America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - Trump Orders ASSASSINATION of Iranian General Soleimani: WWIII IMMINENT? | America First Ep. 519

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00:35:23.000 Good evening, everybody.

00:35:24.000 You're watching America First.

00:35:25.000 My name is Nicholas J. Fuentes.

00:35:27.000 We have a great show for you tonight.

00:35:29.000 Very excited to be back with you here tonight on Monday for hopefully a very eventful week of the show.

00:35:37.000 It's been a long time.

00:35:39.000 It's been a long time since we did the show.

00:35:41.000 What was it?

00:35:42.000 Last Friday?

00:35:43.000 Not last Friday, but the Friday before.

00:35:46.000 It's been a year!

00:35:47.000 Wow!

00:35:48.000 Remember the last episode of America First last year in 2019?

00:35:54.000 I heard that joke a lot.

00:35:55.000 Well, it's our first show of 2020, our first show back from vacation, and a lot has happened.

00:36:02.000 You know, I think everybody predicted that, including myself, before I left for a week.

00:36:08.000 It is always the case, there is not a single exception.

00:36:12.000 That whenever I take off from the show for a little while, take a little time for myself to collect, you know, figure some things out, sort out my mental situation.

00:36:23.000 It is always the case that I come back and the world is on fire.

00:36:27.000 You know, I think last time I was on vacation there was a terror attack on an ICE headquarters.

00:36:33.000 A time before that it was the U.S.-North Korea summit for the first time and of course I go away for vacation this week and we almost get into a war with Iran. 0.61

00:36:43.000 Very epic.

00:36:44.000 Love to see it!

00:36:45.000 So obviously a lot has happened since the last time we spoke, since the last time you and I got together here to do this show.

00:36:53.000 But tonight we're finally gonna sort through it all.

00:36:55.000 I said on Telegram

00:36:57.000 Shortly before going live that this show is probably gonna be the best overview of the Iran situation overall That has been made since the big development, which is Soleimani getting assassinated on the 3rd So it's gonna be a great show.

00:37:12.000 We're gonna take the whole show and talk about Iran.

00:37:15.000 I have a whiteboard here Going over some of the major dates and I think it's very important that we get into where all of this came from

00:37:25.000 You know, obviously we're talking about the current tensions between the United States and Iran.

00:37:30.000 A lot has happened in the last week.

00:37:33.000 It started with some attacks on American bases in Iraq.

00:37:38.000 There were a number of rocket and missile attacks against U.S.

00:37:42.000 bases all throughout the month of December.

00:37:44.000 And then there was a particularly bad attack in the base in Kirkuk in Iraq.

00:37:50.000 And that initiated a series of retaliations.

00:37:53.000 The United States responded by attacking Hezbollah.

00:37:56.000 Hezbollah came to the American embassy in the Green Zone in Baghdad and caused a lot of trouble there.

00:38:03.000 In response to that, the United States assassinated Soleimani, who is the head of the Quds Force, which is this elite division in the IRGC, the answer to the Ayatollah.

00:38:14.000 And that is the big news, is the killing of Soleimani.

00:38:16.000 And now the question is, what will happen next?

00:38:19.000 How will Iran respond?

00:38:20.000 How will they retaliate?

00:38:22.000 And then, what is the United States reaction to that going to be?

00:38:25.000 So, a lot has happened in the past week, but like I said, it's very important to figure out how this week happened.

00:38:31.000 What precipitated a lot of these tensions?

00:38:34.000 What has caused...

00:38:36.000 The tensions between the United States or rather this administration in particular the Trump administration and the Iranian regime we're gonna go all the way back to 2018 give you what I hope is a quick but informative overview of events in the past couple of years and then we'll dive into what happened this week and then I will predict and analyze the situation as it stands now and what will happen in the future so it's gonna be a great show gonna be informative like I said

00:39:04.000 Whiteboard.

00:39:04.000 We're gonna have a whiteboard.

00:39:05.000 I know you guys like that.

00:39:07.000 Very visual.

00:39:08.000 I'm a visual person, too.

00:39:09.000 It's gonna be a lot of information, so that'll help to lay it out, I think.

00:39:13.000 And that's all we're gonna be talking about tonight.

00:39:15.000 You know, usually we do a couple of things, but in light of recent events, we're gonna really tackle the whole thing.

00:39:21.000 And it'll be the best exposition and analysis of the Iran situation anywhere.

00:39:25.000 Because I have to tell you, I'm on vacation for a week.

00:39:28.000 I went out to the Southwest.

00:39:30.000 Not gonna say specifically where, because I can't really give out too much information these days, now that I'm a high-profile internet celebrity.

00:39:39.000 But I took my vacation down Southwest, celebrated New Year's Eve and everything else.

00:39:44.000 And whenever I go away on vacation, it's like maddening.

00:39:47.000 Especially when something happens.

00:39:49.000 Because I see all the content on the internet, you know, like on Twitter, on social media, on YouTube.

00:39:55.000 And I'm thinking, like, I'm the best.

00:39:58.000 I'm the best.

00:39:59.000 My take needs to be out there.

00:40:01.000 Nobody else is doing a good enough job.

00:40:04.000 It's time for me to come back.

00:40:05.000 It's time for me to give my take.

00:40:07.000 So that's what I'm going to do tonight.

00:40:08.000 I'm going to outclass the field.

00:40:10.000 I'm going to show you why America First is the best show once again.

00:40:14.000 And I have to tell you, it's so frustrating.

00:40:16.000 I'm like on vacation.

00:40:18.000 We're just hanging out for the most part.

00:40:21.000 I was hanging out with Baked Alaska, Millennial Matt, a few other people, Zoomerclips.

00:40:27.000 We're hanging out just watching TV, and I'm just watching this situation unfold in Iran.

00:40:32.000 Embassy protests, missile strikes, assassination.

00:40:36.000 Thinking like I need to be behind the desk.

00:40:38.000 I need to give my take.

00:40:39.000 So it's good to be back to talk about that, but the vacation was good.

00:40:43.000 It was, it's sort of interesting.

00:40:45.000 You know, I go away for a week to get a bit of respite, respite, respite, to relax a little bit because it's been so intense the past few months, you understand, from the Groyper Wars and

00:40:59.000 The aftermath and SAS and Groyper Leadership Summit, everything that took place at the tail end of 2019.

00:41:06.000 I had to take a little bit of a break to, like I said, collect myself, relax, get prepared mentally for the election year.

00:41:14.000 It's going to be even crazier in 2020.

00:41:17.000 And all throughout the week, all I could think about is all the drama, all the politics, all the current events happening.

00:41:23.000 No, but it was a good week.

00:41:25.000 I saw the movie Uncut Gems, which was very good.

00:41:29.000 I saw Richard Jewell, which was pretty good.

00:41:31.000 Very implicit politically.

00:41:33.000 I'll have to find some time to talk about the movie Richard Jewell.

00:41:36.000 Maybe on a D livestream this week, so I feel like we should go into that.

00:41:39.000 We watched the entirety of The Mandalorian.

00:41:41.000 We watched the High School Musical series.

00:41:44.000 We watched The World According to Jeff Goldblum.

00:41:47.000 I talked about a lot of this stuff last night.

00:41:50.000 I did a D livestream at like 2 AM yesterday.

00:41:53.000 So it was a lot of a lot of content consumption.

00:41:57.000 We also went to a big party in a certain city.

00:42:00.000 Almost slipped there.

00:42:01.000 In a certain city for New Year's Eve.

00:42:03.000 Very fun ringing in the new year with all the friends.

00:42:06.000 I had In-N-Out Burger at least three times.

00:42:09.000 You guys know this is my favorite burger chain.

00:42:11.000 That was great.

00:42:13.000 And I also tried Whataburger.

00:42:14.000 Not a fan.

00:42:16.000 So it was a pretty relaxing, pretty chill vacation.

00:42:20.000 But it's good to be back.

00:42:21.000 Good to be back behind the desk doing the show.

00:42:23.000 I will say, before I dive into all the Iran stuff, there's one thing I want to address.

00:42:29.000 Which is Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes.

00:42:32.000 I saw this the past couple of nights.

00:42:35.000 When was the Golden Globes?

00:42:36.000 Like Sunday night or something?

00:42:39.000 And just before we dive into Iran, I just want to address this very quickly because on my D livestream last night and then on Twitter, I see a lot of people asking me my take on Ricky Gervais.

00:42:51.000 And I don't know if you saw this.

00:42:52.000 I don't watch the award shows.

00:42:54.000 I don't watch the Golden Globes.

00:42:55.000 But I think the Golden Globes were last night, right?

00:42:59.000 Sunday?

00:42:59.000 That sounds right to me.

00:43:00.000 It was Sunday night, and I guess Ricky Gervais, you know, famous, skeptic, atheist, Anglo-comedian, got up and was making all these really edgy jokes, edgy statements about Jeffrey Epstein and Apple and all this, and everyone's like, this is based, yo, Ricky Gervais based?

00:43:22.000 Red-pilled?

00:43:24.000 And I just have to sigh and, you know, roll my eyes.

00:43:26.000 I'm thinking, if it's on television, it's not based, okay?

00:43:29.000 It's really that simple.

00:43:31.000 You know, people are acting like this guy is up there breaking the conditioning.

00:43:35.000 They say, well, if Ricky Gervais made the Jeffrey Epstein joke, that means Ricky Gervais is based.

00:43:42.000 It's the opposite.

00:43:44.000 If Ricky Gervais went on an awards show and made the Jeffrey Epstein joke, it doesn't mean the Golden Globes are based.

00:43:51.000 It means the joke is cringe.

00:43:53.000 It doesn't mean that Ricky Gervais is red-pilled.

00:43:56.000 It means talking about China is blue-pilled.

00:43:59.000 Do you see how that works?

00:44:01.000 Everybody's in my mentions.

00:44:01.000 Ricky Gervais, bish, what do you think about that?

00:44:04.000 Didn't he name them?

00:44:05.000 Didn't he go off last night?

00:44:07.000 No.

00:44:08.000 You mean he went off on his scripted appearance at the awards show?

00:44:12.000 I don't think so.

00:44:13.000 So, I saw that.

00:44:14.000 Just wanted to point that out.

00:44:17.000 I saw a lot of this on the timeline.

00:44:18.000 A lot of people retweeting it.

00:44:19.000 A lot of the usual suspects in Conservative Inc.

00:44:23.000 That was so based last night.

00:44:24.000 No, not based.

00:44:26.000 Cringe.

00:44:26.000 And I called it, by the way.

00:44:27.000 I called that about the Jeffrey Epstein joke in particular.

00:44:32.000 I said, you know, they have... I think I addressed this not too long ago.

00:44:36.000 It was actually fairly recently.

00:44:38.000 A long time after Jeffrey Epstein actually was murdered.

00:44:42.000 I said, you know, they've taken this Jeffrey Epstein thing, they've totally twisted it until now, it's like this Reddit punchline, but it's not a joke!

00:44:51.000 We should actually be mad about it!

00:44:53.000 But you can't be mad about it anymore, because now they've turned it into something that's, you know, just a meme, a catchphrase, like, jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams.

00:45:01.000 It's like, why do you think people don't even look into 9-11 anymore?

00:45:04.000 It's because they turned it into a joke!

00:45:06.000 Bush did 9-11?

00:45:08.000 Well, somebody did!

00:45:10.000 Somebody in the Pentagon knew about it, you know?

00:45:12.000 I don't want to get into all that, but the same is true of the Jeffrey Epstein thing.

00:45:16.000 Oh, Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself!

00:45:18.000 He didn't!

00:45:19.000 He didn't!

00:45:19.000 Who killed him then?

00:45:21.000 Israel? 0.53

00:45:22.000 I don't know, but, you know, somebody killed them and now it's just a big joke and actors are making fun of it.

00:45:28.000 Actors are not based. 0.74

00:45:29.000 Actors are pedophiles and they're in the pocket of, you know, the cabal that runs the world. 1.00

00:45:35.000 So, anyway, saw that. 0.97

00:45:37.000 Had to name them real quick.

00:45:39.000 Had to get that out of my system.

00:45:41.000 Also, one other thing.

00:45:43.000 Growing the beard back.

00:45:44.000 I don't know if you can tell.

00:45:45.000 I don't know if you've noticed.

00:45:47.000 It's kind of like, I don't know if it's, it's not really grown out to where it should be yet.

00:45:51.000 I didn't have enough time to really grow it out, but I kind of like, I kind of like the look.

00:45:57.000 What I'm thinking, my plans, my plan, you know, when I say trust the plan, the plan is to grow out the mustache.

00:46:04.000 And then once the mustache has grown out, I will disengage the beard, shave the beard down to a stubble level, or maybe completely, but the goal is the mustache, you know, disengage the beard.

00:46:16.000 I've said this before, to me, it's like the lunar mission, you know, the mustache is like the lunar capsule, it's like the landing vehicle, and the beard is sort of like the boosters, like the rocket that gets it into

00:46:30.000 It's time to get serious.

00:46:32.000 It's time to get down to business.

00:46:33.000 No more jokes.

00:46:33.000 No more laughing.

00:46:34.000 We have to talk about Iran.

00:46:35.000 So a lot of people are scared.

00:46:36.000 A lot of people are confused.

00:46:38.000 They're wondering what has happened.

00:46:53.000 You know, I was with a few different people over the week, you know, when New Year's Eve was happening and everything, when all this was unfolding.

00:47:03.000 Some people knowing more than others.

00:47:05.000 Okay, I was with Baked Alaska, and I'm like trying to tweet about this thing and Baked is like, wait, so who is this guy?

00:47:13.000 Wait, so what's the coots for?

00:47:14.000 So what's this?

00:47:15.000 And I'm like, can you stop?

00:47:17.000 I'm trying to tweet right now.

00:47:19.000 So Banks was asking me all these questions.

00:47:21.000 I understand maybe some people are not really up to speed on where we are with Iran.

00:47:25.000 That's not a dig at him, by the way.

00:47:27.000 Love that guy.

00:47:28.000 But the point being, I understand a lot of people are maybe confused about why we're in this situation.

00:47:34.000 What exactly is going on?

00:47:36.000 Who is Qasem Soleimani?

00:47:38.000 Why did America kill him?

00:47:41.000 What was the pretext for all of this?

00:47:43.000 And that's what I'm going to try to do tonight, is to get into some of the answers here.

00:47:47.000 And really, the big picture, to sort of start with this exposition, I'm going to go over the whole timeline, and that's what my whiteboard is, which I'll get out in a moment, laying out how we arrived here, what are the major events, the major

00:48:01.000 We're good to go.

00:48:16.000 You had a major attack on an American military base in Kirkuk by these Iranian-backed militias in Iraq.

00:48:24.000 The United States responded with a big airstrike

00:48:33.000 We killed, I think it was five, five strikes in particular.

00:48:36.000 Three in Iraq, two in Syria.

00:48:38.000 All the details are in my notes, which I'll get to in a moment.

00:48:40.000 But America retaliates for the strike on our base with an overwhelming response.

00:48:46.000 And this was in response to a lot of attacks on American bases going on throughout the month of December that were perpetrated by Iranian-backed militias.

00:48:54.000 So we respond to all of that essentially with a big airstrike.

00:48:58.000 In response to this, on New Year's Eve, on December 31st,

00:49:02.000 There's a big presence, there's a big protest and rally, and a lot of chaos outside of the American Embassy in Baghdad.

00:49:11.000 This was sponsored by Hezbollah. 0.86

00:49:13.000 This was sponsored by Iranian-backed forces in Iraq.

00:49:17.000 In response to this, and other things, America then kills the head of the Quds Forces, Qasem Soleimani, in an airstrike

00:49:27.000 I think

00:49:43.000 Really sort of two militaries in a sense.

00:49:46.000 They've got their military and then they've got the IRGC.

00:49:50.000 The IRGC acts as the defender of the Iranian Revolution.

00:49:54.000 So of course the current regime in Iran is the Islamic Revolutionary Regime established in 1979 after the Islamic Revolution.

00:50:02.000 They have a military which operates as a conventional military.

00:50:06.000 Then they have the IRGC which is seen as sort of the vanguard of the revolution.

00:50:10.000 So they do all kinds of activities, not just in Iran, but also in other countries in Lebanon, in Iraq, in Syria.

00:50:17.000 They answer to the Ayatollah, the supreme leader, whereas the military answers to the president, President Rouhani.

00:50:23.000 So that's just a little bit of who Soleimani is.

00:50:26.000 It's a big deal.

00:50:28.000 Many people say that he was really the second most powerful person in Iran, which we'll get into why that is the case in a little bit in Iran.

00:50:36.000 So that happened and now there is this big question about how will Iran react to this?

00:50:41.000 How will they retaliate for the killing of their general?

00:50:44.000 And then where will we be once they respond?

00:50:47.000 If it's a big response, will we have to go to war?

00:50:50.000 If it's a small response, will we keep escalating?

00:50:53.000 You know, that's really where we are.

00:50:54.000 So to understand this, we have to go back to, like I said, denuclearization.

00:50:59.000 This is the big picture.

00:51:00.000 This is where a lot of the tension originates.

00:51:02.000 So we're gonna go back to

00:51:04.000 The Iran nuclear deal which is the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

00:51:09.000 I'll give you a little bit of background about that and then we'll get into the timeline here.

00:51:13.000 So this is according to Wikipedia a basic overview.

00:51:17.000 It says in July 2015 an agreement was concluded with Iran, China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union.

00:51:26.000 We're good to go!

00:51:47.000 I don't know.

00:52:07.000 We're good.

00:52:28.000 That's not Iraq, by the way.

00:52:30.000 The country, it's Iraq. 0.99

00:52:31.000 A-R-A-K, which is in Iran, used to make plutonium that could fuel a bomb. 0.99

00:52:36.000 And lastly, permitting wide-ranging and intrusive IAEA inspections designed to verify that Iran isn't cheating on any portion of the deal.

00:52:45.000 So, I mean, we could really go way back with Iran and the United States. 0.69

00:52:49.000 We could go back to 1953.

00:52:52.000 We could go back to 1979.

00:52:54.000 To set the stage for our conflict with Iran, it's really over nuclear weapons.

00:52:58.000 That Iran wants to develop a nuclear arsenal.

00:53:01.000 We're good to go.

00:53:18.000 You know, it's not the Cold War.

00:53:20.000 They cannot appeal to some great power for protection.

00:53:23.000 Russia cannot protect you.

00:53:24.000 China cannot protect you.

00:53:26.000 So in a world where America can basically do whatever they want, a rogue regime that has opposed the United States in the past or has been attacked by the United States in the past, what is the only way they can protect themselves from the United States?

00:53:38.000 Well, they can develop

00:53:39.000 Nuclear weapons.

00:53:40.000 The United States will not attack a nuclear power because the casualties would be too high, right?

00:53:46.000 They don't want a nuclear war, so that guarantees their safety.

00:53:49.000 They sort of accede to the level of other great powers simply by having a nuclear arsenal.

00:53:54.000 Even if they're a poor country, don't have a strong conventional military, if you have a nuclear weapon, you're on the level of China, Russia, France, United Kingdom.

00:54:03.000 We understand this.

00:54:03.000 This is pretty simple stuff.

00:54:05.000 In 2015, Barack Obama puts together

00:54:08.000 We're good to go!

00:54:28.000 We are removing all the sanctions that have been built up over the last two or three decades in response to their nuclear program and in exchange for that they promise that they'll adhere to some of these commitments that will ensure and give us the peace of mind in the West that they're not developing nuclear weapons.

00:54:44.000 That's the JCPOA.

00:54:46.000 What has set the stage for, I'm talking modern, the Trump administration's conflict with Iran is that Trump pulled us out of the nuclear deal

00:54:54.000 I don't know.

00:55:05.000 Excuse me, but on October 13, 2017, Trump announced that the U.S.

00:55:10.000 would not make the certification provided for under U.S.

00:55:13.000 domestic law on the basis that the suspension of sanctions was not proportionate and appropriate, but stopped short of terminating the deal.

00:55:20.000 So in October 2017, he said we have to renegotiate or else we're terminating, but did not terminate.

00:55:25.000 He recertified the deal.

00:55:27.000 In other words, he reaffirmed that sanctions would remain off

00:55:32.000 So long as Iran is following their commitments under the deal.

00:55:35.000 He made the same threat in January 2018, saying again, unless we renegotiate, we will terminate the deal.

00:55:43.000 This brings us to May 8th, 2018, and this is the first stop on our whiteboard timeline here, which I will pull out now and give me a moment here.

00:55:53.000 This begins where we are today, how we arrived at killing Qasem Soleimani.

00:56:01.000 Our first stop on the timeline.

00:56:03.000 So on May 8th, 2018, Trump officially pulls us out of the nuclear deal, the JCPOA.

00:56:11.000 President Trump formally announces that the US will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal and reimpose sanctions.

00:56:17.000 He said in his statement withdrawing us from the deal, quote, we cannot prevent an Iranian bomb under the decaying and rotten structure of the current agreement.

00:56:25.000 Therefore, I'm announcing today that the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal.

00:56:30.000 Now, here's why this is important.

00:56:32.000 We're good to go!

00:56:50.000 We're good.

00:57:14.000 We're good to go!

00:57:37.000 You know, in 2025, it's a very short amount of time between them, either, you know, they finish out the deal, they've committed to it, they've adhered to it for 10 years, and then the deal expires, and then it's a short time for them to develop a nuclear arsenal, or they renege on it before that, and then they can develop a nuclear arsenal very quickly.

00:57:54.000 This is from Trump's statement.

00:57:56.000 I'm not making a valid judgment about this yet.

00:57:59.000 I'm telling you this is what Trump has said.

00:58:00.000 He is laying out his conditions for why we pulled out of the deal.

00:58:04.000 He said, even if Iran fully complies, they can still be on the verge of a breakout in a short period of time.

00:58:09.000 The deal's sunset provisions are totally unacceptable.

00:58:12.000 If I allowed this deal to stand, there would soon be a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.

00:58:16.000 So the breakout capacity, because the conditions are insufficient, is reason number one why we pulled out.

00:58:23.000 He says number two,

00:58:25.000 Quote, inspection provisions lack adequate mechanisms to prevent, detect, and punish cheating, and don't even have the unqualified right to inspect many important locations, including military facilities.

00:58:36.000 That's condition number two.

00:58:39.000 Number one, the conditions of the deal are insufficient to prevent Iran from getting a breakout capability. 0.91

00:58:45.000 Number two, even if they were sufficient, there's no enforcement, there's no inspection mechanism.

00:58:50.000 We can't even look into military facilities, therefore we don't even know.

00:58:54.000 If they're fully complying with the deal because we can't see all the facilities, right?

00:58:58.000 And even if we could inspect all the facilities, well, we can't enforce the deal if we find that they are cheating.

00:59:03.000 There's really no good way to put back on sanctions gradually or moderately.

00:59:08.000 You know, the deal is really all or nothing.

00:59:10.000 It says no sanctions and you adhere to these commitments.

00:59:13.000 So that's problem number two.

00:59:15.000 Problem number three, he says, that the deal fails to address the regime's development of ballistic missiles that could deliver nuclear warheads.

00:59:22.000 That's also a little bit of a, that's part of the problem.

00:59:25.000 I'll get into that a little bit more later.

00:59:28.000 So number three is ballistic missiles.

00:59:30.000 And number four, he says, the deal does nothing to constrain Iran's destabilizing activities, including its support for terrorism.

00:59:37.000 He says, since the agreement, Iran's blooding ambitions have grown only more brazen. 0.99

00:59:42.000 So you could really categorize this in three main ways.

00:59:46.000 Number one, the Iran nuclear deal did not maintain sufficient enforcement mechanisms or conditions

00:59:53.000 That's problematic because if Iran's developing ICBM technology

01:00:16.000 You know, they could develop a warhead very easily, strap it on, and then they're a full-fledged nuclear power.

01:00:21.000 You know, North Korea has nuclear weapons, but they don't have ICBMs yet.

01:00:25.000 So at the same time that Iran maintains this breakout capability, essentially, or they're at short order to create a breakout capability, they're developing their ballistic missile technology.

01:00:37.000 So maybe by the end of the deal, Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons, but they do have ICBM technology.

01:00:43.000 You could see that it'd be a very short time.

01:00:46.000 Are you sure?

01:01:04.000 We're good to go.

01:01:27.000 Al Qaeda and ISIS but also Hamas and also Hezbollah and also Al Nusra and also sometimes the Kurds.

01:01:34.000 And that's really not a great way of talking about the Middle East because you know in the United States we have this idea that there are certain military tactics that are okay and then some that are not and it's really somewhat arbitrary.

01:01:48.000 And it ignores the fact that Middle Eastern politics is complicated.

01:01:52.000 The Taliban uses terrorist tactics, but they're also a political party.

01:01:56.000 You know, and you could say that Hezbollah might use asymmetrical tactics or tactics that might target civilians, but also they're legitimate political actors in Lebanon and in Iraq.

01:02:06.000 So, to say that, well, Iran sponsors terrorists across the Middle East...

01:02:10.000 You know, this is why when we talk on Fox News or we hear on Fox News about Iran, they say they're the number one state sponsor of terrorism in the Middle East.

01:02:17.000 Well, on some level they might be sponsoring groups that use terrorist tactics, but it's not really an honest way to have the conversation.

01:02:27.000 You know, it would be more apropos to say that Iran sponsors militant groups across the Middle East, like Hezbollah, like Hamas, like some other groups.

01:02:36.000 And those militant groups sometimes oppose our interests, or more accurately, the interests of our allies, like Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar.

01:02:46.000 You know, countries like this.

01:02:48.000 So really it's more apt to say that Iran is using the money that they got from sanctions relief and outright payments they got from the U.S.

01:02:55.000 government to fund militias in Syria, for example, where they're expanding Iranian influence over Damascus.

01:03:02.000 Or they're spending that money on Iranian-backed militias in Iraq, where they're expanding Iranian influence.

01:03:08.000 Now, would you say that there is something totally wrong with a country expanding its influence, or is it a nation's right and prerogative, and it makes sense that a nation would expand its interests?

01:03:19.000 Now, that's not to say that, you know, terrorism is okay or anything like that, but it is to say that there's a difference between

01:03:24.000 Sponsoring groups that sometimes use terrorist tactics or subgroups that use terrorist tactics and saying, you know, well, they're supporting terrorism.

01:03:30.000 Well, it's not really the same as like ISIS and Al-Qaeda, you know, that's a very important distinction to make if you want to have a serious conversation.

01:03:38.000 So, broadly the three grievances that the Trump administration has

01:03:43.000 We're good to go!

01:04:03.000 Pulling out of the nuclear deal did that.

01:04:05.000 And why?

01:04:06.000 Well, because number one, the deal didn't constrain their nuclear program.

01:04:09.000 It didn't do anything about their missile program.

01:04:11.000 And lastly, it did not restrain them in Syria, in Iraq, in Lebanon, in Yemen, for example, where they are suspected to be supporting proxies, Shiite proxies, in those countries.

01:04:21.000 So that's really important.

01:04:23.000 That's where we start is May 8th, 2018.

01:04:25.000 We pull out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the Iran nuclear deal, and we lay out those three reasons.

01:04:31.000 The next major thing April 22nd 2019 this is a little bit excuse me it's a little bit later well actually we should we actually should go in the middle here so sometime between May 8th and 2018 May 2018 and April 22nd 2019 we put all the sanctions back on Iran

01:04:49.000 The Iran nuclear deal says we lift sanctions in exchange for these commitments.

01:04:53.000 On May 8th we said we're pulling out of the deal.

01:04:55.000 The deal still exists.

01:04:57.000 You know, Iran is still a signatory on the deal along with all the P5 countries and Germany and I think Japan and the EU.

01:05:04.000 But the United States is just no longer a part of it.

01:05:06.000 The United States says we're no longer a part of it and that means now they're out of the deal we can slap back on sanctions.

01:05:12.000 So on November 5th, 2018, we put sanctions back on Iran.

01:05:16.000 This is from a couple of different news sources.

01:05:18.000 It says, the U.S.

01:05:19.000 restores sanctions targeting Iran's oil, banking, and transportation sectors and threatened more action to stop its outlaw policies, steps the Islamic Republic called economic warfare and vowed to defy.

01:05:31.000 The United States officially reimposed all penalties that have been lifted as part of the Iranian nuclear deal as the Trump administration added nearly 700 targets, including 50 Iranian financial institutions.

01:05:43.000 So, November 5th, 2018, we slapped back all the sanctions that were on before the Iran nuclear deal, so we sort of reset as though those negotiations, the deal, never happened, as well as more targets.

01:05:56.000 But the really significant change happened, the really significant inflection point happened in April of 2019.

01:06:03.000 So in May, we basically knew the sanctions were coming back.

01:06:06.000 I mean, we knew that was going to happen.

01:06:07.000 We knew that we would reimpose economic penalties on Iran for their nuclear program. 0.94

01:06:12.000 But April 22nd is really when we dealt a lot of damage and things started to escalate.

01:06:17.000 It was sort of a big gap, almost a year, between withdrawing from the deal and when things really start to get hot.

01:06:23.000 This is when the United States ends waivers for oil sanctions.

01:06:28.000 So after we pulled out of the deal, and after we put on all these sanctions in November 2018, we also said that we would give waivers out to the eight biggest importers of Iranian oil.

01:06:40.000 You know, part of the sanctions said that anybody that is importing Iranian oil will be subject to sanctions, too.

01:06:47.000 You know, so for example, if China is buying oil from Iran, and Iran is an oil country, right?

01:06:52.000 I mean, they get most of their money from oil.

01:06:54.000 Most of the economy is built on oil sales.

01:06:57.000 That means that not only are we putting sanctions on Iran, but also if China buys Iranian oil, that we're putting sanctions on China.

01:07:03.000 We're putting sanctions on the companies that buy the oil.

01:07:06.000 That's what a secondary sanction is.

01:07:07.000 Primary sanction...

01:07:09.000 We're good to go.

01:07:33.000 We're good to go!

01:07:53.000 So on April 22nd, there's a news report here from MSNBC.

01:07:58.000 It says, at the time of the withdrawal from the JCPOA, the Trump administration granted six-month waivers to eight countries that allowed them to continue importing limited quantities of crude oil from Iran.

01:08:10.000 The market widely expected Washington to extend the waivers for five of the countries.

01:08:14.000 However, the administration says that any country still importing oil from Iran will be subject to U.S.

01:08:18.000 sanctions beginning on May 2nd.

01:08:20.000 That was on April 22nd that this was announced.

01:08:24.000 So this is why you have such a big gap here.

01:08:26.000 We withdrew from the plan in 2018, but it wasn't until April and May 2019 that we said we're actually going to put secondary sanctions on oil, which is going to cripple Iran's oil market and then really start to hurt their economy.

01:08:38.000 And that's exactly what happened.

01:08:40.000 Iran's economy began to totally explode because of this.

01:08:43.000 Their currency is worth nothing.

01:08:46.000 Unemployment's out of control.

01:08:47.000 Their GDP is contracting.

01:08:49.000 This has hurt all their activities in other countries.

01:08:52.000 I know Trump talks a lot about this.

01:08:54.000 This is when we really start to inflict a lot of damage.

01:08:56.000 Subsequently, this is why tensions have been getting worse.

01:09:00.000 This is why we had to go all the way back to 2018 to show you that really what this is about is the economic warfare against Iran because of the nuclear program.

01:09:10.000 And now that Iran's economy is suffering, now that they're exploding because they're not able to sell as much oil or heavy metals or other things, but mainly oil, now they are lashing out wildly and trying to provoke the United States.

01:09:23.000 That's what's happening.

01:09:24.000 So this leads us to June 13, 2019, when we see the Gulf of Oman incident, the oil tankers that were attacked.

01:09:32.000 It feels like it was not long ago, but this was six months ago.

01:09:35.000 We're good to go!

01:09:52.000 What matters in the Middle East is oil. 0.98

01:09:54.000 Most of the oil comes from the Persian Gulf, which is a small channel of water between Saudi Arabia and Iran on either side.

01:10:02.000 All the oil that comes from the Persian Gulf, or a lot of it, is transported by sea ship, by naval ships, outside of the Strait of Hormuz.

01:10:09.000 That's the opening between

01:10:12.000 The Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean.

01:10:14.000 So this little strait, the Strait of Hormuz, is obviously a very strategic and critical point.

01:10:19.000 The Strait of Hormuz was closed during the energy crisis in the 1970s.

01:10:23.000 Iran has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz in the past few years.

01:10:26.000 I think they did close it a couple of decades ago.

01:10:29.000 You shut down the Strait of Hormuz, you shut down the shipping of oil around the world.

01:10:34.000 Something like 30% or 25% of the world's seaborne oil comes out of the Strait of Hormuz.

01:10:39.000 So it's a big deal.

01:10:40.000 So two ships were attacked going out of Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf of Oman, allegedly by Iran.

01:10:47.000 This is according to various sources.

01:10:49.000 It says, on June 13, 2019, two oil tankers were attacked near the Strait of Hormuz while they transited the Gulf of Oman.

01:10:57.000 The Kokuka Courageous, flagged in Panama and operated by a company based in Japan, and Front Altair, flagged in Marshall Islands and operated by a company based in Norway,

01:11:08.000 We're good to go!

01:11:25.000 The article goes on, it says, amid heightened tensions between Iran and the United States, the United States blamed Iran for the attacks.

01:11:32.000 Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom supported the United States' accusation.

01:11:36.000 Germany stated that there is strong evidence that Iran was responsible for the attacks, while Japan has asked for more proof of Iran's culpability.

01:11:44.000 Iran denied the accusation, blaming the United States for spreading disinformation and warmongering.

01:11:49.000 In response to the incident, the United States announced on June 17th

01:11:53.000 We're good to go.

01:12:16.000 I don't know if you remember this last year, but this was sort of a tricky thing.

01:12:21.000 Iran said that the US drone violated their airspace.

01:12:25.000 We said that it didn't.

01:12:26.000 It doesn't really matter.

01:12:27.000 Nobody knows for sure.

01:12:28.000 I mean, the people that know are the people that are monitoring this stuff on

01:12:32.000 You know, in the military, on their screens.

01:12:34.000 I don't think probably many people in the government really know what happened.

01:12:38.000 Do Congress people know?

01:12:39.000 Do bureaucrats know? 0.91

01:12:41.000 We certainly can never know for sure where the drone really was, but Iran did shoot down an American surveillance drone.

01:12:47.000 This caused big problems.

01:12:50.000 This is from Wikipedia.

01:12:51.000 It says, on June 20, 2019, Iran's IRGC, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, shot down a U.S.

01:12:58.000 RQ-4A Global Hawk surveillance drone with a surface-to-air missile over the Strait of Hormuz.

01:13:03.000 Iranian officials said that the drone violated their airspace, while U.S.

01:13:07.000 officials responded that the drone was in international airspace.

01:13:10.000 Both Iran and the U.S. 0.99

01:13:11.000 differ on where the incident actually occurred.

01:13:14.000 U.S.

01:13:14.000 President Donald Trump ordered a military strike against IRGC raider and missile sites before reversing the decision.

01:13:21.000 Instead, Trump approved a cyber attack intended to disable IRGC computer systems.

01:13:27.000 And on the 24th, Trump announced hard-hitting targeted sanctions against the Revolutionary Guard Corps as well as the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

01:13:37.000 So this is sort of the buildup.

01:13:39.000 This is kind of where it cuts off.

01:13:41.000 I guess you have maybe a couple of distinct periods.

01:13:43.000 You've got May and November.

01:13:45.000 This is us pulling out of the deal, reapplying sanctions.

01:13:49.000 You've got this little saga.

01:13:51.000 We end the oil sanctions waivers and then we get a series of provocations.

01:13:55.000 Tankers attacked in the Strait of Hormuz.

01:13:58.000 The drone is shot down.

01:13:59.000 We retaliate.

01:14:00.000 And I don't know if you remember, but last year it got very close to war.

01:14:03.000 I don't know if you remember, but after Iran shot down the drone, that incident in particular, Trump said, we're locked and loaded and called off at the last minute.

01:14:13.000 That's what they said.

01:14:14.000 I don't know if that was theatrics or not, but they said that Trump called off at the last minute and ships were like ready to go.

01:14:21.000 Air strikes all over Iran that they were going to target missile sites.

01:14:24.000 They were going to target radar inside Iran and this would have been an unprecedented escalation with Iran, but it didn't happen.

01:14:32.000 Trump called it off and said instead we'll do a cyber attack which was nothing and more sanctions.

01:14:38.000 So that was that was last summer and that's sort of where we left it.

01:14:42.000 Since then there hasn't really been anything extremely notable.

01:14:46.000 We're good to go!

01:15:07.000 So where where we get to today how we can bring you up to speed is then on December 27th You have an American base in Kirkuk, which is in Iraq attacked by Iranian backed militias, and I'll read to you This is a source

01:15:22.000 is a news source talking about the attack.

01:15:25.000 It says, quote, Officials with the U.S.-led mission to defeat ISIS said Friday that a U.S.

01:15:30.000 civilian contractor was killed and several American troops were wounded in a rocket attack targeting an Iraqi base in Kirkuk.

01:15:37.000 The attack, which occurred Friday around 7.20 p.m.

01:15:40.000 local time in Iraq, also wounded several Iraqi personnel, officials with Operation Inherent Resolve told Military Times in an emailed statement.

01:15:49.000 The Iraqi military

01:15:51.000 Posted to social media on Friday that several missiles struck the K-1 camp in Kirkuk, which houses coalition forces.

01:15:59.000 U.S.

01:15:59.000 officials believe Iranian-backed militias are behind a recent spate of rocket attacks that have targeted U.S.

01:16:05.000 bases and interests in Iraq over the last couple of months.

01:16:08.000 A U.S. 0.66

01:16:09.000 official told Military Times that Iran-backed militias are now using more lethal and longer-range 122mm rockets in their attacks.

01:16:17.000 Friday's attack on Kirkuk is at least the 11th rocket attack targeting an outpost housing American forces in the last two months.

01:16:25.000 So the attack on Kirkuk on December 27th

01:16:29.000 Was at least the 11th rocket attack targeting outposts that are hosting American forces in the last two months.

01:16:36.000 So, I mean, Iran or these Iranian-backed militias have been provoking us for a long time in Iraq.

01:16:43.000 That says, U.S.

01:16:44.000 officials have warned Iran and its proxies to halt rocket attacks in the country.

01:16:48.000 In mid-December, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper phoned Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Maktoum and asked for help to stop the rocket attacks.

01:16:57.000 Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned Iran and its leaders in December of a decisive U.S.

01:17:02.000 response if the regime or its militias harm American troops or allies in the region.

01:17:07.000 So this is really what started the events of the last

01:17:12.000 We're good.

01:17:36.000 I'll read you the report about this.

01:17:37.000 It says U.S.

01:17:38.000 forces struck five Hezbollah targets on Sunday, according to a Pentagon news release, in retaliation for a Friday attack on an Iraqi coalition base, the one in Kirkuk, that killed one U.S.

01:17:49.000 civilian.

01:17:50.000 The locations, three in Iraq and two in Syria, included storage facilities and command and control centers the Iran-backed group uses to carry out attacks.

01:17:59.000 According to Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman, he says, quote, Iran and their Hezbollah proxy forces must cease their attacks on U.S.

01:18:06.000 and coalition forces and respect Iraq's sovereignty to prevent additional defensive actions by U.S.

01:18:12.000 forces.

01:18:13.000 The Pentagon said Sunday it strikes specifically targeted an Iranian-backed militia known as Kataib Hezbollah.

01:18:20.000 I'm probably butchering this name.

01:18:23.000 But this is the initial engagement that caused the further escalation.

01:18:27.000 You've got all these attacks by these militias on American forces essentially in Iraq.

01:18:33.000 We respond by striking five targets and then on December 31st is when it really starts to get nasty.

01:18:41.000 In response to our retaliatory strike on Hezbollah, there's a huge demonstration at the U.S.

01:18:48.000 Embassy in Baghdad on New Year's Eve on December 31st.

01:18:53.000 This is from the New York Times.

01:18:55.000 It says, protesters broke into the heavily guarded compound of the United States Embassy in Baghdad on Tuesday and set fires inside in anger over American airstrikes that killed 24 members of an Iranian-backed militia over the weekend.

01:19:08.000 The men did not enter the main embassy buildings and later withdrew from the compound, joining thousands of protesters and militia fighters outside chanting, death to America, throwing rocks, covering the walls with graffiti and demanding that the United States withdraw its forces from Iraq.

01:19:22.000 The protest began Tuesday morning when the thousands of militia members gathered outside the Green Zone after prayer services for the fighters killed in the American strikes.

01:19:31.000 Well, a few of them were armed.

01:19:33.000 Many were members of Kataib Hezbollah and other fighting groups that are technically overseen by the Iraqi military.

01:19:40.000 This Hezbollah group is separate from the Hezbollah movement in Lebanon, although both groups are backed by Iran and oppose the United States.

01:19:47.000 So, they come to an American embassy.

01:19:49.000 Now, mind you, in a very technical way, an American embassy is U.S.

01:19:54.000 soil.

01:19:55.000 We're good to go.

01:20:06.000 A foreign embassy is that country.

01:20:08.000 You know, that is why if a service person has a child on an American embassy or an American military base, the child's considered an American citizen.

01:20:17.000 Because on a technical level, our embassy in Iraq is American soil.

01:20:21.000 That's why you have sort of safe quarters, safe refuge on an American embassy in any country.

01:20:27.000 You know, if you go to any American diplomatic office or military base, it is seen as as good as the country, even within that country.

01:20:35.000 You know that they have to respect the laws of the United States inside the embassy.

01:20:40.000 Very specific rules, right?

01:20:42.000 And this is pretty standard stuff.

01:20:45.000 So, that Hezbollah attacked our embassy is kind of a big deal.

01:20:50.000 You know, it's bad enough that you've got these militias that did kill an American civilian on an Iraqi base and are attacking, in at least 11 such cases over the past two months, they're attacking facilities housing Americans

01:21:04.000 No, for them to come to our embassy and to set fires and try to break inside to have thousand people demonstrating outside.

01:21:12.000 And by the way, they were permitted into the green zone by the Iraqi government.

01:21:16.000 This is a cordoned off area that protesters could not get inside if the Iraqi government did not permit them.

01:21:23.000 So in both cases, this is sort of an egregious escalation.

01:21:27.000 We're good to go.

01:21:51.000 Iran's most powerful military commander, General Qasem Soleimani, has been killed by a U.S.

01:21:56.000 airstrike in Iraq.

01:21:58.000 The 62-year-old spearheaded Iranian military operations in the Middle East as head of Iran's elite Quds Force.

01:22:11.000 We're good to go.

01:22:31.000 And other pro-Iranian militant groups expanded its military presence in Iraq and Syria and orchestrated Syria's offensive against rebel groups in the country's long civil war.

01:22:39.000 Soleimani was widely seen as the second most powerful figure in Iran behind the Ayatollah.

01:22:45.000 The Quds Force, an elite unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, reported directly to the Ayatollah and Soleimani was hailed as a heroic and national figure.

01:22:54.000 Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Iraqi militia leader Abu Makti al-Muhandis was among those killed as well.

01:23:01.000 Muhandis commanded the Iranian-backed Qataib Hezbollah group, which Washington blamed for a rocket attack which killed a U.S.

01:23:08.000 civilian contractor in northern Iraq last Friday.

01:23:12.000 He also effectively led the Popular Mobilization Units, an umbrella of militias in Iraq dominated by groups aligned with Iran.

01:23:20.000 Most of those killed in the strike belonged to the PM, which is the Popular Mobilization, according to the organization.

01:23:27.000 Soleimani's son-in-law and a member of the Lebanese Hezbollah were also among the dead.

01:23:32.000 So, this is the Iranian situation.

01:23:35.000 This is a pretty good distillation of where we are and how we got there, what's going on,

01:23:42.000 And what I want to convey to you by going over all the history is really sort of the big picture, the fundamental question, which is a conflict over nuclear proliferation.

01:23:54.000 I also want to show you that there is a tit-for-tat, right?

01:23:57.000 The American military strike

01:24:01.000 The United States used a lot of restraint to not attack them for that.

01:24:03.000 I mean, that one relatively unanswered.

01:24:28.000 The two incidents in the Gulf of Oman.

01:24:30.000 Four tankers were targeted on May 12th, 2019.

01:24:34.000 And then two more were targeted on June 13th.

01:24:37.000 And that went virtually unanswered.

01:24:39.000 June 20th.

01:24:41.000 I don't know.

01:25:00.000 The United States again showed a tremendous amount of restraint.

01:25:03.000 Trump said we're locked and loaded, we're gonna blow up radar and missile sites and the last minute he called it off and did a cyber attack and more sanctions and then allegedly shot down an Iranian drone.

01:25:15.000 Again, a lot of this we don't even really know what's true and what's not.

01:25:18.000 You know, in July, for example, the President said we shot down an Iranian unmanned drone as retaliation.

01:25:24.000 The Iranians said the drone wasn't shot down.

01:25:27.000 We really have no idea.

01:25:28.000 The same is true with the tankers.

01:25:30.000 Do we know that that was Iran?

01:25:31.000 Not really.

01:25:32.000 The United States said we did, but, you know, the United States also said there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

01:25:38.000 Japan, who actually 0.62

01:25:41.000 We're good to go!

01:26:02.000 And this summer we did virtually nothing.

01:26:04.000 You know, everything that we did in response was basically symbolic or a gesture or might not have even happened in the first place, right?

01:26:11.000 In the case of the Iranian drone that was allegedly shot down.

01:26:14.000 So there's been a tremendous amount of restraint on our part as we have conducted a policy of containment against Iran. 0.99

01:26:22.000 What does containment mean?

01:26:23.000 It means that one of the bigger existential threats to the United States is the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

01:26:31.000 The spread of nuclear weapons in particular into the hands of rogue states which is sort of a loaded expression.

01:26:38.000 It's states that are opposed to the American-led world order.

01:26:42.000 States like Venezuela, Iran, North Korea.

01:26:45.000 One of our biggest threats is that those countries that oppose our world order, that oppose our country for whatever reason, justified or not justified, rational or irrational, that they will acquire weapons of mass destruction.

01:26:57.000 Because if these weapons get in the wrong hands, well, they could be used carelessly or recklessly or used against us or it limits our ability to influence events in other regions of the world.

01:27:09.000 You know, if Iran gets a nuclear weapon, then that's a checkmate. 0.50

01:27:12.000 That means that they are a regional player, they can have this sphere of influence, and there's not really a whole lot the United States can do about it.

01:27:18.000 The same is true with North Korea on the Korean Peninsula.

01:27:21.000 So that is one of our major strategic objectives, is to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.

01:27:26.000 The policy of containment says that, well, it's not really worth it to go to war with Iran over nuclear weapons.

01:27:33.000 It really wouldn't make much sense.

01:27:35.000 From any perspective, logistical, pragmatic, otherwise monetary, that we would engage in yet another ground war in the Middle East to pursue regime change, to try to install another leader, to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. 0.69

01:27:47.000 Like, that just doesn't make any sense.

01:27:49.000 So we've said instead, we'll put on a maximum pressure campaign to contain Iran, to contain in particular the Iranian regime, this Islamic Revolutionary Republic regime. 0.90

01:28:01.000 And so by putting on sanctions, and secondary sanctions, and this sort of diplomatic sanction in some sense, we are trying to pressure either regime change to happen from within Iran, that we can make the economy so bad within the country, to make conditions so bad inside of Iran, that either their regime says it's not worth it, and we give up our nuclear ambitions, and we'll submit to whatever concessions you want us to give, and you know, we will not pursue a nuclear weapon,

01:28:30.000 Or conditions will get so bad that either within the regime or from outside the regime, a new regime will come forward.

01:28:37.000 You know, maybe there'll be a change of pace within the Iranian revolutionary regime, or maybe there'll be a revolution in Iran, but either way, this is a way to change events inside the country without going in and doing it ourselves with boots on the ground.

01:28:51.000 Now again, I'm not saying, you know, before people get on my case, I'm not saying one way or the other.

01:28:55.000 I'm saying this is the policy.

01:28:57.000 You know, everything that I have described on the show so far has been descriptive, not prescriptive.

01:29:04.000 I'm describing how this administration sees the country and what this administration seeks to do with Iran, what their strategy is, what their game plan is.

01:29:13.000 I haven't made any valid judgments yet, but this is how we got here.

01:29:18.000 Yes, we are.

01:29:35.000 What is the purpose of this?

01:29:36.000 To get the United States to back down.

01:29:39.000 In the same way that the Trump administration has tried to convince Iran that it's not worth it to pursue nuclear weapons, you know, it's really a form of persuasion.

01:29:47.000 It's a form of negotiating.

01:29:49.000 We're saying, you know, look, you can either not have an economy or you can give up nuclear weapons.

01:29:54.000 You know, either we'll make it intolerable for you to live in your country or you can give up nuclear weapons. 0.91

01:30:00.000 Now Iran is sort of turning the tables on us and they're saying, okay, 0.98

01:30:04.000 Well you can conduct this maximum pressure campaign against us but so long as you do that we're going to lash out and we're going to make it dangerous for you to ship your oil out of Strait of Hormuz and we're going to make it dangerous for your contractors and your military personnel in Iraq and we're going to try and fight you everywhere you are in the Middle East and we're going to do 0.97

01:30:22.000 All these different things so that if you're going to conduct this maximum pressure campaign against us, we're going to make it hard for you.

01:30:29.000 We're going to make it costly as well.

01:30:31.000 We're going to make you bleed for this, essentially, in the hopes that the United States will make a similar cost-benefit analysis and say, well, we can either have this maximum pressure campaign against Iran and we'll be attacked and so on, or we could back off, let them do their thing, and Iran will let us ship our oil and so on. 0.79

01:30:51.000 We're good to go!

01:31:12.000 But it's really sort of a negotiation, in a sense, and that's really where it comes from.

01:31:17.000 It's not so much about... I mean, Soleimani is the endgame after years of this kind of stuff going on.

01:31:25.000 Now, the reaction.

01:31:26.000 We have to get to the reaction.

01:31:27.000 I'll take away the whiteboard here for a moment, and I'll read to you some reports about what the reaction to the killing of Soleimani has been, because, of course,

01:31:36.000 The recent events have constituted an escalation, specifically the killing of Qassam Soleimani.

01:31:42.000 We can put on maximum sanctions and we can shoot down an Iranian unmanned drone, but Qassam Soleimani was widely regarded as the number two most powerful person in Iran.

01:31:53.000 You know, we're talking about the leader of the IRGC.

01:31:56.000 This would be akin, it's not a perfect analogy, because the United States is a nuclear power and the world hegemon and so on, but it would be akin, if you're looking at the two governments, to if Iran killed the Secretary of Defense, right? 0.50

01:32:10.000 Or the Secretary of State or somebody like that.

01:32:12.000 If they killed one of the Supreme Commanders and one of the, you know, DOD 0.62

01:32:17.000 We're good to go!

01:32:40.000 Kassam Soleimani is inside of the Iranian government and a very powerful person inside the Iranian government. 0.97

01:32:46.000 So to kill him would be on par with if Iran killed one of our government officials. 0.87

01:32:50.000 And I've heard a lot of people, I've heard a lot of like boomers and these kinds of people online saying that Kassam Soleimani was this terrorist and he backed terrorists and he was a terrible person. 0.97

01:33:01.000 We're good to go.

01:33:16.000 is in some sense a terrible guy.

01:33:18.000 You know, his government has done terrible things in China. 0.70

01:33:21.000 You could say that a lot of people... You could say that George W. Bush is a terrible person.

01:33:25.000 George W. Bush has killed people because of wars, right?

01:33:27.000 He's ordered drone strikes.

01:33:28.000 Bill Clinton's a... There's a lot of terrible people.

01:33:31.000 Some of the worst people ever are in government.

01:33:34.000 You know, if you watch world events in world history, the people with the most blood on their hands are the heads of military or government or whatever.

01:33:42.000 But that does not inform your foreign policy.

01:33:47.000 It would not make sense for us to drone strike Xi Jinping.

01:33:51.000 It would not make sense for us to drone strike Kim Jong-un. 0.71

01:33:54.000 You know, to kill a foreign head of state does not solve your problems. 0.77

01:33:59.000 It complicates them, right?

01:34:00.000 Now, I'm getting into analysis here, but talking about the killing of Qasem Soleimani, it's a very big deal.

01:34:06.000 It's a very big escalation.

01:34:08.000 Whereas we went from pulling out of the deal, maximum economic pressure,

01:34:11.000 To now killing a very high ranking official in the Iranian government, this is really a disproportionate response.

01:34:18.000 You could say that Iran killed a contractor.

01:34:22.000 An Iranian-backed proxy killed an American contract at an Iraqi base, and we retaliated, right? 0.97

01:34:27.000 We retaliated.

01:34:28.000 An Iranian-backed militia shows up to our embassy, and then we kill a high-ranking official in Iran. 0.83

01:34:33.000 This is serious stuff.

01:34:35.000 That's a really big deal.

01:34:36.000 And the response has been commensurate to that.

01:34:39.000 People have been freaking out about World War III, possible conflict with Iran, and I'll read you very briefly some of the responses.

01:34:47.000 I'll read you a full report about Iran's response.

01:34:50.000 Iranian state television reported that the country will no longer abide by any of the limits of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or the Iran nuclear deal.

01:34:59.000 The announcement came yesterday after another Iranian official said it would consider taking even harsher steps over the U.S.

01:35:05.000 killing of Soleimani.

01:35:08.000 State TV cited a statement by Iranian president's administration saying the country will not observe limitations on its enrichment, the amount of stockpiled enriched uranium, as well as research and development on its nuclear activities.

01:35:20.000 Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif condemned the attacks on Twitter.

01:35:24.000 He said, quote, the U.S.'

01:35:25.000 's act of international terrorism targeting and assassinating General Soleimani, the most effective force fighting ISIS, al-Nusra, al-Qaeda, 0.55

01:35:34.000 It's extremely dangerous and a foolish escalation.

01:35:36.000 The U.S.

01:35:37.000 bears full responsibility for all consequences of its rogue adventurism.

01:35:42.000 Iran's Defense Minister, Amir Hatami, was quoted by state news saying that the Islamic Republic would take a crushing revenge for Soleimani's assassination, quote, from all those involved and responsible.

01:35:55.000 The military advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader said Sunday that Tehran's response to the killing by the United States of its most influential general, quote, for sure be military.

01:36:04.000 In other words, will for sure be a military response.

01:36:07.000 In an exclusive interview with CNN in Tehran, the advisor, Major General Hossein Dagan, made the most specific and direct threat yet by a senior Iranian official following the killing of General Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike in Baghdad.

01:36:22.000 He said Iran would retaliate directly against U.S.

01:36:24.000 military sites.

01:36:26.000 Iran has said that they have targets all over the Middle East and possibly Europe as well.

01:36:31.000 Some have said targets in the United States.

01:36:33.000 So Iran is going to retaliate in a serious way.

01:36:36.000 That's really the trouble here.

01:36:38.000 I'll read you now how the United States has responded.

01:36:40.000 Trump has tweeted out, quote, Iran is talking very boldly about targeting certain U.S.

01:36:45.000 assets as revenge for ridding the world of their terrorist leader who had just killed an American and badly wounded many others, not to mention all the people he had killed over his lifetime.

01:36:55.000 We're good to go.

01:37:12.000 We have targeted 52 Iranian sites representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago.

01:37:18.000 Some at a very high level and important to Iran and the Iranian culture.

01:37:22.000 And those targets and Iran itself will be hit very fast and very hard.

01:37:27.000 The USA wants no more threats.

01:37:33.000 Which is, um, epic.

01:37:35.000 I have to say, you know, I'll clarify that in a moment, but the tweet itself is simply epic.

01:37:40.000 He goes on, These media posts will serve as notification to the United States Congress that should Iran strike any U.S. 0.80

01:37:46.000 person or target, the U.S.

01:37:47.000 will quickly and fully strike back, and perhaps in a disproportionate manner.

01:37:51.000 Such legal notice is not required, but is given nonetheless.

01:37:55.000 And the U.S.

01:37:56.000 reaction so far has been to send in 3,000 additional troops into the Middle East.

01:38:01.000 And so now I will give you my thoughts on the situation.

01:38:04.000 So as I said, so far most of what I've tried to do for this show is to lay out the whole enchilada, the whole situation, the background, the history, current events, some of the reactions, how we got here,

01:38:19.000 It has all been descriptive.

01:38:20.000 You know, I've posted about this a little bit on Twitter, a little bit on Telegram, and I think people have deliberately, maybe, misconstrued my views or misrepresented them.

01:38:31.000 Some people get it, but I'll give you sort of a breakdown of where I stand on all this.

01:38:36.000 I know it's a lot of information.

01:38:37.000 It requires a lot of exposition to really give you the full picture here.

01:38:41.000 I will say that in the first place, about Qasem Soleimani, it remains to be seen whether or not this was a good idea.

01:38:52.000 To me, projecting into the future, what is going to happen next, the question is, what will Iran's retaliation look like?

01:39:00.000 The problem with a disproportionate strike like this is it demands a response.

01:39:05.000 That's the problem.

01:39:07.000 If the policy is containment, well, what is required is that you have the discipline to maintain maximum economic pressure and more or less ignore a lot of the provocations.

01:39:18.000 Now, a little bit more on that in a moment.

01:39:21.000 It really ought to be economic in nature, or diplomatic or political, but mostly economic.

01:39:27.000 The whole idea behind the containment strategy is that we're going to try to persuade Iran to abandon their nuclear ambitions without spending lots of money, without sending in a ground force, without going to war with Iran.

01:39:42.000 We cannot afford a war with Iran.

01:39:44.000 I'll just say it unequivocally in case anybody's confused.

01:39:47.000 War with Iran is unacceptable under any circumstance.

01:39:51.000 We can't afford it.

01:39:52.000 It would destroy our country.

01:39:54.000 We've done this how many more times?

01:39:56.000 The outcome would not be good.

01:39:58.000 Probably if we went to war with Iran, we would outright lose. 0.63

01:40:02.000 And if we did win, we'd be occupying that country for 10 years.

01:40:06.000 And I'm sure that if we ever got out, when we ever got out, what came next would be worse than what we have today.

01:40:13.000 So war with Iran is a mistake. 0.64

01:40:15.000 You don't need to be a rocket scientist to see that.

01:40:18.000 It really doesn't matter if you're a neocon, neoliberal, isolationist, whatever, non-interventionist.

01:40:23.000 It doesn't matter.

01:40:24.000 War with Iran is just simply unacceptable.

01:40:26.000 Any kind of ground engagement would just not go well for us.

01:40:31.000 It would require something like a quarter of a million ground troops to liberate Iran, to defeat Iran. 0.94

01:40:39.000 Moreover, the terrain would be a disaster.

01:40:41.000 It would require us to occupy the country.

01:40:44.000 It would cost at least two trillion dollars.

01:40:46.000 This is something that is simply not in the cards.

01:40:49.000 I think that short of Iran directly threatening to nuke America, you know, if they had an ICBM in the sky headed towards America, short of that, I think almost nothing would be worth the war with Iran. 0.94

01:41:02.000 You know, so I'll just say that at the outset.

01:41:05.000 And having said that, the policy of containment is informed by that priority.

01:41:09.000 The idea that our priorities are at home, not overseas.

01:41:14.000 You know, we shouldn't be in Iran, but frankly we also shouldn't be in Iraq.

01:41:18.000 And we also shouldn't be in Syria, and we also shouldn't be in Yemen.

01:41:21.000 And I'll tell you what, it's hard for Iranians to kill Americans if Americans are not in Iraq. 0.99

01:41:28.000 So all the provocations by Iran would be virtually impossible if Trump had fulfilled his initial campaign promise to get us out of the Middle East, right?

01:41:37.000 If we were not in Iraq, Iran could not attack Americans in Iraq. 0.81

01:41:41.000 If we were not in Syria, Iran could not attack Americans in Syria.

01:41:45.000 If we were not in Yemen, Iran could not attack Americans in Yemen.

01:41:49.000 But we are.

01:41:50.000 But we are.

01:41:51.000 And we're involved much further than our troops being there.

01:41:54.000 And we shouldn't be.

01:41:55.000 The whole point of containment is to say that while we have certain interests in the Middle East,

01:42:01.000 For example, nuclear non-proliferation.

01:42:04.000 And we can achieve them without war.

01:42:07.000 We can achieve them without unilateral, expensive, costly, unnecessary conflict.

01:42:12.000 Without sending a quarter of a million ground troops to occupy a country forever.

01:42:17.000 So containment says we can convince them to not build a nuclear weapon by just crushing their economy.

01:42:23.000 You know, simply crushing their economy.

01:42:25.000 You can use our clout with trade and with other things to make sure that if they do pursue a nuclear weapon it'll be very costly for them or make it so costly that they can't do it or so costly that they'll change their minds.

01:42:38.000 But that's the point of containment.

01:42:40.000 When you kill Qasem Soleimani, when you escalate it to that level, it defeats the whole purpose of containment.

01:42:47.000 Because now that we've killed their top general, they have to respond.

01:42:51.000 If Iran killed Mike Pence, right?

01:42:54.000 If Iran killed Mark Esper, the Secretary of Defense, America would not let that go. 0.78

01:43:00.000 America, if somebody did that to us, we'd probably nuke them. 0.97

01:43:03.000 And we should expect something like that from Iran. 1.00

01:43:07.000 You know, so far they've gone through a period of mourning.

01:43:09.000 They've entered an official three-day mourning period.

01:43:13.000 And they have said that their intention is to take this up with international law, but also to do military strikes.

01:43:19.000 We don't know what we can expect.

01:43:20.000 Will Iran attack military positions in the Middle East?

01:43:24.000 Will Iran attack targets in Europe? 0.71

01:43:27.000 Will they attack civilians?

01:43:28.000 Will they do terrorist attacks on American soil?

01:43:30.000 Nobody really knows.

01:43:32.000 But we all know that Iran has to save face. 0.82

01:43:34.000 If we do something like this, you know, really all other considerations go outside the window.

01:43:40.000 We have forced their hand on this.

01:43:41.000 They must retaliate.

01:43:43.000 And their retaliation must send a message to America, but also to the rest of the world and the American people.

01:43:49.000 And it must say that if you attack Iran, 0.91

01:43:53.000 There's going to be terrible, bloody, costly consequences.

01:43:57.000 That's what the retaliation is going to be.

01:43:59.000 So we don't know what form that will take, the scale, the scope, the targets.

01:44:03.000 We will have to wait and see.

01:44:05.000 But here's the problem.

01:44:06.000 And this is what I said last year.

01:44:08.000 This is what I said back over the summer, when it was the drones and the tankers and the Strait of Hormuz.

01:44:15.000 Once you start escalating, you lose control of the situation.

01:44:19.000 Once you initiate a cycle of escalation, you are no longer in control of the trajectory and the ultimate outcome.

01:44:28.000 Because we have now forced Iran's hand. 0.95

01:44:30.000 Iran does not have a choice anymore. 0.96

01:44:32.000 That's what I mean by you lose control.

01:44:34.000 They must retaliate.

01:44:36.000 What is that going to look like?

01:44:37.000 If they kill Americans on American soil, then we will be forced to retaliate.

01:44:41.000 Do you see how that works?

01:44:43.000 We will not have an option.

01:44:44.000 If Iran comes back to America and, you know, kills hundreds of Americans, we can't say, oh, well now we're going to de-escalate. 0.98

01:44:51.000 No, well, never mind.

01:44:54.000 So, well, that's fair. 0.93

01:44:56.000 We hit you, now you hit us.

01:44:58.000 Doesn't work like that. 0.98

01:45:00.000 Now we are going to have to go back and hit him twice as hard. 0.96

01:45:02.000 We're going to probably have to attack Iran itself. 0.99

01:45:05.000 Do you think Iran can then simply take that and de-escalate? 0.99

01:45:08.000 They cannot.

01:45:09.000 They will have to retaliate.

01:45:11.000 And that is how you get a tit-for-tat and end up in a full-scale war that nobody wants, except for Israel, Saudi Arabia, the neocons, Zionists, the military-industrial complex.

01:45:23.000 I shouldn't say nobody, but none of the American people want.

01:45:26.000 I don't think the President wants that, but that's how you get there.

01:45:29.000 We're good to go.

01:45:49.000 We're good to go!

01:46:04.000 When there was this particularly bad attack in Kirkuk that killed one American civilian contractor.

01:46:10.000 Now I understand that there has to be retaliation for that, right?

01:46:13.000 And we retaliated, we attacked these Hezbollah people. 1.00

01:46:15.000 Hezbollah people come and they attack the American embassy. 0.86

01:46:18.000 Okay. 0.99

01:46:19.000 But then the response is to kill the Iranian, the leader of the IRGC? 1.00

01:46:26.000 Understand this. 0.97

01:46:28.000 That is Iran's backyard, not our backyard, right? 1.00

01:46:32.000 So there is this argument to be made that America has to respond to these provocations in some capacity, right?

01:46:38.000 That if Iran attacks a tanker, allegedly, or if Iran blows up our drone, then we respond.

01:46:45.000 But it only works.

01:46:46.000 Containment only makes sense.

01:46:48.000 And retaliating within that framework only makes sense if the retaliation is proportionate.

01:46:53.000 You know, they attacked our unmanned drone last June.

01:46:57.000 And we attacked one of their unmanned drones in July.

01:47:00.000 And that was the end of it, right?

01:47:02.000 At least at that point in time.

01:47:03.000 We didn't hear a lot about this until recently.

01:47:07.000 That was last summer.

01:47:08.000 But it doesn't work when Iranian proxies attack us, which by the way, you know, kind of makes sense, right? 0.93

01:47:15.000 I mean, they're fighting for influence in Iraq.

01:47:18.000 We're in Iraq.

01:47:19.000 I mean, this is just how it goes.

01:47:21.000 These are failed states.

01:47:22.000 These are countries that have been turned upside down and destabilized.

01:47:25.000 It's not to justify that people are attacking America, but it is to say, you know, we've been in these countries for 20 years.

01:47:32.000 A missile flies on top of a base and we're going to pretend like,

01:47:35.000 What is going on?

01:47:36.000 Why is everyone attacking us?

01:47:38.000 Maybe we shouldn't be there, right?

01:47:39.000 So I will say, in the first place, we shouldn't be there.

01:47:43.000 If we weren't there, we wouldn't get attacked.

01:47:46.000 But if we are there, we have to recognize that there will be some amount of conflict.

01:47:49.000 There will be some amount of friction, and things will happen.

01:47:52.000 And if things do happen, then you respond proportionately.

01:47:56.000 Right?

01:47:57.000 If somebody gets attacked, if a contractor gets killed in Kirkuk, then fine, do five airstrikes, attack five targets in Iraq and Syria that are linked to Hezbollah.

01:48:07.000 And they respond, they come to our embassy.

01:48:09.000 Okay, well, secure the embassy first and foremost, and then, I don't know, kill the leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah, or rather the Iraqi Hezbollah. 0.97

01:48:18.000 Kill the leader of the, what is it, the Popular Movement? 0.97

01:48:22.000 What is the group called? 0.98

01:48:23.000 The PM? 0.99

01:48:25.000 You know, kill that guy, the Popular Mobilization Unit. 1.00

01:48:28.000 Kill that leader, you know? 0.99

01:48:30.000 But to then attack the Iranian general, that is a severe and disproportionate escalation. 0.96

01:48:35.000 That's really the big problem with it.

01:48:37.000 And so to me, the question of whether or not this was... People are asking me, do you support the killing of Soleimani?

01:48:42.000 Do you not support the killing of Soleimani?

01:48:44.000 To me, it's a question of what the response will look like.

01:48:47.000 It's really, as I've said, the strategy of containment only works if we can control Iran lashing out at us. 0.98

01:48:55.000 Insofar as we can maintain this maximum pressure campaign, I think that eventually we will get a good outcome.

01:49:02.000 Sanctioning Iran, I support that. 1.00

01:49:04.000 Crushing Iran's economy, I support that. 1.00

01:49:06.000 Insofar as they're pursuing a nuclear arsenal.

01:49:09.000 If that is happening, and Iran is really hurting from this, you've seen that there's been popular unrest.

01:49:15.000 I don't know.

01:49:29.000 So to me, we have to wait and see if this goes without some kind of severe escalation and we don't end up with a war in Iran.

01:49:37.000 I'll say that ultimately, it was probably very careless and very reckless.

01:49:42.000 But, you know, if it doesn't get us involved in war with Iran, I don't know, I'm kind of neutral on it.

01:49:46.000 We're good to go?

01:50:02.000 We overshot a little bit, and I think that it has the potential now to escalate wildly.

01:50:07.000 Now, the airstrikes prior to that, I support.

01:50:09.000 You know, I supported the missile strikes in Syria.

01:50:12.000 I supported, you know, the attacks in response to them attacking the base in Kirkuk.

01:50:17.000 You know, I support all of that.

01:50:19.000 I support proportional responses that do not draw us further into conflict.

01:50:23.000 But that's exactly what has been going on for the last two years, is that we have been slowly drawn further into this conflict.

01:50:30.000 Right?

01:50:31.000 It's been going on for the past two years, really.

01:50:33.000 Every time we see a flare-up like this, we send a thousand more troops to the Middle East.

01:50:39.000 14,000 troops have been additional troops have been sent to the Middle East since last May.

01:50:43.000 14,000 more troops.

01:50:46.000 And you got to think about this not just in the context of American interest and sort of the geopolitical situation, but how about any of Trump's promises?

01:50:54.000 You know, frankly, I think it's kind of gay when people do this thing where every time there's a flare-up in the Middle East, they tag Trump and they say, remember when you said this in 2014? 0.90

01:51:03.000 Like, I think it's kind of a cope.

01:51:05.000 It's like that meme of Wojak with the... he's crying and he's got a mask that's smiling.

01:51:10.000 Where's this guy?

01:51:11.000 Where's this Trump?

01:51:12.000 You know, they pull up an old tweet where he says, Obama wants a war with Iran to win re-election. 0.99

01:51:17.000 It's like, you just look pathetic when you do that. 0.98

01:51:20.000 But they're not wrong. 0.99

01:51:21.000 But the sentiment is not wrong.

01:51:24.000 The President promised that we would end wars.

01:51:27.000 And we're getting into more of that.

01:51:29.000 He said we would end the war in Iraq, end the war in Afghanistan, end the war in Syria, Yemen, Somalia.

01:51:36.000 Libya's blowing up. 0.99

01:51:37.000 We'll have to talk about that tomorrow.

01:51:39.000 Something's going on there.

01:51:40.000 Nobody's been talking about it.

01:51:42.000 We've got troops in West Africa.

01:51:45.000 And not only are we not ending the wars, but we have more troops in these countries than when we started.

01:51:51.000 More troops in these countries than last year, and more than on Inauguration Day.

01:51:55.000 So the question becomes, what really are we doing?

01:51:58.000 What really is the strategy?

01:52:00.000 To me, my ideal foreign policy is pull us out of Afghanistan, pull us out of Iraq, pull us out of Syria. 0.99

01:52:07.000 You could leave bases.

01:52:08.000 I'm fine with military bases.

01:52:10.000 And maybe we've got a small residual force, or something like that.

01:52:14.000 We've got 50,000 troops across the Middle East, if you're including Qatar and Kuwait and Iraq and everything.

01:52:19.000 50,000, something like that.

01:52:21.000 3,000 more on the way as of this week.

01:52:25.000 Draw down these troop totals, you know, maybe you keep a few hundred in Iraq, a few hundred in Kuwait.

01:52:31.000 I'm not a military expert.

01:52:32.000 Leave behind enough that, you know, if something happens, we'd be able to respond in some capacity.

01:52:38.000 I'm not against the idea of having military bases and having troops everywhere.

01:52:42.000 But we should not be in a state of war with Afghanistan.

01:52:46.000 We've lost.

01:52:47.000 It's over.

01:52:48.000 It's actually probably worse than when we got there.

01:52:50.000 Time to pack it up and leave.

01:52:52.000 Same with Iraq. 0.66

01:52:52.000 Same with Syria. 0.66

01:52:53.000 Yemen.

01:52:54.000 We have no business in Syria.

01:52:55.000 We have no business in Yemen.

01:52:57.000 So draw down all those troops.

01:52:59.000 I'm good.

01:53:15.000 So to me, this is probably a huge crisis.

01:53:20.000 I think that this could really go sour.

01:53:22.000 Now, honestly, my gut is telling me that nothing ever happens.

01:53:27.000 We've been watching things for the past so many years and it feels like nothing ever really happens, but this is probably the most serious escalation that we've seen in the 21st century against Iran. 0.77

01:53:39.000 One of the benefits of the Iraq war is that in the immediate aftermath of that, a lot of surrounding countries shut down their nuclear programs because they were afraid of America. 0.75

01:53:47.000 Now, it's questionable whether or not it was worth it, right?

01:53:50.000 But, you know, we started out the decade with these horrible wars.

01:53:54.000 We're still in them and so on, but this is probably the most serious provocation since these wars started and could be the most serious

01:54:03.000 Escalation with Iran in particular. 1.00

01:54:04.000 So we'll see where it goes I'm praying that Iran doesn't retaliate in a huge way What Trump is trying to do now is to soften the blow when Trump says we're gonna attack 52 sites and cultural sites and all this This is trying to get Iran to mute their response mitigate their response so that we won't be drawn further into it But what's done is done.

01:54:26.000 Soleimani's dead 0.92

01:54:28.000 Iran has to respond and they're going to have to respond in a big way. 1.00

01:54:32.000 Now, if Iran pulls back and they concede, well, they'll just look like idiots. 1.00

01:54:36.000 You know, I mean, that's going to be a huge loss for them and a big win for us. 1.00

01:54:39.000 It's a huge gamble.

01:54:40.000 But the question is, why would we take a gamble like this if the sanctions are working?

01:54:44.000 You know, to me, that's sort of the bottom line.

01:54:47.000 I will say there's there's sort of like other theories on this.

01:54:50.000 You know, it is interesting that this is all happening while the North Korea nuclear process is stalling.

01:54:55.000 One thought that I had

01:54:58.000 Was that on New Year's Eve, Kim Jong Un said, I will not denuclearize.

01:55:03.000 You know, they're talking about totally going back on their promise to denuclearize, saying that we're going to start doing nuclear tests again, and we're going to test more weapons of mass destruction.

01:55:13.000 So I wonder if, just like two years ago, when Trump did the Syria strikes, is he playing the Middle East off of Asia?

01:55:21.000 Right?

01:55:21.000 Is he going to strike Iran?

01:55:23.000 Is he going to

01:55:25.000 We're good to go!

01:55:41.000 You know, Iraq is very mad at us. 1.00

01:55:43.000 Their government there says they want us out of their country.

01:55:46.000 I don't think that's gonna happen anytime soon, but, you know, that's definitely gonna cause friction between us and their government.

01:55:52.000 So there's a lot of different theories on where this could go.

01:55:55.000 We will really just have to wait and see.

01:55:57.000 The ball is in Iran's court right now, and everything that happens afterward is contingent on what their response is, how big it is, how many Americans die, what that's gonna look like. 0.67

01:56:08.000 If they attack some Europeans, we'll have to see what that'll be like.

01:56:12.000 If they attack Americans, we'll be in serious jeopardy of a war starting.

01:56:16.000 But to me, I always have to revert back to the fact that...

01:56:20.000 We don't want war with Iran.

01:56:21.000 You know, we have to be guided by our priorities.

01:56:24.000 The priority is, almost all of our priorities are domestic.

01:56:29.000 Almost all of our priorities are happening in the United States.

01:56:32.000 All the biggest threats to our country are, you know, they're domestic.

01:56:36.000 It's immigration, it's trade, it's what's happening with the economy.

01:56:40.000 Iran, the Middle East, is really none of our concern.

01:56:43.000 Strategically, it's far less important than it was maybe 30 or 40 or 50 years ago, if it was ever even that important.

01:56:50.000 You know, you could say that maybe North Africa in the Middle East was important during the Cold War.

01:56:54.000 It's not the Cold War anymore, right?

01:56:56.000 You could say that at a time it was important for oil.

01:56:58.000 We're developing our own oil, so it's a little bit less important.

01:57:02.000 Other countries are developing their own oil.

01:57:04.000 So I would say that strategically speaking,

01:57:07.000 We really have no business having the kind of presence that we have there anymore.

01:57:10.000 Certainly not engaging in another ground war.

01:57:12.000 A ground war would be detrimental to this country. 0.99

01:57:14.000 A war with Iran would be detrimental to the United States. 0.70

01:57:18.000 We can't have that happen.

01:57:19.000 Now I understand that Trump might want to, you know, use missile strikes or things like that to try to negotiate with Iran's nuclear program.

01:57:27.000 And that not every military action constitutes war or something that could lead to war.

01:57:32.000 But this is different than everything we've seen for the past couple of years.

01:57:35.000 You know, in the past I've defended the Syrian missile strikes, I've defended aircraft carriers, I've defended drone strikes or you know, drones being shot down, things like that, sponsoring resistance movements.

01:57:47.000 I've been down for just about everything shy of war, but this is something that could seriously escalate.

01:57:52.000 Beyond our control.

01:57:53.000 So I would say that this is different than everything we've seen before in this administration, and it seems like a mistake.

01:57:58.000 It seems like we're really going down the wrong path here because, you know, it could very easily go out of control.

01:58:04.000 And then what do we do then?

01:58:05.000 You know, if we're involved in a war with Iran, Trump's going to lose the election.

01:58:08.000 We're not going to be able to bankrupt our country, right?

01:58:11.000 We'll be in the Middle East forever. 1.00

01:58:12.000 I don't think we'll ever get out of there.

01:58:14.000 I don't think we'll ever get out of there now.

01:58:16.000 But I mean, if we go to war with Iran, we're certainly never getting out. 0.98

01:58:20.000 So that to me is what's happening with Iran.

01:58:22.000 I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens.

01:58:25.000 And then we'll see what Iran does. 0.51

01:58:28.000 Just gotta be safe.

01:58:29.000 You know, remember, if you happen to be in the Middle East, be safe.

01:58:33.000 If you're in Europe, be safe.

01:58:35.000 I think, you know, we will probably be okay on the American homeland, but even so, you know, be safe.

01:58:40.000 Keep in mind, we're sort of at a fever pitch in terms of world relations, in terms of global affairs.

01:58:48.000 We'll have to wait and see.

01:58:49.000 And then once Iran retaliates, we can maybe breathe a sigh of relief and say, well, at least now we know what direction this is headed in. 0.56

01:58:56.000 But it's not good.

01:58:57.000 It's very not good.

01:58:58.000 People have called me like a neocon over this.

01:59:00.000 I don't know how anything I've said is like neocon-like.

01:59:03.000 I've seen some people online are very upset about the Trump tweeted out that he would attack cultural sites.

01:59:10.000 And some people are really bent out of shape about that and I said like, you know, I don't oppose war with Iran because we're gonna blow up like a, you know, ancient library or something.

01:59:19.000 That's all I meant to say by that.

01:59:20.000 Some people are very offended by... I made some remarks on Telegram where I said...

01:59:25.000 That people are babies because they're whining about cultural sites and this kind of thing.

01:59:31.000 And all I meant to say is that if your concern is like heritage sites or whatever, international law, national sovereignty, like I don't oppose war with Iran because the UN says we can't do it.

01:59:42.000 I don't oppose war with Iran because we might blow up like a mosque or something. 0.89

01:59:46.000 I oppose war with Iran because it would ruin America. 1.00

01:59:49.000 But I oppose war with Iran! 0.88

01:59:50.000 You understand what I'm saying?

01:59:51.000 So...

01:59:53.000 We'll have to wait and see.

01:59:54.000 We might get a war.

01:59:55.000 You might see me drafted from the Groyper War to the Iranian War.

02:00:00.000 We'll have to wait and see.

02:00:01.000 But we're gonna move on.

02:00:03.000 We're going to take a look at our Super Chats.

02:00:06.000 We'll see what you guys are saying about all of this.

02:00:10.000 This show has gone on for like 10 million hours it feels like.

02:00:15.000 I've been on the air already for 90 minutes and we haven't even gotten into Super Chats.

02:00:19.000 So it's gonna be a long one.

02:00:20.000 I'm feeling sweaty already.

02:00:23.000 My nose is starting to itch.

02:00:26.000 And I'm going to take a little sip.

02:00:28.000 I'm going to take a moment here to take a little sip of water and take a little bit of a break here before we dive into the Super Chats.

02:00:37.000 And we'll see what you guys are saying.

02:00:39.000 Oh yeah.

02:00:40.000 Well, one thing I, maybe one thing I left out is, you know, in case anybody was wondering, do you know the one party that really wants this to happen?

02:00:49.000 You know the one party that really wants war with Iran?

02:00:52.000 In case anybody didn't know, it is Israel, right?

02:00:56.000 And I found it so amazing.

02:00:57.000 I did forget to mention this.

02:00:59.000 It's incredible.

02:01:01.000 We told Israel that this strike was going to happen before we even told Congress.

02:01:05.000 Isn't that amazing?

02:01:09.000 Before we told the United Kingdom, before we told any European country, before we told our own Congress, we told Israel the strike was going down, and even better, today, Israel said, like, oh, we're not going to get involved.

02:01:20.000 Isn't that amazing?

02:01:22.000 We had to tell Israel it was going to happen, we did it in some capacity for them, and then ultimately, oh, no, no, they say they don't want to get involved.

02:01:29.000 Well, that's amazing, right?

02:01:31.000 We go into all these wars that benefit them, and they don't even fight in them.

02:01:34.000 Must be nice.

02:01:35.000 Must be nice!

02:01:37.000 Because at the end of the day, I, of course, I'm talking about all this from my perspective.

02:01:42.000 My perspective is that the nuclear program has to be shut down.

02:01:46.000 I just think that's not in our national security interest to have nuclear proliferation.

02:01:52.000 Don't think we need to do ground wars to achieve that, but it should, I think we should pursue that. 0.64

02:01:58.000 But why we've gone after Iran and all these other countries is really not about that.

02:02:02.000 It's really because, you know, in the case of Hezbollah in particular, 0.63

02:02:07.000 Hezbollah does not pose a threat to the United States.

02:02:10.000 Iran does not pose a threat to the United States as a non-nuclear power or even as a nuclear power.

02:02:16.000 Do you know who Iran is the biggest threat to? 1.00

02:02:19.000 Israel.

02:02:20.000 Not Europe.

02:02:21.000 Not the United States. 0.51

02:02:22.000 Now, it doesn't mean that Iran is our friend. 0.97

02:02:24.000 It doesn't mean that Iran doesn't do things that are counter to our interests. 1.00

02:02:28.000 But in terms of priority, Iran is Israel's biggest problem. 0.74

02:02:32.000 And it's Saudi Arabia's biggest problem, and it's the Emirates' biggest problem, but primarily, I mean, who's the lobby, right?

02:02:39.000 So, I just forgot to throw that in there.

02:02:42.000 I'm thinking about sort of my perspective on this, which is, I've always said that North Korea, Iran, we should use containment strategies. 0.99

02:02:49.000 But, of course, the real reason that we remain heavily involved in all these countries is because you look at Israel, and the greatest threat to their national security is Palestine, and to an extent, Lebanon. 0.73

02:03:03.000 No, we're good.

02:03:18.000 So they hate the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Palestinians there, and they hate the militant groups that support them.

02:03:24.000 Hamas, Hezbollah, and they have a big problem on their northern border where Lebanon is almost controlled by Hezbollah.

02:03:31.000 Hezbollah, which is sponsored by Iran.

02:03:34.000 Hezbollah, which is a group that formed out of response to the war in Lebanon.

02:03:40.000 That Israel fought, you know, that's why they support our presence in Syria. 0.97

02:03:44.000 When Trump said we were going to pull out of Syria, the first person to cry foul was the ADL, or rather, not the ADL, AIPAC.

02:03:52.000 AIPAC said, the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee, said, this is the biggest mistake, how dare you!

02:03:57.000 And all the other Zionists said the same thing, it's a big mistake, because the American presence in Syria guarantees that Syria will remain destabilized, that Syria will not come under the control of one government,

02:04:09.000 And if Syria is destabilized, that means that Israel can attack Syria with impunity. 0.52

02:04:14.000 They can do missile strikes.

02:04:15.000 They can do missile strikes in Lebanon. 0.69

02:04:17.000 That means that at no point can Iran gain a foothold in Syria and begin to give material and military support to Hezbollah in Lebanon.

02:04:26.000 So fundamentally, you know, and this has been the playbook for the past 20 years, take out Iraq. 0.99

02:04:33.000 Take out Syria and then take out Iran. 0.99

02:04:35.000 It's laid out in the Clean Break Memo.

02:04:37.000 It's laid out in Oded Yanan's 1980s plan for Israel.

02:04:41.000 That's been the strategy.

02:04:43.000 You know, Iraq is a Ba'athist stronghold. 0.94

02:04:46.000 They had this weird theory.

02:04:48.000 They had this really convoluted theory in the 1990s about the nature of Ba'athism in Iraq and Syria.

02:04:55.000 But they took out Iraq because Iraq was this powerful and antagonistic country. 0.99

02:04:59.000 They took out Syria because if Syria is destabilized then they can take out Lebanon essentially, then they can get a handle on this Hezbollah problem. 0.97

02:05:07.000 And then ultimately if they take out Iran, well then there's no support to be given to Hezbollah in the first place. 0.58

02:05:12.000 But that is what they want to achieve.

02:05:15.000 Iraq, Syria, Iran.

02:05:17.000 That's a trifecta.

02:05:18.000 And nobody wants it more than the neocons.

02:05:20.000 Nobody wants it more than the Zionists, than Israel. 0.99

02:05:24.000 They have been egging this on for years.

02:05:28.000 They've been conducting strikes in Iraq.

02:05:29.000 They've been constructing strikes in Syria.

02:05:31.000 They've been beating the war drums with Iran since the 1990s. 0.69

02:05:36.000 You could say maybe even before that.

02:05:39.000 I forgot to mention that angle.

02:05:41.000 Of course, nine times out of ten, that sort of goes without saying, but it's important to reaffirm tonight.

02:05:47.000 But let's see.

02:05:48.000 We will now dive into our Super Chat.

02:05:50.000 We'll now dive into our Super Chat.

02:05:52.000 Now that we've taken care of that, the problem is it's such a big topic tonight.

02:05:57.000 Obviously, there's so much ground to cover that it's... I forget, like, you know, little bits and pieces of it that are critical, that are of critical importance.

02:06:06.000 You know, there's obviously... there's the history, there's what's happening within Iran, there's what's happening within the United States, what's happening in Trump's head, what's happening in the foreign policy circles.

02:06:16.000 There's really a lot to it.

02:06:17.000 There's a lot of moving parts.

02:06:19.000 So forgive me if I leave something out.

02:06:21.000 I've tried to do a good job of sort of summarizing how we got here and where Trump is at in particular.

02:06:27.000 But let's see we'll take a look at the super chats now.

02:06:30.000 We've got no one who says $151 for a Cook County license plate sticker Well, it looks like it looks like I'm I don't know.

02:06:38.000 I got so many super chats tonight.

02:06:40.000 It looks like it's not even loading Super chats before like 7 20 p.m.

02:06:47.000 So give me a second off to go back in and get those off to load them.

02:06:50.000 Oh

02:06:55.000 Yeah, I pull up the Super Chat.

02:06:58.000 What is it?

02:06:58.000 What would you say?

02:07:00.000 I'm pulling up the box where all my Super Chats are displayed and it's not even going back past like 737.

02:07:07.000 I can't even scroll up any further because so many Super Chats and I can't even, it won't even load them all.

02:07:13.000 I guess it loads a certain amount and then it starts cutting them off.

02:07:16.000 So, it'll just take a second.

02:07:19.000 Let me scroll down in this other tab and I'll be able to find them here.

02:07:25.000 Let's see.

02:07:26.000 Yeah, a lot of people are saying America First is cancelled.

02:07:29.000 Doesn't really feel like that tonight.

02:07:31.000 Let's see, over the past week.

02:07:34.000 Stefan Molly Meme says, Nick, what's going on big guy?

02:07:37.000 You're spending your time with grifters when you said the character's paramount.

02:07:41.000 Are you referring to Baked Alaska?

02:07:44.000 I assume that's what that's about.

02:07:45.000 A lot of people call Baked Alaska a grifter.

02:07:48.000 I'll just say I'm a very good judge of character.

02:07:51.000 So I'll just say that.

02:07:52.000 Yeah, here we go.

02:07:53.000 Well, there's nothing wrong with being homophobic, but the first part is definitely true. 1.00

02:08:08.000 I don't think I've ever promoted anybody.

02:08:12.000 I think I hung out with a friend of mine, but I don't think I've ever promoted anything.

02:08:19.000 I don't know what that means.

02:08:20.000 All I have in common.

02:08:37.000 Can't wait for phase two.

02:08:39.000 I don't know what that last part means. 0.96

02:08:42.000 Alex says, beating women. 0.93

02:08:43.000 Based or cringe? 0.98

02:08:44.000 Definitely cringe. 0.98

02:08:45.000 It's definitely cringe to beat a woman. 1.00

02:08:47.000 I am not in support of that.

02:08:49.000 Harris Walker says, it's definitely not hilarious.

02:08:52.000 Harris Walker says, imagine not trusting the plan.

02:08:55.000 Couldn't be me.

02:08:56.000 Hope you had a great day on this epiphany, King.

02:08:58.000 Well, thanks a lot, buddy.

02:09:00.000 Can't imagine, can't imagine not trusting the plan, frankly.

02:09:04.000 Announces I've seen girls don't make a comeback. 0.91

02:09:06.000 I'm ending it.

02:09:07.000 This is what we mean by return to tradition what we mean by return to tradition is Listening to hey, yeah goth girls Crocs, you know, this is this is the real return to tradition playing Minecraft 0.88

02:09:21.000 Negative thoughts says the super chats are gonna be interesting tonight.

02:09:24.000 Yeah Master of war says no don't sit.

02:09:27.000 This will be quick.

02:09:28.000 Look.

02:09:28.000 I like you lolly socks You know a lot of the guys I think you're a freak, but I like you I don't even Know I don't sit.

02:09:34.000 This will be quick.

02:09:35.000 Look.

02:09:35.000 I like you lolly socks and a lot of these guys They think you're a freak, but I like you I don't know why I like you, but I got another complaint starting to piss me off Yeah, I guess I guess I took a sign or something City to give back a sign

02:09:50.000 That's pretty funny.

02:09:51.000 I didn't know what that was for a second, but then I caught it.

02:09:53.000 Yeah, well...

02:10:00.000 I'm full of surprises like that.

02:10:02.000 Yeah, well, Sean has a tendency to blackmail a little bit.

02:10:03.000 I don't think that what Trump did was illegal.

02:10:05.000 I just think it was a mistake.

02:10:21.000 You know, Trump can use the military.

02:10:23.000 Like, that's not... All these people, whenever they talk about the law, that's when they lose me, you know?

02:10:28.000 Like, I'm with you.

02:10:29.000 I'm against war with Iran. 0.99

02:10:31.000 It's a big mistake.

02:10:32.000 Could wind up losing 2020.

02:10:34.000 If we get into a war with Iran, you lose the election, right? 0.75

02:10:36.000 I mean, that's... and that's the least of our worries if we get into a war with Iran.

02:10:41.000 But, you know, people saying that, well, the reason why it was a mistake is because it violated international law. 0.92

02:10:46.000 Like, that's so gay. 1.00

02:10:47.000 You know, people saying, the reason the strike was bad is because Trump does not have the legal authority to do that. 0.97

02:10:54.000 The president's the commander-in-chief, come on, we can do what we want.

02:10:58.000 So, uh, so yeah, that's where I have to draw the line.

02:11:01.000 Like, war with Iran is bad, I'm with ya. 1.00

02:11:04.000 Shouldn't have done it, yeah, I'm with ya.

02:11:06.000 Okay, but saying, like, Trump can't do it because the United Nations

02:11:11.000 Really?

02:11:11.000 That's the problem here?

02:11:12.000 By the way, Iran is not based.

02:11:13.000 Iran is cringe. 1.00

02:11:13.000 They're Muslim. 1.00

02:11:14.000 Muslim countries cannot be based. 1.00

02:11:15.000 Well, thanks a lot.

02:11:35.000 I'm thinking about it. 0.98

02:11:53.000 And also, you know, he's sort of ugly. 0.96

02:11:56.000 He also has autism. 0.92

02:11:57.000 So all this is a recipe for actually not really a great debate.

02:12:02.000 I'll do it on the Killstream.

02:12:04.000 I'll do it on some kind of a third-party platform.

02:12:06.000 It doesn't have to be the Killstream.

02:12:08.000 But I watched Vausch's debate with Sargon, and first of all, Vausch, that totally vindicated what I said about him.

02:12:15.000 For a long time, he said he wouldn't debate me, and I said I wouldn't debate him.

02:12:19.000 And he said he wouldn't debate me because I'm a neo-Nazi, blah blah blah, and I said I wouldn't debate him because he has Asperger's.

02:12:26.000 And it's not actually fun to debate somebody with Asperger's. 0.97

02:12:28.000 I don't know if you've ever done that before.

02:12:31.000 Because these people just I mean, where does the term spurgh come from?

02:12:34.000 Okay, so if I get it, that's exactly what happened with Sargon It's just the spurging out over minutiae and like minor details.

02:12:41.000 I watched that debate.

02:12:41.000 It was painful.

02:12:43.000 What is far right?

02:12:44.000 What is it?

02:12:44.000 We're talking about what far right means for like an hour and You know Vash keeps talking over and keeps interrupting and it's the same thing with destiny.

02:12:52.000 You know, that's why the debates with destiny aren't fun They're just painful

02:12:56.000 Cause the guy just like literally spurgs out, you know, the fast talking, the interrupting, the whatever.

02:13:02.000 And Bausch has said in the past, after the Sargon debate, he said, well, I won't debate.

02:13:06.000 I'm done doing debates on neutral platforms because Nazis can say whatever they want.

02:13:11.000 It's like, that's kind of the point of a debate.

02:13:13.000 You know, he wants it to be like, oh, you talk for as much as I want.

02:13:17.000 And then I'm going to correct the record.

02:13:18.000 And then you talk more than I correct the record.

02:13:20.000 It's like, that's not a debate.

02:13:21.000 That's like, that's, that's controlled.

02:13:24.000 That's completely controlled.

02:13:25.000 Part of a debate is, you have to hear out both sides.

02:13:29.000 You can't, oh, well, this guy's literally Hitler, so, you know, all these rules, he's subject to all these rules, and I get to interrupt him whenever I want. 0.78

02:13:37.000 Like, that's not really a debate. 0.95

02:13:39.000 That's really more, like, retarded. 1.00

02:13:42.000 So, I'll debate him on, like, a third-party platform, perhaps, you know, if there is such a fair platform where there's a moderator, and they're in the middle.

02:13:51.000 Maybe Nuance Bro can moderate, right?

02:13:53.000 Or somebody like that. 0.99

02:13:56.000 But I'm not gonna go on his channel and just be spurred out at by some fat homo. 1.00

02:14:01.000 I'm gonna get banned. 0.96

02:14:04.000 2020 is not off to a good start.

02:14:05.000 I'm gonna get banned already.

02:14:07.000 I keep forgetting the community guidelines.

02:14:08.000 You can't say these kinds of things anymore.

02:14:11.000 Kidding!

02:14:12.000 I don't mean that.

02:14:13.000 Blah blah blah.

02:14:16.000 Yeah, I forgot.

02:14:17.000 I've been away for a week. 0.92

02:14:18.000 I forgot the community guidelines are super dumb now. 0.53

02:14:21.000 You can't make fun of anything. 0.92

02:14:23.000 Racist incels is going to be a chat and go premium.

02:14:26.000 Oh, great.

02:14:27.000 Prince of Zamunda says, LMAO, World War III, but everybody's talking about Catboys.

02:14:32.000 Yeah, you love to see it, right?

02:14:34.000 We're on the brink of war with Iran and people are, Nick, you hung out with this guy?

02:14:39.000 John Smith says lolly of socks promotes cartoon pedophilia worst optics, you know, you just don't get it Racist incels do you think America's two-party system restricts our ideas from becoming mainstream?

02:14:51.000 Um Perhaps you know, I don't really like to think about whenever people say two-party system my eyes sort of glaze over because it's just like I

02:15:02.000 Sort of a useless conversation.

02:15:04.000 You know what I mean?

02:15:05.000 What if America had a multi-party democracy?

02:15:08.000 Probably everything would be different, you know?

02:15:11.000 I don't know what to tell you, right?

02:15:12.000 You could say that in... You could look at other countries where they have multiple parties, but I would say that in, like, the United Kingdom, does the multi... does the multi-party system really allow, like, our ideas to flourish?

02:15:27.000 Look at the results of the last election.

02:15:28.000 The Brexit party got zero, right?

02:15:32.000 What was the other one?

02:15:33.000 BNP used to be a party.

02:15:35.000 They've been like dead forever.

02:15:36.000 So how's that going, you know?

02:15:39.000 The Conservatives, in a multi- and I don't know, I'm not like an expert on the electoral systems, but in the United Kingdom system, it's like obviously they have two major parties and then some, you know, they've got the Green Party and the Lib Dems and others, but even in a system where they have more than two parties,

02:15:54.000 You don't really see, like, a real nationalist force, at least not yet.

02:16:01.000 Conversely, in Italy you do.

02:16:02.000 You know, in Italy they've got Lega, which is now the biggest party in Italy.

02:16:06.000 And they're, you know, going against the Five Star Movement, which is an anti-establishment party, or the traditional, was it Forza Italia, or some of the... I'm not an expert on international, you know, domestic politics.

02:16:17.000 Well, you know what I mean.

02:16:18.000 Domestic politics in other countries.

02:16:20.000 But, um...

02:16:22.000 In Italy, their multi-party system has given way to a legitimate reactionary nationalist party.

02:16:40.000 America first juice is welcome back King.

02:16:42.000 Sorry about the cringe fads on the timeline.

02:16:45.000 True knickers are ride or die and we still got your back.

02:16:47.000 Hope you enjoyed your vacation.

02:16:49.000 Well thanks a lot big guy.

02:16:51.000 Yeah I mean look you just got to trust the plan.

02:16:54.000 I'm waiting for... look I'll go off on the Catboy thing in a moment.

02:16:56.000 I'm waiting for a good super chat.

02:16:58.000 I'm waiting for a good... I'm waiting for a well-formed question before I launch into it in full.

02:17:04.000 Helios says I've got a half-Asian GF.

02:17:07.000 Is it still cringe or no?

02:17:09.000 Yeah, it's kind of cringe, dude.

02:17:11.000 Racist incel says have you ever been to Europe?

02:17:13.000 Yeah, I've been to Czech Republic.

02:17:16.000 Ragnarok says Groyper terrorist cell claims responsibility.

02:17:20.000 Yeah, the allergies are back too.

02:17:24.000 I got a brief, uh, I got a brief respite from the allergies when I was in the desert. 0.95

02:17:30.000 Uh, Groyper Terracel claims responsibility for leaking documents revealing Vaush to be a fat pedophile. 0.71

02:17:35.000 Yeah, yeah, uh, Groyper leaks. 0.99

02:17:37.000 Groyper leaks reveals, uh, Vaush is gay and fat. 0.90

02:17:42.000 Glenn Ceases forgot to tell you I showed my dad the clip of you talking to Ben Shapiro, who he likes a lot, and he said there was nothing wrong with what you did. 0.95

02:17:49.000 Oh, well, good to hear.

02:17:51.000 I did nothing wrong.

02:17:52.000 I never do anything wrong!

02:17:53.000 It's always just people lying, exaggerating, bad faith actors, FUD, it's FUD, Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt, Posting.

02:18:03.000 Punished Chewy says, thoughts on getting enrolled in the brown scapular?

02:18:06.000 It's a powerful weapon against sin and the devil.

02:18:09.000 I don't know what a brown scapular is.

02:18:10.000 I know what it is, but I don't really know that much about it.

02:18:13.000 Billy Mays says, big chungus 2020.

02:18:15.000 Hashtag die for a chung real. 1.00

02:18:18.000 Thank you for that.

02:18:19.000 It's all wrong.

02:18:31.000 Nobody's a neocon here.

02:18:32.000 This happens every time something happens with foreign policy.

02:18:37.000 I tell you, I don't support war, but there's nuance to it.

02:18:40.000 And people say, Neocon!

02:18:42.000 Neocon!

02:18:43.000 If you watch this show, you know I'm not a neocon.

02:18:46.000 I have had a show that has literally been taken off my channel.

02:18:49.000 It was all about the Israel lobby and the ADL and AIPAC and everything that goes on.

02:18:55.000 Pollard and all these people.

02:18:57.000 Everybody knows I'm not a neocon, but you know whenever I do a show and I don't just give you an autistic like war bad Take then you know people want to call me a neocon, but you know as I've never supported war with Iran I've never support. 0.61

02:19:11.000 I'm against war in Iraq, against war in Syria, whatever You know

02:19:16.000 And this, uh, Groyper going the way of Kekistan, this is a line of thinking that was literally created by Brittany Venti.

02:19:23.000 So, you know, good luck.

02:19:24.000 All these people, it's like, oh, I'm perpetuating, I'm perpetuating, like, a disingenuous and harmful narrative created by people that want to hurt us.

02:19:32.000 Oh, yeah.

02:19:32.000 Reflect on that.

02:19:33.000 I'm reflecting on that by saying, you know, Vausch peddling the stuff is a communist and a pedophile. 0.93

02:19:40.000 Brittany Venti is an e-girl, and people are, like, listening to that. 0.73

02:19:43.000 So I don't think that's happening.

02:19:44.000 But if you feel that's happening, then, you know, don't watch the show.

02:19:47.000 Join the other reactionary movement, by all means.

02:19:50.000 Do your own show. 0.99

02:19:52.000 Lord Yeetus says, how does anal sex with cat boys win the culture war? 0.99

02:19:57.000 It doesn't, but that hasn't happened, so. 0.98

02:20:00.000 Colton says, see the new guy memes creator committed sudoku.

02:20:04.000 New guy meme creator?

02:20:06.000 What's the new guy meme?

02:20:13.000 New guy refers to a character comic strip.

02:20:17.000 I don't really know anything about this.

02:20:18.000 I didn't see that.

02:20:22.000 New guy is a wholesome meme format created as a response to a bitter comic.

02:20:29.000 Oh, I see.

02:20:33.000 Well, I didn't ever even seen this meme before, actually, so I can't really react to it.

02:20:38.000 Let's see.

02:20:38.000 Evner says, new evidence revealed linking Hillary Clinton to Epstein.

02:20:42.000 Google the Lichter Report.

02:20:44.000 I will do that.

02:20:46.000 Thomas says, God is going to punish you for promoting neocon Middle Eastern policy.

02:20:51.000 Here we go. 0.91

02:20:52.000 And associating with cross-dressing degenerates.

02:20:55.000 Okay.

02:20:55.000 Well, thank you for the money.

02:20:57.000 Racist Incel says, do you gel your hair? 1.00

02:20:59.000 I might adopt the style. 0.76

02:21:00.000 I actually don't gel my hair.

02:21:01.000 I just dry it and then I just comb it.

02:21:03.000 I know it's hard to believe.

02:21:06.000 Charlie Kirk says me pulling in the drive-thru.

02:21:08.000 Yeah, can I get three five-layer burritos and a Baja blast taco bell cashier?

02:21:13.000 Maybe it's time for a fully independent Kurdistan and what is currently northern Iraq Everybody who even asked there's an expletive there that I centered who the F even asked I Don't really understand the joke. 0.59

02:21:26.000 But yeah, there's some truth in that I saw there who said that this week some like neocon said that about Kurdistan

02:21:35.000 Was that like Bill Kristol?

02:21:36.000 I feel like it was like Bret Stephens or Bill Kristol, but somebody... I think I saw that on Twitter.

02:21:44.000 Yeah, you'll love to see it.

02:21:45.000 But that's ultimately the endgame.

02:21:46.000 That was the endgame behind the Iraq War from the beginning, for decades. 0.77

02:21:51.000 That was in the works for decades.

02:21:53.000 They want Iraq to be three countries.

02:21:55.000 They want Iraq to be a Kurdish, they want Iraqi Kurdistan, a Sunni-Iraq country, and a Shiite-Iraq country.

02:22:03.000 And they want Syria to be four countries.

02:22:04.000 They want a Kurdish Syria, Sunni, Shiite Syria, Alawite Syria.

02:22:10.000 They want Iran to be split up.

02:22:13.000 These people in Israel they wanted to say they lay it out Oded Yanan's 1980s plan It says that they want to create a mosaic of tribes with flags That's the terminology used a mosaic of tribes with flags What is a mosaic a bunch of countries smashed into little pieces a mosaic, you know of all these different little polities that can be dominated that they can be overcome by Israel 0.97

02:22:41.000 Because, you know, Israel's not stupid.

02:22:43.000 They fight four wars with the Arabs, and they say, we don't like fighting, you know, powerful, autocratic, strong Arab governments. 1.00

02:22:52.000 Let's destroy them from the inside.

02:22:55.000 We're tired of defeating, you know, the United Arab Republic. 0.99

02:22:59.000 We're tired of defeating Saddam Hussein, whatever.

02:23:02.000 What we want is just a bunch of little tribes that can't defend themselves instead. 1.00

02:23:07.000 That's the game plan.

02:23:10.000 Ogurk says, bomb, bomb, bomb, I ran. 0.99

02:23:12.000 Says, some dead neocon. 0.99

02:23:14.000 Yeah. 0.58

02:23:15.000 R.A.

02:23:15.000 says, past week for some reason I remembered all the times last decade when people who felt slighted by me told blatant lies about me.

02:23:22.000 More than degeneracy, it's the lying that makes me go off.

02:23:25.000 Don't know how you deal with the Nick.

02:23:26.000 It's hard.

02:23:28.000 And that's what it's been.

02:23:29.000 That's what it's been for the past three months, is lies.

02:23:33.000 And that's exactly it, is, you know, for me, a very honest person, obviously, you know, for somebody that has staked my reputation, my life, on telling the truth about the world.

02:23:45.000 Honesty, the truth, it's something that matters very much to me.

02:23:48.000 And so when people constantly, when people lie about politics, that irritates me.

02:23:53.000 But when people lie about me, well, it irritates me more, so.

02:23:56.000 Yeah, yeah, I guess I'm just extremely tough.

02:23:58.000 I guess I'm just the toughest guy in the world.

02:24:02.000 But I'm waiting.

02:24:03.000 You know, I want to look.

02:24:04.000 We have to address the Catboy thing at some point tonight.

02:24:07.000 Everybody's so concerned about it.

02:24:09.000 I was waiting for a good question about it, but I might as well.

02:24:12.000 I might as well address it.

02:24:14.000 You know, I did a stream with Lolli Socks.

02:24:17.000 He's now known as Catboy Cammy.

02:24:18.000 He changed his name.

02:24:20.000 I advise him to change his name, because, you know, lollisocks, not great optics.

02:24:24.000 Frankly, I didn't necessarily, like, I didn't put my stamp of approval on Catboy Cammy.

02:24:28.000 I was like, it's not really... I mean, it's a little... lollisocks, it's hard to be worse than that, but, you know, is that really better Catboy Cammy?

02:24:35.000 In any case, this guy, if you don't know who he is, he's been on the Weekly Sweat.

02:24:40.000 I did a stream with him, like, last month.

02:24:43.000 He was a DLive streamer.

02:24:45.000 He would stream 24-7 on DLive.

02:24:48.000 And he would do these, like, Filthy Frank-style, lifestyle streams.

02:24:52.000 He was on 24-7.

02:24:53.000 So he had his wall papered over with, like, anime posters.

02:24:57.000 He would go out to anime conventions and other things wearing anime dresses.

02:25:02.000 And he would do IRL, like, lifestyle content.

02:25:06.000 Um, you know, I don't approve of everything anybody you've ever hung out with has ever done obviously, right?

02:25:12.000 Uh, but but that is the context Uh, he's based in red pill, you know, I caught a couple of the streams and he watched greatest story never told Okay, I don't know what that is.

02:25:19.000 I don't know what that is.

02:25:20.000 I don't know what that is 0.94

02:25:22.000 Damn it, you know, whatever. 0.82

02:25:23.000 Well, okay. 0.99

02:25:24.000 So he watched a documentary, and I don't approve of that documentary, but you let it slip, right?

02:25:31.000 But, you know, talk about letting things slip.

02:25:33.000 It's things like that that slip, not other things.

02:25:36.000 So he was watching a certain six-hour documentary.

02:25:40.000 I'm just gonna pretend that didn't happen.

02:25:41.000 He was watching a certain six-hour documentary.

02:25:43.000 He was redpilling people on HBD, all kinds of things.

02:25:47.000 And I'm like, okay, this guy's like based in redpill.

02:25:49.000 And I put in a couple of chats on DLive and I said like, you know, what's the deal with like the anime costumes?

02:25:55.000 What's the deal with like...

02:25:56.000 Other things that you're doing and he said well you know you see the point of the anime stuff the point of the getup is because it's funny or it gets attention it's disarming you know and people are not as reactive to certain things if you're wearing a costume you know that was the gist of it

02:26:13.000 We're good to go!

02:26:32.000 People made a big deal out of it at the time.

02:26:34.000 We did a 10-hour lifestyle stream.

02:26:36.000 We, like, got lunch.

02:26:37.000 We went to an arcade.

02:26:38.000 We did a few things, you know.

02:26:40.000 And, uh, at the time it was, like, a little controversial because this was fresh off the Milo thing.

02:26:45.000 Everyone was up, up, everybody was up in arms about the Milo thing.

02:26:49.000 Oh, he's on the Milo show.

02:26:51.000 And then the lolly socks thing happened.

02:26:52.000 And, oh, everybody gave me a hard time about that.

02:26:55.000 But then it blew over, you know.

02:26:56.000 Then everyone, like, got over it.

02:26:58.000 Whatever.

02:26:59.000 It was a stream.

02:27:00.000 Not a big deal.

02:27:01.000 And then, much more recently, this Vausch guy found it, I guess.

02:27:06.000 He found it, because this is like a four-week-old stream, and everybody saw it.

02:27:09.000 Everybody got over it.

02:27:10.000 And then this guy Vausch found it, and he made a video, or then he just started lying about what happened.

02:27:16.000 He said that, I flew this guy out to the United States, which is not true.

02:27:20.000 He said, I put him up at a hotel, which is not true.

02:27:23.000 He said that, all kinds of other things. 0.91

02:27:25.000 He said this guy's a sex worker, which is not true. 0.95

02:27:28.000 He said the streamer

02:27:44.000 Feel free to share it, but you know for the most part it's been a lot of lies, exaggeration, misinterpretation by bad faith actors, by people that are willfully lying. 0.81

02:27:54.000 The Vausch guy who made the video where a lot of that has originated is a far-left Marxist pedophile. 0.97

02:28:02.000 He is almost sexual himself. 0.99

02:28:05.000 He's obese. 0.99

02:28:06.000 He has said that he's in favor of violence against right-wing people. 0.76

02:28:09.000 He says I'm like the most influential neo-nazi in the western hemisphere.

02:28:12.000 And he made a video gloating and lying about this stream.

02:28:16.000 And people are, like, taking all that at face value and saying, Nick, care to explain this?

02:28:20.000 Care to explain this?

02:28:22.000 So, I don't know.

02:28:23.000 I think I've addressed most of the contentions there, but it's really not... You know, when people say, Nick, I trust the plan, but... Don't say you trust the plan, but you must trust the plan.

02:28:33.000 If we can't survive things like this, it's never gonna work.

02:28:37.000 Because this has been going... You know, the bigger picture here, the bigger story,

02:28:41.000 I said for three months it has been constant FUD tactics.

02:28:46.000 It has been constant lying, slandering, misdirection.

02:28:50.000 You know what FUD is?

02:28:51.000 Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt.

02:28:53.000 That is the tactic of the enemy.

02:28:55.000 And it's been all kinds of things for the past three months, but you just haven't noticed it, right?

02:28:59.000 It's been Groyper, Grifter, Nick attacked Ben Shapiro's family, Nick denies the Holocaust, Nick is a Chinese agent, Nick was trying to dox people at Groyper Leadership Summit, 0.63

02:29:10.000 Nick is a neocon, and this is the latest one.

02:29:22.000 The guy's totally based in Redpill. 0.59

02:29:24.000 He's not gay. 0.63

02:29:25.000 I'm not gay.

02:29:25.000 You know, nothing happened.

02:29:27.000 People watched the stream and, you know, a stream where we like play arcade games and Vaush is like, well, look, in this picture, Nick looks at him and they're laughing.

02:29:38.000 Oh, yeah.

02:29:38.000 Well, he goes, well, I guess that's a date then.

02:29:41.000 Look, they're laughing at each other the whole time.

02:29:44.000 Oh, yeah.

02:29:44.000 A couple of guys hanging out.

02:29:46.000 Well, it must be a date, right?

02:29:48.000 Let's see.

02:29:51.000 Some people were confused.

02:29:52.000 I posted about this on Twitter.

02:29:54.000 I'm probably blowing it way out of proportion, but a very dedicated and persistent group of people, who I imagine are not good faith actors, have been pushing this hard on social media.

02:30:05.000 But it is important to clarify for the record if there are people that do support me that are

02:30:11.000 Confused or whatever.

02:30:12.000 It's important to correct the record make sure everybody's on board. 0.79

02:30:15.000 I would not be promoting Somebody who is a homosexual. 1.00

02:30:18.000 He is not a homosexual, you know, you could ask him you could go to his Twitter timeline Anybody who watches his streams know this too, by the way, you know We've been hanging out for the past couple of weeks and it's like this guy this guy's like a chat.

02:30:30.000 He slays Femoids, you know, so it's not like it's not like what people are portraying it to be so

02:30:37.000 In any case, we're going to get back to the superchats here.

02:30:39.000 I'm sure it'll come up in further superchats, but hopefully that puts it to bed.

02:30:44.000 Hopefully that's the final clarification.

02:30:46.000 People are saying, well, how is it misinformation?

02:30:48.000 We saw it! 0.95

02:30:50.000 I tweeted today, so this is the guy pushing the disinfo, which is Vaush, who is a pedophile. 0.57

02:30:55.000 And they're like, what disinfo?

02:30:56.000 We saw it.

02:30:57.000 Saw what?

02:30:58.000 People hanging out?

02:30:59.000 Vaush said, you know, there were so many lies that were told in that video.

02:31:03.000 Anyway, let's get back to the super chat.

02:31:19.000 I don't know.

02:31:44.000 Is that people can and do literally just invent things, create fiction out of thin air.

02:31:50.000 But anyway, let's see.

02:31:52.000 Racist incel says, is Alex Jones a paleoconservative?

02:31:56.000 Not really.

02:31:57.000 I think he's a libertarian.

02:31:59.000 Let's see, quality content says, if you support Trump, you are not America first, you are Israel first.

02:32:04.000 This entire attack was so Benjamin Netanyahu would win his re-election.

02:32:10.000 I don't know if that's necessarily true, the part about just being for Benjamin Netanyahu.

02:32:16.000 Certainly, I'm sure he had a hand in this, but no, I don't think supporting Trump is, excuse me, Israel first, only because the Democrats are Israel first, too.

02:32:24.000 I mean, let's not be under any illusions.

02:32:27.000 Excuse me.

02:32:28.000 You know, just look at, like, Nancy Pelosi.

02:32:31.000 Anytime Ilhan Omar raises, like, completely legitimate skepticism of the Israel lobby, Nancy Pelosi, like, has the whole party shut her down.

02:32:40.000 You know, so it's like, well, Trump is Israel first. 0.77

02:32:43.000 Yeah, but, but, you know, so are the Democrats.

02:32:46.000 So it's like, do you want somebody that's Israel first, that's gonna, you know, maybe have a shot at doing something about immigration, that's more sympathetic to us?

02:32:55.000 Or do you want somebody that's effectively Israel first, but is gonna put us in jail for being white nationalists?

02:33:00.000 You know, because that's what we get with the Democrats, so.

02:33:03.000 To me, it's really... If somebody could come up with a counter-argument for that, I'd love to hear it, but all I hear is the same dogmatic, Trump is Israel first.

02:33:10.000 Trump, you know, there's a lot of evidence to support this, but it doesn't really change the calculation.

02:33:16.000 R.A., it's like, so what?

02:33:18.000 I mean, who's not Israel first at the national level in Washington?

02:33:22.000 Can you find anybody?

02:33:23.000 And if you can, show me somebody that's not Israel first. 0.99

02:33:25.000 I don't think that's possible, but if you find somebody that's Israel first, show me who's better than Trump. 0.85

02:33:29.000 That, to me, is the question.

02:33:32.000 R.A.

02:33:32.000 says, I would hope for you having to deal with fewer lies, but I know they won't stop.

02:33:37.000 So I hope instead that you have an epic year shutting them all down.

02:33:39.000 Well, thanks a lot.

02:33:40.000 It's gonna be a great year.

02:33:41.000 I don't let, look, I am a very inflappable person.

02:33:44.000 You cannot get me down very easily.

02:33:47.000 Yeah, yeah, I didn't post that picture.

02:33:48.000 That was Zoomer Matt, which, you know, I don't post pictures of the guns lately for that reason, but...

02:34:10.000 What was I didn't really make any New Year's resolutions.

02:34:13.000 Honestly, is that bad?

02:34:14.000 I was on vacation.

02:34:15.000 I was so just like schmooting And we really didn't do a lot of like the proper New Year's type stuff.

02:34:21.000 You know, it's a lot of gamers We don't really do the conventional stuff.

02:34:25.000 I didn't really make any New Year's resolutions.

02:34:28.000 I Don't know.

02:34:29.000 I guess my New Year's resolution is to be a gamer.

02:34:32.000 I don't know be a gamer be more epic Steve be like or Steve Steve says nibbas be like 1.00

02:34:41.000 Nibbas be like, Catboys, ew, disavow now and go watch porn five minutes later. 1.00

02:34:45.000 LMAO, couldn't be me, trust the plan. 0.62

02:34:48.000 I mean, look, I get it.

02:34:49.000 Based on how people are misrepresenting it, I get why people would be, like, weirded out by it.

02:34:55.000 But you have to understand it in context.

02:34:57.000 You know, would anybody get mad at Sam Hyde for dressing up like a girl in World Peace?

02:35:01.000 Does anybody say, oh, Sam Hyde dressed up like a girl in that episode of World Peace?

02:35:06.000 You know, Sam Hyde dressed up like Jennifer Aniston in his speech at, uh, what school is that?

02:35:13.000 I forget what school, but you know, he did that college speech.

02:35:16.000 Would anybody begrudge him for that?

02:35:18.000 Well, no, because you understand the context of what was happening there.

02:35:21.000 So when people say, oh, he's promoting degeneracy, it's like, well, let's look at the context.

02:35:25.000 If I was promoting Lady Maga, who is unironically a drag queen, homosexual, well, that would be one thing. 1.00

02:35:33.000 But to be promoting somebody that is a straight, red-pilled chad who's doing a bit, who's obviously doing a joke, well, that's something else. 0.89

02:35:42.000 In any case, whatever.

02:35:43.000 I've said my piece on this.

02:35:51.000 Neither.

02:35:51.000 Neither, frankly.

02:35:52.000 I guess Elon Omar.

02:35:54.000 Austin says, use my super chat money to get Jaden out of the hood.

02:35:57.000 Jaden McNeil.

02:35:57.000 Yeah, Jaden's got a very, he's a very urban guy.

02:36:01.000 I'll just put it that way.

02:36:03.000 He's got to become who he is.

02:36:04.000 His blood needs to remember.

02:36:06.000 Racist incel says, Nick, you've left me no choice but to stand.

02:36:09.000 Yeah, many cases.

02:36:11.000 Elston says, listen to some of your old shows while you're on vacation and someone super chatted a Hail Mary that you thought was Last Rites.

02:36:18.000 Pray the Rosary?

02:36:19.000 I don't think that happened.

02:36:20.000 I don't remember that.

02:36:22.000 Dylan says, Feds in chat more interested in Catboys in World War 3.

02:36:25.000 Yeah, for real.

02:36:27.000 Evner says, The Virgin seeing Star Wars 9 with the boys on opening night versus the chat watching Cats with the Catboys in an empty theater.

02:36:37.000 Yeah, yeah.

02:36:38.000 I did see Star Wars 9.

02:36:39.000 Did not see Cats.

02:36:41.000 But yeah, okay.

02:36:43.000 Thank you for that, I guess.

02:36:45.000 Racist Incel says, just found out about Dries Van Langenhove and saw that you were mutuals.

02:36:50.000 He seems like such a cool guy.

02:36:52.000 Totally base, totally Chad, yeah.

02:36:54.000 I've talked to him a couple of times on Instagram.

02:36:58.000 I didn't know who he was.

02:36:59.000 He followed me and I saw the checkmark and I was like, oh, a fellow checkmark, you know?

02:37:04.000 And I checked out his account and I'm like, this guy's pretty epic.

02:37:08.000 So yeah, he's a Chad.

02:37:10.000 We need people like that in America. 0.60

02:37:11.000 You know, I have to say there is something... I don't know.

02:37:14.000 Is this just foolish of me to say, but...

02:37:26.000 To me, it will never not be funny to be unironically jingoist, or rather, ironically jingoistic. 1.00

02:37:32.000 It will never not be funny to say, America, pushing your shit in, you know, fuck your UNESCO heritage sites, we're gonna bomb everything. 1.00

02:37:40.000 That will never not be funny to me. 1.00

02:37:42.000 People that have this, like, people that are isolationist or non-interventionist, we might agree on substance, but the posting, the energy is all wrong.

02:37:53.000 You know, they're all so, like, butthurt and coping.

02:37:55.000 Whoa, whoa, whoa.

02:37:57.000 How does it feel that you're, like, Israel first? 1.00

02:38:00.000 It's like, how do you feel that you're a bitch and we're gonna blow up UNESCO heritage sites? 0.99

02:38:05.000 You know what I mean? 0.99

02:38:05.000 The energy... And I'm talking purely in terms of memes, in terms of irony, being funny. 0.99

02:38:11.000 In other words, not serious.

02:38:12.000 I will never not find that funny.

02:38:15.000 I will never not, you know, be on the wrong side of that one.

02:38:19.000 That is maybe the problem, is post-irony.

02:38:23.000 Do people want me to do the serious show?

02:38:25.000 Hello, everybody.

02:38:26.000 I'm unironically a 21-year-old college dropout wearing a suit, doing a very serious political show, giving completely serious political takes, and I'll never joke and kid.

02:38:37.000 Is that what people want?

02:38:39.000 But that's what they try to do, is they try to subvert the most fun aspect of the show, which is the humor, the good humor, the good naturedness of it.

02:38:48.000 Neocon Nick!

02:38:49.000 Because I'm on call of duty saying, another dead Iranian blowing up UNESCO heritage sites. 1.00

02:38:56.000 You know, obviously I don't support destroying cultural monuments, right?

02:39:01.000 Obviously I don't support destroying history.

02:39:03.000 I love history, okay?

02:39:05.000 Do I have to explain the joke to you? 1.00

02:39:07.000 But it is funny to say, fuck it, mask off! 1.00

02:39:10.000 War with Iran, you know? 1.00

02:39:11.000 War with the Trani Nation, so... 0.97

02:39:14.000 But, you know, boomers be like, you okay, Nick? 1.00

02:39:18.000 And what about it?

02:39:20.000 Let's see, Sammy Davis Jr.

02:39:22.000 says, for what it's worth, you are going to have to deal with the flack like this sooner or later being in the spotlight batting down the hatches, I guess.

02:39:28.000 Yeah, I can deal with it.

02:39:30.000 I'm stronger than all the forces arrayed against me combined.

02:39:33.000 That's the difference.

02:39:34.000 I'm the best.

02:39:35.000 So, you know, good luck trying to come for my crown.

02:39:38.000 Good luck trying to come for my throne.

02:39:40.000 Why do you think I sit on the throne?

02:39:42.000 I earned it.

02:39:42.000 I'm the best.

02:39:43.000 So, you know, you're gonna have to try a little harder than what we saw this week.

02:39:48.000 Derpy says we live in an Assassin's Creed but with drones, man.

02:39:53.000 Yeah, Jules is hope you had a good vacation.

02:39:55.000 Happy New Year King.

02:39:56.000 Thanks, buddy.

02:39:57.000 Happy New Year to you, too Jude says this guy online told me to get a GF because it was easy So I told them to STFU then this femoid said if I wanted to get a girlfriend I should fall in love naturally and not force it based or cringe I would say 1.00

02:40:15.000 You know, kind of cringe.

02:40:17.000 My view of relationships is very, like, pragmatic.

02:40:22.000 You know, the way that I think about it is really, you need to find somebody, I mean, yeah, find someone you're in love with, but here's the thing, there are biological realities.

02:40:30.000 So the media's telling you, like, you know, like, you can fall in love, you can find the right person when you're 45.

02:40:38.000 It's like, women don't have that. 1.00

02:40:40.000 They don't have that luxury.

02:40:42.000 And a lot of men don't either, by the way.

02:40:43.000 You know, it's better for people to get married sooner rather than later because you want to have kids.

02:40:49.000 You want to get your life figured out.

02:40:51.000 If you're a Catholic, you know, you can't start living with your wife until you get married. 0.99

02:40:55.000 You can't start, you know, having sex with your wife until you get married. 0.96

02:40:58.000 There's a lot of things.

02:40:59.000 You're meant to get married young, really.

02:41:02.000 And with women in particular, your eggs dry up by the time you're 30, 35. 1.00

02:41:04.000 So...

02:41:08.000 You know, waiting to fall in love is not really, like, a great strategy, you know?

02:41:12.000 Find somebody that, you know, works?

02:41:14.000 Find somebody that, you know, works, you're compatible, and, you know, you can fall in love with anybody as a guy.

02:41:19.000 Come on, you can fall in love with anybody, really.

02:41:22.000 And, uh, you know, and you gotta start saving the white race. 0.94

02:41:24.000 That's how I feel about it.

02:41:26.000 Josh the Remover.

02:41:27.000 But, you know, make sure it's compatible.

02:41:28.000 Don't jump into anything and it ends in divorce or it gets ugly, you know.

02:41:33.000 Find the right person, but there is some urgency. 1.00

02:41:37.000 Josh the Remover says all these cringe lords shitting on you for hanging out with lollisocks are idiots. 1.00

02:41:42.000 Herder. 1.00

02:41:42.000 Nick is friends with gay dude. 1.00

02:41:44.000 Nick gay now lol. 0.99

02:41:46.000 Well, the best part is he's not. 0.80

02:41:47.000 Neither of us are gay.

02:41:48.000 He's not gay. 0.63

02:41:49.000 I'm not gay.

02:41:51.000 So...

02:41:53.000 Let's see, Joseph says the people disingenuously freaking out about lollisocks just don't get Frog Chan Twitter culture, which has always been a source of vitality for us.

02:42:02.000 That's a big part of it, too.

02:42:03.000 That's a big part of it, too.

02:42:05.000 is people the the memes are inaccessible for a lot of boomers a lot of people that are not don't really get the culture like if you never watched Sam Hyde if you've ever watched Filthy Frank if you never watched a lot of internet stuff if you're not on 4chan you're not gonna get like the anime thing you're gonna see anime and be like oh oh that's terribly degenerate now in some cases it is but there's also context there and it is when you say it's a source of vitality that's another point

02:42:32.000 We're good to go. 0.94

02:42:53.000 You know, bitchy, pussy, we have to be totally, you know, totally buttoned up and can't joke around and can't be funny and have to mind our P's and Q's and disavowals. 1.00

02:43:04.000 That's not going to work. 1.00

02:43:05.000 It's not going to work.

02:43:06.000 That's not how it happened in 2016.

02:43:07.000 It's not going to happen like that in 2020.

02:43:15.000 Fat Nibba says lol logo for the world heritage convention literally a black cube they want you to know but they want you to act like you don't know well I don't even know if it's that but yeah the black cube thing is really something you're gonna want to look into I'll just say that much

02:43:32.000 I'll just say, ever since I started naming the cube, the shilling has been off the charts.

02:43:38.000 Ever since I started naming the black cube, all of a sudden, 10 shill threads on 4chan, you know, fake accounts on Twitter, zero followers, zero following, one tweet, created January 2020.

02:43:49.000 Ever since I started talking about the black cube, all of a sudden, what are they hiding?

02:43:54.000 What do they not want you to know?

02:43:57.000 Saturn, the cube, the memorial,

02:44:01.000 The star, the elements, okay, the numerology.

02:44:08.000 It's all very interesting.

02:44:10.000 But no, but no, shill harder against Nick.

02:44:13.000 Another Wishful Zoomer says, Welcome back, big guy.

02:44:15.000 Hoping your New Year's break was a pleasant one.

02:44:17.000 Well, hey, thanks, big guy.

02:44:18.000 Hope you enjoyed your New Year's Eve.

02:44:20.000 Friend of the show, Wishful Zoomer.

02:44:22.000 Anon says, Leftoids and Wignats in chat.

02:44:24.000 I'm LMAOing at your life.

02:44:26.000 Yeah, me too.

02:44:27.000 Me too, bro.

02:44:28.000 I don't take it too seriously.

02:44:30.000 Throb Schneider says, so let me get this straight.

02:44:32.000 Basically nuke the entire world then?

02:44:34.000 You got it.

02:44:36.000 Trebles says, if Trump is not re-elected, what type of future do you see and how should we prepare for it?

02:44:41.000 Te amo mucho.

02:44:43.000 Feliz ano nuevo.

02:44:45.000 Well, gracias.

02:44:46.000 Let's try and keep it English in chat, please.

02:44:48.000 But thanks.

02:44:49.000 Appreciate the sentiment.

02:44:50.000 Happy New Year.

02:44:51.000 If Trump is not re-elected, what type of future?

02:44:55.000 I don't know, man.

02:44:56.000 I don't even know what the election is gonna look like.

02:44:59.000 We don't even know who the candidate is going to be, so if we don't know who the candidate is going to be on the left, we don't know what the White House is going to look like.

02:45:06.000 But I can tell you that if we lose the election, it's going to be over.

02:45:10.000 I think when Trump leaves office, it's going to be over.

02:45:13.000 In some sense, it's... I don't mean to black pill you here, but...

02:45:18.000 You know, in some capacity, it's been over for a long time.

02:45:22.000 But Trump is sort of like the last dying gasp. 0.98

02:45:25.000 He's like sort of holding the line here so that we can escape, so that we can kind of get our shit together before, like, it's over for good. 0.99

02:45:35.000 You know what I mean? 0.87

02:45:38.000 He's sort of, I don't know what a good analogy would be for that, but he's kind of just like holding it together just long enough, get out of here, escape, escape!

02:45:45.000 Exchange phone numbers, get connected, whatever, I can't hold on much longer!

02:45:49.000 That's what Trump is doing.

02:45:51.000 But eventually Democrats are going to take over and then it's the end, you know?

02:45:54.000 And then it's, then it's, you know, a thousand years of darkness.

02:45:58.000 So, American Spoons has found you on the 60 Minutes clip.

02:46:01.000 Love your content.

02:46:02.000 Hey, well, thanks.

02:46:03.000 Glad that was positive.

02:46:05.000 Simon Scullis says, what do you think of Soleimani's replacement, Grand Admiral Thrawn?

02:46:12.000 I don't know who that is.

02:46:12.000 Let's just say relations have deteriorated since then.

02:46:17.000 Yeah, that's true.

02:46:18.000 That's kind of a baseline.

02:46:35.000 Super says please address the cat boy question.

02:46:37.000 I did that Cat boys are based always have been I love that This was the thing that they decided to go after me about I've joked about a gamer girl P I've joked about like all kinds of weird things a lot of weird tummy like a lot of weird things on the show other things and nobody gets on my case, but you do a thousand episodes of America first and

02:47:01.000 And nobody says you're a podcaster.

02:47:03.000 You hang out with one catboy and all of a sudden, Sam Jones says, is libertarianism a necessary step to becoming conservative?

02:47:12.000 If so, what's the best way to convert?

02:47:14.000 And if not, how do people jump from being culturally left to being right with nothing in between?

02:47:21.000 I don't know.

02:47:23.000 I don't believe in any necessary steps.

02:47:26.000 I think that the libertarian to dissonant right pipeline existed because of the particular cultural context of the early 2010s, in the sense that, at least in my experience, the only real legitimate

02:47:47.000 Dissent against neocons and fusionists was coming from libertarians.

02:47:52.000 Do you know what that means?

02:47:53.000 Conservatism since Reagan has been dominated by fusionists.

02:47:56.000 It's the war hawks, neoliberals, and the religious right, the social conservatives.

02:48:02.000 The only people that were opposed to that sort of establishment fusionist idea of conservatism in the mainstream were libertarians.

02:48:08.000 That's not to say that paleocons never existed.

02:48:11.000 That's not to say that the alt-right didn't exist, or anything else for that matter.

02:48:15.000 But at the time, like, Ron Paul led the charge against the establishment.

02:48:20.000 You know, he was on the stage in 08, he was on the stage in 2012, and he kind of set the tone for a lot of

02:48:27.000 Not exactly mainstream conservatives, right?

02:48:30.000 I would say even to an extent Crowder, Shapiro, Shapiro even, Prager, a lot of these guys, you know, in a lot of ways they are mainstream establishment guys, but at the time, in like the 2010s or whatever, they were voicing a little bit more of an aggressive form of conservatism than what existed, which was like Mitt Romney and George Bush and whatever.

02:48:50.000 That's not to say they weren't neocons and they weren't, you know, free marketeers or whatever, but I think

02:48:56.000 A lot of what existed at the time in the mainstream was libertarian.

02:49:01.000 A lot of the most prominent anti-war stuff on the right came from the libertarians.

02:49:06.000 A lot of the most prominent anti-establishment stuff on the right came from the libertarians.

02:49:12.000 So I would say that it was sort of more about that cultural moment that libertarians were the dissents, they were the dissidents.

02:49:20.000 So I think that that's why it happened.

02:49:23.000 I would I would have to think that's sort of a complicated question I have to think long and hard there's some more issues based things there as well, but

02:49:30.000 That's what happened to me, at least.

02:49:32.000 I would say that, no, it's really not.

02:49:34.000 I don't think anything's necessary.

02:49:36.000 I think it just clicks.

02:49:38.000 Depending on whether you're libertarian or left-wing or Bernie bro or whatever, I think it just clicks eventually.

02:49:43.000 And everyone's evolving constantly, but at a certain point, it just kind of clicks.

02:49:46.000 You know, some people evolve out of this movement.

02:49:48.000 So, to subscribe to this, like, spectrum idea that you've got to go from one to the other, I don't agree with that idea of it.

02:49:57.000 Dramatic Dodo says, did you see Michael Jones on Iranian News?

02:50:00.000 Do you agree with his take?

02:50:01.000 I didn't see him, so I don't know what his take is.

02:50:04.000 Mongo says, first super chat opening stick with you, big man.

02:50:07.000 Well, thanks, buddy.

02:50:09.000 We're good to go!

02:50:34.000 Okay, they're actively promoting homosexuality and normalizing it. 1.00

02:50:38.000 That is contrasted with me, where I went on Milo's stream and said to his face, you know, being gay is degenerate and I don't believe in that. 0.78

02:50:46.000 Going on his platform, not inviting him onto mine. 0.85

02:50:49.000 In the case of lollisocks, you know, he's not even a homosexual, so.

02:50:53.000 I've heard a lot of people making that argument.

02:50:54.000 You're no better than Charlie Kirk.

02:50:56.000 Oh yeah, except it's completely different.

02:50:58.000 And I heard all that during the Milo thing. 1.00

02:51:00.000 You need to reflect on why you're a fucking retard, okay? 1.00

02:51:02.000 And why all that's like, doesn't even make any sense. 1.00

02:51:04.000 It's a non sequitur.

02:51:06.000 Uh, Sonny says, I found out your name is censored in Roblox, LMAO.

02:51:10.000 Yeah, that's old news.

02:51:11.000 Anon says, Ricky Gervais' speech was redditeer.

02:51:14.000 Funny TV rich man.

02:51:15.000 Say, rich man bad.

02:51:17.000 And Epstein didn't kill himself.

02:51:18.000 People acting like he started naming them.

02:51:20.000 Yeah, I know, right?

02:51:21.000 My thoughts exactly.

02:51:24.000 Let's see.

02:51:24.000 Steadfast Reactionary says, when the Lord rained down brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah from the Lord out of the heavens, thus he destroyed these cities and the entire plan, including all the Catboys of the cities.

02:51:35.000 Ah, base, dude.

02:51:37.000 Jarrod said, if you had to join the military, what type of job would you want?

02:51:41.000 Gunner.

02:51:42.000 I don't know.

02:51:43.000 What jobs are there in the military?

02:51:45.000 I'd be... I don't know.

02:51:48.000 I'd be...

02:51:49.000 What would I be in the military?

02:51:51.000 I'd want to be an officer.

02:51:52.000 I would want to be a general.

02:51:54.000 I'd want to be the guy calling the shots in the back.

02:51:56.000 Maybe I'd be a UAV pilot.

02:51:59.000 I'd be playing video games.

02:52:01.000 R.A.

02:52:02.000 says, could you please give a shout out to this young up-and-coming gamer named Jaden McNeil for spending the entire day bravely struggling to a very tough game on DLive?

02:52:10.000 Solid Snake believes in you, Jaden.

02:52:11.000 Yeah.

02:52:13.000 Good luck, Jaden.

02:52:13.000 Hope it's going well.

02:52:16.000 I haven't talked to Jaden in a long time.

02:52:18.000 I gotta call him.

02:52:19.000 Brandon says America first goes on break for one week and everyone loses their mind.

02:52:23.000 Yeah.

02:52:24.000 But I'm back.

02:52:24.000 Don't worry.

02:52:26.000 Austin says Ted Cruz on the Iran bombing.

02:52:28.000 It is also long overdue justice for our Israeli allies.

02:52:32.000 Then Netanyahu claims they had no part in it.

02:52:34.000 Hmm.

02:52:35.000 Well we know that every hostility, well most of the hostilities with Iran is driven by Israel.

02:52:42.000 You know, I mean a big part not only does it was not only does Iran want a nuclear weapon to protect against America But also against Israel because Israel is the only country in the Middle East with a nuclear arsenal So yeah, a lot of it's driven by Israel Let's see Duke says Nick some femoid recently gave 24 guys Oral sex for a three-pound bottle of champagne one sentence should she get I'm thinking 25 years hard labor 0.92

02:53:10.000 24 years.

02:53:10.000 One for every guy.

02:53:11.000 One for every guy.

02:53:12.000 Hard labor.

02:53:13.000 I agree.

02:53:14.000 Respawn Master says, I'm 17 and I'm doing a show for my school.

02:53:18.000 Catholic teaching with my name.

02:53:20.000 A 15-part series of authentic teaching with good political commentary.

02:53:24.000 That's very cool.

02:53:25.000 I wish you luck with that.

02:53:26.000 Hope it goes well.

02:53:27.000 You're learning from the master of the craft here.

02:53:32.000 No one says $151 for a Cook County license plate sticker.

02:53:36.000 Thanks.

02:53:38.000 Mateos has watched... Thanks for the $2, by the way.

02:53:41.000 Mateos has watched the chat and got a strong urge to throw myself under a train.

02:53:45.000 Didn't know so many Wignats were sub 50 IQ. 1.00

02:53:48.000 Vouch fans screeching about Catboys.

02:53:50.000 Yeah, hearing about that.

02:53:52.000 MinnesotaGroper says, Hey Nick, good to have you back.

02:53:54.000 I'm a recent college grad and I'm happy that I can now contribute to the America First movement with my first big wagey bucks job.

02:54:02.000 The bet is paying off.

02:54:03.000 I'm being vindicated on my strategy here.

02:54:06.000 Keep doing what you're doing and ignore all the detractors.

02:54:09.000 See you guys at CPAC.

02:54:10.000 Well, thanks a lot.

02:54:11.000 Thanks for the big super chat.

02:54:14.000 Glad you are now in the world.

02:54:16.000 Glad you're in the working world earning the big wagey bucks.

02:54:19.000 It is, uh, fortuitous for us all.

02:54:22.000 It's a great thing for the movement.

02:54:23.000 For you and for me.

02:54:25.000 And for the Groikers, right? 1.00

02:54:27.000 Uh, but yeah, see you at CPAC, bro.

02:54:30.000 Superorganism says, Vaush is the definitive reason why the modern left deserves no respect.

02:54:35.000 Also, E. Michael Jones is spot on about Iran.

02:54:37.000 No surprise there. 0.98

02:54:38.000 Yeah, Vaush is, uh, repulsive. 0.93

02:54:41.000 And he represents the left. 0.98

02:54:42.000 You know, physically repulsive and, um, you know, just sort of gross. 0.99

02:54:47.000 He's a sort of gross guy. 0.99

02:54:50.000 You know, dishonest, nasty guy. 1.00

02:54:53.000 Philia says, welcome back, Nick. 0.99

02:54:55.000 I think some people lost their minds while you were on vacation.

02:54:57.000 America First withdrawal is a real issue.

02:54:59.000 Yeah, started to get the, you know, scratching all over the bugs.

02:55:03.000 The bugs are coming back.

02:55:05.000 They're hallucinating, seeing things.

02:55:08.000 That's how it goes.

02:55:09.000 They're getting the shakes.

02:55:10.000 They're getting the shakes without America First.

02:55:12.000 Many such cases.

02:55:14.000 Henry Yeats with a big super chat.

02:55:15.000 Thanks a lot.

02:55:17.000 He says a lot of new people listen two or three years ago We all decided here a knicker nation that messes the massages from cat boys is not and never will be gay trust the plan Okay, you know and you know, I think we should say it's important to clarify that's not the official. 0.89

02:55:32.000 It's not the unironic position but

02:55:36.000 But it is true. 0.90

02:55:37.000 Trust the plan.

02:55:38.000 Jeff says, Kensney, if you are watching, I'd like to audition for Folk Salad.

02:55:42.000 Ahem.

02:55:43.000 AIDS patient zero.

02:55:44.000 Redefining the term bug man.

02:55:46.000 Thanks also black people.

02:55:47.000 Okay.

02:55:48.000 Don't know what that means, but thanks for that.

02:55:50.000 Mike says, Nimbus aren't trusting the plan and it shows.

02:55:53.000 I find it really funny that all of this pops up again one month later because a communist pedophile told them to.

02:55:59.000 Anyways, keep it up and welcome back.

02:56:01.000 Well, thanks a lot.

02:56:02.000 We're good to go!

02:56:16.000 Unrest that I have to crush like the IRGC crush dissents It's because of this guy. 0.94

02:56:22.000 It's because of this fat pedophile and people like I don't see anything wrong with this Super mega says Michelle Malkin will be speaking and having a book signing in New York City next week I hope to see other fans in the area show her love. 0.88

02:56:34.000 It's through events bright. 0.97

02:56:36.000 Yeah.

02:56:36.000 Well, I hope she has a great event She's really a treasure

02:56:40.000 I don't even know if that's true.

02:56:42.000 I just see people say that all the time.

02:56:43.000 You know, I don't know if that's true, but...

02:57:00.000 Maybe it is.

02:57:01.000 Yeah, right?

02:57:02.000 That is literally what it is.

02:57:04.000 Best colonizers... Hmm... Hmm...

02:57:21.000 That's an interesting question.

02:57:22.000 Better for whom?

02:57:24.000 For whom?

02:57:24.000 In what sense?

02:57:25.000 According to what standard?

02:57:26.000 Probably, probably the Anglo, honestly. 0.65

02:57:28.000 They are good settlers.

02:57:30.000 You know, they created infrastructure, railroads.

02:57:33.000 You know, they were very good at what they did.

02:57:35.000 They also, you know, well, at least in America, they set up like a legitimate colony, not just like dominion over the natives.

02:57:43.000 You know, they sent settlers to settle the land and take over it.

02:57:47.000 So, probably the English.

02:57:51.000 Let's see. 0.99

02:57:51.000 Torn Beast says Twitter is gay. 0.99

02:57:53.000 Hashtag free zoomer Matthew. 0.98

02:57:55.000 Yeah, big agree.

02:57:56.000 Priority one says Dave Smith spoke fondly of you on episode 527 of a show.

02:58:02.000 We're on the one hour mark.

02:58:03.000 He has to invite you back on a show or can you invite yourself?

02:58:08.000 It's very rude to invite yourself, so I'm gonna wait for him to invite me back, but I like that guy.

02:58:12.000 I think he's great.

02:58:14.000 I think he's brilliant.

02:58:15.000 I think he's honest.

02:58:17.000 He's one of the few people I could say I honestly like.

02:58:21.000 I associate with a lot of people.

02:58:23.000 I'll just put it that way.

02:58:24.000 And he is one person in politics that I genuinely had a conversation with him and liked him.

02:58:29.000 I'm like, this guy is honest, good intentioned, and I personally like him.

02:58:35.000 I can't say enough positive things about Dave Smith.

02:58:38.000 Jim says, imagine pagans and atheists lecturing us about sexual morality.

02:58:42.000 Yeah, right.

02:58:43.000 Well, it's a lot of the BAP people. 0.95

02:58:44.000 A lot of the BAP people are like, oh, see? 0.97

02:58:46.000 It's literally all gay people are now turning around and saying, you called us gay, but now we're calling you gay. 1.00

02:58:52.000 Okay, fag. 1.00

02:58:53.000 Like, still not gay, and you're still going to hell. 1.00

02:58:56.000 But that's literally Vaush, the BAP crew, all these guys. 1.00

02:59:00.000 They're all, all those, all the people peddling this are gay themselves. 0.93

02:59:04.000 That's what I think about that. 0.98

02:59:05.000 Polish Americans is back from spreading Catholicism in Guatemala. 0.98

02:59:26.000 Hmm, I need to get situated here.

02:59:28.000 I need to get comfortable.

02:59:30.000 Back from spreading Catholicism in Guatemala. 1.00

02:59:32.000 Prayed several rosary decades for you at America First.

02:59:35.000 Hope you had a refreshing break from cringe super chats.

02:59:38.000 Yeah, yeah, it was a refreshing break.

02:59:40.000 It was, it was nice to step away for a moment.

02:59:43.000 Avalon says, hey Nick, what's your favorite Star Wars land vehicle?

02:59:46.000 Also check out Dovahatty's Unbiased History of Rome.

02:59:51.000 Think you would love it.

02:59:52.000 I'll check that out.

02:59:54.000 Favorite land vehicle from Star Wars?

02:59:57.000 It's a good question.

02:59:59.000 I would say... Let's think, let's think.

03:00:04.000 Land vehicles.

03:00:05.000 We've got the clones, we've got the droids, we've got the Empire, and to a lesser extent the rebels.

03:00:12.000 I would say probably the AT-AT.

03:00:15.000 You know, it's got to be the most iconic land vehicle.

03:00:19.000 Then again, you've got swoop bikes, you've got AT-ST, AT-RT.

03:00:25.000 I mean, there's a lot of cool ones.

03:00:27.000 The Juggernaut.

03:00:29.000 You know, there's a lot.

03:00:30.000 There's a lot that you could say is cool, is good.

03:00:34.000 But I'd probably go with the classic AT-ST.

03:00:36.000 AT-ST or AT-AT would be my favorites.

03:00:40.000 Avalon says, hey Nick, what's your... I just read that.

03:00:43.000 Serpent says, pee-pee poo-poo. 0.99

03:00:45.000 Fitting.

03:00:47.000 alternate alternate kak says wig gnats two dudes laughing that's a gay conspiracy mention only blankly stare at paints vowsh and owen shills spurging my friend kyle says hi oh hi yeah it's owen vowsh bap all gay people spurging about me and that that's literally all the you know people are like oh nick is gay what's the evidence he was hanging out with a guy and they were laughing

03:01:12.000 And they looked at each other.

03:01:13.000 Oh, well.

03:01:15.000 Well, say no more.

03:01:16.000 Case closed.

03:01:18.000 Right? 0.97

03:01:19.000 Bob Sa- I guess we're gay just for having this conversation. 0.95

03:01:23.000 Bob Sacamato says, these schizos unironically think you're just going to throw away everything you've worked for by coming out as gay because you had a friend on a stream. 1.00

03:01:30.000 Retards. 1.00

03:01:31.000 Well, that's the other thing is it was streamed.

03:01:33.000 It was streamed live.

03:01:34.000 People are like, Nick didn't think we'd see this one.

03:01:37.000 The public live stream.

03:01:39.000 10-hour public live stream.

03:01:42.000 It doesn't even make any sense.

03:01:43.000 Even on Destiny's subreddit, people are saying, wait a second, if Lolli Socks was really like a gay cat boy, why would Nick stream with him? 0.94

03:01:52.000 This doesn't make any sense.

03:01:54.000 And everyone's like, yeah, that doesn't make any sense.

03:01:58.000 Maybe because you're spreading lies.

03:02:02.000 Elijah says Civ 5 or Civ 6.

03:02:04.000 The people must know.

03:02:05.000 Everybody knows it's Civ 5.

03:02:07.000 Everybody knows this.

03:02:08.000 Unpossible says, someday when you have to start doing your own laundry, just remember to separate your whites from your colors.

03:02:13.000 Mixing them just ruins all the clothes.

03:02:16.000 Oh, good to know.

03:02:16.000 Thanks for that.

03:02:18.000 I think that happened with my Hawaiian shirt.

03:02:20.000 I think my mom put it in with a red shirt or something because it came out like pink.

03:02:24.000 Used to be white, now it's like pink.

03:02:27.000 So, and that's something to think about.

03:02:28.000 You know, I wanted that shirt to remain white.

03:02:30.000 It was a white shirt.

03:02:31.000 I liked the way it looked and I wanted it to remain white.

03:02:34.000 But that's the thing.

03:02:34.000 You know, you throw in pinks and other things with the whites and it changes them.

03:02:39.000 It alters them.

03:02:42.000 They do not remain the original color.

03:02:44.000 And, you know, I purchased them for the original color.

03:02:47.000 It's okay to have clothes that are white.

03:02:49.000 You need clothes that are white.

03:02:51.000 You need white t-shirts.

03:02:52.000 You need white dress shirts.

03:02:54.000 You need white regular shirts.

03:02:55.000 It's nice to have white shirts.

03:02:58.000 You know, and some people, they just want clothes that are just all different colors.

03:03:03.000 What's that all about?

03:03:05.000 I don't hate shirts that are, you know, pink or whatever, but I just like also having white shirts too.

03:03:11.000 And I want my shirt to be white.

03:03:14.000 My Hawaiian shirt to be white, okay?

03:03:16.000 It's important to me.

03:03:18.000 Anyway, it's very, very important.

03:03:20.000 I feel very strongly about laundry.

03:03:23.000 Kayla says, whoops, scrolled down too far.

03:03:25.000 Yeah, okay.

03:03:26.000 Jonas says, meow, where are the cat boys at?

03:03:29.000 I don't know.

03:03:30.000 MS says, all these people jealous they can't have Nick Alden themselves.

03:03:34.000 Yeah, that's what it is.

03:03:35.000 Austin says, the church is the new Israel.

03:03:38.000 Not all who are of Israel are Israel, Romans 9, 6.

03:03:41.000 The modern state of Israel is a political entity and not biblical in any way.

03:03:45.000 Completely true.

03:03:46.000 Completely accurate.

03:03:47.000 That's where a lot of Protestants go wrong. 0.95

03:03:49.000 They think Israel means the Jewish state of Israel, created in 1948, and it's not the case.

03:03:55.000 HamSides says, VeeCringe, super chat tonight.

03:03:57.000 Welcome back, Nick.

03:03:58.000 Thanks.

03:03:59.000 Kinos says, Leviticus 18.22, based.

03:04:03.000 Jax says, I asked you to Sargon of Akkad and he said he'd be interested in interviewing you.

03:04:08.000 Would you consider it?

03:04:10.000 I would.

03:04:10.000 I would do an interview with Sargon.

03:04:13.000 I like Sargon a lot.

03:04:15.000 I know you guys maybe don't.

03:04:17.000 I don't know.

03:04:17.000 I never followed the Sargon lore So I know a lot of people are like Sargon cringe, but I I don't know I on our debate.

03:04:24.000 I thought he was funny.

03:04:25.000 I thought he was great Dupas says hey, let me ask you a question.

03:04:29.000 So hang out with that cross-dresser. 1.00

03:04:30.000 Is that ironic?

03:04:31.000 I mean, is that a part of your act?

03:04:33.000 What do you think? 0.91

03:04:35.000 Is that a clown thing? 0.94

03:04:37.000 Is that a clown thing? 0.88

03:04:39.000 What do you think?

03:04:41.000 That's pretty funny.

03:04:42.000 I have the card, actually, for that.

03:04:45.000 But let's see.

03:04:46.000 Cornman says, uh... Is that a part of your act?

03:04:50.000 Is that a part of my act?

03:04:54.000 What do you think?

03:04:55.000 Oh, if you'll excuse me, I have to go take care of my mother.

03:05:00.000 Cornman says, hope these Super Chats aren't too bad today.

03:05:03.000 They are.

03:05:03.000 Can't wait to get back into my routine of... He said that, by the way, not me.

03:05:06.000 He said they are.

03:05:08.000 Can't wait to get back into my routine of listening to the No Agenda podcast on the way to work in America first when I get home.

03:05:13.000 Keep it up, bud.

03:05:14.000 Well, thanks, buddy.

03:05:15.000 Hope you enjoy.

03:05:16.000 Birdie says, hashtag bird gang represent.

03:05:19.000 Yeah.

03:05:21.000 Okay.

03:05:22.000 Life is Cope says, lost over 30 kilograms over the past year watching your streams for entertainment while exercising.

03:05:28.000 Nothing else overcomes the boredom.

03:05:30.000 Demographics might be bad for the West, but it's pretty good for my health. 0.96

03:05:33.000 And it's good for me.

03:05:33.000 It's good for my show.

03:05:36.000 So I hear you.

03:05:37.000 The downside about a totally safe, secure, homogeneous, orderly country is that there's no America first.

03:05:43.000 So, pros and cons.

03:05:45.000 Joseph says most of these people are Owen and Vaush watchers.

03:05:48.000 LMAO.

03:05:49.000 Yeah, which it only proves my point.

03:05:51.000 Princess Amunda says you are the chosen one.

03:05:53.000 I am the chosen one.

03:05:55.000 morning trump says happy new year big guy want to know your thoughts on ashley ray groypenberg seems pretty based for a jewish femloid she's currently taking on the retards over at human events yeah she's totally based i love her rj she wrote a great article about ian miles chong rj says every non-economic interaction the u.s has had with another country since 1783 has been a mistake 0.98

03:06:19.000 I'm gonna have to disagree with you on that one.

03:06:21.000 Yeah, yeah.

03:06:22.000 Yay! 0.99

03:06:22.000 Listen, Trump! 0.99

03:06:23.000 You need to do this!

03:06:23.000 Trump looks down on you as the God-Emperor of Israel.

03:06:38.000 It's just such a cope.

03:06:40.000 Hey, listen, Trump!

03:06:41.000 You need to start listening to me!

03:06:43.000 You know, the Chad Trump doesn't care.

03:06:45.000 The Chad Trump eating ice cream while Jared Kushner runs the country into the ground.

03:06:49.000 Versus the Virgin, red in the face, calling the White House again.

03:06:52.000 You need to tell Mr. President this is not what I voted for!

03:06:56.000 You know, sweating, red face, you know.

03:06:58.000 His veins bulging.

03:07:01.000 This is the tenth time I've called the White House today!

03:07:03.000 We need to tie up the switchboards!

03:07:05.000 You know, Trump has like got his feet up eating ice cream, watching Hannity.

03:07:09.000 Jared, is the wall built yet?

03:07:12.000 We're working on it.

03:07:13.000 We'll finish it!

03:07:15.000 Shoveling Big Macs and French fries.

03:07:18.000 Yeah, who's the Chad there?

03:07:21.000 Let's see. 1.00

03:07:21.000 Member of Incel says, I only dislike lolly socks because he has sex with strangers. 1.00

03:07:26.000 Yeah, big agree on that one. 0.98

03:07:28.000 He seemed legit Chad, but lacks the subtlety to not brag about hedonism to Baked Alaska.

03:07:35.000 He seems legit, Chad.

03:07:37.000 Lacks a subtlety to not... I don't... Oh, I... I don't know exactly what you're getting at there, but yeah.

03:07:43.000 Well, and I... That's the best part, is during our stream, we talked for an hour.

03:07:47.000 I tried to convince him to become a Christian, you know, so... That's another thing that you do on gay dates, is try to convince somebody to become Catholic and stop having premarital sex, right? 0.99

03:07:58.000 But yeah, I mean, that's the only... He is a... I mean, that part is degenerate. 0.98

03:08:01.000 He is a coomer, which is unfortunate, but... 1.00

03:08:04.000 It's not quite the same as what he's being accused of, right?

03:08:10.000 Nabal says, Protestants, how do you know which books are in the Bible?

03:08:13.000 Are you infallible?

03:08:14.000 So how could you know?

03:08:16.000 Yeah, yeah, totally true.

03:08:17.000 Jack says, are you building seven pilled?

03:08:24.000 I am building seven pilled.

03:08:26.000 That's pretty entry-level stuff though, I have to tell you.

03:08:28.000 Really makes you think, yeah.

03:08:37.000 That's true.

03:08:38.000 It does make you think.

03:08:39.000 I guess some lives matter more than others, right?

03:08:41.000 No one will ever talk about bent muscle and the shooting spree that was went on.

03:08:47.000 Life is Cope says, do you fish?

03:08:49.000 I do not fish.

03:08:51.000 Thomas says, my bro didn't even kiss at his wedding yesterday.

03:08:54.000 Worried about white birth rates. 0.99

03:08:55.000 Trusting the plan.

03:08:56.000 Keep making us laugh.

03:08:57.000 Well, thanks, buddy.

03:08:58.000 I don't really know what that means.

03:09:01.000 Federal agent says, sorry for the chat tonight, big guy.

03:09:03.000 I've got to get paid.

03:09:04.000 The Bureau has made you a priority and I've got to send in my spurts.

03:09:08.000 Yeah, it's all good.

03:09:08.000 You're just doing your job.

03:09:10.000 Minnesota Groyper says, the whole lolly socks cat boy controversy is a bread tube psyop that seems to have fooled some people supposedly in the movement.

03:09:18.000 This is a classic Marxist subversion tactic designed to divide us.

03:09:22.000 Yeah, I think that that's totally legitimate.

03:09:25.000 And it's not going to work.

03:09:27.000 It's not going to work because I'm smarter than they are.

03:09:31.000 Lula says, hey.

03:09:32.000 Hey.

03:09:33.000 Conscience of a conservative says, ex-libertarian here.

03:09:36.000 Thanks for helping me go paleocon.

03:09:38.000 You're welcome.

03:09:39.000 Sebastian says, would you date a trans person for a year if it meant that all of them would return to normal after? 1.00

03:09:45.000 No.

03:09:46.000 Deannos still love you, bro. 0.89

03:09:48.000 Thanks birdie says anyone who isn't bird gang is stinky. 0.76

03:09:52.000 Okay?

03:09:53.000 Courtney says hey there sonny quick question.

03:09:56.000 Lol.

03:09:56.000 Have you ever heard of George Orwell's?

03:09:57.000 1984 because I think excuse me.

03:10:00.000 I think we're living in it.

03:10:02.000 That's a pretty hot take Polish American says any resolutions for the new year strongly recommend everyone get closer to Christ or

03:10:10.000 Burp. 0.94

03:10:11.000 With morning offerings, mental prayer, gospel reading, and weekly confession.

03:10:15.000 Yeah, big agree.

03:10:16.000 That's a good New Year's resolution.

03:10:19.000 But I don't really have any.

03:10:21.000 I guess I'll do those.

03:10:23.000 And I don't know what else.

03:10:24.000 Tell me what else I should do, I guess.

03:10:26.000 Just tell me more things I should do.

03:10:28.000 Redowitz says, why do conservatives care more about attacks by Iranian proxies on foreign soil?

03:10:36.000 You know why that is.

03:10:44.000 I guess that's a rhetorical question.

03:10:46.000 But it's true.

03:10:47.000 The biggest state sponsor of terrorism isn't Iran, it's Saudi Arabia.

03:10:51.000 Everybody knows that.

03:10:52.000 That is like household information at this point.

03:10:57.000 We're good to go.

03:11:17.000 You know, I said Hezbollah is Israel's problem, not ours in a tweet, and somebody replied with the Beirut bombings in 1983, okay? 0.77

03:11:26.000 40 years ago.

03:11:26.000 Well, 9-11 was done by mostly Saudis.

03:11:30.000 Osama bin Laden was, you know, he got his money from Saudi Arabia, so... And this is pretty standard stuff, pretty common information, but it is worth repeating.

03:11:40.000 Elijah says, hey Nick, glad to have you back.

03:11:43.000 For my first day of college, I dragged my you-know-what on the bathroom sinks and door handles.

03:11:48.000 Okay, thank you for that.

03:11:50.000 Bertie says, Bertie is drone operator who killed Iranian civs.

03:11:53.000 Okay.

03:11:54.000 Sard says, hey Nick, serious question.

03:11:56.000 Do you think Spencer gets off sexually from the idea of being dominated by Iran? 0.99

03:12:00.000 That's kind of cringe. 0.91

03:12:02.000 Uh, but, you know, there are people that do just, like, hate America.

03:12:05.000 I don't hate America.

03:12:07.000 A lot of people do this thing where they see, uh, you know, neocons and whatever, and their response is like, oh, I love Iran now.

03:12:13.000 I would never do that.

03:12:14.000 I don't support war with Iran, but I also don't like Iran. 0.99

03:12:17.000 I like America.

03:12:18.000 And I know I, you know, America's occupied by, you know, certain people, but it's still my home!

03:12:22.000 It's still my country, and I love my country, okay?

03:12:26.000 So...

03:12:27.000 I will never say that I support Iran, because I support us.

03:12:31.000 I support our people.

03:12:33.000 Joseph says, FYI, Golden State Times is asking for an interview.

03:12:37.000 Okay, well they can send me an email.

03:12:40.000 Ajax says, good evening everybody, welcome back to the show.

03:12:43.000 Not a lot happening this week, so I turned myself into a pickle!

03:12:46.000 I pickle Nick!

03:12:48.000 I wish.

03:12:48.000 I wish it was that simple.

03:12:51.000 Oswaldo says, thanks for talking about the Iran situation, not fake AstroTurf Catboy stuff.

03:12:56.000 The high IQs appreciate it.

03:12:57.000 Well, did people think I was gonna do a show about fake e-drama?

03:13:01.000 But I guess the superchats are about that.

03:13:04.000 Boopers says, sup Nick?

03:13:05.000 Squints.

03:13:06.000 Wait, who is this hairy old man?

03:13:08.000 Hey, don't say that!

03:13:10.000 Don't say that, I look young.

03:13:12.000 Pre Marina says welcome back Nick.

03:13:14.000 I can't wait for another exciting year of America first.

03:13:16.000 Also any future events planned?

03:13:18.000 Yeah CPAC and some others which will be announced soon.

03:13:22.000 Member of incels says get bored content vacation content dot dot dot.

03:13:27.000 I don't know what that means.

03:13:31.000 Architect says why did they make the country of Iran in the Middle East of all these US bases?

03:13:36.000 Why did they make the country of Iran in the middle of all these U.S. 0.99

03:13:40.000 bases?

03:13:41.000 So aggressive towards U.S.

03:13:42.000 who are just trying to defend themselves.

03:13:43.000 I've never heard that one before.

03:13:45.000 Really hot take there.

03:13:46.000 Dude, that's so fresh.

03:13:48.000 Big Boy on Campus says, Hey Nick, I've been reading Gottfried recently and I'm wondering if there are any authors or specific books you'd recommend on conservatism and political theory.

03:14:00.000 Let's think.

03:14:00.000 Book recommendation.

03:14:02.000 Russell Kirk has a great book called The Conservative Reader.

03:14:06.000 Russell Kirk also has a great book called The Politics of Prudence. 0.98

03:14:11.000 No, where's the fucking... What's the right book? 0.93

03:14:13.000 It's either that one or it's Roots of American Order, but he goes through all the... 0.99

03:14:18.000 Authors all the old like conservative authors in American history.

03:14:22.000 There's a great book.

03:14:23.000 I forget the author, but it's called Conservatism in America since 1945 which is good.

03:14:28.000 You can read Nisbet.

03:14:30.000 You can read what is it Ropkey?

03:14:31.000 I think that's how it's pronounced Akshat Schmidt Are you talking about American conservatism or just conservatism in general if it's conservatism in general Schmidt Heidegger

03:14:45.000 Quality says we've had our rightful place in society stolen and now we must be crushed and pounded back down to where we belong imprison all working women at once. 1.00

03:15:04.000 Okay, that's a woman saying that's kind of cringe. 1.00

03:15:09.000 Name says you're living some kind of Twilight Zone episode stuck making a news show with no news but if you stop the world is destroyed and throughout it all you have thousands of producers in a year with terrible advice.

03:15:20.000 Yeah, it is a, it is a Twilight Zone scenario.

03:15:25.000 You know, do the show and it's no news forever.

03:15:27.000 Don't do the show for a week and the world is on fire and you have to come back, right?

03:15:32.000 Quality Hops says, shout out to the Groip Wives with more than five kids. 1.00

03:15:36.000 Yeah, Groip Wives. 1.00

03:15:38.000 You know, I see where people are saying it's becoming Kekistan.

03:15:41.000 That's why I said in my speech, maybe it's time to retire.

03:15:43.000 Groiper.

03:15:44.000 Bing says, I asked my dad about the bombing of Salami and he just ranted about Salami.

03:15:51.000 Salami, yeah.

03:15:52.000 And he ranted about Muslims and terrorists and the USA's overwhelming strength.

03:15:55.000 Boomers are so epic, actually. 0.96

03:15:57.000 I really love them.

03:15:58.000 They are epic, you know?

03:15:59.000 It is epic to bomb.

03:16:01.000 In a general sense.

03:16:04.000 Oh, let's see.

03:16:07.000 This is degenerate, not reading that.

03:16:09.000 Portable Power says, do you think that Jeffrey Epstein is still alive?

03:16:12.000 Would you be willing to at least entertain the possibility?

03:16:15.000 I think him and Maxwell were basically officially ousted as Mossad, outed as Mossad recently.

03:16:22.000 Um, it's possible.

03:16:23.000 And yeah, yeah, uh, Ghislaine Maxwell is, uh, Mossad.

03:16:28.000 Gary Oakes says, love the show, keep up the good work.

03:16:30.000 Cornman says, Billy Crudup might be a based actor.

03:16:33.000 I don't know what that means.

03:16:36.000 We're going way over, by the way.

03:16:37.000 It's ten, ten twenty.

03:16:40.000 We've been at this for, what is that then, uh, three hours almost?

03:16:44.000 I might just call it short.

03:16:45.000 I think I'm gonna read the big super chats and I'm gonna call it a night, because otherwise the first part's gonna get cut.

03:16:52.000 KVL is glad to have you back big guy.

03:16:54.000 Thanks FedInLaw says Wignet Anakin destroys intergalactic democracy installs the autocratic Imperial Empire and finally took care of the eternal interfering Jedi. 0.54

03:17:05.000 He even donned a certain facial mask Yeah based Wignet Anakin.

03:17:10.000 I would say he's more like NRX Anakin ET says chipping in or that's EJT chipping in for some conversion therapy in case you feel it's needed.

03:17:20.000 Oh, thanks a lot

03:17:22.000 Let's see Maskman says hi Nick new year or happy new year work at me from seeing your last stream So I thought I'd say it now for the new year I want to get involved in local politics any tips for how to network campaign to challenge entrenched officials Just don't reveal your power level just be a politician and don't reveal your power level it's kind of that simple

03:17:44.000 Gavin says, thanks Nick for everything you do.

03:17:46.000 Myself and other artists are working hard to bring America first and God to the art world.

03:17:50.000 I hope we artists can help.

03:17:52.000 America needs inspiration and beauty again.

03:17:54.000 Yeah, we definitely need that.

03:17:56.000 ISDF says, retards in chat, nuclear non-proliferation, security dilemma, rentier effect. 0.99

03:18:01.000 All sounds like Hebrew nonsense to me. 0.98

03:18:03.000 Neocon Nick, give it up Nick and ignore the Voucher Wignat chills. 0.66

03:18:06.000 I will.

03:18:08.000 Welfare recipient says, don't know if you've already mentioned this, but Trump and others like to claim that the JCPOA paid Iran $150 billion when in reality all it did was unfreeze some assets held before the revolution.

03:18:21.000 So in other words, it gave them $150 billion.

03:18:24.000 We could quibble about the details, but if that's the effect of it, you know, it's effectively the same.

03:18:32.000 Jay roxer says my knicker your true fans trust the plan all these feds in chat are in Palpatine mode screaming no no then they realize they have no sit lightning great analogy by the way love that Leo says Nick does have that Malcolm in the middle vibe though wait Frankie Muniz Nick Fuentes trust the plan minus the L pan pan-american dream Hollywood MK ultra it's all jokes okay skit so and chat

03:19:01.000 Austin says, honest answer, is there really any need for us to be in the Middle East acting as the world's police officer?

03:19:06.000 They have no evidence of WMDs anyway.

03:19:08.000 No.

03:19:08.000 What do you mean honest answer?

03:19:10.000 The answer is no.

03:19:12.000 Master Debater says, the contractor killed starting this escalation was hit by an inaccurate Katyusha rocket and the investigators found no one at the Elantra.

03:19:21.000 No one took credit.

03:19:22.000 Feeling like a Gulf of Tonkin moment.

03:19:24.000 It's very possible.

03:19:24.000 Like I said, we're working with information that they're telling us.

03:19:28.000 We really have no way of knowing

03:19:30.000 It's happening in the desert.

03:19:31.000 Nobody knows except for the guy that launched it, whoever ordered this thing, you know what I mean?

03:19:36.000 So, what we know is what the media, or some form of media, tells us.

03:19:42.000 So, so, judge... I'm going off what we have from the news.

03:19:45.000 If we, we can skeptic... or skepticize... We can be skeptical and scrutinize every detail, but, you know, that's not really a practical way to analyze the situation.

03:19:54.000 We have to work with sort of what the, you know, what the world believes about this, if that makes sense.

03:20:01.000 Josh says, why was there a complete lack of mention of Israel in your timeline?

03:20:05.000 Do you think the state of Israel has any influence in the Iran situation?

03:20:08.000 Thanks for the big super chat, but why is there any lack of mention of Israel?

03:20:13.000 That's just simply not true.

03:20:14.000 I have retweeted, well, I have not been tweeting a lot because I was on vacation until yesterday, but if you look at all my retweets, almost all my retweets, well, a lot of them are about the Israeli influence in all this, so.

03:20:28.000 I don't know if you're implying anything.

03:20:30.000 What was your complete lack of mention? 0.99

03:20:32.000 What a fucking dishonest thing to say. 1.00

03:20:35.000 I'm so sick of liars. 1.00

03:20:36.000 Just stop lying, dude. 0.98

03:20:38.000 Just, please just stop lying.

03:20:40.000 I'm not asking nicely. 0.97

03:20:42.000 Chandler, next liar is gonna die in Call of Duty.

03:20:46.000 Chandler has been checking the Concern Troll accounts in the chat. 0.67

03:20:49.000 All of them are brand new accounts spamming identical chats. 0.99

03:20:52.000 Fake and gay. 1.00

03:20:53.000 Sending love from Dallas. 1.00

03:20:54.000 Thanks. 0.99

03:20:55.000 Yeah, it is all fake and gay. 1.00

03:20:56.000 It always is. 0.99

03:20:58.000 Let's see.

03:20:59.000 I got to take only the the big ones because we're running out of time Austin says the Iran attacks are kind of like poking a caged bear The bear is only a threat when we go on the cage when we poke them everyone else in the cage suffers. 0.79

03:21:12.000 Yeah, true

03:21:14.000 I don't think so.

03:21:31.000 Everything, you know the Ben Shapiro thing.

03:21:33.000 None of what is being said by anybody trying to spin Tales about me has any basis in reality, but people like hear a thing and they'll Explain this funny if you're concerned look it up you know, I'll explain anyway, but it would help if people just stop perpetuating untrue rumors or lying or starting them and

03:21:53.000 Pro-truth anti-media says Trump ruined US credibility with countries that we had great potential with.

03:21:58.000 Make everyone hate us before we are tossed aside for China to move into the new Belt and Road trade route.

03:22:04.000 Our relations sabotaged.

03:22:05.000 I don't think that's totally true.

03:22:08.000 Diabetes, a shout out to Joshua Moon, the based feeder.

03:22:11.000 I don't know what that means, but thanks.

03:22:15.000 Joe the Boomer says, I got you, Nick.

03:22:17.000 Hot tub energy inbound.

03:22:20.000 Thanks for the hot tub energy. 0.98

03:22:23.000 Jordan says, Shills were in the chat tonight trying to turn people against you, but I still believe.

03:22:28.000 Anyway, I can't help but feel like this whole Iran thing is one big Zog distraction. 1.00

03:22:33.000 No, dude.

03:22:34.000 The endgame of Zog is war in Iran. 1.00

03:22:36.000 That's not the distraction.

03:22:37.000 That's the endgame. 0.75

03:22:39.000 Rudolf says, if Iran hits us, we should always hit them back a hundred times harder, to the point of destroying and ethically genociding Iran, and imposing a process of colonizing and replacing. 0.99

03:22:49.000 Okay, yeah, disavow.

03:22:52.000 Anon says, the nuclear family, but that is, but it's funny to say that, if you're saying it ironically.

03:22:58.000 Nuclear families, the bedrock of strong America, but with women the way they are, how will they come around? 1.00

03:23:02.000 Without women on board, we are ultimately doomed. 1.00

03:23:05.000 Would you settle for a wig net?

03:23:07.000 What does that mean?

03:23:08.000 What do you mean?

03:23:09.000 I would not marry a wignet. 1.00

03:23:11.000 I'm going to marry a normal woman, Catholic woman, and we're going to have kids and not get divorced. 0.64

03:23:16.000 We're going to live Catholic sexual morality and that's what you do. 0.96

03:23:20.000 I know what, you know, being a wignet has to do with feminists, right? 1.00

03:23:24.000 I'm not going to marry a feminist. 1.00

03:23:25.000 I'm not going to marry some dummy on birth control. 1.00

03:23:27.000 I'm not going to marry somebody, you know, who's going to try and be calling the shots with an attitude. 0.96

03:23:33.000 Not going to happen.

03:23:34.000 How will they come around?

03:23:35.000 How do they have to be bullied, frankly?

03:23:38.000 That's the whole no e-girls thing, the no cringe femoid thing. 0.98

03:23:42.000 That's what that's all about.

03:23:44.000 Suko says, if we're not acquiring territories to settle, goods to plunder, people to pay tribute to us, our military action is pointless and we should suspend it all.

03:23:52.000 We want returns for our tax expenditure.

03:23:54.000 That's kind of LARPy.

03:23:56.000 I mean, that's not going to happen.

03:23:58.000 Let's see.

03:24:07.000 I gotta find where we left off here.

03:24:08.000 I had to refresh the page.

03:24:11.000 So let me find, what was the last one we saw?

03:24:13.000 I gotta keep scrolling back.

03:24:22.000 Bruh, we're like never gonna finish these Super Chats.

03:24:24.000 I might have to just call it a night right now.

03:24:26.000 It's like, I have to go back to like nine o'clock to find more Super Chats.

03:24:33.000 Let me see.

03:24:34.000 Here we go, okay.

03:24:36.000 So we're up to 9.09 p.m.

03:24:37.000 and it's 10, so we're an hour behind on Super Chats.

03:24:41.000 The show's already been going for three hours.

03:24:44.000 Charlie says, Nick, I hope you are well.

03:24:46.000 Christ is King.

03:24:46.000 Stay strong, man.

03:24:47.000 The storm is temporary and through prayer you can get past anything.

03:24:51.000 So true.

03:24:52.000 Really Good Comics says, R.I.P.

03:24:54.000 Totally Archer.

03:24:54.000 Hashtag, you had to be there.

03:24:56.000 Okay, thanks.

03:24:58.000 Liam says, imagine not getting it.

03:25:00.000 So many cringe wignets spurging out.

03:25:02.000 Yeah, they don't get it. 0.74

03:25:04.000 James says also did you see how Netanyahu claimed they had nothing to do with this attack and were essentially throwing us under the bus in the case of war with Iran truly our greatest ally yeah you love to see it Israel's really epic like that totally not duplicitous underhanded you know scumbags really good comic says Nick what up not much just chillin peanuts as I just farted lmao cool

03:25:30.000 Really good comics.

03:25:30.000 This war is literally so funny.

03:25:32.000 Imagine being the high school bully when some useless country is a booger picking window looking nerd. 0.98

03:25:37.000 It's funny. 0.99

03:25:37.000 That's all that matters. 0.99

03:25:39.000 So true.

03:25:40.000 So true.

03:25:41.000 It is.

03:25:41.000 It is funny.

03:25:42.000 You know, we're just like throwing bombs at everybody.

03:25:44.000 We spend so much money on the military. 0.94

03:25:46.000 We just overpower them at such a ridiculous rate.

03:25:49.000 And people are like...

03:25:51.000 We can't do anything with it. 0.97

03:25:53.000 It's so gay. 1.00

03:25:54.000 It's a couple of missiles couple of missiles couple of bombs Not a big deal in this case. 1.00

03:25:59.000 It was bad.

03:25:59.000 Okay in this case was a mistake, but generally speaking It is funny.

03:26:04.000 I'm with you on the energy behind that one

03:26:09.000 John Cardillo's rape reaction says, Glad to see you back in the New Year, King.

03:26:13.000 I wasn't sure about your Iran take based on your Telegram posts, but you laid it out here very well, very based.

03:26:19.000 I'm too old to get the Catboy stuff, but the controversy seems silly.

03:26:22.000 Well, thanks.

03:26:23.000 Yeah, that's all about right.

03:26:25.000 Anonymous says, hey Nick, been a fan for a few months and you've been one of the main influences to help change myself and stop my sexual degeneracy and convert from a non-denominational Christian to a Catholic.

03:26:36.000 Praying for your success.

03:26:37.000 King keeps spreading the word.

03:26:38.000 Well, hey, thanks a lot, man.

03:26:39.000 Thanks for the big super chat.

03:26:40.000 Glad I could help.

03:26:41.000 Glad I could help.

03:26:42.000 Red Pill you on politics and religion.

03:26:45.000 That's good to hear. 0.93

03:26:48.000 Henry says, I genuinely thought he was a homosexual.

03:26:51.000 Thanks for straightening this out.

03:26:52.000 Yeah.

03:26:52.000 Well, that's just it.

03:26:53.000 It's like people are like, oh, good luck explaining this one.

03:26:56.000 Oh, okay.

03:26:57.000 Literally everyone is lying.

03:26:59.000 Really?

03:26:59.000 Everyone?

03:27:00.000 Like, yeah, you know, it's communists, pedophiles, leftists.

03:27:04.000 You know, it kind of makes sense when you think about it like that, but... Farhouse says, Hey Nick, it was my friend Spence's birthday yesterday.

03:27:12.000 Can you give him a shout out?

03:27:13.000 We started a book club called Based Book Club.

03:27:17.000 Thoughts?

03:27:18.000 That's pretty cringe. 1.00

03:27:21.000 Glass Half Empty says, there's video evidence of your Chad friend sucking a black dildo on pole lol. 1.00

03:27:27.000 Bruh, maybe you didn't know. 1.00

03:27:28.000 Well, you know, if we want to get technical, he wasn't sucking on it. 0.97

03:27:31.000 He had a straw coming out of it.

03:27:33.000 We're good to go!

03:27:49.000 We're good to go! 0.79

03:28:20.000 As a straw and you know, it's it's being a prop It is a joke that is different than doing like a sexual cam boy thing.

03:28:29.000 Do you know what I'm getting at here? 0.93

03:28:31.000 So don't get me wrong I've told him straight up on many occasions like that's gay and retarded and cringe and you shouldn't do that but you know, it went from it went from 1.00

03:28:43.000 What? 0.98

03:28:43.000 Nick is dating him to Nick is associating with the guy who one time took a lewd picture. 0.98

03:28:48.000 Like, do you understand how the goalposts have shifted then? 0.87

03:28:51.000 It's like, Vaush was claiming that he was a sex worker who I flew out here to have sex with, presumably. 0.97

03:28:59.000 Well, that's all lies. 0.68

03:29:00.000 So now the goalposts have shifted to, well, you are aware that you hung out with somebody who posted a lewd picture one time.

03:29:07.000 Okay, well, lock me up, right?

03:29:10.000 Arrest me.

03:29:10.000 I know that is really a big deal.

03:29:13.000 I hung out with a guy who took a picture.

03:29:15.000 You know, I know it was a regrettable picture, but, I mean, let's get real.

03:29:19.000 Let's have a sense of proportion about these things.

03:29:22.000 So, uh, and you can ask him about that.

03:29:24.000 I'm not trying to defend every...believe me, the anime thing, obviously not my thing.

03:29:28.000 I don't get into anime much on this show or anywhere else, really, but, uh, you know, let's be real.

03:29:34.000 JP says, hey, young man.

03:29:36.000 JP Boomer here.

03:29:37.000 Here's a small humble token of well wishes in 2020 for you, Bryce, and your honorable Groyper Army.

03:29:42.000 Love the show.

03:29:43.000 Keep doing God's work.

03:29:44.000 Well, thanks, buddy.

03:29:45.000 Appreciate it.

03:29:49.000 True.

03:29:56.000 That's another part of it, too, is they have always been trying to undermine male friendships. 0.61

03:30:04.000 You know, another part about Lolli Socks is he is a Chad, you know, so what better way to undermine Chads and friendships than to say, oh, everything's gay. 0.85

03:30:13.000 And we even talked about that on the stream.

03:30:14.000 We addressed the very, you know, all this controversy we addressed even on the stream before it happened.

03:30:19.000 So, uh, let's see.

03:30:24.000 Clark, I, you know, I don't really, I think we've done it to death at this point, but all the Super Chats are about the same thing.

03:30:29.000 So, I, I respond to the Super Chats. 0.82

03:30:31.000 Clark says, LMAO, imagine voting for Trump to save the system and not accelerating the end of times.

03:30:37.000 Okay, thank you for that.

03:30:38.000 Thank you for that high IQ comment.

03:30:41.000 Uh, what else?

03:30:44.000 I guess I'm only gonna take the big ones here.

03:30:46.000 Oh, that doesn't sound right.

03:30:48.000 Big super chats.

03:30:49.000 Gonna take the big super chats because we're running out of time.

03:30:52.000 Let's start unfortunate phrasing there.

03:30:55.000 We'll take a few.

03:30:56.000 We'll take a few off the end here.

03:30:59.000 Let's see.

03:31:00.000 John Smith said... Okay, I'm not reading that one.

03:31:03.000 Robbins says, Israel is the reason why we killed Soleimani.

03:31:06.000 I think there's a lot of truth to that.

03:31:08.000 Yep.

03:31:10.000 Chris says, do you support USA to Israel?

03:31:12.000 No.

03:31:13.000 Do you know?

03:31:13.000 Hi.

03:31:14.000 Hi, I'm Nick.

03:31:15.000 No, we don't support foreign aid to Israel.

03:31:16.000 Have you ever watched this show before?

03:31:19.000 Let's see.

03:31:20.000 Second says, hi Nick, favorite color?

03:31:23.000 Hard-hitting stuff.

03:31:24.000 Gonna be red for me.

03:31:25.000 I like red.

03:31:26.000 ASDF says, Ben Shapiro in his next speech, here's something the leader of Alt-Right 2 said recently about white and pink shirts.

03:31:33.000 Yeah.

03:31:35.000 Here's Alt-Right leader hanging out with Catboy Cammy.

03:31:42.000 Let's see... Peanuts says, with YouTube TOS update is it safe to say the cigarette word?

03:31:46.000 No, I don't think so.

03:31:47.000 Alright, I'll take this last one.

03:31:49.000 NovaCourse's favorite hero and villain in Battlefront 2 heroes and villains?

03:31:55.000 Hmm... Favorite hero in Battlefront 2... I would probably go with... Favorite heroes and villains... Probably...

03:32:08.000 That's probably Darth Maul. 0.98

03:32:09.000 I think Darth Maul's the best, but that's gonna be the last one for us on the show.

03:32:12.000 I want to end it on a lighter note there.

03:32:15.000 That's gonna do it for us on this show.

03:32:17.000 Hopefully tomorrow it's gonna be more back to normal.

03:32:19.000 You know, World War 3 cancelled.

03:32:22.000 Controversy addressed.

03:32:24.000 It's over.

03:32:24.000 You know, they thought they were gonna defeat me with controversy, but I exposed all the lies.

03:32:28.000 It's over.

03:32:29.000 It's done.

03:32:30.000 You can't say it anymore. 0.99

03:32:31.000 You look ridiculous if you do. 0.97

03:32:33.000 So Nick wins, I'm back from vacation, and that's gonna do it for us on the show tonight. 0.97

03:32:39.000 Remember to subscribe to my email list.

03:32:41.000 New Terms of Service got me feeling different.

03:32:45.000 I don't know how much longer we have on this show.

03:32:47.000 2020, hopefully we make it for longer, but you know, we never know.

03:32:52.000 It could happen tomorrow, it could happen next week.

03:32:54.000 We don't know if I could get banned, right?

03:32:56.000 So

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America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - December 28, 2019

Trump Orders ASSASSINATION of Iranian General Soleimani: WWIII IMMINENT? | America First Ep. 519

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