00:00:10.000We've got a great show for you tonight.
00:00:12.000Very exciting, big day today, obviously, for diplomacy.
00:00:17.000Big day for news, new things happening, right?
00:00:20.000We're back for an exciting episode of the show, talking, of course, about the Trump Russia summit, which took place this morning.
00:00:29.000And there's a lot of reaction already.
00:00:32.000People have got their opinions on the right and the left.
00:00:36.000Seeing a lot of bad takes about it online, but don't worry, folks.
00:00:39.000We're really going to do a deep dive on the summit tonight.
00:00:42.000We're going to tackle it from all areas because this conversation is so polluted by people with an agenda that you really can't make heads or tails of it, I don't think, without really looking at everything, looking at the context and rethinking how we think about the United States and Russia, how we think about foreign influence, how we think about our own government, how we think about America, even.
00:01:08.000Because so much of what I see from both sides is colored by a hyper partisan, a globalist bias.
00:01:17.000And I think people intuitively have the same kind of bias.
00:02:04.000They predicted it was a half term presidency or a one term presidency.
00:02:08.000And now here we are Trump Russia summit.
00:02:10.000And look, regardless of what you think about Russian collusion, Russian meddling, any of that kind of stuff, what we have is better than we had before.
00:02:20.000Our relationship with Russia, and it is an important relationship given the nuclear power of both countries, given the conventional power of both countries, it is important for the world that we have a good relationship with Russia, the two big military superpowers in the world.
00:02:35.000Russia is still up there, China's on the rise, but Russia is still by far the second biggest military behind us in both conventional and nuclear.
00:02:45.000So, it's important for the world that these countries get along better.
00:02:48.000And so, after this meeting, I think we can say that we are on a better trajectory than we were before the meeting, and certainly if we had any other alternatives.
00:02:56.000So, I just want to point that out because I will tell you right now, I'm getting a lot, a lot of messages from people by email, by Twitter, by Instagram, by Facebook.
00:03:08.000People telling me, Nick, I just wanted to reach out and apologize for what I said during the serious strike.
00:03:35.000And it's worth pointing out, and I always say this I don't say that to toot my own horn and because I have a big ego, even though I do, even though that's a little bit true.
00:03:45.000I say it because it is so important that we have confidence in this president.
00:03:50.000When I get on the case of people who are so quickly will sell him down the line and say, well, he's a sellout and he's a cuck and this kind of stuff, why this is so important is because they don't understand what Donald Trump represents.
00:04:06.000I don't get on the case of people who are pessimistic about Trump because they disagree with me.
00:04:14.000I get on their case because Donald Trump represents for us, for our movement, for nationalists, for white people, for right wing people, truly right wing people.
00:04:25.000He represents a future within the system for politics.
00:04:30.000What Donald Trump represented in the election, and if you were there on election night 2016, you remember the feeling during the campaign, throughout the campaign, and then on election night, you remember the feeling.
00:04:42.000It was ecstasy because we understood in that moment that there is hope.
00:04:47.000We can move the ball, we can reform the system without utter collapse, utter catastrophe.
00:04:55.000But it gave us a small hope that it could happen because we saw all the candidates before Trump, and it was there's no hope.
00:05:01.000I mean, these are all pro amnesty people, these are all free trade people, these are all establishment people, and Trump represented a real change for that.
00:05:09.000So to us, it's not just Donald Trump, and we're personally invested and we'll compromise our principles for him.
00:05:28.000And then number two, when people say, oh, well, Donald Trump is a sellout, at the first sign of trouble, at the first sign of a setback, people say he's either incompetent or he sold this out.
00:06:00.000And so when I go out there and I say, and I do say it in a bragging way, I do say it in a gloating way at times, there is a real reason behind it.
00:06:09.000There's a really good reason behind it, which is to demonstrate in an exuberant way that we are right, we are winning, and this morale is very important to keep reforming.
00:06:19.000It's slow, it takes time, there are setbacks, but you see that the grand arc bends towards Trump.
00:06:25.000So that, I think, if you look at the Russian summit in that context, it's a very good thing.
00:06:58.000Trump let the other side dominate in this kind of stuff.
00:07:02.000But of course, It is preferable to have dialogue.
00:07:06.000It is preferable to have a conversation, to have a summit, as opposed to missile tests and military drills and that kind of thing.
00:07:15.000And the only people who don't think that are the people who won't be fighting in the wars, right?
00:07:20.000The only people who would rather see us go out and beat our chests and condemn Russia and do all these excitable things, they're the ones who their kids won't be in the draft when the time comes, right?
00:07:34.000John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Ben Sass, all these characters, they're all the chicken hawks who won't be fighting and dying in Ukraine.
00:07:59.000But we'll be getting into all the details.
00:08:01.000That was just a brief little thing about the past, you know.
00:08:05.000But let's put the past aside and we'll talk about the main issue.
00:08:08.000Before we jump into it totally, I do want to bring one thing up.
00:08:12.000I did a periscope over the weekend, and this is totally unrelated, but I do want to mention it very briefly before we really get into it, because I have a lot of great.
00:08:21.000Material here for the Russia Trump thing that nobody's talking about.
00:08:25.000And you can only find here on America First.
00:08:26.000But before we get into that, I do want to cover I did a stream on Saturday morning about Christian Piccellini on Periscope.
00:08:36.000And like I said, it's totally unrelated, but I had stayed up all night on Friday because there was a lot of drama on the internet.
00:09:05.000This guy, Christian Piccellini, he runs this organization called Life After Hate.
00:09:10.000And his story, his claim, is that he was a neo Nazi in America, but then he saw the light and he became a liberal humanist.
00:09:20.000And now he does a TED Talk and he's got a special on MSNBC and he's this great guy, a great asset.
00:09:27.000A great asset, right, for the left or for the government, who knows.
00:09:32.000And so he's known in the right wing circles as an obvious fad, an obvious asset of the government, because here's this guy who is telling young people, reach out to me, I'll deliver you from hatred.
00:09:44.000You're all the same, you're all neo Nazis like me, and this kind of stuff.
00:09:46.000And Slide did a stream, basically disassembling his speech.
00:09:50.000And I invited him on the show over the weekend.
00:09:53.000The guy's stated mission is I want to reach out to young, Alt right people and bring them back from the brink and reintegrate them into normal life because I escape from it and you can escape from it too.
00:10:07.000I can give you a second chance, this kind of stuff.
00:10:10.000And so I went in and I watched this TED talk on the stream.
00:10:50.000I just want to see the light, you know, that kind of thing.
00:10:53.000And he didn't even, he clearly saw the tweet because he replied to a couple of the replies to my tweet, but he didn't engage, didn't respond.
00:11:03.000And I will reiterate it Christian Piccellini, Pickle Man.
00:11:07.000If you're watching, please, human brother, you're my pink on the inside human brother.
00:11:14.000I just want to achieve understanding and engagement and conversation, bro.
00:13:02.000Then he was in Scotland, which is in the United Kingdom, but you know, he wasn't in England proper.
00:13:08.000Then he went from Scotland to Helsinki, where he met President Vladimir Putin, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and they had a one on one meeting for two hours.
00:13:17.000And then they had a working lunch and then they had a press conference.
00:13:20.000That was the first press conference with a Russian and an American president since 2010 when Barack Obama held the press conference with Putin.
00:13:29.000But they haven't had one since, no press conferences since.
00:13:32.000So they did a dual or a joint press conference where they fielded questions.
00:13:37.000And it was kind of boring, I got to be honest.
00:13:49.000The one thing that Putin did get over on Trump is that, I mean, there were some power plays that were used, and they were pretty effective.
00:13:59.000If you watch the press conference, Putin's opening statement was like, it felt like it went on forever, certainly longer than Trump's.
00:14:05.000That's another way that he dominated it.
00:14:08.000So, you know, you see Trump, and he goes after Macron.
00:14:11.000He goes after all these kinds of people with the antics, the handshakes, the stunts, you know, this kind of the starbursts, that kind of thing.
00:15:09.000And they also discussed the election meddling accusations.
00:15:13.000And it's actually pretty interesting because they talked about all the important issues between America and Russia.
00:15:20.000And so much of geopolitical affairs are determined by these two actors.
00:15:25.000Working against each other through proxies, right?
00:15:27.000I mean, you look at all the major international hotspots, and with the exception of a few, with the exception of the South China Sea and perhaps a few more, they are working through Russian and American proxies.
00:15:40.000You've got Western Europe versus Eastern Europe, particularly in Crimea and in Eastern Ukraine.
00:15:46.000You've got what's going on in Turkey between America and Russia.
00:15:49.000You're talking about arms sales, missile defense systems, that kind of thing.
00:15:53.000You look at Central Asia, and that's really more a competition between Russia and China, but Russia's involved.
00:15:59.000And then you look at the whole of the Middle East, which is Saudi Arabia and Iran.
00:16:04.000It's Saudi Arabia and Israel and Iran.
00:16:06.000But Russia and the United States are really the ones that are working behind the scenes as the big sponsors of either side.
00:16:14.000You have so many important issues that are being discussed here, from Europe to the Middle East to oil to nuclear to the Korean Peninsula.
00:16:23.000And almost every question, virtually every question, and all the reaction is about the election meddling.
00:16:29.000They get together to discuss how can we bring an end to the worst humanitarian disaster, or the second worst humanitarian disaster, which has been going on for seven years the Syrian Civil War.
00:16:41.000How can we prevent an all out conflict in the Middle East, World War III in the Middle East?
00:17:36.000You know, they care about maintaining the status quo.
00:17:39.000And that's about delegitimizing Trump.
00:17:42.000If Putin interfered in the 2016 election and that's what they want to talk about, then that means that Trump is not a legitimate president.
00:17:50.000And if Trump is not a legitimate president, then all of the Calls by the American people through Trump for closed borders, for protection of our industry, for a scaling back of the American empire, then by extension, all of that is illegitimate.
00:18:05.000So you understand why the legacy media, why the political establishment has a vested interest in delegitimizing Trump.
00:18:12.000They don't care about, I mean, they care about the American empire, but fundamentally they recognize that Trump is the biggest threat to that.
00:18:20.000And so all they care about is the delegitimization.
00:18:23.000So we say, He didn't get elected the right way.
00:18:52.000And really, there was nothing too controversial that he said.
00:18:57.000The one thing that everybody was reacting to was a question, I think by a journalist from Reuters, or maybe I've got the journalist wrong, but there was a question asked and basically said, Will you condemn right now?
00:19:10.000Will you right now condemn Russia for meddling in the election?
00:19:14.000Do you believe Putin over your U.S. intelligence agencies who said that he did meddle?
00:19:50.000And in fairness, the way that he answered the question was not very efficient.
00:19:55.000He should have prepared for this question very thoroughly because it's no surprise that it was asked.
00:20:01.000It's no surprise that the press, which is the enemy of the people, was going to put him on the spot and try and jeopardize U.S. and Russia relations.
00:20:08.000And so, given that context, It was a little bit all over the place.
00:20:12.000It was kind of seemed like he was caught off guard, where it was like, well, I like Putin and I also like our guys.
00:20:18.000But anyway, reverting to this 2016 rhetoric about the emails, and don't get me wrong, it's all legitimate, but it just wasn't as clean as I thought it should have been.
00:20:26.000And he denied collusion in the answer like 10 times.
00:23:13.000Ryan says, quote, there is no moral equivalence between the United States and Russia, which remains hostile to our most basic values and ideals.
00:23:22.000Basic values like mass immigration, right?
00:23:25.000Chuck Schumer, and this is the only really big statement from the left, said, For the President of the United States to side with President Putin against American law enforcement, American defense officials, and American intelligence agencies is thoughtless, dangerous, and weak.
00:23:40.000The President is putting himself over our country.
00:23:43.000And this is all very silly nonsense for many, many, many different reasons.
00:23:50.000For starters, this is not how diplomacy is conducted.
00:24:06.000But this is not how diplomacy is conducted, it never has been.
00:24:09.000In the past 25 years or so, because America has been the uncontested superpower or hyperpower or unipolar power, the American foreign policy and military establishment has it that America basically doesn't have to play by the rules.
00:24:52.000That we're going to go in good faith, or what we purport is in good faith, to a foreign country to sit down and have a dialogue.
00:25:01.000And say, where can we find common ground?
00:25:03.000How can we resolve these issues short of war?
00:25:05.000What is the expectation that we go into that meeting and start pointing fingers and wagging our fingers and saying, you're doing this and you're doing that, and we condemn this and that?
00:25:15.000And aside from that, number one, that would be wrong in and of itself.
00:25:19.000But then number two, that we're going to go pointing fingers like that, and we do the same thing.
00:25:26.000You talk about election interference and this kind of stuff, and they say that when the Russians point out that we interfere in other elections, they say that's whataboutism.
00:25:35.000And what about ism is CIA terminology for what the Soviet Union did during the Cold War.
00:25:41.000Because when we would say the Soviet Union is butchering people in Budapest or in Prague or wherever else, well, then the Soviets say, well, what about civil rights?
00:25:52.000But really, in actuality, I think there's a lot of merit to that.
00:25:55.000And the sense is not to say, well, everybody's equally at fault.
00:25:59.000The point is to say we are all pursuing our own self interest, and that is to be expected.
00:26:06.000If we go into this meeting, we shouldn't have it that, well, we get to break all the rules that we want when it comes to our interests, but Russia has to play by our rules.
00:26:16.000And if they don't, we're going to bully them.
00:26:39.000In 2016, on the issue of meddling, he said, And I know that there have been folks out there who suggest somehow that if we went out there and made big announcements and thumped our chests about a bunch of stuff, that somehow would potentially spook the Russians.
00:26:55.000And I should point out, by the way, part of why the Russians have been effective on this is because they don't go around announcing what they're doing.
00:27:02.000It's not like Putin's gone around the world publicly saying, Look what we did, wasn't that clever?
00:28:40.000What is this entity that they're trying to protect?
00:28:43.000They're in the process actively of replacing all the people in the country, all the jobs in the country, and they say they want to protect.
00:30:22.000It turned out that actually the people that created that intelligence were working with AIPAC, they were working with Israel, who just 20 years earlier, all the same people who created that intelligence to bring us to war in Iraq.
00:30:35.000Wrote that the number one strategic interest of Israel was to take out, guess who?
00:31:01.000Let's look at a gentleman by the name of James Clapper.
00:31:04.000James Clapper, you may have heard of him, he was the former national intelligence director.
00:31:10.000And on March 13, 2013, he perjured himself before Congress when he said, in response to the question, Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?
00:31:28.000And then he later said, After that turned out to be a complete lie, of course the NSA collects data from hundreds of millions of Americans on a regular basis, and illegally, by the way.
00:32:24.000Remember that gentleman who tweeted today that President Trump committed treason against the American people?
00:32:30.000In July 2014, it was reported that he was the CIA director.
00:32:35.000It was reported that former CIA director John Brennan spied under his watch, the CIA spied on U.S. senators and tried to get them prosecuted.
00:32:45.000U.S. senators were putting together a report on illegal CIA torture programs.
00:32:50.000And in order to protect his bureau, or rather his agency, in order to protect his people, he spied on those senators who were looking into it, who were compiling the records on that, and then attempted to get those same senators prosecuted, hacked their computers, looked at their data, and then tried to get them prosecuted based on it.
00:33:08.000When he was brought before the Senate, he said, Let me assure you the CIA was in no way spying on the committee or the Senate.
00:33:16.000And then the CIA inspector general found that that was a total lie.
00:33:44.000Completely lied in his Senate testimony about those private conversations.
00:33:48.000You've got his deputy director, Andrew McCabe, who said, or rather was reported in April, according to the inspector general in the Justice Department, that he lied to his boss and to others that he was not improperly leaking confidential material to the press.
00:34:05.000And then Peter Strzok was this week as well, saying that he had no bias investigating Hillary Clinton, even though he was texting his lover, We're going to stop Trump.
00:34:56.000So, all these people lining up, he threw his own people under the bus.
00:35:00.000He abased himself, all this kind of stuff.
00:35:02.000These people are criminals and they should be treated as such.
00:35:06.000I'm so sick and tired that we have to afford the people in the media, the people in the government, the people in intelligence, this highfalutin respect.
00:35:16.000These people are criminals, all of them, common crooks.
00:35:19.000Wasn't it just revealed in the Inspector General's report that the media was in bed with the intelligence community?
00:35:25.000Wasn't it just reported in the Nunes memo that you had far left Democratic committees and PACs organizing with the FBI and others to get this dossier on Trump?
00:35:36.000They were colluding with the Russians, with Christopher Steele.
00:35:41.000So, this is the intelligence community.
00:35:42.000The vaunted IC, which we have to trust above all else.
00:35:47.000Who cares if they say that Russia meddled in the election?
00:36:49.000Collude all the time in America and nobody talks about it.
00:36:54.000So, if somebody is going to collude on the side of closed borders, protecting American workers, not sending our sons and daughters to die in the Middle East, hey, I'll take that one.
00:37:06.000How many Mexicans have come over into the United States since 1965?
00:37:24.000Foreign intervention, Democrats and Republicans collude with each other to bring in illegals and legal immigrants from south of the border so that their donors can have cheap labor or their party can have fresh votes that they don't really have to work very hard for.
00:37:43.000You've got the Mexican government, which has consulates in places like Los Angeles where they give out ID cards that can be used in America and identify these illegal immigrants.
00:37:55.000As residents in our country, you have Mexican politicians campaigning in Chicago, campaigning in LA.
00:38:18.000I mean, that's the other big one, right?
00:38:19.000We've got Mexico, mass immigration pouring through, and then we've got Israel.
00:38:24.000Israel runs the largest, one of the largest lobbies in America, AIPAC.
00:38:29.000The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which every year has its national conference, in which two thirds of congressmen attend, two thirds.
00:38:49.000It says This year's conference takes place in Washington, D.C. on March 20th, an event that rivals the president's annual State of the Union message.
00:38:57.000The gathering has drawn 400 confirmed speakers, including Vice President Joe Biden, presidential candidates Trump, Clinton, Cruz, Kasich, who will address more than 15,000 pro Israel Americans, including two thirds of the current members of Congress.
00:39:11.000And according to the lobby's website, the event is the largest gathering of America's pro Israel community.
00:39:15.000Among the confirmed speakers are 30 members of the U.S. Congress, 25 of whom received 2016 contributions from pro Israel PACs and individuals, averaging $36,000 per recipient, about a million dollars in total.
00:39:34.000And we could go back to Harry Truman with the briefcase full of cash.
00:39:37.000But we have been essentially getting raped.
00:39:40.000Our country has been getting raped by foreign powers for about 60, 70 years, whether it's Israel, Saudi Arabia, China, the European Union, Mexico, in countless different ways.
00:40:30.000We're the only ones who have to do that, right?
00:40:33.000We're the only ones who have to condemn foreign collusion and intervention.
00:40:38.000Tell you what, I will condemn Russian intervention, Russian meddling in our election.
00:40:44.000I will strongly condemn that the same day that those two thirds of Congress come out and condemn Israel's interference in our election system.
00:40:53.000I will go out and condemn Russia the minute that both parties come out and condemn Mexico for their interference in our election system.
00:41:00.000Any day now, I'm sure it'll happen, right?
00:41:03.000But of course, they don't care about it.
00:41:05.000Collusion, they don't care about treason, they don't care about meddling, they don't care about honesty.
00:41:12.000The whole point of the narrative is to delegitimize the president.
00:41:16.000They want to maintain the status quo, the status quo that benefits them.
00:41:22.000The truth is that the intelligence community, the press, the politicians, the financial interests, they are a part of a different class than us.
00:41:37.000A new world order, maybe that George H.W. Bush described in 1991, where these people, they don't share the same values as us.
00:41:44.000They don't share the same religion as us.
00:41:46.000They don't share the same culture as us.
00:41:49.000They live very different lives than us and they have very different interests than us.
00:41:53.000For about 25 years, and you can look at this, in every public opinion poll on virtually every issue, the elites and the public have been diverging on political issues, on religious issues, cultural tastes, you name it, it's happening.
00:42:06.000You have the elites which have embraced a trans National or international identity, whereas Americans have embraced nationalism and patriotism.
00:42:16.000The elites have embraced atheism, secularism, modernism.
00:42:21.000This is true with all the Republicans.
00:42:22.000That's why Republicans always lose on issues like life, on issues like gay marriage, on the cultural issues, because they're either atheists or they're Jews.
00:42:32.000And in either way, they're diverged from the vast majority of people who are Christians, and even the immigrants are Christians.
00:42:38.000And that's what's happening in the country.
00:42:40.000These people benefit from mass immigration, they benefit from war, literal war profiteers, they benefit from trade imbalances, and we get hurt by all of that.
00:42:49.000So, what you have in the country is a divergence between the people making the decisions and the people feeling the consequences of the decisions.
00:42:56.000And so, what they want is to keep that quiet.
00:44:58.000I mean, look, look, I don't mean to come out too strongly.
00:45:01.000I don't mean to be totally fire and brimstone, but all these people who are in my mentions on Twitter, and they're saying, he's probably never had sex.
00:45:10.000He's probably never pleasured a woman, this kind of stuff, all this.
00:45:14.000And I only have to look at it with like a regrettable amusement, I guess, or a reluctant amusement, because I say, look, all these people, they're so smug, they're so conceited, prideful, lost in their ways, they have no idea what they're in for.
00:45:31.000And they can mock and they can laugh and they can say, oh, Nick is this, Nick is that.
00:45:36.000But you know, when they're burning in hell forever, it's going to be awfully difficult to be smug.
00:45:42.000When they are in the land, when they're cast off into the furnace, into the place of wailing and the gnashing of teeth, it's going to be very difficult to be so smug.
00:45:52.000So, hey, look, I just hope it's worth it.
00:45:55.000All these people, and they say that, I say, like, wow, you know, I really hope you're enjoying it now.
00:46:03.000Because when your time comes, and it comes for everybody, it's not going to be a good time for you.
00:46:09.000American Rebel says, Is hell a real place or is it just a metaphor for being apart from God?
00:46:15.000I'm not sure if you've ever given your thoughts on the matter before.
00:46:18.000Also, your dad wants a suit back, Nick.
00:46:39.000But on your question, I'll get to your question.
00:46:42.000Is hell a real place or is it just a metaphor for being apart from God?
00:46:45.000You know, it's tough because all the language in the Bible, I believe, for the most part, if you look at any of the imagery in the Bible, a lot of it is metaphorical.
00:46:56.000And what I mean by that is not that it's not real, not that it's not real in a certain sense, but you have to understand that Jesus Christ and the prophets of God were trying to express very complicated ideas to ancient people.
00:47:11.000You know, imagine you're God, and we can sort of approach an understanding.
00:47:16.000Now that we understand science a little bit better, we can say that God is, and we can understand him with classical philosophy and the benefit of modern science.
00:47:25.000We could say that perhaps he is a four dimensional being.
00:47:29.000He has a temporal as well as a spatial component.
00:47:31.000I mean, we can look at it and understand that this is not a man in the sky with a beard and a scepter, that kind of thing, but it is a much more complicated situation than that, and something that we could not even fathom with our mortal minds.
00:47:47.000And so you imagine trying to communicate.
00:47:50.000The nature of that being, the nature of that God, in a way that people 2,000 years ago would understand, people who never knew science or medicine or had television, all they had was farming, basically, right?
00:48:04.000Or some cities, how you could communicate those ideas to those people, you do rely a lot on analogy.
00:48:12.000And so I would imagine that hell is probably a real place.
00:48:15.000I mean, some interpretations say that you're just annihilated, you don't have eternal life.
00:52:57.000The Tsardom, or whatever you call it, the Tsarist system.
00:53:00.000That was a part of their culture in the same way that the British monarchy is a part of British culture.
00:53:05.000The Russian Tsar was a part of their culture, and the Romanov dynasty was a big part of it.
00:53:11.000And the Bolshevik Revolution I hesitate to say the Communist or the Russian Revolution or the Communist Revolution the Bolshevik Revolution was capitalizing on a lot of general discontent, a lot of general anxiety about what was happening in Russia at the time.
00:53:28.000The war, the economic collapse, the famines.
00:53:32.000And the Bolsheviks were really opportunists.
00:53:34.000They seized St. Petersburg really through luck.
00:53:38.000The Mensheviks were much greater in number.
00:53:40.000You had socialists, you had union people.
00:53:42.000But the Bolsheviks were, I guess, smart opportunists.
00:53:44.000They were able to build up a bigger army.
00:53:49.000And in really a brutal and very lucky way, they were able to seize control of the country.
00:53:55.000But when you look at what they did to the Romanov family, where they executed the women and the children, In the most gruesome way and did it gleefully.
00:54:02.000I mean, that tells you a little something about who these people were.
00:54:54.000Everybody has a very different definition.
00:54:56.000And certainly, Adam Smith's definition of capitalism is a far cry from Milton Friedman's definition of capitalism or Irving Kristol's definition of capitalism or any one of these economists.
00:55:09.000And so, when you think about capitalism, it means capital.
00:55:13.000It means that you have capital, which means private capital.
00:55:17.000Wealth, land, machinery, all the rest, which is privately owned, not owned by the state.
00:55:22.000And people are free enterprise or free market capitalism is the free exchange of those goods and services, of that capital, the usage and the maintenance of the capital.
00:55:32.000That I don't think anybody has a problem with, in theory.
00:55:36.000Nobody has a problem with the fact that there is private property and that there is free exchange.
00:55:41.000But the problem becomes when free enterprise and capitalism is driving us towards.
00:55:48.000A system that is based on consumption rather than investment, a system where there are large monopolies as opposed to competition.
00:55:57.000I would hardly say that the current system can be described in the same way that John Smith would have called capitalism, where it's international in character and where it is centralized in the hands of very few decision makers.
00:56:09.000I could hardly think that he could have imagined something like that.
00:56:11.000He talked about the local butcher and the local people like that.
00:56:15.000In a small town, sure, it makes sense, but then when you look at what's happening with trade with China, This cannot be justified under any grounds.
00:56:24.000So, I don't say I'm principally for capitalism because I'm really not.
00:57:06.000So the simplistic socialism versus capitalism was cooked up in a think tank by literally by the Koch brothers.
00:57:14.000I used to think that was a big myth, but you look at it and you could look at just about any one of these guys, whether it's Cato, whether it's Heritage, whoever it is, TPUSA.
00:57:23.000All these different groups that are pushing capitalism, education on the free market, just look at who their donors are.
00:57:29.000They're people that benefit from deregulation, low taxes, free trade, all the rest.
00:57:33.000Is there a lobby for the American worker?
00:57:36.000Is there a lobby for the American manufacturer?
01:00:08.000Every time I go after, it seems like it's almost, I don't know, you go after one group, and I actually don't have too many problems, but you go after another, and it's like your stream shut down, your internet disconnected, so I don't know.
01:00:19.000But, um, It's a little tongue in cheek.
01:00:22.000But with homosexuals, what they have is like the cattiness of women, but they are also like aggressive like men.
01:00:30.000It's this very weird chimera kind of thing.
01:00:33.000And Millennial Lowe's is a very petty, bitchy, gossipy kind of a guy.
01:00:39.000And I can't help but wonder if that has something to do with the fact that he was like a gay call guy 20 years ago.
01:03:58.000But number two, why I re embraced Catholicism was because you have to understand that God exists.
01:04:04.000If you understand the five cosmological arguments, the teleological arguments, and whole other reasons, I mean, you understand that it is necessary that God exists.
01:04:13.000Number two, the historicity and also the metaphysical reasoning says that Jesus Christ had to have been crucified and resurrected.
01:04:23.000And then, number three, if you understand all those things, then you understand that it has to be that you have a church.
01:05:39.000You know, some of it goes a little bit too far, but I think it's generally the right approach.
01:05:43.000Distributism says that instead of capitalism or socialism, we should embrace a system.
01:05:51.000Rather, the economy does better when the wealth is distributed.
01:05:55.000And that doesn't mean I know a lot of capitalist libertarian people are going to get triggered by wealth isn't distributed, it's earned and created, and all this kind of, you know, okay, okay, yeah, I read Thomas Sowell too.
01:06:25.000You have a much better system when you have people who own their homes and they have some sense of economic independence, autonomy, than when they're serfs, when they're debt slaves or they're indentured basically as they are now.
01:07:44.000Well, his takes are so obviously wrong to anybody who knows what they're talking about.
01:07:49.000When he gets on and says Israel and Russia and Hungary and Poland and America are all in the same alliance, it's like anybody who knows the first thing about any of these countries knows that's nonsense.
01:08:03.000The idea that, The Jewish lobby and the Israel lobby is somehow in favor of nationalism or ethnic nationalism in the West is a joke.
01:09:17.000I was big on that narrative a while ago, but it's not totally true.
01:09:21.000You know, Putin is not exactly the best representative of Christianity and tradition and all the rest.
01:09:28.000He is promoting Orthodox Christianity in Russia, don't get me wrong.
01:09:32.000But I think the much larger reason they hate him is not really ideological.
01:09:37.000They need to feed the military industrial complex.
01:09:40.000They need to keep it going that Putin is the enemy, and then we can keep having big military contracts in NATO and with the Middle East and all these other people.
01:09:50.000If Russia was our friend, why would we have to spend so much on military?
01:10:20.000A pothole is some disturbance in your life which changes your course.
01:10:25.000And I'm watching this and I'm thinking, do you know what a pothole is, idiot?
01:10:31.000He's like, oh, well, a pothole is this device that I like to use to describe something where if your parents aren't there or you get sick or your brother dies, well, that's something that'll change your course and make you a neo Nazi.
01:10:45.000I'm sorry, but have you ever been driving down the road and there's a pothole and suddenly you're turning down another street?
01:11:22.000American Rebel says more of you guys need to show some love for Nick.
01:11:25.000He's like the alt right's annoying little brother.
01:11:27.000Come on, guys, Nick, if we ever met up, we would have to arm wrestle.
01:11:31.000I snap twig boy arms like they're toothpicks.
01:11:35.000The annoying, well, that's not obviously a very flattering depiction.
01:11:38.000I will say for everybody who likes to critique on the physical appearance, or people like to say, he's young, he's obnoxious, he's this, he's that, I'm smarter than you.
01:13:27.000I mean, just like his shirts are tearing open, but he's getting bullied.
01:13:32.000And like, Very apparent that he's getting a little bit shaky about it because this kid is yelling at him for being gay or whatever.
01:13:43.000And I see something like that, or I saw some of the speeches in American Renaissance, and I say, you know, it doesn't really affect me too much.
01:13:50.000The abilities that I have are very few and far in between, and so exceptional that when people say, oh, I could lift a heavy rock, I could beat you in an arm wrestling competition, it's like, well, you know, that makes you feel better, right?
01:14:04.000But I appreciate the call for people to support Nick.
01:16:10.000I watched his video the other day, one of his videos, where he's like, I was moving and I've just been so stressed out because you guys are emailing me and that's why I can't make content.
01:18:22.000And so we'll play with him, and sometimes he gets a little annoying.
01:18:25.000Not going to lie, everybody gets annoying from time to time.
01:18:29.000But then we had one of my friends who brought in his friend from high school, he was like 16, and he was just like the most annoying person on the planet.
01:18:36.000He wasn't even based or anything, he wasn't even like a racist.
01:18:40.000And so we were like, oh, okay, now we are reminded why Fed is a great.
01:18:48.000Friend of the show, friend of the Discord.
01:20:05.000The super chats used to be like this where people would be, you know, they try to troll me or they try to get under my skin or they're just outright antagonistic.
01:21:47.000But when people start talking about armed and that kind of thing, usually that's either a federal agent or it's somebody being talked to by feds.
01:21:55.000Either way, it's got no place in a political movement.
01:21:57.000It's not what we're trying to do here.