and long term.
01:08:16.000We are human animals in time as well as in space.
01:08:20.000And eventually, and it wasn't obviously that abstract, but that was the premise.
01:08:24.000And then one day, we were very confused why are people going away?
01:08:31.000And there's this rumor going around that somebody came back.
01:08:35.000One day there was a rumor spread by these 12 guys, these 12 dissonant kind of guys, that wait a minute, I heard from a friend of a friend that somebody died, but he came back later.
01:08:46.000And for 2,000 years, we have debated, we have studied, we have analyzed, we have thought about if this actually happened.
01:09:20.000And I say myth not that it's not true, but myth in the sense that this is a story which contains values and ideas, conveys them in a simple way, in a way that's easy to remember.
01:09:32.000And that has been the story of Western civilization.
01:09:34.000This has charted and defined our course, the sense of mortality, the sense of a judgment.
01:09:39.000The sense of eternal life, the church, you know, all of these things that are present in the Bible.
01:09:44.000And to throw that away, to say, ah, we don't really like it anymore.
01:09:50.000We're not that Christian anymore, even though we're living among the ruins of it and it still has a very real presence in the country.
01:09:55.000Yeah, we're just going to give up on that.
01:09:58.000It's just very dumb, very stupid strategic mistake.
01:10:01.000And that's from a utilitarian perspective.
01:11:07.000This is one of my first major moments of clarity, if you will, when I looked, because I'm a big movie fan, I'm a big movie buff, and I got into the blaxploitation movies for a time, and I watched Shaft.
01:11:19.000And Shaft was, this is regarded as the best black film of all time.
01:11:26.0001972 was the best score for a movie, I believe, the best movie soundtrack by Isaac Hayes, the Shaft theme song.
01:11:35.000And this is regarded as the best black movie ever made, made in 1972.
01:11:38.000And then you look at the best movie ever made, The Godfather, at least it's third on the AFI 100, third or second, depending on which one you're looking at, which was also made in 1972.
01:11:49.000And you compare and contrast The Godfather, which was the best of what we could produce in 1972.
01:11:54.000And then you look at Shaft, which is the best that has ever been produced.
01:11:59.000And you look at these two movies and you say, not exactly playing the same sport here.
01:12:06.000They're not exactly in the same ballpark.
01:12:08.000And I said, wait a minute, maybe there's a difference there.
01:12:17.000And I was in a class in college where this Jewish professor, she was like, The Odyssey is this expression of, or no, no, no, no, I'm sorry.
01:12:26.000I made a reference to Clint Eastwood about morality.
01:12:28.000I said that I've always thought that morality was basically like those Clint Eastwood movies when he was a cop, when he was dirty hairy, and it was basically like you have laws, but they're never sufficient, and sometimes you have to have vigilantes, and you just have to hope that the good vigilantes are better than the bad crooks and criminals.
01:12:46.000I said, that's kind of my vision of justice.
01:12:50.000And this Jewish professor said, oh, well, for those that aren't familiar, the dirty hairy movies were like this expression of.
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