In this episode of America First, host Nicholas J. Fuentes and co-host Emily Edwards discuss the latest in the Trump administration, including the latest on the Biden/Biden scandal, the new report from the RAND Corporation on the Ukraine crisis, and a story about how a hoodie I wore to Mar-A-Lago almost ruined it. Also, I accidentally ruined my own hoodie, but that's another story for another day. America First is hosted by Emily Edwards and is produced by Natalie Barbu and Jonny LoQuasto. Please remember to Like and Subscribe to stay up to date with what's going on in the world of politics, pop culture, and pop culture. Please also please remember that the opinions and thoughts expressed on the show do not necessarily reflect those of our employers. We are not responsible for the opinions or views expressed by our employees, partners, or employees of our companies. We do not own the rights to any of the music used in the show. This episode was produced and edited by Emily and Emily's original music, which is produced and produced by our own Emily and Jonathan. Thank you for all your support and support. Thank you so much to everyone who has been listening, supporting, and supporting this show, and all the support we've gotten so far this year and in the years coming in the coming years. We look forward to seeing you in 2020 and beyond! - Emily, Emily, EJ, Ephraim, Elyssa, and Elesa, Emily and Elicia, and the rest of the next year! Thank you. - Thank you, Elesia, Erika, and Emily, and everyone else who has contributed to this podcast, and we hope you enjoy the show, thank you for listening and supporting the show and supporting us in 2020, and sending us all the love, support, and support us in any way you can do what we can do, you're all can do it! and we appreciate you, you are amazing, and thank you, bye bye! - P.S. and EJ & EJ. and good night! Love ya! - EJ and Ej, bye, bye! - Niamh, bye. - MURTHY! - M.J. & E.A. - NANCY, SONGS: - NICKY, JUICY, AND EJ
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00:02:16.000Trump announced in November and it was kind of horrible and soul-crushingly disappointing because that was really all we had at that point in time.
00:02:28.000That was really all that we had going for us.
00:02:30.000That was before Ye met with Trump and Mar-a-Lago and went on Alex Jones.
00:02:36.000But at that time, that was where at least I had placed all of our hopes for the next few years, and it was a total disaster.
00:02:43.000And it seems like it just keeps getting worse.
00:02:45.000Like, he hosts all these gay people at his house, and then he goes to the Jews and says all that.
00:02:54.000But lately it seems like he's trying to turn it around, and I said on Telegram that it's not really well executed, but if it's an indication that he realizes there's a problem, then it's a very good sign, because it means that it's possible that it could get better.
00:05:39.000But eventually I wanted to wear it again.
00:05:41.000It was just, there was like stains on it and stuff.
00:05:43.000So I was like, okay, I got to wash it.
00:05:46.000And so I threw it in the washing machine by itself.
00:05:50.000And I don't know if, I don't know what happened, but I put it in the washing machine by itself.
00:05:55.000And when I went to take it out, it was literally like a hundred pounds.
00:05:59.000I don't know how that's even possible, but I literally was struggling to lift it out of the washing machine because I don't know what that is, but it was so soaking wet it was probably like, I'm not even exaggerating, it was like 60 pounds.
00:16:35.000Anyway, um... So, we haven't talked about Russia in a long time, and to be honest with you, I haven't been following it very closely, but there was just this big report by the RAND Corporation, which, if you don't know, is one of these, like, super think tanks for the defense industry.
00:16:57.000And the big story is that they put out this report and basically said we lost.
00:17:00.000They said we lost, pack it up, it's over.
00:17:04.000Which is news, because, as you know, we keep recommitting to this conflict.
00:17:10.000The conflict is dragging on now for, it's almost been a full year.
00:17:14.000The war started on February 24th, 2022.
00:17:19.000So it's been 11 months of war, and initially the narrative was that Russia had encountered unexpectedly strong resistance, and that we're gonna win this thing, and we're gonna put sanctions on Russia, man, and we're gonna
00:17:39.000And the prospect of being sanctioned indefinitely is going to deter them from moving further.
00:17:46.000And that was a narrative for like, I don't know, six months, nine months.
00:17:52.000And then the reality began to set in that the sanctions are really destroying continental Europe.
00:18:08.000The countries that are really experiencing the worst economic downturn from this would be Germany and the other continental European countries.
00:18:18.000So the Europeans are complaining, and at the same time, we're not even achieving our strategic objectives.
00:18:23.000Russia is not losing ground, contrary to the narrative pushed by NATO.
00:18:37.000The idea that Ukraine will be able to effectively launch counter-offensives and they're going to win back large swaths of territory and secure the full state and then accede to NATO, like it just isn't going to happen.
00:19:19.000And anybody, again, the most that you could say, as liberal as you could be, is say that Ukraine was going to indefinitely halt the Russian advance.
00:19:31.000That the combination of the sanctions and this logistical support and open-ended commitment to Ukraine, the idea was that we could indefinitely halt Russia
00:19:43.000Inflict casualties, destroy their equipment, stop the advance, deter them from going further.
00:19:48.000But that's as far as it was ever going to get.
00:19:52.000In the media, of course, they were saying, no, we're going to win.
00:19:54.000Like, Zelensky's going to be the president forever, and they're going to win, and it's going to be this David and Goliath story.
00:20:10.000The RAND Corporation, a highly influential elite national security think tank funded directly by the Pentagon, has published a landmark report stating that prolonging the proxy war is actively harming the United States and its allies and warning Washington that it should avoid a protracted conflict in Ukraine.
00:20:29.000The report has an unequivocal title, Avoiding a Long War, U.S.
00:20:33.000Policy and the Trajectory of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict.
00:20:37.000And it provides a strong indication as to its contents.
00:20:41.000It starts by stating that the fighting represents, quote, the most significant interstate conflict in decades, and its evolution will have major consequences for Washington, which includes U.S.
00:20:54.000The report makes it very clear that while Ukrainians have been doing the fighting and their cities have been flattened and economy decimated, these interests are not synonymous with Kiev's.
00:21:04.000ending its financial, humanitarian, and particularly military support promptly would cause Ukraine to completely collapse, and Rand cites several reasons why doing so would be sensible, not least of all because Ukrainian victory is regarded as both improbable and unlikely due to Russian resolve and its military mobilization having rectified the manpower deficit that enabled Ukraine's success in the Kharkiv counter-offensive.
00:21:32.000It's a pretty big deal, because this is the Pentagon essentially admitting defeat.
00:21:38.000And we had talked about this for a long time, and it was so funny, because whenever these things happen, the propaganda is just totally divorced from reality.
00:23:48.000And the whole Russia collusion thing was going on.
00:23:51.000I wrote a white paper in Model UN about how Russia should fund UKIP, and Alternative for Deutschland, and Syriza, and all these far-right parties to break apart the NATO alliance.
00:24:04.000You know, and I know that all sounds like silly or whatever, but the point is, I actually had an interest in the subject.
00:24:11.000I actually have like a deep background on it.
00:24:24.000This idea of rebuilding the Soviet Union, and the whole history there of the eastward NATO expansion, and the war in Georgia, and the prospect of Ukraine-Georgia membership in NATO.
00:24:40.000Even like the intermediate missiles, and the debate over that, their deployment in Eastern Europe.
00:24:48.000So I went into the debate very comfortably, and what was really, truly shocking about it was this guy didn't know anything about the subject.
00:25:03.000And it just astounds me, the abject stupidity that he came, and now I can just reveal my open contempt for Destiny.
00:25:15.000I mean, he comes in there so confidently, but just, like, vomiting up liberal bullshit that he, like, saw on TV.
00:25:24.000He's like, well, Putin said that the worst geopolitical catastrophe of the 21st century is rebuilding the Soviet Union.
00:25:33.000And all these idiots that watch him, you know, all these, and they're all like OnlyFans and they're mind destroyed by hormone therapy and everything.
00:25:42.000All his tranny fans are watching this like, ooh, oh, like this is, I'm learning.
00:25:50.000I'm being entertained and I'm learning.
00:26:19.000At that time it was the Democrats saying to not worry about Russia.
00:26:24.000Going back to 2012, going back before that, it was Hillary Clinton that did the Russian reset with Lavrov when she was the Secretary of State.
00:26:34.000It was Obama in 2012 who said, we have fewer horses and bayonets too, and the 1980s called, they want their foreign policy back.
00:26:47.000It moved across the spectrum, and it's been the same conversation for 10 years, and it's literally the same talking points.
00:26:55.000I remember going to the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations book club meeting and getting my Garry Kasparov book signed, Winter is Coming, with this Jewish spook.
00:27:08.000He wrote a book about how Putin is Hitler and all that trash.
00:27:13.000And I read Bret Stephens' America in Retreat and all that about how like America's just gotta beef up and we gotta maintain the Cold War tripwire and all these flashpoints against China and Russia and Iran.
00:27:29.000You know, so, been there, done that, got the t-shirt.
00:27:36.000And anyway, so the most offensive thing about the debate was just, like, his confidence going in, like, um, so I think, uh, what is his name again?
00:27:46.000Uh, yeah, so he's like a total freaking asshole, and basically, like, Ukraine voted to, like, be America's slave, and that's their right, and basically Putin's, like, Hitler,
00:28:00.000And I'm just sitting there like, you know, this guy just gets all his opinions from TV.
00:28:11.000That is the unignorable, quintessential feature of our political society now, which is that the media, as much as we hate to admit it, is so effective.
00:28:48.000And so when a free guy like me, or Ye, or Trump starts talking, or something like this pops off, they just hit the button and they get the mass media coverage and everybody's just like, yup.
00:30:03.000Pray for Doopadoo, the city where, uh, I don't know, they're just like, super mutants are raping everybody and then cutting their faces off.
00:30:14.000You know, all the intermediary bullshit.
00:30:18.000And it's just as true today when the Pentagon finally admits it, that that was never gonna happen.
00:30:24.000But you would never know a year ago because it was just blasted on TV everywhere and even like smart people just took it and believed it and they were like, yeah, like we're going to win this thing.
00:32:01.000You turn your back on us if you got the vaccine.
00:32:04.000Like, lose your job, lose your school, all that.
00:32:08.000But I know there's a large proportion of people that watch the show, and if you're one of them, hey, you know, like, fuck you, okay?
00:32:15.000I mean, there are some people that I like that did it, but also, like, fuck you for doing that.
00:32:21.000There are a lot of people that watch the show and, you know, were fans and everything, that went out and got it.
00:32:27.000Because they just caved, like they just totally buckled, they cucked.
00:32:32.000Because even on something as intimate and significant as that, which is the government saying, you have to get a vaccine, like that's just, no one ever thought it would get that far, but it did.
00:32:47.000The government saying you will lose your job, you can't go out if you don't get our experimental vaccine.
00:32:52.000Like, could you have imagined a more urgent, extreme circumstance prior to that happening?
00:33:25.000If we can't resist this, what can we resist?
00:33:28.000And in spite of me being right, in spite of me being correct, and all of that being pretty self-evident, there were a lot of people that loved the show and fully believed it that got it anyway.
00:33:41.000They just went in there and were like, oh, don't hate me guys, but I gotta do what I gotta do.
00:33:50.000And now a year later, they're like, man, biggest regret of my life, that was so stupid, I can't believe I did that.
00:33:59.000And it just goes to show, you know, it's so it's not even about like the Ukraine thing is pretty Insignificant by comparison it's pretty remote But it's everything is like this and you need to know that it's like you need to mentally prepare yourself you need to
00:34:21.000Reminisce about when the media hysteria is at its worst and remember what it felt like and think about what it feels like now about the masks, about the VACs, about George Floyd and the Black Square and about Ukraine.
00:34:38.000And really meditate on that because there's going to be another thing and it's going to be overwhelming.
00:34:46.000And it's going to feel, of course, much more overwhelming in the moment than it does now.
00:34:53.000And that's why people almost need to begin to kind of train their brain and condition themselves, visualize that.
00:35:00.000The next emergency, the next, the next crusade and be ready to resist it and say, uh, no, I trust my own reasoning.
00:35:16.000And that's, that's how you're, you know, that's how you're not going to go and go crazy when the George Floyd thing pops off or go and get vaccinated or do a bunch of crazy stuff with the masks or,
00:36:05.000You think they're not manipulated after?
00:36:07.000Do you remember when they would report hospitalizations for COVID?
00:36:12.000And they would say that if you broke your arm and you went to the hospital and then they happen to test you positive for COVID and you didn't even know that you had it, they would count that as someone that was hospitalized for COVID.
00:36:24.000That's just like one example of how they cook the books.
00:36:27.000And they did the same thing with deaths.
00:36:29.000If you got hit by a truck and died and they did an autopsy and they found out that you died from getting hit by a truck, but they also found out that you had COVID at the same time, that was a COVID death.
00:37:48.000Because the story is really just about this report, but it just goes to show like the government will admit these things just like the just like eventually It will come to light that like Israel did 9-11.
00:38:00.000It will come to light that the Mossad killed JFK It will come to light all these things They all seem crazy at the time like you know white replacement was crazy six years ago
00:38:15.000When we went to Charlottesville to protest white replacement, that was too far.
00:38:19.000Like, the alt-light wouldn't touch that.
00:38:29.000Or is he just five years ahead of the curve?
00:38:33.000Just like the people that said that the Vax kills, or that Ukraine will lose, or that masks don't work, or that George Floyd wasn't actually killed by the cops.
00:38:43.000You know, or whatever for that matter.
00:38:45.000Or everything that Alex Jones said about, you know, the Bilderberg, Illuminati, lizard people.
00:38:54.000So, you know, that's just how the society works.
00:39:01.000And people need to understand that principle.
00:39:03.000It's about, it's about that principle and it's about that system.
00:39:07.000Because once you realize that that is just how it works, you know, then you really begin to see the whole system of control.
00:39:19.000And how, you know, just how they have achieved what they have.
00:39:33.000Like I said, we knew from the beginning it was and they of course the Kiev government had some minor success in the latter half of the last year.
00:39:42.000They had all this tactics and logistics from NATO and of course the heavy artillery and officers and even like mercenaries and things like that.
00:39:56.000And so they were able to have some minor success on the battlefield.
00:40:00.000But once again, the idea that Ukraine could or that Russia would allow for Crimea to be lost, it just was never gonna happen.
00:40:13.000And you saw that when Russia began to suffer setbacks, what did they do?
00:40:17.000They did a partial mobilization of 300,000 reservists
00:40:24.000So, I mean, do you think that Russia would ever allow Crimea to be lost?
00:41:27.000So it was just, they were just never going to allow that.
00:41:30.000And even when, once again, Ukraine was able to have some success, what did they do?
00:41:35.000They mobilized 300,000 guys, started training them and all that, and those guys are gradually being deployed and, you know, they had to be kind of trained and then they're, you know, they're kind of shuffling the existing ones in and all that.
00:41:51.000And if it came to it, they would do a full mobilization.
00:41:54.000If it came to it, it would come to nukes and missiles and they would mobilize everybody and they'd make a wartime economy to make artillery.
00:42:18.000Even though there was no argument, it just didn't matter, because TV would just go constantly with this drumbeat about, you know, the resolve of the Ukrainians, the ghost of Kiev, and Zelensky's such a hunk.
00:42:31.000If he, if I found him in bed with my wife, I just ask him, do you remember how fucking disgusting that stuff was?
00:42:38.000They were literally, I don't know if that was like trolls, I don't know if that was like, like, uh, you know, right-wing trolls going and posting that like, you know, parody it, but do you remember, I don't even think that's true, I think that was real, where all these libfags were going on and saying, if I found Zelensky in bed with my wife,
00:42:57.000I'd ask, I'd tuck him in and ask how he wants his coffee in the morning.
00:43:00.000It's like, do you know how fucking gross that is?
00:43:02.000And do you understand how fucking insane, I'm sorry for the language, but that's insane.
00:43:15.000They see him on the cover of Time Magazine, and they see the show business propaganda about him on the nightly news, but they don't know who this guy, they don't know he's like a Jewish actor involved with the mob,
00:44:27.000That you would have, like, normal people, like, you know, normal, like, what we would, what is considered normal these days, you would have these, like, normal people who just watch, like, TV and football and, like, you know, try to pick up chicks at the bar, whatever.
00:44:45.000And they're, like, creaming their pants over some, like, third-world Jewish gangster puppet leader that they had never heard of, and, like, they have no idea what's going on.
00:44:54.000Suddenly they're, like, that invested.
00:44:58.000Like, they're taking sides, like, uh... I don't know what a big pop culture feud is, like, uh... Who is that couple from the High School Musical show?
00:46:38.000It's like I did that show the other week.
00:46:41.000The Associated Press does an article about how ADL and SPLC are warning about people like me getting on Twitter.
00:46:52.000Or they're warning about anti-Semitic incidents online.
00:46:57.000And it's like all these groups are in bed with the government, okay?
00:47:00.000Like, all these groups are funded by the government.
00:47:03.000These, uh, all these various non-profits, think tanks with, like, Strategy in their name, you know, Strategy, Defense, Institute, Policy Center, Research This, whatever, they're all getting money from the State Department, the Defense Department, from the constellation of corporate public interests that meet at Davos,
00:47:25.000And they're controlling the conference, and they think that they're, like, doing it for Harry Potter.
00:47:30.000They think they're doing it for, like, Hermione Granger and women's rights.
00:47:35.000They're going out there taking money hand over fist from the Pentagon and the State Department, and they're like, no, no, but this is okay, because we're doing this for, like, Pussy Riot.
00:48:18.000Shocker Ukraine is gonna lose, you know, we knew that I made a bet with destiny I said like I basically told them I said that in August I was like, you know what?
00:48:29.000I'm like you can say whatever the NATO propaganda is today yesterday It was that Russia was attacking nuclear power plants today.
00:48:37.000It's chemical weapons the day after its butcher I said see, you know, you can tell me whatever whatever like I
00:48:44.000Super duper serious report came from the government today I'm like, but when all is said and done like I'm gonna be right and I will bet you that I'm gonna be right and It doesn't matter what the TV says today and you know, how how good those sources are source These are experts.
00:49:02.000These are the specialists, you know doesn't matter.
00:49:04.000This is gonna be the outcome because that's just the facts That's just how it is
00:49:11.000So I'll bet you that Ukraine is going to lose.
00:49:13.000And he's like, well, what does that mean?
00:50:12.000Like, because these people, they're like, well, we're in this post-truth age, I just don't know what to trust.
00:50:19.000It's like, well, I think I have a pretty good hunch.
00:50:25.000That if people are creaming their pants over Volodymyr Zelensky out of nowhere because the Pentagon wants to control Germany's energy, you know, something's wrong there.
01:02:43.000I was kind of hoping that Trump would be acceptable, and that if he were to get back in office, then we could fill up the White House with groipers.
01:02:51.000And so even if he was only acceptable, if he was just fine, that would be okay, because we had a backdoor into the White House, into a future Trump White House, where we could fill it up and load it up with groipers.
01:06:04.000It didn't really get better, and I had hoped that maybe somebody would break through, but the word in Trump world is that there is this impenetrable wall around him of advisers that are pushing him in this terrible direction.
01:06:16.000I'm not going to name any names, but if you're in the know, you know who the queen is of the campaign, and you know one of the hatchet guys who's really bad news.
01:06:26.000It's a bad crew around him, and they're not letting anybody get close.
01:08:07.000But then there's also something more subtle going on here.
01:08:11.000Because he talks about the Club for Growth.
01:08:14.000Which if you don't know, Club for Growth is one of these big lobbying institutions founded by Grover Norquist, who's a pro-business libertarian.
01:08:23.000And club for growth is like the mouthpiece of big business and and a big part of Accelerating this like so-called small government, you know low regulation low tax business environment agenda and
01:08:39.000And anyway, so Trump says, well these guys are globalist.
01:08:43.000He says, I've been beating them for years, they're globalist, and so that's great.
01:08:48.000But he also says something more subtle where he says they couldn't get away from China, Europe, Asia, and parts unknown.
01:08:57.000And what's subtle here is, what is the line from all of the Republicans for the last five years?
01:09:05.000What's the one thing they loved about Trump?
01:09:09.000The one thing that Rex Tillerson and Mike Pompeo and Mike Pence and Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity and James Comey and Time Magazine and The Journal, the one thing that they all loved, loved about Trump
01:09:27.000is that he reoriented American foreign policy away from the Middle East and against China.
01:09:58.000But anyone in the military will tell you right now, and also anybody that pays attention will tell you that mysteriously, that is the consensus.
01:10:09.000All these people that are about to announce for president, Pompeo, Haley,
01:10:15.000You know, even to the extent that Peter Thiel was a big player in the midterms, Tucker, who's a big influence in the GOP, these guys are all anti-China hawks.
01:10:25.000And so, and it's very interesting because
01:10:29.000Of course Trump called out China as a cheat, which he was right about.
01:10:33.000He pointed out that China was our biggest adversary.
01:13:22.000You know, the 19th century was a multipolar world.
01:13:27.000There was no one power in the world that was more powerful than all the others put together, or even that much more powerful than the next greatest power.
01:13:37.000You know, in the 19th century you had Germany very powerful, America very powerful, the United Kingdom very powerful, to a lesser extent France, Russia, Ottoman Empire, and there was peace.
01:13:51.000There were no, with the exception of the Crimean War, there were no major conflicts from the Napoleonic Wars until World War I, with several exceptions.
01:14:03.000So you can do that with diplomacy and communication.
01:14:06.000You can get along and other countries can be powerful.
01:14:47.000I want to work for our people, and I want to beat them fair and square.
01:14:51.000I want to do what they're doing to us.
01:14:54.000To them, and I want to grow our economy, and I want us to have trade and everything, but it needs to be reciprocal, is what he said.
01:15:04.000We can have free trade, but it actually has to be fair and reciprocal, which is actually not free trade.
01:15:10.000Well, all these neocons get in, like Pompeo, and Tillerson, and Haley, and even Mike Pence, and all these other guys, and they're like, well, you're right!
01:16:20.000So when Trump goes out in 2023 and says Club for Growth, the pro-business lobby, is globalist, they can't get away from China, Europe, and Asia.
01:16:32.000This gets back to a view of the world which is not the great democracy against the evil fascists in China, the Islamo-Nazis, and the communists.
01:16:43.000This gets back to the kind of populist, isolationist, nationalist rhetoric from 16, where Trump is saying, look, they're all our adversary.
01:16:54.000Even these entangling alliances are taking a toll.
01:17:03.000Look at how Germany is taking advantage.
01:17:06.000Look at how South Korea and Japan are taking advantage.
01:17:09.000Look at how all these countries that we consider a friend are taking advantage.
01:17:14.000So when Trump goes out and says, and this is a subtle thing, when he says Club for Growth can't get away from China and Europe and Asia, because Asia includes all the TPP, TTIP, ASEAN countries, you know, Philippines, Vietnam,
01:17:30.000All of our allies that we expect to hedge our power against China.
01:21:51.000And there may be other candidates that haven't announced that I think could be very good.
01:21:57.000But the hope is that through the course of this competition, we will get the best nominee who's going to become elected and save America.
01:22:06.000Because I feel like it's possible now.
01:22:09.000I feel like with the introduction of maybe one new candidate and the prospect that Trump could really become great, I feel much better that we're going to get
01:22:19.000A great president, and we're going to get a great personnel, and it's really going to turn things around.
01:22:26.000I do feel much better about it based on this, because, you know, what was terrifying was the idea that he still hadn't learned.
01:22:34.000I was just, like, head in my hands, like, he just doesn't get it.
01:23:00.000And if there's even a little bit in there, and if he can develop that, and if this competition brings it out of him, the debates, these, because what they are is foils.
01:23:12.000To have a Nikki Haley in the race, she'll never win, but she's a foil.
01:23:34.000Now he's like Russell Crowe in Gladiator.
01:23:37.000He's got to go back to square one and become the king again, become the general or whatever.
01:23:45.000I hope that they're able to bring it out of them, and if not, then there are other options too.
01:23:51.000Like I said, I don't know if I love the post in itself, but there's a lot of good stuff in there, and it shows that he wants to turn things around.
01:23:59.000It shows that he knows it's not working.
01:24:05.000That maybe this whole competition is going to bring the best out of him.
01:24:49.000Spence says you were so right to roast every super chatter last year who was basically begging you to give them an excuse to take the vaccine Novak Djokovic after getting kicked out of Australia last year just won the Australian Open never cave let's go I didn't know that but good for him yeah I was right about that and some of you still didn't listen Jim status as I'm from New York I've had many