In light of the controversy surrounding Sarah Palin's comments about the pro-Israel lobby, we take a look at the role of the Israel lobby in American politics, and how they influence our elected officials, from both sides of the aisle, to the media, and the general public. We also discuss the impact of the Jussie Smollettle hoax on the Trump administration, and whether or not it is connected to the Israel Lobby. The Israel Lobby is the most powerful lobby in the United States, and it has a seat at the table with the White House, Congress, and other powerful organizations in our political system. We discuss the role they play and the influence they have on our elected leaders, as well as how they shape our foreign policy, and our foreign relations with other countries, and their influence over our elected representatives. We also talk about the Iran deal, and why we should be worried about it, and what it means for the future of our country. Finally, we talk about who really runs the government, and who really controls the government. and why it s not the Armenians. And, of course, we have a special guest on the show this week: Alex Castellanos. He's the MVP of the week, and he's not here to talk about it! - Nicholas J. Fuentes - America First, hosted by the Daily Wire, the show where it's all about America First. - the show you should be watching, not the other way around. America First! - by the way, don't forget to check out the show on Apple Podcasts and listen to it on your favorite streaming service, Apple Podcast, wherever you can get the best listening experience in the world. It's the most authentic, the best podcast on the best streaming experience on the planet. . Thank you for listening to the show I've been listening to this week's newest episode of America First and much more! I'll be back next week with a new episode of the show, coming soon! Subscribe to America First: Only America First with Alex Blumberg, the podcast you'll be the best place to learn more about what's going on in the news, tips, tips and everything else going on around the world, including the latest in Americanism, not globalism, the realest place on the place you can do it all, right here on the internet, the only place you should listen to the most important thing in the whole place!
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00:19:24.000We'll discuss some of the responses from the Democrats, from the Republicans.
00:19:29.000We'll look at this from a few different angles that I know a lot of people have been thinking about, and then ultimately this will conclude in just a real hard truth about the Israel lobby in the country.
00:19:43.000You know, there's a lot of circumstantial things we can look at, obviously.
00:19:48.000To me, what's so transparent about it is she goes out there and she talks about Israeli money in politics.
00:19:55.000Talking about how Israel's money is influencing American politics and that's totally bad.
00:20:01.000That's adverse to America's interests.
00:20:04.000And in less than 24 hours, the entire political establishment from both sides, from the right and the left, politicians, pundits, you name it, they're at her throat and they force her to apologize less than 24 hours later.
00:20:20.000Doesn't that kind of tell you something?
00:21:19.000So uh so to me that's the most obvious thing but look you know I think at this point my position I've debated
00:21:27.000The Israel question many, many times now, and you can go back into the archives for a diverse range of information on the subject and several different encounters, several different focuses.
00:21:39.000I've debated this issue with Aaron Bandler, first and foremost of the Daily Wire.
00:21:44.000I debated Jacob Wohl about our support for Israel.
00:21:47.000I debated Will Chamberlain not once but twice.
00:21:51.000I debated Halsey on Internet Bloodsports, probably
00:21:55.000Around a year ago, just about a year ago, I debated Arthur Schopper on the channel with the Red Elephants.
00:22:02.000So this is a subject which we have gone down many times.
00:22:07.000We've talked about this a lot from a variety of different angles, but it's probably the most important thing.
00:22:11.000I don't think you could understand American foreign policy without it.
00:22:39.000But tonight we have to focus on this big issue and we'll jump right into it.
00:22:43.000So, what exactly was said that started all of this?
00:22:46.000I'm not sure how much people are aware of this because it's surprising, well I guess it's interesting, how concentrated these little scandals are on Twitter these days.
00:22:56.000I feel like in the past, when there's a big controversy, when there's something like this, it's in press conferences, it's done on television interviews, but now it's almost totally
00:23:08.000For example, I haven't seen so far any public statements, any videos, but it's a lot of tweets, it's a lot of press releases and the like, so I'm actually interested how many people who consume almost exclusively traditional legacy media even really heard about this.
00:23:25.000Like, if you're only watching Fox, if you're only watching television, I wonder
00:23:30.000How much this actually penetrated into the news cycle.
00:23:34.000It was all the rage on Twitter last night.
00:23:51.000She's a freshman Congresswoman from Minnesota.
00:23:55.000She was elected in 2018 alongside this whole class of female and far-left, people-of-color Congresswomen.
00:24:03.000So she's been palling around with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and that other Congresswoman, Flaib, from Michigan, the Native Americans, that black Congresswoman from Massachusetts.
00:24:14.000So they've all been sort of part of the same clique.
00:24:17.000And I'll say at the outset, I'll preface it by saying this, she is not our friend.
00:24:22.000So she says some things which really got an important debate and conversation started, and something which I think is very profound.
00:24:31.000I think a very important moment for the country.
00:24:51.000A congresswoman from Hawaii who talks about our involvement in Syria, and she's a very strident non-interventionist, very outspoken against the influence of Saudi Arabia.
00:25:00.000Still part of the Council on Foreign Relations, by the way, but very outspoken on Saudi Arabia, on the issue of Syria.
00:25:07.000And a lot of people I think make the mistake of, you know, instead of just supporting what she says,
00:25:12.000And seeing where that goes and what conversations that leads to, they're saying like, oh, we're going to vote for her in 2020.
00:25:17.000Yeah, well, she's also for amnesty and gay marriage and abortion and gun control.
00:25:21.000So and the same is true with Ilhan Omar.
00:25:23.000I mean, she's an enemy of the country.
00:25:25.000She wants to destroy traditional America, you know, whether she critiques Israel or not.
00:25:30.000And probably her critiques of Israel come from the wrong place, because she's one of these Arab Muslims or rather she's Somali, but she's one of these Somali
00:25:38.000You know, Middle East, North African Muslims, who probably sees Israel not in the same way we do, that we don't really care for our relationship with Israel because it tends to be one-sided.
00:25:50.000But rather, I think to her, Israel represents colonialism, broad, you know, Christendom, Jewry domination of the third world, this sort of Marxist idea.
00:26:33.000Because Ilhan Omar and Tlaib as Muslims have been outspoken against Israel.
00:26:36.000Like I said, not for the same reasons as we are.
00:26:38.000But they're exercising their free speech.
00:26:55.000And so on, and Kevin McCarthy is talking about how he has to act swiftly to shut all this anti-semitic rhetoric down and everything.
00:27:03.000And Glenn Greenwald rightly points out that it's sort of curious, it's sort of interesting why our representatives seem to be so fixated on protecting one country from criticism.
00:27:18.000They passed a bill that made it so that if you have a contract with the federal government, you cannot participate in the Boycott, Divest, Sanction
00:28:36.000Then there was a second tweet, uh, this woman, I hate this so much.
00:28:39.000We have so many non-white people in the country that we have to, we have to contend every day with all these goofy, goobledoo names from, you know, the third world.
00:28:49.000So this woman named Bhatia Ungar Sargon, like, why can't you just be named Sally?
00:29:01.000She tweeted out, quote, Would love to know what Ilhan thinks is paying American politicians to be pro-Israel, although I think I can guess.
00:30:43.000Does that constitute an anti-semitic canard?
00:30:47.000Does that constitute a Jew-hating attack?
00:30:50.000You know, when I think of anti-semitism, I think of like, you know, saying, hey, we don't like Jews, or hey, Jew, go home, we don't like you, or Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.
00:31:04.000You know, when I think of anti-semitism, I think of something like that.
00:31:08.000Somebody rightly pointing out that there's an obvious foreign influence lobby operating in plain sight, which by the way is no secret.
00:31:17.000If you go into Israeli media, and it doesn't matter what publication, if you look at Haaretz, if you look at Jerusalem Post, if you look at The Forward, all these different Israeli media outlets, they're reporting on this.
00:31:38.000I mean, clearly, and you've got all these off-the-record sources, a lot of on-the-record sources talking about, again, this foreign influence lobby.
00:32:06.000And well who exactly is doing this foreign lobbying?
00:32:08.000Well the foreign influence lobby, AIPAC.
00:32:10.000Okay now that should be pretty straightforward and simple and all the more reason because isn't the Democrats whole crusade for the past 10 years since Citizens United been about big money and politics?
00:32:51.000In Congress talking about, she was doing this barrage of questioning saying, oh well, a big oil lobby can give money to a politician and then that politician can write legislation that affects the oil industry.
00:33:13.000What have the Democrats been talking about for the past three years?
00:33:18.000They think that Vladimir Putin and Russia and Russians are responsible for everything from, like, Tom Brady winning the Super Bowl to Republicans winning the Senate, Donald Trump becoming the president.
00:33:31.000They think he's responsible for, like, the Oscars getting bad ratings.
00:33:35.000They think Trump has been in the- he's literally been in the Russian mafia for 40 years.
00:34:30.000You know, think about all the stuff you've seen in the past couple of weeks or couple of months.
00:34:36.000About these freshman congresswomen like Cortez and Ilhan Omar, how excited they are about these young people of color women getting into Congress and kicking ass.
00:34:47.000And look at how quickly and how brutally they just throw her under the bus at the first sign of defection.
00:34:55.000And this was signed off by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, Majority Whip James Clyburn, Assistant Speaker Ben Ray Lujan, Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries, and Caucus Vice Chair Katherine Clark.
00:35:10.000So, you've got all of the Democrat, literally all of the House Democrat leadership, they all co-signed this letter which says, quote, anti-Semitism must be called out.
00:35:23.000Confronted and condemned whenever it is encountered without exception.
00:35:27.000We are and will always be strong supporters of Israel in Congress because we understand that our support is based on shared values and strategic interests.
00:35:39.000Legitimate criticism of Israel's policies is protected by the values of free speech and democratic debate that the United States and Israel share.
00:35:46.000But Congresswoman Omar's use of anti-Semitic tropes and prejudicial accusations about Israel's supporters is deeply offensive.
00:35:55.000We condemn these remarks and we call upon Congresswoman Omar to immediately apologize for these hurtful comments.
00:36:02.000As Democrats and as Americans, the entire Congress must be fully engaged in denouncing and rejecting all forms of hatred, racism, prejudice, and discrimination wherever they are encountered.
00:38:23.000As more Dems support BDS anti-Semitism becoming far too common.
00:38:28.000Rubio tweeted, quote, one of the oldest anti-semitic conspiracies is about Jewish money as an instrument of global domination.
00:38:36.000See the fake anti-semitic Protocols of Zion.
00:38:39.000She might as well have tweeted, quote, in our hands is the greatest power of our day, gold, which is, I guess, a quote from Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
00:38:48.000A little bit heavy-handed, don't you think?
00:38:51.000So again, if you're hearing me correctly, because she acknowledged that AIPAC funnels millions upon millions of, you know, U.S.
00:39:01.000dollars, probably denominated in $100 bills, otherwise known as Benjamins, because she said that in sort of a tongue-in-cheek way, something which is totally happening, which nobody disputes, which is not a conspiracy theory, I mean, it's wide open.
00:39:17.000It's about as legitimate, it's about as transparent as
00:39:20.000You know, going to McDonald's and paying $5 for a Big Mac.
00:39:24.000So because she acknowledged that AIPAC is paying politicians to support Israel, well, what she really meant by that was that it's those sneaky Jews again, those sneaky, money-hungry, powerful Jewish people controlling the country through these shadowy influence networks with money.
00:39:48.000And that's kind of the grand irony of it all, is, well, doesn't it sort of beg the question, if she's talking about money influencing politics, Israeli money influencing politics, buying people's support, and you've got in the case of Marco Rubio, somebody who spoke at the AIPAC conference last year in support of Israel, where the average contribution to all attendees was $36,000, of which 400 congresspeople were there,
00:40:18.000You gotta wonder, doesn't it beg the question why he would be tweeting something like that?
00:40:22.000Gee, why are you vociferously defending Israel?
00:40:26.000Why are you white knighting on Israel's behalf against somebody saying they're paying off politicians when you yourself are paid off by the very group that is being condemned for such behavior?
00:40:39.000I guess you must just be... I guess we're all anti-semitic.
00:40:42.000I guess we're all... we didn't even know it.
00:40:45.000But we all are against Jewish people, so she was forced to apologize.
00:40:49.000Like I said, within 24 hours, she offered a very sincere apology.
00:40:54.000She wrote, quote, Anti-Semitism is real, and I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes.
00:41:06.000My intention is never to offend my constituents or Jewish Americans.
00:41:10.000As a whole, we have to always be willing to step back and think through criticism, just as I expect people to hear me when others attack me for my identity.
00:41:20.000This is why I unequivocally apologize.
00:41:22.000At the same time, I reaffirm the problematic role of lobbyists in our politics.
00:41:27.000Whether it be AIPAC or the fossil fuel industry, it's gone on for too long and we must be willing to address it.
00:41:33.000So, I don't know, I mean, I guess in the end...
00:41:36.000She's kind of standing by what she said, but the apology couldn't be more preposterous, more absurd.
00:41:43.000And I think everybody just kind of sees what happens.
00:41:45.000I mean, you criticize Jewish money, Jewish money gets an ad, they send out their politicians to crush the person critiquing Jewish money, and the person critiquing Jewish money says,
00:41:55.000I'm so sorry for offending everyone by talking about Jewish money.
00:42:00.000That was wrong and deeply... I would never want to offend Jewish money.
00:43:04.000She has made anti-Semitic statements in the past, and when she talks about it being all about the Benjamins with AIPAC and the Jewish lobby, that is absolutely a dog whistle.
00:44:16.000We've unequivocally supported them in the United Nations.
00:44:19.000We have unequivocally and unconditionally supported them in conflict in the Middle East, even though Americans and the elites overwhelmingly say in polls that our support for Israel actually hurts our relationships with other countries.
00:44:33.000So, you know, you have all this unconditional support, but hey, you know, maybe she's attacking this and she really does have bad intentions.
00:44:40.000Well, let me just lay out a couple of facts for you.
00:45:01.000Maybe if you read a lot of conservative media, you might be interested to find out that the editor-in-chief of Breitbart, Andrew Pollack, was a keynote speaker there last year at AIPAC.
00:45:12.000You know, also a strong Zionist, so that's a bright part.
00:45:15.000You may know that The Daily Wire, another strong conservative publication run by Ben Shapiro, hardcore Jewish Zionist.
00:45:22.000CRTV, another huge online media outlet run by Mark Levin, or in tandem with Mark Levin.
00:45:28.000Hardcore Jewish Zionist, Rupert Murdoch and his sons.
00:45:32.000Now, they're not Jewish, but they are hardcore Zionists.
00:45:35.000They receive big money from those kinds of people.
00:45:37.000So, you know, maybe you would be forgiven if you haven't heard about this before, but AIPAC does this big conference every year, every year,
00:46:06.000They included Democratic leader, the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, Senate Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer, Republican Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, and Marco Rubio.
00:46:20.000So again, the speakers at the conference, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, so they're the two heads of the Democrat chambers in the House of Representatives and the Senate, and you've got Mitch McConnell,
00:46:32.000The Senate Majority Leader, and you've got Marco Rubio, who's a big deal in the Senate, and you've also got Nikki Haley.
00:46:37.000The year prior to that you had Mike Pence.
00:46:39.000So you've got two-thirds of Congress every year going to AIPAC, which again AIPAC is a foreign influence lobby.
00:46:45.000Their job, their stated mission, is to organize money, political campaign contributions, on behalf of Israel.
00:46:52.000A lot of it is done through money laundering.
00:46:53.000Now some of it is, most of it is done through American Jewry who raise the money themselves, but historically there is a role for the Israeli government.
00:47:00.000So, two-thirds of Congress, the leaders of both major parties speaking at an event that is lobbying on behalf of a foreign government, okay?
00:47:08.000Just last week, the Senate passed the Combating BDS Act, which was sponsored by APEC.
00:47:17.000We can't get 60 Senators to vote for Kate's Law.
00:47:21.000We can't get 60 Senators to vote for a border wall, to agree to reopen the government given some reasonable border security compromise.
00:47:29.000But in the midst of all that controversy, in the past three weeks, they were able to push out a bill, the Combating BDS Act, with 77 votes.
00:47:38.000Well, that's a pretty substantial supermajority, to make it illegal for, again, and I talked about this at the top of the show, to make it illegal for companies that have contracts with the U.S.
00:47:51.000You've got two-thirds of Congress, both of the heads of the major parties speaking there, and they're passing legislation with supermajorities passed by this
00:49:04.000Obviously it's not the case that their influence is not limited by the scope of the three or four million dollars in expenditures that a lot of these people are talking about.
00:49:12.000If that were the case, do you think you would have two-thirds of Congress showing up to their conference?
00:49:17.000Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, Mark Rubio, all these people showing up to the conference for a paltry four million dollars?
00:49:28.000For example, they not only have all these other PACs that give money, they also have these specialized organizations.
00:49:34.000For example, in that tweet that I read out earlier by the Republican Jewish Caucus leader saying, Oh, Leader Hora, you led so many AIPAC trips to Israel.
00:50:14.000They say, oh, it's only 3 to 4 million for AIPAC.
00:50:17.000Well, sure, that's because AIPAC has 30 subsidiaries and all these other specialty organizations, one of which, their budget is 26 million dollars a year.
00:50:26.000It's executive director Richard Fishman is officially, quote, not compensated, but he receives $395,000 annually from affiliates.
00:50:34.000Oh, so, you know, more of these little money-moving tricks.
00:50:37.000Roll Call reports that in 2012 the American Israel Education Foundation spent more than $650,000.
00:50:44.000Have you heard about this with any other country on earth?
00:51:56.000So that's the American Israel Education Foundation where they're sending people there for this brainwashing trip about what's happening there.
00:52:02.000The ADL also happens to be a subsidiary of AIPAC.
00:52:08.000This is again from the same website, quote, it has also been involved in a large spying operation against American citizens who oppose the policies of Israel and the apartheid regime in South Africa.
00:52:18.000It is an architect of, quote, hate crimes legislation that may effectively criminalize criticism of Israeli policies, which they did with that bill last week criminalizing support for BDS.
00:52:30.000The ADL is a member of the Council of Presidents, which is sort of like this board of executives of people who are in all these different subsidiaries, with revenues of around $60 million and assets of over $115 million.
00:52:42.000Abe Foxman, its national director, makes $688,280 per year.
00:53:07.000Yeah, you know, that's totally legitimate.
00:53:09.000And the ADL, which again is responsible for criminalizing and launching all these attacks, branding every criticism of the country as anti-semitic.
00:53:17.000To me, my favorite piece of evidence, however.
00:53:20.000My favorite thing in the world, because this is just so insulting to Americans.
00:53:26.000I don't know, again, how many people were aware of this, because it sort of just got memory hold.
00:53:30.000Nobody talks about this anymore, but to me it sort of stuck out as somebody who believes in America first.
00:54:37.000Standing up and applauding every minute on the minute the head of state of a foreign country.
00:54:43.000By the way, a head of state of a foreign country which dragged us into not one, not two, but probably three, if you're willing to be generous, three foreign wars which we had no business in.
00:54:53.000Which is taking money with both hands every year.
00:54:57.0003.8 million dollars and done in the most shady accounting practices so that they get the most out of it.
00:56:43.000Our congresspeople go to AIPAC and all the rest.
00:56:45.000You think they do that just because they're being really good stewards?
00:56:48.000They're being really good representatives of what the American people are all about?
00:56:51.000Which is, man, you know, we could care less about the border, but as long as we're giving the due respect and support to the closest ally, to Israel, do you think that's the reason?
00:57:01.000Or do you think there's something else going on?
00:57:06.000And of course, to me, the most insulting thing of all is the Republican double standard.
00:57:11.000Which is, maybe we expect this from the left, because the left is controlled by lobbies and so on.
00:57:16.000You know, and it's funny too, because whenever I talk about Jewish power on the show, invariably, I always get, and it's so rich, the chutzpah, I always get some Jewish guy who will comment on the video or DM me or email me and say, Nick, I demand that you differentiate between those left-wing Jews and us right-wing Jews who are patriots.
00:57:38.000I mean, it's different flavors, but it's sort of the same thing, right?
00:57:41.000I mean, on the left-wing side, you've got people that are advocating and agitating for liberalism, mass immigration, abortion.
00:57:49.000That's your left-wing Jewry, so they're advocating for Jewish interests in that way.
00:57:53.000And on the right-wing side, yeah, sure, I guess they're a little bit more conservative, but they're buying and selling our Congress, putting us in foreign wars.
00:58:07.000So I find it pretty rich that they'll talk about this kind of stuff on the left, but on the right, they're so quick with this Ilhan Omar to say, oh, it's anti-Semitic, we disavow this hatred, and so on.
00:58:17.000When have you ever heard a congressperson?
00:58:47.000The one thing I care about is being accused of being un-American or anti-American.
00:58:51.000To me, that's my focus at the end of the day.
00:58:53.000But in Congress, that seems to not be the focus.
00:58:56.000It seems to be much more egregious to be anti-Semitic or racist or sexist or homophobic than it is to betray your own country, to betray the people you represent, to betray the people that founded the country.
00:59:15.000But I guess what adds insult to injury is that you see that within 24 hours, these people are out there, they're condemning the left harder than they've ever done it before, more forcefully than you've ever seen.
00:59:27.000Pundits, politicians, when have you seen somebody like Marco Rubio come at the left with such a heavy-handed criticism?
00:59:33.000Oh, it's just like the protocols of Elders of Zion.
00:59:36.000Do they speak out when they're taking down our monuments?
01:00:15.000This is probably my favorite one of the whole evening.
01:00:19.000So, Ilhan Omar, she retweeted this tweet by Adam Jentleson, which said, So we're going to pretend Sheldon Adelson doesn't exist and that Kevin McCarthy is trying to punish Ilhan Omar out of sincere commitment to the well-being of us Jews?
01:02:14.000It was to condemn her for being anti-semitic.
01:02:18.000Oh, she's so anti-semitic and she's subversive and she's un-American.
01:02:23.000To me the scandal is not that somebody offended Jews or Israel.
01:02:26.000The scandal is that our government is being bought and paid for.
01:02:28.000You have 4,000 dead Americans in Iraq because of this.
01:02:32.000But people are still willing to keep up with the lie, even when they get an opportunity to do the right thing.
01:02:38.000Even when they get cover, even when there is a big opportunity to do the right thing, talk about what's going on, they cower and they rush to the defense of people that are wrecking the country.
01:03:12.000If so, what is your taking must read for all knickers?
01:03:15.000No, I haven't read that one So I can't give you a take but you reminded me I was gonna share this speaking of books Speaking of books that you should read forget protocols forget all that other stuff pick yourself up a copy of the Israel Lobby if you think I'm making this up
01:03:32.000If you think I'm just some hater, if you think I'm some nasty guy.
01:05:14.000And the book is actually surprisingly moderate.
01:05:17.000You know, it lays out what should be considered anti-Semitic and why it doesn't qualify as that and so on.
01:05:25.000Talks about the Iraq war, talks about the structure of the Israel lobby in a way that I can't get into just for the sake of time on my show given the format that we're here talking about Iran, talking about a lot of other things.
01:06:12.000Be a part of the solution, not a part of the problem, right?
01:06:15.000Be a part of the group of people that is trying to get this foreign influence out of our government.
01:06:20.000You know, you see that this foreign influence lobby is weakened and people are like, oh, we have to rush to the defense because they're still holding on to power.
01:07:02.000I don't really have a strong opinion on that kind of stuff.
01:07:05.000I'm generally skeptical of that kind of technology.
01:07:08.000You know, the other day I was watching a YouTube video and I was in bed.
01:07:13.000And I realized like there's a camera just staring back at you and people tend to forget that because it's sort of uh it's sort of discreet you know maybe that's that way by design but imagine if it was like a big bulbous like a kind of camera that you would see in a store you know like those big orbs staring back at you all the time every time you're on your phone and uh you know in that moment I was like this is a little bit
01:07:39.000So, the proliferation of technology, the ubiquity of technology, I'm generally skeptical, I'm generally opposed, but I don't know, I mean, by the same token, there are some benefits.
01:07:51.000It just, there has to be regulation, right?
01:08:25.000I get that perspective, but you gotta just lighten up and enjoy.
01:08:29.000I saw a lot of people, you know, I was tweeting the other day, and again it was just a joke, that, you know, Trump sort of insinuated that he was making a joke about the Trail of Tears when he was slamming Elizabeth Warren, and I said, oh, you know, just when I think Trump is disappointing me, he makes a joke about the Trail of Tears.
01:08:45.000And it was just a tongue-in-cheek, you just have to sort of laugh sometimes, and I get all these butthurt people, that would be really funny, but
01:08:55.000What is you just build the wall like I don't know can people just lighten up from time to time we have to have a little bit of levity we have to be a little bit human about something so yeah I look you watch the show you've seen the show for the past couple of weeks I haven't exactly been ecstatic about what's been going on right I mean so I know I have this reputation as I will rationalize everything but you've seen the show ever since the midterms it's been a totally different tone and I've explained why that's the case
01:09:22.000But when it's on Twitter, you see a joke.
01:09:24.000I mean, I don't know at a certain point You got to realize we're up against big forces and the guy in the White House is just clowning around to me That's that's the funny part is all these people.
01:09:35.000Oh, you know, they're so serious and blah blah He's Hitler and you got this guy just firing off tweets at 5 a.m.
01:09:55.000Matt Forney, my guy, says DJ Audit the Fed won Terror House Magazine's January Best of the Month Award for his short story, Japanese GF, and he's asked me to donate his prize money to you, Nick.
01:10:08.000Enjoy a couple of Big Macs on me, Big Guy, and read DJ's story.
01:10:26.000Maybe I'll get a couple of bacon this time.
01:10:29.000Based One says, I think you missed my older chat, but I wanted to ask you what are the chances we get a Teddy Roosevelt type of president that will go after big tech and put a stop to cronyism?
01:12:27.000I think they sort of happen, you know, and maybe that sounds a little bit Maybe that sounds Sort of silly but I think you understand what I mean in the sense that you look at a lot of great historical events like Collapses for example like the Soviet Union I don't think people knew the day before the Soviet Union collapsed that like within a week the the Soviet Union wouldn't exist anymore, right?
01:12:49.000I mean it just it happened very slowly and then very quickly is what they say about that kind of thing and
01:12:54.000So with regard to that, it's sort of like the same thing with Donald Trump.
01:12:58.000I mean, would anybody have predicted in 2014 that when Obama was sort of this lame duck president and sad and obviously there was this appetite for Republican revanchism, did anybody believe that it would come in the form of Donald Trump and he would
01:13:13.000When the election on a platform of non-intervention and I'm gonna take care of everybody and we're gonna build a wall on the southern border?
01:14:58.000He's obviously protected by God, but, you know, he's going to Iran to talk about all this stuff, and I'm like, bro, please, please, just, just, you know, make it easier for me.
01:15:12.000I hope God protects me also, because I'm in the fight of my life here.
01:15:17.000BasedWants says, since coming over to the right, I've heard many justifiable criticism about black people.
01:15:22.000I've come to accept race and IQ as being legitimate, but these neocons won't even let you say a word about Israel or else you are anti-Semitic.
01:15:46.000There was never a moment where I said, hey, I don't like these people anymore.
01:15:50.000I grew up in a 90-some percent white...
01:15:55.000Suburb, but you can ask anybody grew up with me.
01:15:58.000My first best friend in kindergarten was black, you know, we remained friends for years My my other were actually my first best friend was actually a Muslim Palestinian Still friends to this day the next best friend I was a black guy, you know, and so on and so forth I had a lot of different friends and I know that's sort of a corny thing but
01:16:16.000What I mean to say by that is, obviously, if you're able to, at that level, be friends with somebody of another race, these kinds of views that I'm espousing, they don't come from this, like, weird place, like, oh, like, my family was hateful or I was bred with hate or something.
01:16:38.000My parents are two normal boomers, you know, and they're about as liberal as, you know, conservative boomers come on these kinds of things.
01:16:46.000You know, and I had friends who were of different races, and even up until very recently I was a libertarian.
01:16:50.000But then I started and noticed in like 2016, 2017, hey, there's some very pertinent facts which explain what's going on in the country, what problems are happening.
01:17:36.000But every time I think about it, I think, well, but what is the alternative?
01:17:40.000The alternative is if you say nothing, if you do nothing, and it is incumbent on us, each of us, to act.
01:17:46.000We have very, very bad things in our future.
01:17:49.000When you understand and you have a clear view, you have the courage of your convictions to say, here are the facts, here is what is inevitable, and it's terrible, and you have that clarity of vision, then you understand that there's no choice.
01:19:41.000And especially since their nation state law, which says the Jews get special privileges in Israel.
01:19:45.000Of course, their conception of national identity is based on ethnicity.
01:19:50.000Jewish is an ethnicity, not just a religion.
01:19:52.000What else would a secular Jew be but an ethnic Jew, right?
01:19:56.000And so somebody asked him, well, how could you support Israel, which has this ethnic nationalism, but you say that white nationalism is wrong?
01:20:03.000How can you support Jewish ethnic nationalism, but not white ethnic nationalism?
01:20:08.000And Shapiro said, oh no, no, no, you have it all wrong, actually.
01:20:52.000That is such a lie, and he knows that.
01:20:55.000Somebody asked him about the USS Liberty, which is, again, when Israel blew up our ship, and then they sent torpedo boats to finish the job, and it was reported by everybody on board the ship, and all kinds of people, the CIA director, the Secretary of State, I mean, people of the highest level said, oh yeah, that was Israel, they did that deliberately.
01:21:14.000This was during the 67 war, it was an intelligence ship off the coast of...
01:21:20.000I think Egypt or Israel and basically what Israel is doing is they were genociding Egyptians Because they had to move their forces up north to combat people in Lebanon And I think it was Lebanon people that were coming through from Lebanon, so they were ethnically cleansing all these Egyptians They were just like killing POWs so that they could expedite the transfer of their troops up north to fight other people and
01:21:45.000intelligence ship, which was right off the coast, they would have seen this whole operation.
01:21:48.000So Israel, in order to sort of sweep that under the rug, they blew up the intelligence ship so they would be incapable of detecting what was going on.
01:21:56.000And then they said, oh, we didn't know.
01:21:58.000Oh, we thought that was an Egyptian ship.
01:22:00.000But everybody will tell you that the USS Liberty looked nothing like any Egyptian ship which was in service at the time.
01:22:07.000The USS Liberty was flying a massive American flag.
01:22:10.000They were radioing to the Israeli fighter jets.
01:22:13.000This is an American vessel, blah blah blah.
01:22:15.000Even after they should have been able to see it, they sent torpedo boats to go in and finish the job.
01:22:20.000Everybody who survived attests to this.
01:22:22.000And again, you got people in the government.
01:22:23.000And so, somebody asked Ben Shapiro about this.
01:22:26.000What do you think of, like, the USS Liberty?
01:22:29.000And Shapiro said, oh, well, the government says that it was an accident.
01:22:35.000So when the government says the climate change is happening, when the government says, oh, Russia meddled in the election, and blah, blah, blah, all this other stuff, well, then we have to look at facts and logic.
01:22:46.000But hey, if the government absolves Israel of all wrongdoing, hey, who am I to judge, right?
01:22:59.000Nick's PayPig says, Hey Nick, don't know if you've gone into this before or even aware of it, but what are your thoughts on the ideas of PleasureMan on MyPostingCareer.com, i.e.
01:23:10.000that scale is a driving force behind Clown World.
01:23:23.000It was recommended to me by a good friend.
01:23:26.000And I I just sort of lurked there I didn't really want to make a post because the whole community is like if you make bad posts We're gonna shame you and kick you off the websites.
01:23:34.000I was like, oh I better not post But I was on there and I sort of lurked for a while.
01:23:39.000I kind of got off of it I think I got rid of it from my bookmarks or something So I forgot to check it and then I checked back in recently and they're like Oh, you have to pay like 20 bucks to pick up the big 20 bucks to read our post now I was like, I'm not paying 20 bucks for this
01:23:53.000So, uh, but yeah, I'm familiar with him.
01:23:57.000I read a few of his articles on, like, culture of critique and managerialism and other things like that, but I haven't read the one about scale.
01:24:47.000They know that, you know, they work with a lot of Jewish people, and if they want to have a career in politics and the media, they have to be friendly with the Zionists.
01:25:03.000I mean, their whole shtick is, oh, we're American, we love America, blah blah blah.
01:25:07.000Well, I mean, even if you believe in America as a creedal identity and you're on your knees for Israel, like, what is even worth preserving there?
01:25:32.000So I guess the last question is unironic.
01:25:35.000The idea is basically that people have gotten so far away from, and I don't know if I'm doing this justice, it's been a long time since I read Industrial Society, but
01:26:02.000I mean, we are so derivative from what our original situation was, in the sense that, you know, mankind evolved in a primitive atmosphere, you know, where we had to fight predators, and there was threats, there was animals, and other tribes, and, you know, we had, even up until very recently, when we were farmers, like 200 years ago, we were on, you know, still hadn't hit the Industrial Revolution yet.
01:26:27.000We had to work every day and everything.
01:26:30.000Because society's become sort of so, I don't know what the word would be, but everything's so developed and we're so sheltered, basically, we've become over socialized to the point where we don't really know how to be in touch with these more primordial natures.
01:26:46.000You know, you look at people who are raised from cradle to grave in a situation where they don't really face stress, they don't really face any kind of real threats or anything like that, and that breeds a lot of like anti-human tendencies.
01:27:34.000You're just sort of, you know, this sort of useless cog in the machine.
01:27:38.000And this makes you, this leads to depression, this leads to anxiety, this leads to neuroticism.
01:27:43.000You see there's a lot of high schoolers
01:27:44.000Who are a little bit more affluent these days, who always complain about, oh, I'm anxious, I'm depressed, I'm sad, I'm whatever, all the time.
01:27:50.000Well, that's because their whole lives is just like completing menial tasks.
01:27:54.000Their whole lives is just sort of, you know, doing that kind of thing.
01:27:58.000I don't know if that does him total justice.
01:27:59.000I'm sure people in the comments, no, no, that's not actually what he meant.
01:28:03.000But as far as I can remember, that was the point being made there.
01:28:07.000King of All Trades says, or I'm sorry, I read that one already.
01:28:11.000Bicyclops says, did the Confederate States of America do anything wrong besides losing the war?
01:29:09.000Chicago, New York City, Boston, all these great cities are better than what you have going on down in the South.
01:29:17.000I remember I went to the South one time and I went to a restaurant.
01:29:21.000And I paid money for something called nachos and it was a bag of Doritos with like shredded cheddar melted onto it in the microwave.
01:29:30.000I paid money for that at a restaurant and they called it nachos.
01:29:34.000This, uh, this black woman literally opened a bag of Doritos, poured into a little tray, sprinkled shredded store-bought cheese on it, popped in the microwave.
01:29:57.000Okay, all these Southern people, every time I talk about that, they want to come around, smack me around, they want to put on their cowboy hats and their 10-gallon boots.
01:30:06.000Hey, I hear you've been talking trash about the South.
01:30:09.000I'm gonna run you over in my pickup truck.
01:31:30.000This is the kind of content that only the irony bros can create.
01:31:34.000Northwest, you know, if you want fast wave, like, red in the face, autistic screeching about, you know, whatever, then you can watch the other stuff.
01:31:43.000Northwest says my cousin uh something okay really and i are gen x knickers we love you like a jew love subversion hey i disavow what a nasty thing to say thanks for all the content and much love from your russian orthodox knickers hey thanks bro
01:34:42.000David Sperner says, Hey, what's the name of the book about the Jews?
01:34:44.000Oh, well, you know, the title is just The Jews, but...
01:34:58.000You know, Belloq is a Catholic, and actually, people would be surprised, because you read that book and there's a whole chapter about why anti-Semitism is wrong.
01:35:07.000The whole book is about this historical conflict between Jews and Christians, but there's a whole chapter saying, well, here's what we're not.
01:35:15.000We're not saying, well, they're all bad, or they're all evil, or, you know, there is this global, you know, he's acknowledging the limits of, you know, what he's describing in the book, the limits of the explanatory power of this conflict.
01:35:46.000Uh, to exaggerate, to be hyperbolic, to say something so preposterous that it's almost cartoonish, and then delegitimizes what you're saying.
01:35:54.000So Belloc lays that out pretty nicely.
01:35:57.000Mr. Johnson says, now you can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay, or you can call me Junior, um, but don't call me, but you doesn't have to call me Johnson.
01:36:58.000In some sense, they do, but in another sense, I mean, what they care about at the end of the day is the money, and the money for Israel, that is.
01:37:07.000And, you know, Ilhan Omar, people like that will always be the exception, in my opinion, because you have the Christian Zionists, unfortunately.
01:37:15.000They've got the Vatican in their pocket.
01:37:17.000They've got the Protestants and Evangelicals in their pocket.
01:37:28.000And anyway, the liberal Jewish people, they love the open borders, so I don't think the right-wing people ever overpower them for the domestic interests of the country.
01:38:58.000God's Plan, what are your thoughts on Dr. EMJ saying Europeans were converted to whites and sent to suburbs to destroy their identity after World War II?
01:40:23.000We got a lot of comedians on the show tonight, man!
01:40:26.000We got a lot of comedians on the show.
01:40:29.000I gotta start taking interviews for, you know, comedians to be on my network.
01:40:34.000That man says, isn't it kind of funny how Jews can become citizens of all Western countries, but we're not allowed to become citizens of Israel?
01:42:35.000You can read a lot about this in Who Are We by Sam Huntington.
01:42:38.000He goes into pretty great detail about what the civic nationalist conception is, what the creedal identity is, but generally the agreed upon principles are pluralism of both the political and religious variety, equality, some degree of liberty, you know, equality before the law, obviously, this sort of Anglo-Saxon tradition of law, that kind of thing.
01:43:01.000So, independence, self-reliance, individualism, free enterprise, this is generally the accepted agreement of the American Creed.
01:43:10.000Some of the other things have been a little bit more fungible, like the Second Amendment and the First Amendment, but those are, I guess, generally the agreed-upon principles.
01:43:18.000But it's not enough, because, of course, the people coming here don't believe in any of that.
01:44:13.000Really Good Comics says, question if there was a guy who froze a homeless man and kicked him, shattering him in pieces, but he also helped a couple get their car out of a ditch.
01:44:25.000I would say hero based one says white Christians Have the Steve Urkel complex with Israel no matter how much Steve professed his love for Laura Winslow Time and time again.
01:46:12.000But I think it's pretty clear in the Bible that there is difference.
01:46:16.000Even in the Cain and Abel story, this could be interpreted on a tribal level.
01:46:20.000You know, you've even got these tribal differences from the beginning.
01:46:23.000You know, what was the first act in the book of Leviticus?
01:46:27.000You know, God ordered one tribe to kill everybody else, so...
01:46:33.000You know, there's a very strong theme throughout the Bible of nationalism, of ethnic groups, of tribes.
01:46:39.000I mean, that's, the whole book of Genesis is about tribes, you know, going out, a nation going out and being fruitful and multiplying and all the rest.
01:46:49.000So, I don't think that you need to combine that.
01:47:26.000Because even though the Democrat, like, they're the real racist line, even though it's obviously not true, it's rhetorically helpful.
01:47:33.000And, uh, you know, you just want to use as many arguments as possible against the left.
01:47:37.000And so if, hey, if enough people believe that Democrats are racist and don't vote for them, or they think, you know, Nazis are actually leftists, hey, uh, if that wins us votes, then great, then that's a good thing.