00:19:10.000The feature story of tonight's show, of course, we're talking about the summit.
00:19:15.000It wasn't really a summit, more like just a conventional meeting, but a big meeting between the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and President Donald Trump of the United States.
00:19:26.000And I've got a whiteboard prepared, a nice little tee chart.
00:19:30.000We're going to compare and contrast the two leaders, but it's a big meeting.
00:19:35.000If you've been following the show for a long time, if you've been watching me for a while, we know and we've talked about it for a couple of years now.
00:19:43.000That Viktor Orban in Central Europe is probably the visionary or among the top tier, first among equal visionaries and leaders leading the charge for the reactionary right, not just in Europe, but in the whole world.
00:19:57.000And he has really broken down and provided a path for the right wing moving forward in Europe and in North America.
00:20:03.000And so I think it's a very important moment in our history, moment in the Trump administration, that we see these two characters coming together.
00:20:12.000And when they come together, we can kind of see where the short.
00:20:17.000I think that's going to be the critical point to make during tonight's show as we look at somebody like Viktor Orban from a far flung Eastern European country, former Soviet bloc state, who is really doing what needs to be done, who is a competent politician, who has a vision, a plan, these unifying principles for what we need to do moving forward, versus Donald Trump, where there hasn't been nearly as much in the way of practical progress or, again, the unifying vision.
00:21:00.000Of course, we saw on Friday that the Chinese pulled out of a deal.
00:21:05.000They said, and the president has said that we were 95% of the way to completing a comprehensive trade deal, mutually agreed upon trade deal, that would have solved all the trade deficit problems and Barriers between the two countries and trade.
00:21:26.000They said that out of 12 pages, 150 different concepts and principles, the Chinese just totally reneged on every promise that they made, every concession that they gave.
00:21:37.000And so, in response on Friday, we saw Trump raise their tariffs, raise tariffs from 10 and 15 percent up to 25 percent on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports into America.
00:21:49.000And today, the news was that in response, China has retaliated.
00:21:53.000By raising tariffs from 10 to 25 percent on 60 billion dollars worth of goods.
00:22:01.000Every time it's the same take from the conservative establishment, every time it's tariffs, whether it's China, Canada, the European Union, every time, invariably, it's the same take.
00:22:13.000It's always, well, Donald Trump just must not understand free trade.
00:22:44.000It makes me so angry because every single time we try to retaliate, we try to up the ante, we try to engage, we try to challenge the status quo.
00:22:54.000We get the libertarians, the think tank people oh, you just don't understand free trade.
00:22:59.000You read Milton Friedman, you didn't read Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell.
00:23:04.000People have no idea the kind of predatory practices that are in place and what we stand to gain here.
00:23:09.000So, we're going to get into all of that in greater detail.
00:25:15.000We're not going to endorse bad mothers, people on drugs.
00:25:18.000But all the good mothers out there that raise their kids with good morals my mother, my grandmother, grandmothers, mothers in my family, thank you so much.
00:27:43.000My favorite cookie brand, you might have seen this.
00:27:46.000You know the cookie problem we like to talk about on the show?
00:27:49.000I see my favorite brand of cookies, Chips Ahoy.
00:27:52.000They're running an advertisement for Mother's Day.
00:27:54.000And what is the advertisement feature?
00:27:57.000A black drag queen from the show RuPaul's Drag Race.
00:28:02.000This drag queen is doing a Mother's Day advertisement for Chips Ahoy.
00:28:07.000And the message is you've got a drag queen.
00:28:09.000It's a 45 second advertisement, and it's just your usual ridiculous, disgusting, degenerate drag queen, you know, act promoting the cookies on Mother's Day.
00:28:20.000And I'm watching this and I'm thinking, who okayed this?
00:29:13.000I'm worried about what's on television.
00:29:15.000I'm worried about whatever, homework and girls and all that, Model UN.
00:29:21.000But what really woke me up was just this constant what is going on in the advertisements and the sitcoms and the movies.
00:29:28.000Why, with this overt political messaging and on these kinds of issues, it would be one thing if the advertisement was, I don't know, it had a black guy in it, or it had, I don't know, a more subtle liberal message, but you have a drag queen in there.
00:29:58.000And the cookie Twitter account, the Chips Ahoy Twitter account, is replying to all the left wing people saying, they didn't even watch the ad.
00:30:05.000They're getting triggered over a drag queen.
00:33:11.000We've had a trade deficit with China in excess of $300 billion per year for the better part of two decades.
00:33:19.000And this goes back like 25 years, really.
00:33:21.000This really goes back all the way to the beginning of this new world order, the construction of this international liberal financial system with the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, the IMF, this whole American led system.
00:33:34.000And so for the longest time, we've just been hemorrhaging money.
00:33:37.000Every year, China exports more goods to our country.
00:33:43.000To the tune of billions of dollars, a deficit, more than we send over there.
00:33:47.000And because of that, we see a lot of our assets going over to China.
00:34:07.000Something like 13% of the total public debt is owned by the Chinese.
00:34:11.000And they're getting a lot of our currency, and they're manipulating the exchange rate, and they're abusing our.
00:34:16.000They're stealing our research and development.
00:34:18.000They're using cyber attacks to steal our information and so on.
00:34:22.000As a response to all these practices, and this is what was campaigned on, we begin to implement sanctions.
00:34:27.000And of course, the sanctions are to put leverage on China to come to the negotiating table, make a grand deal, open up the Chinese markets, try to mitigate some of these practices, implement some enforcement mechanisms so that we can have some semblance of fair trade, a real fair trade system with China.
00:34:44.000So we start with some small tariffs in January 2018.
00:34:47.000This ramps up in summer of 2018 with big tariffs.
00:34:50.000$200 billion worth of Chinese imports get big tariffs, 15%.
00:34:58.000And Trump was threatening in October of 2018 that we were going to tariff all Chinese imports.
00:35:04.000So China imports about $550 billion worth of goods, rather, they export about $550 billion worth of goods to America every year.
00:35:14.000We have already implemented about $230 billion worth of tariffs.
00:35:18.000In October 2018, Trump was saying we're going to raise the tariffs on the existing goods that we have tariffs on, and we're going to expand the tariffs to cover all the goods.
00:36:06.000So you have Chinese companies paying into the system, and as a result, the American economy is doing actually really good.
00:36:12.000People had predicted that this economic war would be catastrophic for us, that we implement tariffs on half of Chinese imports into America.
00:36:21.000That'll raise the prices for consumer goods because China is one of the biggest trading partners of America for manufactured goods, for industrial products, and so on.
00:37:04.000And they say, we will put together a framework of a deal.
00:37:07.000That is satisfactory to the Americans, such that Donald Trump announces in December we are suspending all planned increases or expansions of tariffs.
00:37:16.000We're not going to implement any new tariffs.
00:37:17.000We're not going to raise tariffs on products that are already subject to tariffs.
00:37:22.000This will go on for 90 days while we figure out this framework agreement.
00:37:26.000The 90 days pass, it's a January or February deadline.
00:37:30.000Trump says we like the progress we're making, they're making big commitments, big concessions, so we're going to indefinitely delay the tariff increases and expansion.
00:37:39.000A lot of time goes by, and Trump, to his credit, actually has really good personnel managing the trade situation.
00:37:45.000You look at Wilbur Ross, who's in there.
00:37:47.000You look at Lightsinger, who's negotiating with China.
00:37:52.000These are some of the finest people in the administration.
00:37:54.000You know, one of our biggest gripes is that people like John Kelly, and you look at the current chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, and you look at the DHS secretary, Nielsen, and her replacement, they're terrible.
00:38:05.000They don't implement the policy, they don't believe in Trump's.
00:38:09.000And his larger abstract principles of America first.
00:38:13.000But these guys who are handling the trade situation are top tier, competent, and they're committed to the cause.
00:38:42.000So, in response to this, we're, of course, very upset by this.
00:38:46.000So, Trump on Friday, this brings us up to speed to last week.
00:38:50.000A 25% tariff on $200 billion worth of goods.
00:38:54.000So, where we are right now in the trade situation is that Trump hiked up the tariff from 15% to 25% on $200 billion worth of goods.
00:39:03.000So, in total, now you have $250 billion.
00:39:08.000He hiked it up on $200 on Friday for a grand total, $50 billion of other goods that were not hiked up.
00:39:15.000But $250 billion in total, Chinese imports that are subject to tariffs out of $540 billion.
00:39:22.000So, about half, a little bit less than half.
00:39:25.000Of all Chinese imports into America are now under a 25% or a 15% tariff, which is very substantial, very big.
00:39:32.000In retaliation, and this is our news from today, this is the update, is that China is now hiking tariffs from 10% to 25% on $60 billion worth of goods.
00:39:43.000And now they have a total of 110 out of $120 billion worth of American imports under tariff.
00:39:49.000So, you know, that's a lot of numbers.
00:40:10.000You know, that's the most important thing about these numbers to understand is that you look at the totals of goods that are going back and forth.
00:41:04.000We can go up another 100 on top of that.
00:41:07.000We can go up basically another 100 on top of that.
00:41:09.000We can escalate this and destroy the Chinese economy completely.
00:41:14.000We can double the amount that's already been tariffed, which is already double the amount that China's tariffing of imports that are American going into China.
00:41:23.000We can double the numbers that already double our imports and keep going on top of that.
00:41:29.000And that's to give you an idea how we simply can't lose.
00:41:32.000You know, this is something that the president talked about a lot during the election.
00:41:35.000And when the tariff war began, people made fun of him for this.
00:41:38.000He said, you know, when you have tariffs, or rather, when you have a deficit that is this big, when you have a $300, $400 billion trade deficit, and we're hemorrhaging $400 billion in cash, assets, debt, all this other stuff every year.
00:41:51.000And on top of that, they're stealing our technology, they're stealing our intellectual property, they're stealing our production and manufacturing techniques.
00:41:59.000They have access to our market, and we don't have access to theirs.
00:42:02.000I mean, it's just, we are just getting slaughtered on trade.
00:42:06.000There's literally no way that you can lose on this.
00:42:09.000There's absolutely no way that you can lose, right?
00:42:52.000And you get the libertarians and the conservatarians and the fiscal conservatives and the free market people, and they will tell you that with free trade, actually with free trade, you never lose.
00:43:02.000It doesn't matter how big the deficit is, you can never lose because you're getting goods.
00:43:07.000You know, that's what Milton Friedman said, and this is probably the most pernicious lie in the history of economics, modern history of economics.
00:43:16.000Milton Friedman promulgated this myth for decades, and he was maybe the number two most influential economist in world history, aside from maybe John Maynard Keynes or like Adam Smith.
00:43:28.000Back in the 70s and 80s, he said that if you have a trade imbalance with a country like China, it doesn't matter because all that is is arbitrary accounting figures.
00:43:38.000Sure, you can say that you have a $400 billion deficit, but all that means is you're getting goods.
00:43:56.000You, of all people, should know you don't get anything for free.
00:43:58.000There's no such thing as a free lunch.
00:44:01.000So, we've been told by the economists, and we've been told by academics, and we've been told by pundits for 50 years that a trade deficit is just totally, that's just an accounting term.
00:45:23.000It's largely cheap consumer products that we can make here, that we can make here and it's no problem, or you can get it from any other country that we do more business with, that they actually import and they have fair trading practices.
00:45:35.000You know, we give them in exchange for the cheap consumer products that we can make here, we give them.
00:45:41.000You know, China tried to buy the Chicago Stock Exchange last year, to give you an idea.
00:45:46.000So, yeah, we got McDonald's toys and we got Walmart products and what you would find in a Target.
00:45:52.000And in exchange, we try to give them the Chicago Stock Exchange and we try to give them pieces of Hollywood companies and we give them property, ports, real estate, land, stake in Fortune 500 companies.
00:46:08.000So, understand with debt, you have the principal, of course, and then you have interest.
00:46:11.000So, we're giving them a guarantee that, you know, We're going to take their money now, but we'll be paying them back forever, basically.
00:46:18.000So, yeah, we get cheap consumer goods now, but we're paying for it in interest every year, basically functionally forever, you know, because there's no chance we're paying it back anytime soon.
00:46:28.000And we pay for it in the form of currency.
00:46:30.000And so we're giving them our American dollar, and what do they do?
00:46:32.000They hoard it and they release it at strategic times to devalue their currency so that they can continue doing this, so that American consumers and companies will continue buying their products.
00:46:43.000They take our U.S. dollars, they sell it off on the market strategically so that their currency.
00:46:49.000Is of a lesser value relative to the dollar.
00:47:35.000And it goes so far beyond that because China doesn't only just do that, they also implement other things where, for example, if we want to have a company come in and do business with them, the whole reason we opened up the trading system to them with the World Trade Organization and other things in the 1990s and 2000s, deregulating our trade and lowering our trade barriers.
00:47:54.000Was the idea that we were going to be able to sell to China, our companies would gain access to their markets, their consumers would buy our products, and money would be flowing into the American economy?
00:48:06.000That obviously didn't happen, but because of the trade deficit thing we just talked about, but on top of that, we didn't even get access to the Chinese markets.
00:48:13.000Instead, we go in there and they say, well, we're not even going to let you compete in our country unless you give us all of your intellectual property and you also enable something called co production.
00:48:24.000So not only do we get all of your intellectual property and we figure out all your patents and we figure out You know, maybe your private and public sector technology was 25 years ahead of us, and you invested hundreds of millions of dollars to get that advanced technology.
00:48:39.000And not only that, but your factories are going to come into our country, and your people are going to come into our country, and they're going to teach us how to manufacture your goods so that we can set up a factory in our country after we've learned these techniques and we've learned the schematics and the blueprints and the intellectual property, and we could just make a cheaper knockoff product, sell it in our country, and then sell it to America.
00:49:01.000So it's just like, And these are just a few examples.
00:49:04.000This is, we could spend hours talking about these kinds of practices at every level monetary in terms of strategic sectors of the economy, like artificial intelligence, robotics.
00:49:17.000And that's why we have to look at trade not so much as this mutual thing and we want to be friends with China and we want to work out a deal where money is flowing in both directions.
00:49:27.000We want to destroy China, we want to put China basically on their knees.
00:49:33.000And just defeat them so that they cannot allow this to continue, so that they can stop abusing us.
00:49:38.000Because you understand that China is not simply a trading partner, they're a geopolitical foe.
00:49:43.000So, as much as they're winning, we're losing.
00:49:47.000You know, the economists like to say, well, a rising tide lifts all boats.
00:49:50.000The Chinese get richer, and, you know, maybe Americans get a little bit poorer, but everybody's getting richer on the net, and the market is enriching itself, and the people in the multinational corporations are enriching themselves.
00:50:10.000And because we're geopolitical adversaries, that has very significant effects for military, for defense, for national security.
00:50:16.000And so, we cannot afford to continue to inflate the Chinese economy and help them out and strengthen them at the expense of our own economy.
00:50:23.000So, actually, a deal, the deal that we would like to see is that we have some kind of enforcement mechanism that we can stop these predatory practices.
00:50:33.000You know, that we make China commit on paper saying, okay, we are not going to do cyber crimes, we are not going to do what we've been doing for 25 years, and there's some degree of enforcement.
00:51:21.000But honestly, and maybe that would be better.
00:51:24.000Understanding the political reality that Trump won't be in office forever and whoever comes next will be bribed and bought and allow China to continue to rise.
00:51:31.000So, I guess under those circumstances, the deal would probably be preferable.
00:51:35.000But in theory, there's nothing wrong with what we're doing right now.
00:51:38.000The only problem is that it could not be continued indefinitely because a future administration will be bribed, will become corrupt, and will kowtow to China again.
00:51:47.000But other than that, keep the pressure up.
00:51:57.000Foreign policy, immigration, been a little bit incompetent, been kind of a failure, and in some places compromised wholly on principle, like legal immigration, which we're going to get into.
00:52:07.000But on trade, it has really been the area, I think, where Trump is succeeding.
00:52:13.000And this way, he has some parallels with Nixon.
00:52:16.000You know, Nixon didn't achieve everything that he set out to achieve, and obviously his legacy is tainted by the resignation and the scandal and so on.
00:52:24.000But, you know, of course, Nixon is remembered for realigning the entire world.
00:52:30.000Opening up with China, putting the Middle East in America's influence, shifting the balance of power away from the Soviet Union towards America.
00:52:40.000He was remembered for those strategic things which he could do unilaterally.
00:52:44.000Maybe Trump will go down in history the same way.
00:52:49.000So if you see any of that stuff on the timeline, any of these tricks, any of these tricks that are being played by these money movers trying to lead you to believe that free trade is the greatest thing, and that's always what these.
00:53:04.000It was the last thing that I came over to on Trump.
00:53:06.000When I was a libertarian, I was like, okay, in my conversion process over to the authentic, traditional, conservative type, I said, okay, I'm on board with anti immigration.
00:53:16.000I'm on board with foreign policy, non intervention.
00:53:19.000I'm on board with all this stuff, but Trump hasn't sold me on trade.
00:53:23.000But then I read Free Trade Doesn't Work by Ian Fletcher.
00:53:26.000I looked into it, and it's just so obvious what's going on.
00:54:27.000Viktor Orban, who is the Prime Minister of Hungary, is visiting the White House today.
00:54:33.000And actually, the President and Viktor Orban have met before.
00:54:37.000I believe, I think it was at a NATO summit in Europe not too long ago.
00:54:41.000And I don't believe there's any video or picture of them shaking hands or anything, but there is.
00:54:46.000A video of them sort of marching along with all the other NATO leaders, all the other European leaders.
00:54:52.000But this is the first time that Viktor Orban comes to visit Trump in the White House.
00:54:56.000They sit down, they talk, and this is a big deal.
00:54:59.000You know, this is a big deal in the realm of if you're following the meta political situation happening in Europe and North America, this is not obviously like front page news where average normie is going to be like, oh, Viktor Orban in the White House, this is crazy.
00:55:13.000You know, it's not a cathedral burning down, it's not a terrorist attack, but.
00:55:17.000This is big because of what Viktor Orban represents.
00:55:20.000And if you follow politics, you understand that Viktor Orban is.
00:55:23.000And there was a poll that was actually tweeted out today by Darren Beatty asking this question Who is the legitimate spiritual leader or the torchbearer of the reaction, of the authentic nationalist conservative movement in the world?
00:56:05.000You know, they sold off some of their most profitable and strategic industries like oil and other things to Russia and to multinational corporations.
00:56:14.000You know, this sort of vulture venture capitalism after the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union, communist countries opened up to Western investment.
00:56:37.000The IMF wanted them to implement this draconian austerity measure.
00:56:41.000There was a big corruption scandal because of their former prime minister.
00:56:45.000And in this environment, Viktor Orban rises up and in sort of a similar vein to a lot of the other Christian Democrats like Miracle and others, but he begins to differentiate himself because he.
00:56:56.000Articulates a message other than liberal democracy.
00:56:58.000He calls it Christian democracy or illiberal democracy.
00:57:02.000Maybe that's what his detractors call it.
00:57:35.000Orban laid out a couple of years ago five tenets.
00:57:39.000We only have four listed here because only four are relevant for our purposes, but he lays out in this speech five, and we're talking about four core tenets of what he calls a project for Central Europe.
00:57:52.000The project of building up Central Europe, five tenets of what he calls this Christian liberalism, this Christian democracy idea.
00:57:58.000And we're going to compare, because I think it's interesting, and we talked about this on Friday what's happening in Europe with nationalism and the right wing, with what's happening in America with the right wing.
00:58:08.000Obviously, Trump kind of kicked all this stuff off.
00:58:14.000The populist nationalist thing has been rising in the world for 25 years.
00:58:17.000Ryan Gerdusky actually wrote a very good article about this in the American Conservative.
00:58:21.000Very long article, but it details how this goes all the way back to like 1996.
00:58:26.000And it starts out in the Netherlands and in Finland and in some of these far flung European countries that you don't hear too much about in the news.
00:58:33.000So this has been a long time coming, but we all know that Trump really blew the lid off of everything.
00:58:38.000He really turned the world upside down.
00:58:40.000He breathed new life into this movement, brought it to the forefront.
00:58:43.000And so we compare this on Friday with Matteo Salvini and the migrant crisis at our border and how that's going with the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean Sea and how it's going for Salvini.
00:58:53.000But I think it's important to understand and I think it's important to compare what has been done so far in the way of Donald Trump, comparing with the principles of Viktor Orban that he has articulated.
00:59:17.000He writes I have formulated five tenets for the project of building up Central Europe.
00:59:22.000The first tenet is that every European country has the right to defend its Christian culture and the right to reject the ideology of multiculturalism.
00:59:31.000So that's the first tenet of his ideology, which to me is probably the biggest and most important one protecting the culture of the nation, not protecting.
00:59:41.000You know, limited government, not protecting the GDP of the country, not protecting any material aspect of the country's well being, you know, the unemployment rate or anything like that, but protecting the culture and more importantly, explicitly acknowledging that it's a Christian culture and rejecting this idea that it can be many things at once or it can have foreign influences.
01:00:01.000It's to defend Christian culture and reject multiculturalism.
01:00:08.000Number two, he says, our second tenant is that every country has the right to defend the traditional family model.
01:00:14.000And is entitled to assert that every child has the right to a mother and a father.
01:00:19.000Another very important one, because what do we see in America?
01:00:22.000We see not only the promotion of homosexuality and transgender ideology, but it goes beyond that.
01:00:28.000You know, that's the most egregious part of it, that's the most fringe and radical turn that it's taken in recent years, but it's also the promotion of divorce.
01:00:37.000It's also the promotion of the single parent household and adoption and all these other things.
01:00:42.000It's the promotion of a lifestyle with no children.
01:00:46.000He's defending the traditional family one mother, one father, an enduring marriage, they have children, and that's the way it goes, and traditional gender roles.
01:00:56.000So we have the promotion of the traditional family model.
01:00:59.000He says the third Central European tenet is that every Central European country has the right to defend the nationally strategic economic sectors and markets which are of crucial importance to it, which goes and ties in a little bit to what we were talking about with China.
01:01:13.000And this is a big part of his reforms.
01:01:14.000He said that, you know, without economic strength, Anything we do in this country doesn't mean anything because you can have any foreign investor, any foreign multinational corporation, or foreign government can go in and meddle and influence.
01:01:27.000So, really, nothing else matters if we're not solid economically.
01:01:31.000If we're vulnerable in the sense that, you know, for example, Russia can shut off our gas or an American multinational can shut off investment in the key industries, well, you really don't have sovereignty, you really don't have independence.
01:01:43.000So, he ties this in with the other tenets and says, well, really, the foundation is the economy.
01:01:49.000We, as the nation, we, as the people, have the right to control our strategic sectors of the economy.
01:01:54.000Ultimately, the end goal being to protect the sovereignty.
01:01:57.000You know, it's indirect, but that is the foundational component there.
01:02:00.000And that's the reality of modern politics.
01:02:52.000And he's able to manipulate the public.
01:02:54.000And he's able to do a lot of things which are the element of statecraft, which makes him a competent, practical, effective politician and a statesman.
01:03:03.000But aside from that, not only does he win elections, not only does he get stuff done in the pursuit of these goals, But he has the ability to articulate an alternative vision.
01:03:54.000So that's really what's distinct and key about Orban not only do we have a winner, a competent politician and a statesman, but we also have somebody who can articulate an alternative vision.
01:04:12.000It's based on this liberation theology of, you know, turning the world, turning the clock back, and having this vengeance against the white man and putting in favor of people of color and elevating the dispossessed and leveling the playing field and all that.
01:04:24.000And Orban is saying, well, we have a totally different worldview.
01:04:27.000And it's coherent and it's strong and it makes good arguments.
01:04:31.000It's a propositionally positive vision.
01:04:33.000It says, we're not going to just say, well, we don't want the liberal vision.
01:04:37.000We want a conservative vision of traditional families, of Christian culture, and so on.
01:04:43.000If you compare just these principles, you know, where we have strong, very good, these are winning tenets that I think we all agree with people who watch this show.
01:04:51.000What do we have on this side from Trump?
01:04:53.000As far as defending Christian culture and rejecting multiculturalism go, what do we have except for like a few tweets?
01:04:58.000This sort of haphazard, ad hoc, we're going to say Merry Christmas again.
01:05:03.000And we're going to protect your religious liberty.
01:05:17.000There's never been anything like that.
01:05:19.000During the campaign, the most we could get in terms of a defense of Christian culture and a rejection of multiculturalism is we're going to say Merry Christmas again instead of Happy Holidays.
01:05:30.000You know, that's one limit of the Trump agenda, is there's only so far we can go with that.
01:05:35.000Because by the same token, he's in the White House celebrating the Muslim holidays and wishing a happy Ramadan and wishing a happy Hanukkah and Mazel Tov and Whatever, and we're about, oh, we're going to bring in all kinds of different people.
01:05:53.000You know, we're going to talk about that with the embracing of legal immigration.
01:05:56.000But it's not only that, we restructured immigration so that we value instead of family relations, you know, the family based or chain migration, instead we have merit based.
01:06:07.000So even there, do we value our Christian culture?
01:06:10.000Do we value, you know, is there a cultural component to demographic change, the biggest earthquake politically in the country's history?
01:07:07.000That's not a bad thing in itself, but ultimately, practically, we know what that's for, right?
01:07:12.000So, if anything, not only are we not doing anything, we're not doing anything to defend and protect the traditional family model, we're actually working in subtle and little ways to the other way, domestically and abroad.
01:07:23.000In Hungary, if you have more than four kids, you don't pay income tax.
01:07:28.000How's that for protecting the traditional family?
01:07:30.000For people that want to say, oh no, but Trump did such and such.
01:07:33.000No, but Trump said families are a good thing.
01:07:36.000Yeah, okay, well, Orban implemented a policy that if you have more than four children and you're married, you don't have to pay income taxes.
01:07:43.000You think we could use something like that in America, right?
01:08:21.000You know, these are cheap bubblegum slogans.
01:08:23.000Buy American, hire American, America first, whatever.
01:08:25.000That's fine for a campaign, but it has to evolve.
01:08:28.000We have to articulate a bigger vision.
01:08:30.000Defending strategic economic sectors because it's the foundation of national sovereignty, that's a vision, that's a principle, that's a sustainable policy.
01:08:38.000But, well, we'll just implement tariffs until they make a deal.
01:08:41.000You think Joe Biden's going to care about that?
01:08:43.000You think Joe Biden will really get hit hard if he's not going to go along with what Trump's been doing on trade?
01:09:25.000It really doesn't matter because the more critical component is about legal immigration.
01:09:29.000Not only does Orban say we're going to defend our borders, which should be a given, and even if he can't do it, whatever, he says we're going to reject immigration.
01:09:36.000Rejecting immigration, not illegal, not securing the border.
01:09:41.000No, we have the right to reject immigration.
01:09:51.000If we don't want the country to change, we don't want more people coming in, we have the right to put our foot down and say, We don't want any more people coming in.
01:10:01.000If there's a war going on in your country, we have the right to say, No, this is our country and we're closing our borders.
01:10:08.000What is the alternative on the Trump side?
01:10:10.000We've never heard anything close to that.
01:10:12.000The argument has always been, Well, we're going to build a wall, but there'll be a big, beautiful door in the middle where everybody can come in no matter what color you are, no matter who you are, no matter how many.
01:10:23.000As long as you want to start a little trinket store, as long as you want to set up a street food vendor, you know, whatever, as long as you're going to contribute to the economic utility of the nation, as long as you'll boost the GDP, you can come right in.
01:10:36.000So we've embraced immigration as opposed to saying we have the right to reject immigration.
01:10:40.000And all this is to say is Trump is no Orban.
01:10:58.000You know, this is the best that we could produce.
01:11:00.000This is a Donald Trump like character.
01:11:02.000And in Europe, it's different because they have these ethnic based countries and a longer history and they have reactionary politics and so on.
01:11:09.000Or do you wonder, and this is, I think, the bigger question, is Donald Trump phase one?
01:11:15.000Does Donald Trump serve the historical purpose of sort of blowing the lid on everything?
01:11:20.000And he paves the way then for an Orban like figure in America.
01:12:23.000He cannot communicate this kind of alternative that needs to be communicated to the American people and win people over to it.
01:12:31.000So the question remains if Trump can't get the job done, can we be hopeful that maybe then in 5, 10, 15, 20 years' time, will there be another figure who can get the job done?
01:12:42.000Because Trump went in and he messed it all up, but he blew up the system and he discredited the media and he changed the Republican Party and he showed that it was possible.
01:12:52.000Does this make it possible for somebody to come in ultimately down the road, and I don't know how far down the road, but at some point, who's able to actually wield the electorate, gain popular support from both sides of the aisle?
01:13:06.000And when on these major issues, articulate an alternative in America to, again, the sort of alt progressive or progressive light sort of a vision.
01:13:14.000Will that be able to happen in the future?
01:13:16.000And I think that's sort of what you see in Trump and Orban.
01:13:19.000I think you see phase one and phase two.
01:13:22.000When they shake hands, I definitely think that Orban is the kind of guy we need to get to, but maybe we had to necessarily go through a Trump like figure first, somebody transformative, turn it upside down.
01:13:31.000And he couldn't do everything, he wasn't our savior, he wasn't a miracle worker.
01:13:36.000We have these insurmountable obstacles, but this was a necessary first step.
01:13:41.000And again, you know, this is metapolitical thinking.
01:13:44.000We have to keep in mind there are very practical limitations to something like this happening.
01:13:48.000You know, you look at Orban coming into America, and this is from CNN.
01:13:53.000It says Human Rights Watch and Human Rights First both said that Orban coming to the White House, they said that Orban has not only assaulted the rule of law and basic human rights in Hungary, but he has employed anti migrant, anti Muslim, anti Semitic, and xenophobic rhetoric while targeting civil society organizations and universities receiving funding from overseas.
01:14:14.000So basically, he doesn't want foreigners to control his country.
01:14:17.000But you see that in America, An Orban like figure would get destroyed by the media.
01:14:22.000You know, if that's the kind of coverage, this alarmist, you know, like they're running around with their heads chopped off about this kind of stuff, would that even be possible in America?
01:14:32.000Is it possible with the state of the media, the state of the electorate, the demographics of the southern states and the way people are, how partisan things are?
01:14:51.000You know, they were once a great empire, the Hungarian Empire, and then whittled away.
01:14:56.000You know, all their borders cut down and their country whittled down to this tiny fraction of what it once was in terms of population size and in terms of geography.
01:15:05.000And you've got Hungarians, you've got, you know, the ethnic Hun people in Romania, you've got them in Serbia, you've got them all over former Yugoslavia and so on.
01:15:15.000So they understand perhaps what it means and they appreciate their national identity and their national sovereignty.
01:15:23.000Can come forward and say, I will protect the Hungarian culture and people and so on because we've been under assault for centuries and we remember what it was like and we see how precarious our future is and people can get behind that.
01:15:34.000In America, is it a comparable situation?
01:16:10.000I mean, all that being said, circumstances can change very rapidly.
01:16:15.000We've seen that in the last, you know, however many years, things can change very quickly.
01:16:19.000And these sort of miracle, like, what do you call them, black swan type events, They do come around, and it seems like increasingly so.
01:16:26.000So, that might be a subtle white pill that if we got Trump, and that seemed miraculous by the standards of 2008, maybe in 2020 it seems crazy we could get an Orban like figure, but maybe things go downhill.
01:16:38.000The country changes, the demographics change, polarization changes, and maybe by 2024, you know, 2028, something else becomes possible.
01:16:47.000Some new figure rises up, new possibilities open up.
01:16:50.000You know, we don't know what the future holds, but that's what I see when I see Trump and Orban meeting, I see this very frustrating comparison.
01:16:58.000He really lays bare the shortcomings of Trump.
01:17:00.000And that's where people have to get it through their head.
01:17:02.000He's better than the other guys, sure, but it's not saying much.
01:17:07.000It's a far cry from what we would need to even begin to turn things around, which is what Orban, Salvini, these other people are.
01:19:25.000Well, and it's just all about priorities.
01:19:27.000You know, I'm at a stage in my life where, you know, I have so much on my plate right now in terms of the show, in terms of other projects that are happening, other commitments that I've made in my life.
01:19:39.000And of course, you have to understand about a self employment situation like me where it's not so simple as, well, you get up, you go to work, and you go home.
01:19:49.000And it doesn't really matter what level you are in terms of a business, it's just a wholly different prospect, it's a totally different sort of enterprise.
01:19:58.000Going up, or rather, getting up, going to work, and the factory's there, you know, or the company's there, and you've got your tasks laid out for you.
01:20:05.000You just have to kind of do what you're told or, you know, complete this objective, and the payroll is taken care of so long as you do your job, versus like, you know, being solely responsible for the whole operation.
01:20:17.000And what I mean by that is, you know, the human capital investment of getting a good night's sleep, staying up to date on my reading, reading books, reading the news, looking at new opportunities, business and otherwise.
01:20:34.000And I'm not like I'm doing all that every day at all times, but you understand where a commitment like this is sort of open ended.
01:20:40.000So for somebody that goes to school, it's like, well, I did my homework for the day, now I can afford to go to the gym for two hours, you know, or I did my work for the day, now I could go to the gym for an hour.
01:20:48.000But for somebody like me, it's like I got a lot going on already, but then the nature of the work is it's open ended.
01:20:55.000So I always feel like, you know, is going to the gym and constantly stressing about the macros and, you know, I got to whip up the.
01:21:02.000Some protein shake, and I got to make all these meals and prepare my meals for the week.
01:21:07.000And I go to the gym, and people say, Oh, well, you just got to do it, or you just got to take the time, the mental energy, the physical energy to do that.
01:22:14.000So, that's not to say I don't, people get very defensive, people get weird about it, but it's an important thing to keep in mind, you know?
01:22:22.000I'll get big and strong once I'm able to hire like an assistant who can take care of a wife.
01:22:28.000I can hire a wife, bring on a wife onto the team to take care of that, the meal prep and all that.
01:22:33.000You know, then maybe I'll get back on it, right?
01:28:10.000So I will just tell you that, you know, coming from the top chain of command, my connection, my buddy Q, He's none too pleased with our situation, but I'll tell him to quit screwing with the boomers.
01:28:26.000Mr. K says, When are you heading to Cali to do an interview with Jesse Lee Peterson?
01:28:30.000Also, what are your thoughts on progressive liberal white men?
01:31:05.000Everything is all right with the world.
01:31:06.000You know that you're going to get your.
01:31:08.000You can get it for free, by the way, but if you give a super chat, if you're a premium member, you're going to get your bang for your buck.
01:31:13.000You're going to get your money's worth.
01:35:02.000This is a very good, wholesome moment.
01:35:05.000If we get him on the stream, because I was looking for people to play Fortnite with, we get him on the stream, and, you know, we're gaming, whatever.
01:35:13.000You know, I have so much clout to go around.
01:35:15.000I got like the most viewers on the site.
01:35:18.000People are following him and they're liking his content and they're following this friend of his.
01:35:23.000And my stream goes down because my internet breaks, you know, as it always does.
01:35:27.000And I'm watching their stream and all the people who are watching my stream go to watch this guy's stream and they're following and they're sending them the lemons, you know, whatever the tips are on there.
01:35:36.000And the one kid starts bawling his eyes out.
01:35:39.000He's like, Oi, oi, now I can apply to be a member.
01:35:43.000Now I can apply to be a verified partner.
01:35:47.000And he's crying and he's so excited and he's like, oh my gosh, thank you so much.
01:37:00.000Scheister says these types of ads with drag queens and trannies are so bad kids nowadays sip are so overexposed to this kind of degeneracy.
01:37:10.000My 16 year old cousin knows like nine trannies, and when I was in high school four years ago, I knew zero and drag queens.
01:37:39.000I guess it's just such a satanic perversion, you know?
01:37:43.000I think that's what you see in like Sodom and Gomorrah and all these, you know, evil societies just the cross dressing, the inversion of gender, the perversion of the divinely ordered gender roles and the way things ought to be.
01:37:57.000The natural law, and it just sickens me, and particularly because it's advertised to kids.
01:38:03.000You know, that's all I see eating this kind of stuff up is teenagers and 20 somethings, and they're watching.
01:38:10.000Some sick freak degenerate, and what's all the content about it?
01:38:14.000It's all about sex and drugs and drinking.
01:38:17.000It is like the epitome of cosmopolitan decadence and degeneracy, and that's like the new it's in vogue for this like upper class rich kid culture.
01:38:28.000It's horrible, and you're right, it's being advertised to children, and as a result.
01:38:32.000You look at the numbers, it's horrible.
01:38:33.000Like in Britain, they say something like 13% of, and I don't know the exact figure, but it's like astonishingly high.
01:38:40.000It's in like the teens, percentage of primary school aged children who are identifying as transgender.
01:39:14.000You need them to be molded in that direction.
01:39:17.000So why do you think they start identifying as.
01:39:19.000Why do you think 15% of them identify as transgender?
01:39:22.000Are they experiencing gender dysphoria, some legitimate mental illness or genetic disability?
01:39:29.000No, it's just questioning that's been enabled.
01:39:32.000Ideas get put in their heads, and you get somebody who, you know, Normally, it's a phase or it's whatever, it's a natural exploring thing, part of childhood development, turns into, well, my gender identity is a girl, and I'm going to cut my genitals off and go on hormone therapy and permanently stunt my development.
01:39:50.000In two, three years, five years, they're like, oh, wait a minute, no, I'm just a normal guy and I want a normal life again, and you're done then, you know?
01:40:00.000So you're right, it's totally sick, and the numbers are rising, and it's a direct result of the culture.
01:40:04.000So I see, you know, for example, The refrain has always been, oh, so what?
01:40:16.000You know, they're going to do their own thing.
01:40:18.000Well, we live in a society of children.
01:40:20.000You know, that's, I guess, the fatal conceit of the individual as we think about things in terms of an adult society of totally autonomous people with free agency and they're totally choosing and they have complete choice and free will.
01:44:07.000But the problem is, they're so evil that a lot of them just, you know, kind of have to be, you know, a lot of them just kind of have to be shut down and pushed out of the public square.
01:44:17.000But, you know, at the end of the day, and I said this, I think, on last week's show, ultimately, we are trying to save souls.
01:44:26.000If we can get people to reject and turn their back on the wicked actions, you know, sexual practices, then that's a good thing, you know, and we're praying for them and they should be strong and all that.
01:45:02.000You know, people don't tell you that, but not only is that the right way to live, but it's also, you know, look at the lifestyle that these people live on the other side.
01:45:11.000You know, drugs, disease, all that other stuff.
01:51:26.000You know, the idea that a rational, dignified human being would engage in such a debased act, I don't know how anybody misses that, you know?
01:51:36.000Forget the idea of, well, it's consenting adults and whatever.
01:52:13.000They always say, well, you know, if God made me transgender, if God made me a lesbian, if God made me a homosexual, then, you know, we were born that way.
01:52:25.000Well, then where does the natural repulsion end?
01:52:28.000Where does the natural revulsion, rather?
01:52:30.000Where does that come from then, right?
01:52:32.000If it's legitimate by the nature of you're born with this, whatever, you know, then shouldn't it be the fact that 100% of the population is repulsed by this?
01:52:52.000You know, I've had a lot of, some of my peers, they talk about sodomy, but heterosexual, and we can give no quarter for sodomy of any kind.
01:53:02.000Remember, procreative, that's the only way we're doing it in 2019 within marriage.
01:53:08.000We're going Catholic style, all right?
01:54:47.000Because of results like this, I block people, and invariably it's, you know, I don't know, this isn't you said this isn't you, but I get people who say, please unblock me, or I'm sorry, I was mad, or you get people who say, you were right to block me, you know?
01:57:35.000Chop down some wood, you make your tools, you mine, you go back up, you make a pickaxe, you mine, you go back up, you make things, you go back.
02:05:26.000Nobody liked, well, I didn't like her.
02:05:28.000But she had this party, was co ed, and that was a big deal because it was middle school.
02:05:32.000And usually, you know, around that age, boys run with the boys and girls run with the girls.
02:05:36.000But it was like this co ed party, and I was there.
02:05:38.000And this girl who was in my English class, we knew each other for about a year, she was like, hey, um, she was like, she was like, and it was in front of everybody.
02:05:47.000She was like, hey, um, do you want to, like, go out sometime?
02:07:59.000It's a little, I don't know, I mean, it's a touchy subject, but, you know, I guess if you're reforming in that lifestyle, That's what we want to see.
02:08:33.000Hey, man, great to hear and God bless.
02:08:35.000I am glad because, you know, ultimately, We say that because people get led astray into these lifestyles to their own detriment.
02:08:44.000I guess that's the thing, it has a negative effect on society, obviously, but who are the victims?
02:08:49.000It's all the children that are being propagandized to, and this lifestyle is enabled.
02:08:55.000And people are told basically, you know, if you have these feelings or if you, whatever, for whatever reason, whether it's genetic or childhood development, that's kind of irrelevant.
02:09:04.000But if you're in that situation, the narrative is, well, that means that you got to wave the flag and you got to march in the parade and you have to, it's a death sentence basically to a life of drugs, sexual promiscuity, misery, disease, all these things.
02:10:21.000You know, and you can find people on Tinder, you know, not that, again, not ideal.
02:10:25.000I'm not trying to be the defender of Tinder.
02:10:27.000It's like a hookup thing for a lot of people.
02:10:30.000But, you know, a lot of it is, oh no, but it has to be Catholic mash, and it has to be Catholic traditional Latin mash, and it has to be Catholic this.
02:10:37.000I mean, sure, you've got to live a devout life, and that's got to be it.
02:11:12.000He worked out some deal with Daddy, and they got some Hollywood producer and, you know, some big money guy involved.
02:11:20.000So, yeah, maybe if Ben Shapiro could work out some deal where somebody sneaks into the fight at the last minute, runs interference, distracts the referee, he uses a steel chair.
02:11:28.000You know, that'd be how Ben Shapiro could pull out a win.