America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - TREASON??? DeSantis Schemes With Billionaires To OVERTHROW Trump | America First Ep. 1061TREASON??? DeSantis Schemes With Billionaires To OVERTHROW Trump | America First Ep. 1061

00:01:35.000 Good evening everybody.

00:01:36.000 You are watching America First.

00:01:38.000 My name is Nicholas J. Fuentes.

00:01:40.000 We have a great show for you tonight.

00:01:42.000 Very excited to be back with you here tonight on Wednesday.

00:01:46.000 We have a lot to talk about tonight.

00:01:48.000 Lots to get into.

00:01:50.000 Big show.

00:01:53.000 Big show.

00:01:54.000 Featured story tonight is about Ron DeSantis and his scheme.

00:02:00.000 His scheme and his evil plot.

00:02:04.000 To overthrow our rightful President Trump in the 2024 Republican primary.

00:02:11.000 And we touched on this a little bit last night.

00:02:13.000 We talked about the DOJ probe into Donald Trump's Save America PAC.

00:02:21.000 That's the $100 million slush fund that Trump has been building since 2020 to use in the next election.

00:02:29.000 And we touched on this a little bit talking about the dynamic and how that's going to play out with Ron DeSantis, who alternatively has a war chest bigger than Donald Trump's.

00:02:42.000 Donald Trump's pack has $100 million and Ron DeSantis has $175 million.

00:02:46.000 It's almost twice as much.

00:02:53.000 And tonight I want to talk a little bit more about that.

00:02:56.000 It looks like the donors, the typical billionaire, conventional GOP donors are now rallying behind Ron DeSantis.

00:03:07.000 There was a new poll this week also that has Ron DeSantis creeping up and surging behind Trump in the polling.

00:03:16.000 It shows Trump with 48% and I believe Ron DeSantis is in the 30s, although I don't remember exactly.

00:03:24.000 And it looks like there may be a real competition next year for who's going to be the nominee.

00:03:30.000 And the big question is, if Trump runs, does DeSantis challenge him anyway?

00:03:37.000 That's really the big question.

00:03:40.000 And of course the question is complicated by the fact that whether or not Trump runs is subject to all kinds of variables right now.

00:03:50.000 All sorts of confounding variables.

00:03:53.000 Such as, as an example, that the Department of Justice may preclude him from running by charging him, convicting him, and sentencing him for some ridiculous thing like with regard to the National Archives.

00:04:08.000 So it's shaping up to be a very complicated picture next year, although it looks to be very familiar.

00:04:14.000 It's the same story in 2016, it's the same story in 2020, and it looks like it'll be the same story in 2024, and that is that the establishment, which controls both sides, will once again work together to screw over Donald Trump.

00:04:31.000 Although, in the past eight years, the establishment has gotten a lot more sophisticated.

00:04:37.000 And so eight years ago they tried to knock him out by rigging the debates and rigging the primary and so on and that didn't work.

00:04:44.000 And in 2020 they rigged the entire election with mail-in ballots and they got him out and the Republicans, I think, made a compromise with the incoming Biden administration to stand down and not help Trump overturn the election results.

00:05:01.000 Well here we are heading into 2024 and there's really not any good reason why Trump shouldn't win.

00:05:07.000 He's the most popular politician in the country.

00:05:11.000 Inflation is 8% in case you missed that.

00:05:15.000 Gas prices on average are $4-$5 a gallon variously throughout the year.

00:05:21.000 And there's no other Republican in America who even comes close to Donald Trump's name ID and favorability.

00:05:31.000 So all those things taken together, there's a very good chance, not just an average chance, but a better than average chance that Donald Trump becomes the president.

00:05:41.000 There's almost a certainty that he should be the nominee, and there's a very good chance, then a likely chance, that he'll be the president.

00:05:48.000 But just like over the past eight years and the last two elections, it looks like other forces will intervene.

00:05:56.000 And that comes in the form of the full force of the federal government headed by the political partisan opposition, Joe Biden, as well as an effort on the right to capitalize on that.

00:06:07.000 And for all of Trump's opponents in the party, Mitch McConnell, Ronna McDaniel, and others,

00:06:15.000 Just like they did in 2020, accede to the Biden administration's weaponization of the Justice Department against Trump and capitalize on that by giving us the safe alternative.

00:06:27.000 The safe, reasonable, not offensive alternative to Donald Trump, which would come in the form of DeSantis.

00:06:34.000 So we'll talk about that tonight.

00:06:35.000 We'll also be talking about this war which is breaking out.

00:06:38.000 There's now two wars going on.

00:06:41.000 Two major wars.

00:06:43.000 And we've been covering the war in Ukraine.

00:06:46.000 I think we talked about that last week.

00:06:50.000 And now there's a new war brewing in the Caucasus on Russia's border.

00:06:55.000 And this war is between Azerbaijan and Armenia.

00:07:00.000 It's a very complicated situation.

00:07:02.000 These are two Caucasus countries, so they're between the Black Sea, I believe, right?

00:07:09.000 The Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.

00:07:11.000 Black Sea on the west, Caspian Sea on the east, south of Russia, north of Iran.

00:07:18.000 Armenia is an Orthodox Christian country, one of the oldest Christian communities in the world.

00:07:24.000 Azerbaijan is a Muslim country.

00:07:29.000 And they have been at war with each other for a long time, going back to the 1980s over border disputes, particularly a region called Nagorno-Karabakh, which is a mountainous region governed by ethnic Armenians, but controlled and technically under the jurisdiction of the Azeris.

00:07:46.000 And so once again, there's border disputes, although, and I pointed this out yesterday, it raises some questions about why exactly now are tensions flaring up.

00:07:56.000 There was a recent conflict two years ago between Azerbaijan and Armenia and it was decisively won by Azerbaijan because of the use of drones which they purchased from Turkey.

00:08:07.000 But now all of a sudden, conveniently, they're once again engaged in hostilities.

00:08:14.000 It looks like Azerbaijan is preparing to mount an invasion of Armenia based on their censorship of social media this week.

00:08:21.000 And this, of course, would have drastic implications for Russia, which sits to the north.

00:08:28.000 And Russia is obligated by a treaty very similar to NATO to defend Armenia in the event that they are attacked.

00:08:39.000 And I say the timing is convenient because just when

00:08:42.000 It appears that Ukraine has been able to launch a successful counter-offensive with additional help from the US intelligence agencies.

00:08:52.000 And just when the European Union and the European community are working out a way that they're going to demand Russia increase the supply of natural gas to Europe before the winter hits,

00:09:07.000 In other words, just as it appears that the Ukraine war has gone on a little bit too long for the West and it's getting inconvenient economically, now all of a sudden it appears that another front has broken out in the war on Russia's southern border.

00:09:24.000 And they've already...they have exhausted...Russia and the Russian state has exhausted what they can do without fully mobilizing their population and economy for a war.

00:09:35.000 They've got a couple hundred thousand troops in Ukraine.

00:09:38.000 They have not implemented a draft or anything like that.

00:09:41.000 They have not fully mobilized the country for a war, which is, some people argue, what would be necessary to win.

00:09:49.000 Well, they certainly are at capacity already.

00:09:52.000 They've got their hands full.

00:09:53.000 They can't now go into the Caucasus and fight another war.

00:09:57.000 So that's why the timing is interesting.

00:10:00.000 So we'll talk about that too.

00:10:01.000 Should be a pretty good show.

00:10:03.000 Before it's actually a very slow time, but you know we're finding things to talk about it's actually a very slow time And I'm hoping that things will pick up soon.

00:10:14.000 I mean the midterms are in like what six weeks

00:10:18.000 What the heck man?

00:10:19.000 Where's the action?

00:10:20.000 Where's the news?

00:10:21.000 And it's always this way.

00:10:22.000 The midterms were totally boring in 2018 as well.

00:10:26.000 I thought the midterms were going to be so hot in 2018.

00:10:28.000 I had a whole podcast called 2018 Election Headquarters.

00:10:34.000 And I had a podcast and we went over all the swing states.

00:10:37.000 And I actually remember a lot of them very well because I went over week over week and I covered all the races.

00:10:45.000 And I remember thinking like my show is gonna blow the F up I cuz I thought you know I missed the initial wave in 2016 My show launched after the inauguration in 2017 so I missed that whole wave when all these Creators got really popular in 2016 because of the election because all eyes were on the election really for like a year and a half from the time the primary started in the middle of 15 until

00:11:13.000 The inauguration in 17 and so I thought okay this is what I was made for 2018 going all out my show is gonna blow the freak up like you've never seen and nobody cared nobody cared nobody listened to that show the 2018 election headquarters and it was a boring

00:11:34.000 Totally boring year.

00:11:36.000 I hardly remember anything.

00:11:39.000 2018 is just like vaporized from my memory.

00:11:42.000 I hardly remember anything.

00:11:44.000 Well, I shouldn't say that.

00:11:45.000 I remember extremely well all the news, but in terms of like my career, I hardly remember anything.

00:11:54.000 I remember Trump getting inaugurated.

00:11:56.000 I remember the initial saber-rattling with North Korea.

00:12:00.000 I remember the North Korean summit in June.

00:12:03.000 I remember the caravans, one in the spring and one in the fall, before the midterms.

00:12:12.000 I remember that Trump introduced his border wall plan in January.

00:12:16.000 There was talk about DACA.

00:12:19.000 And the DACA immigrants being given amnesty and being legalized.

00:12:25.000 I remember a lot of the news, but the other stuff I don't remember so well. 0.96

00:12:30.000 So these years suck! 0.99

00:12:31.000 The midterm years suck! 0.99

00:12:34.000 Can I just fall asleep and wake up and it's 23 and Trump has been announced and it's a civil war? 1.00

00:12:42.000 Can I just wake me up when this dumbass year is over? 0.99

00:12:46.000 I have had it. 0.99

00:12:47.000 I am sick of this gay year where nothing has happened, there is no news, nothing interesting. 1.00

00:12:56.000 There was this very promising war in Russia, and then nothing else happened. 0.59

00:13:04.000 So I'm getting a little bit anxious.

00:13:06.000 I'm getting a little bit antsy.

00:13:08.000 Can this guy just announce already?

00:13:11.000 Well, we hear it's coming in January.

00:13:14.000 So you don't have to wait too long, but it's still a few more months of digging deep.

00:13:18.000 I gotta dig deep.

00:13:19.000 I'm on Revolver.

00:13:20.000 I'm in the trenches on Revolver.

00:13:22.000 The infinite scroll.

00:13:24.000 You don't want to be there.

00:13:25.000 I like Revolver, but, you know, today there was an article and, uh, what was it?

00:13:30.000 It's like, cause even Revolver, they're tapped too.

00:13:33.000 They're like, I'm sure they're over there like, where's the news?

00:13:38.000 Let's see, what was it that I saw that was kind of funny?

00:13:40.000 And I'm hungry!

00:13:42.000 Oh, and I'm hungry too, so I'm in a horrible, I'm in a foul mood because I am starving.

00:13:48.000 I haven't eaten since this morning.

00:13:51.000 I can't find it, but there was some story on Revolver today and I clicked on it and I was like, why is this here?

00:13:59.000 Anyway, so it's a little bit of a slow news day, but important stuff nevertheless.

00:14:06.000 Before we get into all that, I want to remind you to follow me here on Cozy.

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00:14:21.000 Not too much going on in my life.

00:14:23.000 I just did some paperwork today.

00:14:25.000 Boring stuff.

00:14:27.000 I got Chick-fil-A.

00:14:29.000 You know, I'm like, lately I've been trying to convince myself that it is in fact healthy to eat McDonald's all the time because I've never eaten as much McDonald's as I've been eating lately.

00:14:41.000 And you know, you can read whatever you want to read into that fact or admission, okay?

00:14:47.000 You can read into that whatever you'd like, whatever floats your boat.

00:14:51.000 But I've been eating a lot of McDonald's lately.

00:14:55.000 I guess I just keep getting tricked.

00:14:57.000 It's... You know what it is?

00:14:59.000 You start to think about McDonald's as a concept and you sort of fall in love.

00:15:04.000 Because as a concept it really is attractive.

00:15:06.000 The food is pretty good, but it's really it's the concept.

00:15:10.000 It's the marketing.

00:15:11.000 It gets to you.

00:15:12.000 It's the propaganda.

00:15:15.000 And anyway, we don't need to explore that any further.

00:15:20.000 But, you know, lately I've been trying to convince myself because I just have a taste for it lately.

00:15:25.000 Like, you know, I can eat McDonald's every day.

00:15:27.000 It's healthy.

00:15:28.000 It's protein.

00:15:29.000 Getting a quarter pounder.

00:15:30.000 That's beef.

00:15:31.000 That's protein, okay?

00:15:33.000 That's beef.

00:15:34.000 That's vitamins.

00:15:35.000 That's minerals.

00:15:35.000 That's everything you need right there.

00:15:39.000 But today I said, you know what?

00:15:42.000 That's not right.

00:15:42.000 That's not good for you.

00:15:44.000 That's not good.

00:15:45.000 I'm drinking a big Coke with it.

00:15:47.000 I'm eating the fries.

00:15:48.000 That's not good for you.

00:15:49.000 There's a case that can be made that the hamburger is healthy, I think.

00:15:54.000 I think there is a case that the hamburger is not that bad for you.

00:15:58.000 But the fries, the drink, that's really where things start to go off the rails.

00:16:04.000 So I said, I'll get a Chick-fil-A, which is a little bit healthier.

00:16:08.000 It's cooked in peanut oil.

00:16:11.000 And it appears healthier.

00:16:15.000 My impression, and by appearances, it appears healthy.

00:16:19.000 It gives the impression of health.

00:16:21.000 And I ordered a side salad with it.

00:16:23.000 I got the kale side salad, fries as well, naturally, and the sandwich.

00:16:30.000 But when all is said and done, I'm just still hungry, and I want a McDonald's, and it's still not even healthy.

00:16:38.000 But these are the tough choices I'm making every day.

00:16:40.000 These are the difficult decisions I wake up and have to make all the time as your leader.

00:16:45.000 As a leader of this thing, of this resistance against the New World Order.

00:16:51.000 So that's my report on my day.

00:16:54.000 A lot of just busy stuff.

00:16:56.000 You know what it is?

00:16:57.000 I got banned from my old bank and I can't tell you... I mean, maybe you understand

00:17:05.000 But it is such a freaking hassle to get banned from a bank because I've had to do this now like five or six times because I'm getting banned from banks for my personal as well as my several business checking accounts.

00:17:19.000 So I've had to actually do this more than the few times I've talked about just with my personal checking.

00:17:26.000 This is the second time a personal account has been closed, I believe.

00:17:33.000 No, I'm sorry.

00:17:34.000 Yeah, it's the second time.

00:17:35.000 It was Bank of America, then it was Inland.

00:17:37.000 I'm on this bank.

00:17:39.000 And for business checking, this is the... I was... I've been banned from three banks.

00:17:46.000 So I think it's a total of five now.

00:17:47.000 I've lost track really, but... Because for business, we were banned from U.S.

00:17:51.000 Bank, we were banned from Chase Bank, and I want to say we were banned from one other.

00:17:56.000 In any case, I've been through this so many times, and it is just such a...

00:18:02.000 Because you know what it is you have to reset all your automatic payments all my bills are on my account and so then you have to go in and you got to go and enter in a hundred different passwords and enter in your account number a hundred different times and some of them it's manual so you got to do a manual verification where it's not enough to just put the info in and they verify it they have to send you test transactions and you and that takes a few days you got to order new checks

00:18:30.000 And you gotta get a new debit card and you gotta reset up all the apps and... So I've just been dealing with a lot of that kind of stuff.

00:18:38.000 It's just a big headache.

00:18:40.000 But... So that's been my week.

00:18:44.000 Okay.

00:18:45.000 With that out of the way, we'll dive into the news here.

00:18:48.000 I thought there was one other thing I wanted to bring up.

00:18:53.000 But I don't think so.

00:18:54.000 So we'll dive right into the news.

00:18:55.000 Our first story is about this Azeri-Armenian War.

00:18:59.000 And like I said, if you're not familiar, the details are really not very important.

00:19:05.000 There are these two countries in the Caucasus in Asia, which is a region south of Russia, north of Iran, so right in the middle there, east of Turkey, east of the Black Sea, west of Central Asia, west of Kazakhstan and all of that.

00:19:23.000 It's this land bridge between, and I believe I said it right before, the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.

00:19:29.000 And they've had these border skirmishes for 40 years.

00:19:33.000 And if you don't know, it's actually somewhat interesting.

00:19:36.000 Armenia is an ancient nation.

00:19:39.000 Armenia has a Christian community there, which I believe is 2,000 years old.

00:19:44.000 Azerbaijan is actually a new creation. 0.98

00:19:47.000 The reason that we have Azerbaijan is because during World War II, the Soviet Union actually invaded Iran.

00:19:55.000 And there was a portion of Iran that they never left in the north, and that was Azerbaijan.

00:20:01.000 And so over time, Azerbaijan was cut off from Iran.

00:20:06.000 Azerbaijan was its own, I believe, communist republic under the Soviet Union.

00:20:11.000 And so when the Soviet Union dissolved, Azerbaijan became its own sovereign country.

00:20:16.000 But really, like all the other countries in the Middle East, it's really an invention of the period of World War in the first half of the 20th century. 0.85

00:20:25.000 Just like Syria, just like Iraq, all these modern nation-states are the product in various ways of colonialism or the war. 0.87

00:20:33.000 And Azerbaijan is one of them. 0.99

00:20:36.000 So it's not even really like a real country, but they've had these border disputes now going back 30-40 years particularly over this one region in the mountains where it's inhabited by Armenians.

00:20:49.000 The people that are running it provincially are Armenians, but it is part of Azerbaijan.

00:20:55.000 It's been going on now for decades.

00:20:57.000 They recently had a war two years ago, which you may remember.

00:21:01.000 I believe we covered it on the show.

00:21:03.000 It was very vicious fighting.

00:21:05.000 And I believe Israel is on the side of Azerbaijan, if I'm not mistaken, which I said it's a little bit complicated because the way that the various regional powers support

00:21:20.000 I don't even, I'm not even, I don't even perfectly understand the geopolitics of it because I'm not brushed up on that.

00:21:47.000 But in any case, like I said, the details are less important than the significance for the region.

00:21:53.000 So they had this big war two years ago on the border, and the war was decisively finished because of the use of drones by Azerbaijan.

00:22:03.000 And so actually I think I'm wrong.

00:22:05.000 I think Turkey supports Azerbaijan because Azerbaijan bought these drones from Turkey and these drones are a game changer. 0.90

00:22:13.000 A big catalyst for the war in Ukraine is the purchase of Turkish drones by Ukraine.

00:22:20.000 And so two years ago, Azerbaijan bought the drones from Turkey and they have used the drones, devastating effect against Armenia, ended the conflict, and that served as a proving ground for the technology.

00:22:33.000 And so Ukraine, the government in Kiev, began buying, they're called Bayraktar drones from Turkey,

00:22:39.000 And it was because of these purchases that that was one of the reasons, one of the precipitating causes, why Russia was so alarmed.

00:22:47.000 There had been a military buildup in Ukraine and particularly fortified along the border with Donbass, where Kiev was perpetually engaged in hostilities with the independent republics Luhansk and Donetsk.

00:23:01.000 And they have been militarizing and fortifying their border, again, perpetually engaged in conflict.

00:23:07.000 And it was the purchase of those drones, which were used so decisively in the Azeri-Armenian War in 2020, which is one of the reasons why Russia decided to take action, because they saw the writing on the wall.

00:23:22.000 They see the drones, they see the NATO missiles coming in, and Zelensky talking about a nuclear capability, and the writing was on the wall that Ukraine was preparing a major offensive to take back probably Crimea as well as Donbass, the two independent republics in Donbass.

00:23:43.000 And anyway, that's less important, but it is interesting how it all relates in that region.

00:23:48.000 And so,

00:23:50.000 Here we are again now in 2022 and these border skirmishes have restarted and it appears that Azerbaijan is preparing to invade Armenia.

00:24:00.000 At least that is some of the speculation among Russians.

00:24:04.000 And so this is the news.

00:24:05.000 This is from BBC.

00:24:07.000 It says, quote, more than 100 Armenian soldiers have been killed in border clashes with Azerbaijan since Monday, according to the Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.

00:24:19.000 Pashinyan?

00:24:22.000 Azerbaijan says 50 of its own troops have been killed in the fighting, which both sides blame on the other.

00:24:29.000 It is the latest in a series of long-running conflicts fought between the two former Soviet republics over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.

00:24:37.000 Russia and the United States have each called for peace between the two countries.

00:24:41.000 Speaking to his country's parliament, the Prime Minister said 105 Armenian servicemen have been killed since Monday night in attacks he blamed on Azerbaijan.

00:24:50.000 He also accused Azeri troops of occupying 10 square kilometers of Armenian territory this week and said he has now turned to Russia for military assistance and Russia is a longtime ally of Armenia.

00:25:03.000 Azerbaijan denies the Armenian account of the week's events, including reports that it fired upon vehicles belonging to Russia's FSB security services stationed inside Armenia.

00:25:14.000 Instead, Azerbaijan claims its neighbors started the conflict by shelling military targets within its own district of Kalbukhar.

00:25:22.000 As part of that diplomatic effort, the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization, or CSTO, is sending a peace mission to Armenia that the Kremlin said would arrive, quote, imminently.

00:25:33.000 And so we'll see what the outcome of all this is.

00:25:36.000 There's also a lot going on within these countries and it's developing very rapidly.

00:25:42.000 There are massive protests going on right now inside the Armenian capital of Yerevan and there are thousands of protesters outside of the parliament building where they're demanding the immediate resignation of the Prime Minister and a military coup.

00:25:58.000 The Prime Minister wants to sign a peace treaty and effectively give the parts of Armenia that are currently occupied by the Azeris to Azerbaijan.

00:26:08.000 So the people are calling for him to step down, they're calling for the military to intervene, and within Azerbaijan they have banned TikTok in the country, presumably because they don't want people filming tanks and armored vehicles and troops being moved to the border,

00:26:25.000 Possibly preparing an invasion.

00:26:28.000 So, there's a lot going on within Azerbaijan, there's a lot happening within Armenia, and there's a lot happening between them, and there's casualties on both sides, and both sides blaming the start of the conflict on the other.

00:26:41.000 But to me, the big significance of it is what we've been talking about lately, which is the Ukraine War.

00:26:48.000 And I think you can't look at what's going on here without recognizing its significance to the broader conflict.

00:26:56.000 And I'll note again that Israel is a close ally of the Azeris and the United States is allied with Azerbaijan.

00:27:05.000 And I look at the situation going on in Ukraine, which we talked about last week.

00:27:09.000 The major developments are pertaining to this big counteroffensive, which was launched by Kiev last week, as well as how Putin is now fully weaponizing energy against the Western European countries.

00:27:23.000 Both things we've talked about.

00:27:24.000 And if you need a quick refresher,

00:27:27.000 Ukraine launched a counter-attack on three cities that were occupied by Russia.

00:27:32.000 Two of the offensives failed.

00:27:35.000 One of them succeeded, in Izyum.

00:27:38.000 And the Russians retreated, they withdrew, they did not suffer any casualties.

00:27:43.000 But the Ukrainians came in and recaptured a number of towns in the north, the northeast of the country, and the Russians pulled back.

00:27:51.000 And it is said that the Ukrainians were able to launch this counteroffensive because of increased assistance from American intelligence.

00:28:00.000 That American intelligence is now working much more closely with Kiev, and it was because U.S.

00:28:05.000 intelligence was giving them information about Russian targets and other forms of support that Ukraine was able to have, and logistical support too, that Ukraine was able to successfully launch these countermeasures, even if only one of them was successful.

00:28:21.000 So you've got that going on, and in light of that, that has changed the entire conversation.

00:28:27.000 Now, Western media in the United States and in Europe are saying that Ukraine can win this thing.

00:28:34.000 That's the new narrative.

00:28:36.000 In case you haven't noticed, it's been all over the press.

00:28:39.000 Now, some press agencies have reluctantly said the countermeasures are objectively not really changing

00:28:48.000 The flow of the conflict on the ground.

00:28:50.000 Because as I said, two of them failed, one of them worked, and they didn't even inflict any casualties.

00:28:55.000 So, if the Russians leave and the Ukrainians come in, they regained land, but they didn't defeat any Russians or destroy much equipment.

00:29:05.000 But in spite of this, the media is cheerleading and saying, that means that they're still in this thing.

00:29:10.000 So let's give them more aid, and let's continue to support the war effort.

00:29:13.000 Let's not push for a resolution.

00:29:16.000 So that's going on.

00:29:18.000 And then at the same time, the European Union is getting together and panicking because of surging energy prices.

00:29:24.000 Russia has effectively cut off 80% of the natural gas it exports to the European Union.

00:29:30.000 And as we talked about last week, many European countries rely heavily on Russian natural gas in their energy mix to power their power grid.

00:29:40.000 And this is going to become a major problem heading into the winter because all these European countries will be plunged into cold weather and they quite literally will not have enough natural gas.

00:29:52.000 They will not have the energy they need to heat their homes.

00:29:55.000 They just won't have enough.

00:29:56.000 It's not a question of it being more expensive.

00:29:58.000 It will be very expensive, but they just won't even have enough.

00:30:01.000 They'll have to ration the energy.

00:30:03.000 And we'll have to tell people you can't turn on your boilers or your furnaces for so many days and you have to turn them down and things like that.

00:30:14.000 They're going to have to regulate the consumption of energy. 0.93

00:30:18.000 And it's going to cost them a lot of money.

00:30:19.000 It already is.

00:30:20.000 There's riots breaking out in Italy.

00:30:22.000 There's mass protests breaking out in Prague telling people stop supporting the war in Ukraine.

00:30:27.000 It's killing the economy.

00:30:29.000 And so point being is

00:30:31.000 The timing of this border conflict is very, very interesting because right now it would appear that the conflict in Ukraine was headed in one direction where, and people have pointed this out, Russia was not making massive progress in taking territory, but Russia is shredding the Ukrainian armed forces, destroying their military, destroying their military equipment, and when I say their military, I mean just killing everyone in there, killing all their personnel.

00:31:00.000 And it was looking like for a time that Russia was going to wipe out the fortified line in Donbass and then they would be in Odessa or in Kiev by the end of the year.

00:31:12.000 And some had said it was going to be protracted, this would be a war that would go on for years.

00:31:19.000 And it appeared in the summer as though that was not going to be the case, that the Russians were going to be making a lot of progress once they finished off the Ukrainian armed forces.

00:31:28.000 Well now for the first time since maybe April, it looks like the momentum is flipped once again with these countermeasures which were backed by the United States and also because of how energy policy is changing the leverage and the leverage situation for Western Europe.

00:31:49.000 Now, conveniently, when all of this is going on, on Russia's southern border, another war breaks out.

00:31:55.000 Very convenient timing.

00:31:57.000 And it just so happens that, as I read off in the article, Armenia is in the CSTO, the Collective Security Treaty Organization, which is the analog in the post-Soviet world for NATO.

00:32:12.000 And what the CSTO does is it

00:32:15.000 Diplomatically obligates Russia to come in and defend Armenia from Azerbaijan.

00:32:20.000 This is something that they really don't have the resources to do.

00:32:23.000 Like I said earlier in the show, they're trying to take over the country with the largest military in Europe fully mobilized.

00:32:31.000 Ukraine has an army of a million plus people.

00:32:34.000 I think it's a million or two million.

00:32:37.000 And they have drafted the entire adult male population.

00:32:40.000 So Ukraine is completely and fully mobilized.

00:32:43.000 They have mobilized the entire male population of their whole country.

00:32:48.000 And they are receiving a constant supply of

00:32:52.000 Weapons and ammunition and vehicles and missiles from the United States and other NATO powers.

00:32:59.000 So Ukraine is virtually... They've got an unlimited tap for soldiers and equipment.

00:33:06.000 The soldiers they're drawing from the population, they're literally telling the men, you can't leave Ukraine.

00:33:12.000 We are going to fight this war until every man in the country dies.

00:33:16.000 That's what they're saying.

00:33:18.000 They're saying we're drafting everybody and nobody can leave.

00:33:21.000 So that means we're either going to win the war or we're all going to... or literally we're all going to die because you can't run.

00:33:26.000 And then, as we've been following at the same time, simultaneously, the United States will just keep writing checks throughout the year.

00:33:37.000 Another check is going out now to Ukraine.

00:33:39.000 More money has been greenlit for further military assistance just this past week.

00:33:44.000 Whereas Russia has deployed a relatively small army of 200,000 soldiers.

00:33:50.000 And Russia has not mobilized its economy, and Russia does not have countries giving it supplies.

00:33:58.000 And we've been into the strategy before, that's not the purpose of the show, but the point is, the real challenge, as is always the case in warfare, is a question of industrial capacity.

00:34:11.000 And Russia arguably does not have the capacity to fight this war without fully mobilizing its economy to build equipment and fully mobilizing its population to send in soldiers.

00:34:22.000 You just maybe can't do the job.

00:34:24.000 The United States defeated Saddam Hussein in Iraq with 200,000 soldiers, but that was the United States against Iraq.

00:34:32.000 This is Russia against the largest army in Europe fully furnished by the United States and NATO.

00:34:40.000 So, arguably they can't even win this war, or rather, I'm not going to say they can't win the war, they can, but arguably it is going to be very difficult for Russia logistically to overcome the resistance they're getting without full mobilization.

00:34:56.000 Now the situation is changing yet again because another front has opened up in the south.

00:35:02.000 And Russia will not have the resources to divert to defend Armenia.

00:35:05.000 So what happens then?

00:35:06.000 Do they let Armenia get attacked by Azerbaijan and lose credibility and that's going to hurt them tremendously?

00:35:15.000 How far does that go?

00:35:15.000 And who knows?

00:35:17.000 They sort of have to defend Armenia. 0.50

00:35:19.000 And so it obligates them now to divert whatever equipment or soldiers or whatever

00:35:26.000 Where they would be in Ukraine, now down to Armenia. 0.88

00:35:28.000 I think that that's a play by NATO.

00:35:30.000 I think that that's a clear and obvious play, probably by Israel, as well as the United States and NATO, to force Russia to fight then on two fronts.

00:35:40.000 Or at the minimum, to divert their resources.

00:35:45.000 And there's not too much more to say about it other than that.

00:35:48.000 But that's what's going on, and it could be the case.

00:35:51.000 Again, I haven't done a huge deep dive because you really, when these conflicts break out initially, you really have to dig in to see what information is legit and not.

00:36:01.000 You remember when the war started in Ukraine.

00:36:04.000 There was all this stuff about chemical weapons and nuclear power plants being attacked and maternity wards being bombed to smithereens.

00:36:11.000 You know, you don't hear about that stuff anymore.

00:36:13.000 Gee, I wonder why.

00:36:14.000 You remember they were calling him a war criminal?

00:36:17.000 Then they just got over it, magically.

00:36:19.000 And the same is true here.

00:36:20.000 The details are a little bit murky and it's, right now, perhaps unclear exactly what the motivation is, but I fail to see how the two are not connected.

00:36:32.000 And so, it's very much, hey, credit to Washington.

00:36:35.000 They're not going down without a fight.

00:36:38.000 I think they should, obviously.

00:36:39.000 I don't support any of this, but credit to Washington.

00:36:42.000 They're getting creative.

00:36:43.000 They really are.

00:36:44.000 And, you know, who knows what's going to happen.

00:36:48.000 It's going to be a lot closer, maybe, than we anticipated.

00:36:51.000 I was very confident a few months ago that Russia was on its way to an imminent victory. 0.98

00:36:56.000 I don't think that's the case anymore.

00:36:59.000 I think that, and by the way, this is not like the world getting together and standing up to Russia or anything like that.

00:37:05.000 It's really just more like the abject cruelty and soullessness of Zelensky. 0.98

00:37:13.000 Because what he's doing now is just killing people. 0.97

00:37:16.000 That's all he's doing is just killing people. 0.98

00:37:17.000 Because they're not going to take Donbass. 0.97

00:37:19.000 They're not going to take Crimea.

00:37:22.000 At the minimum, what victory looks like for Kiev is that they just restore the borders that were there before all of this happened.

00:37:29.000 And they're not going to be a part of NATO.

00:37:32.000 So, their victory condition is Russia's victory condition that they were offering 8 years ago. 0.82

00:37:40.000 It's not very good.

00:37:41.000 And when all is said and done, millions of people will have died to achieve nothing, essentially.

00:37:47.000 To achieve less than what they had.

00:37:52.000 So it's because of that and it's because of the United States and Europe in particular.

00:37:56.000 Europe is getting totally bitched out here.

00:38:00.000 Everyone is paying the price except for the United States. 0.75

00:38:03.000 Europe is paying the price.

00:38:05.000 Ukraine is paying the price. 0.90

00:38:07.000 Ukraine is having all its people die. 0.84

00:38:09.000 Europe is being bled dry.

00:38:11.000 It's the United States that wins in all of this. 0.99

00:38:13.000 It makes Europe dependent on Washington.

00:38:16.000 And it damages Russia to some extent.

00:38:20.000 Washington's the big winner here, but not any human beings in the world, just the devil worshippers in Washington.

00:38:28.000 So that is that, but we'll keep an eye on the Armenian-Azeri conflict as it develops.

00:38:35.000 But to me, when I look at these things going on, I think the world is at war in Ukraine right now. 0.68

00:38:42.000 I think that that explains the COVID shutdowns in China.

00:38:45.000 I think that explains the Azeri-Armenian war.

00:38:48.000 It explains so much of what is going on is that this is really, as I said earlier in the year, everybody involved knows how high the stakes are here.

00:38:56.000 It's not just a proxy war.

00:38:58.000 It's not just a little silly thing.

00:39:00.000 This is a very, very serious deal.

00:39:04.000 And the outcome is going to have a ripple effect that will shock the world, whatever it is.

00:39:10.000 Either Russia is going to be put down, 0.90

00:39:12.000 You know, we're doing these major demonstrations of force in Taiwan, and we're bitching out China, and we force Russia to submit, and it turns out that this is still Washington's century, at least maybe until 2050. 0.66

00:39:27.000 Or it shows that the unipolar moment is over and Russia and China will create a parallel system and they're carving out their own half of the world. 0.88

00:39:35.000 So the effects of the conflict are going to be very drastic and it's going to matter tremendously.

00:39:42.000 That's why we're really pulling out all the stops to make sure that Russia doesn't get the advantage here. 0.86

00:39:47.000 So I don't put it past them that they start another war just to pull some Russians out of Donbass. 0.74

00:39:54.000 But that's that.

00:39:55.000 I want to move on.

00:39:55.000 I want to get into DeSantis and what's going on domestically in this race.

00:40:01.000 And there's not too much hard evidence of this.

00:40:03.000 This is really just my... This is just one of my theories that I've cooked up here.

00:40:09.000 Give me a sec.

00:40:10.000 Let me take a sip of this Coke.

00:40:11.000 I don't know what it is, if it's my sleep schedule getting adjusted, but I'm so tired lately.

00:40:18.000 I've been drinking this, um...

00:40:21.000 Let's take an intermission real quick. 0.50

00:40:23.000 I've been drinking this Coke Dream World.

00:40:25.000 This has got to be the worst... This is the worst flavor of soda that I have ever tasted in my life.

00:40:34.000 But I just needed to get a little sugar in me before I did my show and a little caffeine.

00:40:41.000 Give me a little boost here because I'm like... The past couple nights I'm like falling asleep.

00:40:46.000 My voice is gone.

00:40:47.000 I don't know what's going on.

00:40:50.000 I don't know.

00:40:50.000 I guess I'm resetting my sleep schedule, so I woke up real early yesterday, woke up real early today.

00:40:55.000 It's been a long day.

00:40:56.000 I didn't take a nap or anything, so I guess I'm just like hitting the wall, you know, so to speak, in terms of I'm crashing.

00:41:03.000 Not like I'm hitting the wall on looks.

00:41:05.000 I still got some time there.

00:41:07.000 I still got a few years, but in terms of my energy level, I'm hitting the wall, man.

00:41:16.000 I should have had a cup of coffee or something before I went live, because I'm like, fading out, just like yesterday.

00:41:22.000 Somebody get me a, somebody get me a latte!

00:41:25.000 Somebody get, I need a vatier to get me a pumpkin latte from McDonald's.

00:41:30.000 Because man, I'm just like, fading out here.

00:41:35.000 Look at me, look at my eyes, look at how tired my eyes are.

00:41:40.000 Let me, let me do a quick stretch.

00:41:42.000 Maybe that'll wake me up.

00:41:52.000 And it's hot in here.

00:41:53.000 I turned off my air because it's getting cold in Chicago but, you know, then it gets hot and then it gets hot in here so.

00:42:04.000 So it's, you know what it is?

00:42:05.000 It's hot in here, it's dark in here, it's perfect environment for a nap, you know?

00:42:10.000 I've been up all day.

00:42:14.000 Here, let me just, let me just take a quick stretch break.

00:42:19.000 Get the blood flowing a little bit.

00:42:21.000 Could we take five for coffee?

00:42:23.000 Let's take a quick coffee break before we get on with it.

00:42:27.000 Okay.

00:42:31.000 Alright.

00:42:33.000 You hear that?

00:42:34.000 You hear my neck cracking?

00:42:39.000 Okay.

00:42:41.000 Our featured story here is about DeSantis.

00:42:41.000 Let's press ahead.

00:42:43.000 Like I said, this is really just my crackpot theory here, although I think it's legit.

00:42:49.000 And it's based on the fundraising.

00:42:51.000 And I put this out on Telegram the other day.

00:42:54.000 Once again, it's about the timing here.

00:42:56.000 Trump's $100 million Save America PAC is under attack by the Justice Department.

00:43:02.000 We covered that last night.

00:43:04.000 And the DOJ has opened a probe into the fundraising practices of Trump's slush fund for 24.

00:43:10.000 And apparently, allegedly, they have raided the homes of 35 Trump allies connected to the Trump PAC, including Mike Lindell, whose phone was seized yesterday in a drive-thru at a fast food restaurant.

00:43:24.000 So that's going on.

00:43:26.000 We talked about that last night.

00:43:28.000 At the same time, Ron DeSantis is building up the largest war chest of any governor in America.

00:43:37.000 He has raised almost 200 million dollars in this cycle and is now on track, he is out fundraising the former president and he's doing it almost entirely with billionaire money.

00:43:53.000 And I posted the figures on my telegram the other day.

00:43:55.000 It is a tiny fraction of the $200 million that DeSantis has raised which he earned from small dollar donors.

00:44:06.000 The vast majority of that $200 million is coming from new billionaire allies who are leaving Trump and now throwing their weight behind DeSantis.

00:44:16.000 I think there's like six or seven billionaires that flipped and a lot of other rich people that are now behind DeSantis and they're all big contributions.

00:44:24.000 We're talking tens of millions, millions, hundreds of thousands.

00:44:31.000 Five-figure sums, not small-dollar donations.

00:44:34.000 That's in stark contrast to Donald Trump where more than half of his donations come from small-dollar donors.

00:44:40.000 $100 million and half of it is from small-dollar donors versus $200 million and it's almost all from billionaires who flipped.

00:44:48.000 So donor classes flipped.

00:44:50.000 And I saw that.

00:44:52.000 And I see what's going on with all these other investigations about January 6th and the National Archives, and go figure.

00:44:59.000 Ron DeSantis, when Donald Trump was being raided, his personal residence being raided in the state of Florida, Ron DeSantis didn't say anything about it.

00:45:11.000 He came out and gave a quick statement without even mentioning Trump once.

00:45:16.000 Just talked about what was going on.

00:45:18.000 And I start to wonder what's going on here.

00:45:22.000 Well, this is about the donors.

00:45:24.000 This is from Politico.

00:45:27.000 It says, quote, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has cemented himself as the face of GOP opposition to COVID mandates, a position that is winning over not just rank-and-file voters ahead of the 2024 presidential primaries, but also some of the Republican Party's wealthiest donors.

00:45:44.000 How the race shapes up will first and foremost be determined by whether former President Trump decides to run,

00:45:51.000 But many donors are already investing early in potential candidates like DeSantis, whom polling shows to be the leading Trump alternative in the prospective field.

00:46:02.000 Campaign finance records covering the first seven months of this year showed that prominent contributors, including many beyond Florida, are investing in DeSantis' 2024 re-election campaign, which could further solidify his prospects.

00:46:17.000 All told, according to Open Secrets, DeSantis has raised a hefty $172 million as of August 19.

00:46:28.000 Though DeSantis has not announced plans to run for president yet, he has emerged as the principal challenger to Trump, who has heavily teased a potential 2024 bid.

00:46:38.000 A fresh national poll shows that in a hypothetical head-to-head primary, Donald Trump could struggle to get 50% against Ron DeSantis.

00:46:47.000 A Yahoo News and YouGov poll conducted from September 2nd through September 6th shows former President Trump with 48% support among Republicans and DeSantis with 34%.

00:47:01.000 Trump with 48%, DeSantis with 34%.

00:47:05.000 Among registered voters, Trump again fails to get a clear majority with 49% support against 37% support for DeSantis.

00:47:15.000 Interestingly, independent voters who can vote in Republican primaries in some states prefer DeSantis to Trump outright, with DeSantis drawing 42% support and Trump just 36%.

00:47:28.000 DeSantis also holds his own among voters from what the survey calls purple states, swing states.

00:47:34.000 The Florida governor and the former president are tied, each garnering 39% support.

00:47:42.000 So I take all this together

00:47:45.000 And there's two ways that this is going to play out, okay?

00:47:49.000 Two ways that I see.

00:47:51.000 And one way it plays out is like this.

00:47:55.000 The DOJ charges Trump after the midterms.

00:47:58.000 Trump announces anyway in January.

00:48:01.000 And because of the weaponization of the DOJ against Trump, Trump garners so much support from the donors and so much support from the voters

00:48:10.000 That the GOP has to rally behind him and maybe DeSantis doesn't even bother.

00:48:17.000 Trump is just so popular with the money and with the people that the party has to throw their support behind him and defend him from an investigation and Trump sails to the nomination and then maybe becomes president.

00:48:29.000 That's one scenario that I see playing out.

00:48:31.000 That's one of them.

00:48:33.000 Another scenario is like this.

00:48:36.000 DeSantis and McConnell have made a deal.

00:48:39.000 And the deal is this.

00:48:40.000 Throw the primary.

00:48:42.000 Throw the primary and Biden will indict Trump and prevent him from running.

00:48:48.000 And by throwing the primary McConnell can divert resources from Trump and Peter Thiel into failing senators who will not win.

00:48:56.000 And then DeSantis emerges out of all of this as a guy who's not under investigation, a guy with more money, and has all the necessary alliances in the party.

00:49:07.000 And when the DOJ charges Trump, and when they blow up his slush fund, DeSantis will be the natural guy, even if Trump says he's gonna run, DeSantis will be the guy waiting in the wings saying, hey, I'm the guy that's not under investigation.

00:49:22.000 I'm the guy that there's no ambiguity as to whether or not I will be able to run.

00:49:26.000 I'm the guy who has social media and I'm the guy with 200 million dollars still intact.

00:49:33.000 It seems to me that it's the wrong question to ask.

00:49:36.000 Is Trump going to announce?

00:49:38.000 Trump will announce.

00:49:39.000 Trump will run.

00:49:40.000 He is running.

00:49:41.000 He is running in 2024.

00:49:43.000 He will announce.

00:49:44.000 I don't think that is the interesting question.

00:49:47.000 The right question is, is DeSantis going to run regardless?

00:49:52.000 He's either going to run or he's not, but he's not waiting to make his decision based on whether or not Trump wins.

00:49:58.000 Or rather, whether or not Trump announces that he's running.

00:50:02.000 DeSantis is waiting to see how viable it will be once Trump announces.

00:50:07.000 He's not waiting to see if Trump announces, he's waiting to see if the DOJ is going to charge him, and if that's going to prevent Trump from running, and he's waiting to see what the voter, donor, and party reaction will be.

00:50:21.000 But by all appearances it looks like you don't build a $200 million war chest running against a Democrat who's raised $15 million to win your reelection for governor.

00:50:33.000 You don't tap billionaires and go to

00:50:35.000 We're good to go.

00:50:58.000 And the danger, of course, is that all the old Never Trumpers like this guy too.

00:51:02.000 It's all the pundits, it's all the donors, it's the establishment.

00:51:06.000 It also happens to be all the Never Trumpers for 2016 falling in line behind DeSantis.

00:51:12.000 Straight from National Review, who's an obvious one, all the way through to people like Ben Shapiro, and even people that I'm a little bit surprised at, like Mike Cernovich, are throwing their support behind DeSantis, or Ann Coulter for that matter.

00:51:29.000 So this is what it's shaping up to look like.

00:51:30.000 And I'll remind you, DeSantis, I'm not going to vote for him.

00:51:35.000 DeSantis is mobbed up with Israel. 1.00

00:51:37.000 Period.

00:51:38.000 Bottom line.

00:51:38.000 End of story.

00:51:40.000 And he is more so than Trump.

00:51:43.000 DeSantis is mobbed up with billionaires, mobbed up with the Mossad, and with Israel in ways that we don't even know.

00:51:50.000 And by the way, he's not even that good.

00:51:52.000 He's a good governor, but so much of what he pushes, which everybody gives him credit for, it dies in the federal courts.

00:51:59.000 So much of it isn't even that good to begin with.

00:52:02.000 You know, he was a vaccine salesman just like Trump.

00:52:05.000 And he went to fly to Israel the week after he got inaugurated to sign a bill banning BDS in his country.

00:52:11.000 He was also out there shilling against Ben and Jerry's because they sold ice cream in the West Bank or something.

00:52:17.000 Because they sold ice cream in the disputed civilian settlements in the West Bank in Israel.

00:52:25.000 So, and we've gone through this before, we've gone through it many times, but it's for reasons like this that if DeSantis is bad, or rather if Trump is bad, DeSantis is worse for the same reasons.

00:52:38.000 Some people are skeptical about Trump.

00:52:40.000 I would say that if Trump is bad, DeSantis has all the negatives, but worse.

00:52:45.000 If you say that Trump is an Israel shill, DeSantis is more of an Israel shill. 0.99

00:52:50.000 If you say that Trump is a cuck, DeSantis is more of a cuck. 0.99

00:52:54.000 If you say that Trump is a sellout puppet, DeSantis is more so. 1.00

00:52:59.000 And the list goes on.

00:53:02.000 There's a reason that the establishment is conspiring to get rid of him, on the left and the right.

00:53:07.000 The left doesn't even really care about DeSantis, and almost everybody in the right on the establishment supports him.

00:53:14.000 If that's not a tell, I don't know what is.

00:53:17.000 If you don't believe all the other stuff, believe it when our enemies tell us that they're not concerned about DeSantis.

00:53:22.000 In fact, they like him.

00:53:24.000 But that they'll have Trump arrested at any cost, and they don't want him to run, and they don't want him to be the party, and Ben Shapiro's out there saying that Trump is... Trump is tanking the party, and he's going to ruin our chances in 24.

00:53:38.000 Take it from them.

00:53:40.000 They would know.

00:53:42.000 In other words, not they would know that Trump is going to tank.

00:53:44.000 They would know that Trump is their ideological and political adversary, just like we are.

00:53:51.000 For those like Shapiro and Crystal and others.

00:53:56.000 So to me, I take all that together, it's the money, it's the polling, it's the establishment, and I see them stabbing Trump to elevate DeSantis and he gets the nomination and then he probably becomes president without my vote.

00:54:12.000 Unfortunately, though, Trump seems to still have the support of the party.

00:54:15.000 He's got, it was reported in BBC, his endorsements have a 92% win rate.

00:54:22.000 92% of the people that he endorsed in this cycle have won their election.

00:54:27.000 Have won their primary, that is.

00:54:31.000 So, I'm not trying to black pill you here tonight.

00:54:34.000 I'm trying to tell you that it's going to be a fight.

00:54:37.000 Whatever the case may be, Trump will announce and it's still going to be a fight.

00:54:43.000 And it's not just going to be a fight against Biden like it was in 20 against Joe Biden.

00:54:49.000 Or rather, it's not going to be a fight in this cycle against whoever the Democratic nominee is, I should say.

00:54:55.000 It's not just going to be a fight against the Fed, Gov, and the Democrat nominee in 24.

00:55:01.000 It's also going to be a fight against the Republican Party.

00:55:05.000 Even though we're presuming he announces it's still going to be a fight against DeSantis, the money, and all of them.

00:55:12.000 So again, that's not to say that we're going to get a bad outcome necessarily, but it is to say that

00:55:19.000 It's going to be tough and it's going to be coming at us from all angles and just as unlikely as it was eight years ago when this all started.

00:55:26.000 That's why we need all hands on deck.

00:55:27.000 That's why it's got to be Trump or nothing.

00:55:30.000 I support Trump or nothing at all.

00:55:32.000 I'm either voting for Trump in 24 or I'm not voting.

00:55:36.000 And that's got to be the message.

00:55:37.000 We want Trump.

00:55:38.000 We want Trump in the primary.

00:55:40.000 We want Trump in the general.

00:55:41.000 We are not going to vote for anybody else.

00:55:43.000 They need to understand that.

00:55:46.000 It doesn't take much.

00:55:47.000 We just need a small, concerted minority of Trump supporters to say we will sit out the election.

00:55:53.000 We will spoil it for Republicans if we get to Santa's.

00:55:58.000 In my opinion, that's the only way we're going to salvage Trumpism, is by sitting out.

00:56:02.000 That's it.

00:56:04.000 I'm sitting out the midterms.

00:56:05.000 I'm unimpressed I'm not voting.

00:56:08.000 I didn't even register to vote this year.

00:56:09.000 I don't plan on voting in the midterms at all.

00:56:13.000 Because I'm just so disappointed at what I've seen from the party and what I've seen from the candidates and even frankly with the voters.

00:56:21.000 If I were in Arizona, I would vote down-ballot.

00:56:23.000 I'd vote for Carrie Lake, I'd vote for Blake Masters, I'd vote for Paul Gosar, Wendy Rogers... Anywhere else, just forget about it.

00:56:31.000 No chance.

00:56:32.000 What a joke.

00:56:33.000 It's honestly sad, because this should have been the cycle that we had a lot of America First, Trump-type people, and almost everybody just... Almost everybody just...

00:56:50.000 Was caught holding the bag.

00:56:53.000 Between, and I don't want to name any names, but it's not even, because people look at our record, and we had a pretty good record.

00:57:00.000 Almost everybody that we endorsed won, with the exception of, you know, Joe Kent won, and Laura Loomer lost, although I think both of those were long shots.

00:57:10.000 You know, Laura Loomer didn't come very close in the last cycle.

00:57:13.000 She did very well this year, but I wasn't extremely surprised, just because it's rigged, one.

00:57:20.000 And two, Webster's been going around for 30 years.

00:57:23.000 And also in Washington, you had Teal, Bannon, Trump, everybody campaigning for Kent, and he barely won.

00:57:30.000 But we got Gosar in, and we got Wendy Rogers won, and Carrie Lake, and Blake Masters.

00:57:36.000 I mean, that was pretty good.

00:57:36.000 We ran the ticket in Arizona.

00:57:38.000 And John Gibbs won in Michigan, and Kobach won in Kansas, and there were some other people I didn't want to mention who are a little bit more low-key, who are on track to win office at the state and federal level as well. 0.98

00:57:52.000 So it was mostly good, but there were a lot of candidates that we backed initially that just totally shit the bed. 0.99

00:57:59.000 Like people that just dropped out for stupid reasons, and I was like, just disappointed. 0.97

00:58:03.000 So I'm probably going to sit this one out in 22, mostly because we don't really have anything going on in Illinois, but also because I'm not happy with the party. 0.96

00:58:11.000 And I think that's going to be the only way in 24 is, look, if you don't fix the elections, if you don't get election integrity, if you can't guarantee it's a secure election, and if it's not Trump, I will not vote.

00:58:22.000 And I almost want to make that like a project.

00:58:24.000 I almost want that to be the pledge.

00:58:26.000 Like two things.

00:58:27.000 If you don't fix the elections, if it's not Trump, I'm a Republican, I won't vote.

00:58:32.000 Because enough is enough.

00:58:33.000 Like, that's it.

00:58:34.000 It's got to be the same tactics from 16 when Trump said, if I don't win, I'll run as a third party.

00:58:39.000 Good.

00:58:39.000 Let's do it again.

00:58:41.000 If it's not Trump, if you don't fix the ballot, I as Republican will not vote.

00:58:44.000 Trump or nothing.

00:58:46.000 He got screwed out of it in 20. 0.98

00:58:47.000 He's the rightful leader.

00:58:48.000 He's a clear leader of the party.

00:58:50.000 That's the way it's got to be.

00:58:53.000 So I think that's the basis for the next two years is just getting behind Trump.

00:58:58.000 But that's that.

00:58:59.000 I want to move on.

00:58:59.000 I want to get into our Super Chats and we'll see what you guys have to say about all this.

00:59:04.000 I don't know if you agree with me.

00:59:06.000 I know that some people on this show are critical of Trump.

00:59:10.000 I've always been pro-Trump.

00:59:11.000 I was mad at him one time in 2019 in June, May and June, but since then I'm totally back on the Trump train.

00:59:24.000 Okay, let's take a look.

00:59:27.000 Let's see what you all, what do you people have to say?

00:59:30.000 I'm gonna start pulling up our super chats.

00:59:33.000 Let me just get set up here.

00:59:41.000 Treehead sent $50.

00:59:41.000 I am really

America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - September 15, 2022

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