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00:00:28.000The boomer generation and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
00:35:55.000Well, it's our first show of 2020, our first show back from vacation, and a lot has happened.
00:36:02.000You know, I think everybody predicted that, including myself, before I left for a week.
00:36:08.000It is always the case, there is not a single exception.
00:36:12.000That 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.
00:36:23.000It is always the case that I come back and the world is on fire.
00:36:27.000You know, I think last time I was on vacation there was a terror attack on an ICE headquarters.
00:36:33.000A 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.
00:36:57.000Shortly 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.
00:37:12.000We're gonna take the whole show and talk about Iran.
00:37:15.000I 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
00:37:25.000You know, obviously we're talking about the current tensions between the United States and Iran.
00:37:33.000It started with some attacks on American bases in Iraq.
00:37:38.000There were a number of rocket and missile attacks against U.S.
00:37:42.000bases all throughout the month of December.
00:37:44.000And then there was a particularly bad attack in the base in Kirkuk in Iraq.
00:37:50.000And that initiated a series of retaliations.
00:37:53.000The United States responded by attacking Hezbollah.
00:37:56.000Hezbollah came to the American embassy in the Green Zone in Baghdad and caused a lot of trouble there.
00:38:03.000In 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.
00:38:14.000And that is the big news, is the killing of Soleimani.
00:38:16.000And now the question is, what will happen next?
00:38:36.000The 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
00:39:30.000Not 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.
00:39:39.000But I took my vacation down Southwest, celebrated New Year's Eve and everything else.
00:39:44.000And whenever I go away on vacation, it's like maddening.
00:40:45.000You 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
00:40:59.000The aftermath and SAS and Groyper Leadership Summit, everything that took place at the tail end of 2019.
00:41:06.000I had to take a little bit of a break to, like I said, collect myself, relax, get prepared mentally for the election year.
00:41:14.000It's going to be even crazier in 2020.
00:41:17.000And all throughout the week, all I could think about is all the drama, all the politics, all the current events happening.
00:42:39.000And 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.
00:43:00.000It 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?
00:44:38.000A long time after Jeffrey Epstein actually was murdered.
00:44:42.000I 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!
00:44:53.000But 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.
00:45:01.000It's like, why do you think people don't even look into 9-11 anymore?
00:45:04.000It's because they turned it into a joke!
00:45:47.000It's kind of like, I don't know if it's, it's not really grown out to where it should be yet.
00:45:51.000I didn't have enough time to really grow it out, but I kind of like, I kind of like the look.
00:45:57.000What I'm thinking, my plans, my plan, you know, when I say trust the plan, the plan is to grow out the mustache.
00:46:04.000And 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.
00:46:16.000I'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
00:46:53.000You 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.
00:47:43.000And that's what I'm going to try to do tonight, is to get into some of the answers here.
00:47:47.000And 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
00:48:38.000All the details are in my notes, which I'll get to in a moment.
00:48:40.000But America retaliates for the strike on our base with an overwhelming response.
00:48:46.000And 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.
00:48:54.000So we respond to all of that essentially with a big airstrike.
00:48:58.000In response to this, on New Year's Eve, on December 31st,
00:49:02.000There's a big presence, there's a big protest and rally, and a lot of chaos outside of the American Embassy in Baghdad.
00:50:28.000Many 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.
00:50:36.000So that happened and now there is this big question about how will Iran react to this?
00:50:41.000How will they retaliate for the killing of their general?
00:50:44.000And then where will we be once they respond?
00:50:47.000If it's a big response, will we have to go to war?
00:50:50.000If it's a small response, will we keep escalating?
00:51:04.000The Iran nuclear deal which is the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.
00:51:09.000I'll give you a little bit of background about that and then we'll get into the timeline here.
00:51:13.000So this is according to Wikipedia a basic overview.
00:51:17.000It says in July 2015 an agreement was concluded with Iran, China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union.
00:53:26.000So 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?
00:53:40.000The United States will not attack a nuclear power because the casualties would be too high, right?
00:53:46.000They don't want a nuclear war, so that guarantees their safety.
00:53:49.000They sort of accede to the level of other great powers simply by having a nuclear arsenal.
00:53:54.000Even 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.
00:54:28.000We 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.
00:54:46.000What 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
00:55:05.000Excuse me, but on October 13, 2017, Trump announced that the U.S.
00:55:10.000would not make the certification provided for under U.S.
00:55:13.000domestic law on the basis that the suspension of sanctions was not proportionate and appropriate, but stopped short of terminating the deal.
00:55:20.000So in October 2017, he said we have to renegotiate or else we're terminating, but did not terminate.
00:55:27.000In other words, he reaffirmed that sanctions would remain off
00:55:32.000So long as Iran is following their commitments under the deal.
00:55:35.000He made the same threat in January 2018, saying again, unless we renegotiate, we will terminate the deal.
00:55:43.000This 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.
00:55:53.000This begins where we are today, how we arrived at killing Qasem Soleimani.
00:56:03.000So on May 8th, 2018, Trump officially pulls us out of the nuclear deal, the JCPOA.
00:56:11.000President Trump formally announces that the US will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal and reimpose sanctions.
00:56:17.000He 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.
00:56:25.000Therefore, I'm announcing today that the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal.
00:57:37.000You 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.
00:58:25.000Quote, 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.
00:59:15.000Problem number three, he says, that the deal fails to address the regime's development of ballistic missiles that could deliver nuclear warheads.
00:59:22.000That's also a little bit of a, that's part of the problem.
00:59:25.000I'll get into that a little bit more later.
00:59:28.000So number three is ballistic missiles.
00:59:30.000And number four, he says, the deal does nothing to constrain Iran's destabilizing activities, including its support for terrorism.
00:59:37.000He says, since the agreement, Iran's blooding ambitions have grown only more brazen.
00:59:42.000So you could really categorize this in three main ways.
00:59:46.000Number one, the Iran nuclear deal did not maintain sufficient enforcement mechanisms or conditions
00:59:53.000That's problematic because if Iran's developing ICBM technology
01:00:16.000You know, they could develop a warhead very easily, strap it on, and then they're a full-fledged nuclear power.
01:00:21.000You know, North Korea has nuclear weapons, but they don't have ICBMs yet.
01:00:25.000So 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.
01:00:37.000So maybe by the end of the deal, Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons, but they do have ICBM technology.
01:00:43.000You could see that it'd be a very short time.
01:01:27.000Al Qaeda and ISIS but also Hamas and also Hezbollah and also Al Nusra and also sometimes the Kurds.
01:01:34.000And 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.
01:01:48.000And it ignores the fact that Middle Eastern politics is complicated.
01:01:52.000The Taliban uses terrorist tactics, but they're also a political party.
01:01:56.000You 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.
01:02:06.000So, to say that, well, Iran sponsors terrorists across the Middle East...
01:02:10.000You 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.
01:02:17.000Well, on some level they might be sponsoring groups that use terrorist tactics, but it's not really an honest way to have the conversation.
01:02:27.000You 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.
01:02:36.000And those militant groups sometimes oppose our interests, or more accurately, the interests of our allies, like Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar.
01:02:48.000So 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.
01:02:55.000government to fund militias in Syria, for example, where they're expanding Iranian influence over Damascus.
01:03:02.000Or they're spending that money on Iranian-backed militias in Iraq, where they're expanding Iranian influence.
01:03:08.000Now, 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?
01:03:19.000Now, 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
01:03:24.000Sponsoring groups that sometimes use terrorist tactics or subgroups that use terrorist tactics and saying, you know, well, they're supporting terrorism.
01:03:30.000Well, 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.
01:03:38.000So, broadly the three grievances that the Trump administration has
01:04:06.000Well, because number one, the deal didn't constrain their nuclear program.
01:04:09.000It didn't do anything about their missile program.
01:04:11.000And 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.
01:04:23.000That's where we start is May 8th, 2018.
01:04:25.000We pull out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the Iran nuclear deal, and we lay out those three reasons.
01:04:31.000The 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
01:04:49.000The Iran nuclear deal says we lift sanctions in exchange for these commitments.
01:04:53.000On May 8th we said we're pulling out of the deal.
01:05:19.000restores 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.
01:05:31.000The 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.
01:05:43.000So, 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.
01:05:56.000But the really significant change happened, the really significant inflection point happened in April of 2019.
01:06:03.000So in May, we basically knew the sanctions were coming back.
01:06:06.000I mean, we knew that was going to happen.
01:06:07.000We knew that we would reimpose economic penalties on Iran for their nuclear program.
01:06:12.000But April 22nd is really when we dealt a lot of damage and things started to escalate.
01:06:17.000It was sort of a big gap, almost a year, between withdrawing from the deal and when things really start to get hot.
01:06:23.000This is when the United States ends waivers for oil sanctions.
01:06:28.000So 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.
01:06:40.000You know, part of the sanctions said that anybody that is importing Iranian oil will be subject to sanctions, too.
01:06:47.000You know, so for example, if China is buying oil from Iran, and Iran is an oil country, right?
01:06:52.000I mean, they get most of their money from oil.
01:06:54.000Most of the economy is built on oil sales.
01:06:57.000That means that not only are we putting sanctions on Iran, but also if China buys Iranian oil, that we're putting sanctions on China.
01:07:03.000We're putting sanctions on the companies that buy the oil.
01:07:53.000So on April 22nd, there's a news report here from MSNBC.
01:07:58.000It 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.
01:08:10.000The market widely expected Washington to extend the waivers for five of the countries.
01:08:14.000However, the administration says that any country still importing oil from Iran will be subject to U.S.
01:08:20.000That was on April 22nd that this was announced.
01:08:24.000So this is why you have such a big gap here.
01:08:26.000We 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.
01:08:54.000This is when we really start to inflict a lot of damage.
01:08:56.000Subsequently, this is why tensions have been getting worse.
01:09:00.000This 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.
01:09:10.000And 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.
01:10:49.000It says, on June 13, 2019, two oil tankers were attacked near the Strait of Hormuz while they transited the Gulf of Oman.
01:10:57.000The 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,
01:11:25.000The article goes on, it says, amid heightened tensions between Iran and the United States, the United States blamed Iran for the attacks.
01:11:32.000Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom supported the United States' accusation.
01:11:36.000Germany stated that there is strong evidence that Iran was responsible for the attacks, while Japan has asked for more proof of Iran's culpability.
01:11:44.000Iran denied the accusation, blaming the United States for spreading disinformation and warmongering.
01:11:49.000In response to the incident, the United States announced on June 17th
01:13:14.000President Donald Trump ordered a military strike against IRGC raider and missile sites before reversing the decision.
01:13:21.000Instead, Trump approved a cyber attack intended to disable IRGC computer systems.
01:13:27.000And on the 24th, Trump announced hard-hitting targeted sanctions against the Revolutionary Guard Corps as well as the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
01:14:00.000And I don't know if you remember, but last year it got very close to war.
01:14:03.000I 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.
01:15:07.000So 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
01:15:22.000is a news source talking about the attack.
01:15:25.000It says, quote, Officials with the U.S.-led mission to defeat ISIS said Friday that a U.S.
01:15:30.000civilian contractor was killed and several American troops were wounded in a rocket attack targeting an Iraqi base in Kirkuk.
01:15:37.000The attack, which occurred Friday around 7.20 p.m.
01:15:40.000local time in Iraq, also wounded several Iraqi personnel, officials with Operation Inherent Resolve told Military Times in an emailed statement.
01:16:44.000officials have warned Iran and its proxies to halt rocket attacks in the country.
01:16:48.000In mid-December, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper phoned Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Maktoum and asked for help to stop the rocket attacks.
01:16:57.000Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned Iran and its leaders in December of a decisive U.S.
01:17:02.000response if the regime or its militias harm American troops or allies in the region.
01:17:07.000So this is really what started the events of the last
01:17:38.000forces 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.
01:17:50.000The 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.
01:17:59.000According to Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman, he says, quote, Iran and their Hezbollah proxy forces must cease their attacks on U.S.
01:18:06.000and coalition forces and respect Iraq's sovereignty to prevent additional defensive actions by U.S.
01:18:55.000It 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.
01:19:08.000The 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.
01:19:22.000The 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.
01:19:33.000Many were members of Kataib Hezbollah and other fighting groups that are technically overseen by the Iraqi military.
01:19:40.000This Hezbollah group is separate from the Hezbollah movement in Lebanon, although both groups are backed by Iran and oppose the United States.
01:20:08.000You 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.
01:20:17.000Because on a technical level, our embassy in Iraq is American soil.
01:20:21.000That's why you have sort of safe quarters, safe refuge on an American embassy in any country.
01:20:27.000You 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.
01:20:35.000You know that they have to respect the laws of the United States inside the embassy.
01:20:45.000So, that Hezbollah attacked our embassy is kind of a big deal.
01:20:50.000You 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
01:21:04.000No, for them to come to our embassy and to set fires and try to break inside to have thousand people demonstrating outside.
01:21:12.000And by the way, they were permitted into the green zone by the Iraqi government.
01:21:16.000This is a cordoned off area that protesters could not get inside if the Iraqi government did not permit them.
01:21:23.000So in both cases, this is sort of an egregious escalation.
01:22:31.000And 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.
01:22:39.000Soleimani was widely seen as the second most powerful figure in Iran behind the Ayatollah.
01:22:45.000The 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.
01:22:54.000Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Iraqi militia leader Abu Makti al-Muhandis was among those killed as well.
01:23:01.000Muhandis commanded the Iranian-backed Qataib Hezbollah group, which Washington blamed for a rocket attack which killed a U.S.
01:23:08.000civilian contractor in northern Iraq last Friday.
01:23:12.000He also effectively led the Popular Mobilization Units, an umbrella of militias in Iraq dominated by groups aligned with Iran.
01:23:20.000Most of those killed in the strike belonged to the PM, which is the Popular Mobilization, according to the organization.
01:23:27.000Soleimani's son-in-law and a member of the Lebanese Hezbollah were also among the dead.
01:23:35.000This is a pretty good distillation of where we are and how we got there, what's going on,
01:23:42.000And 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.
01:23:54.000I also want to show you that there is a tit-for-tat, right?
01:25:00.000The United States again showed a tremendous amount of restraint.
01:25:03.000Trump 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.
01:25:15.000Again, a lot of this we don't even really know what's true and what's not.
01:25:18.000You know, in July, for example, the President said we shot down an Iranian unmanned drone as retaliation.
01:25:24.000The Iranians said the drone wasn't shot down.
01:26:02.000And this summer we did virtually nothing.
01:26:04.000You know, everything that we did in response was basically symbolic or a gesture or might not have even happened in the first place, right?
01:26:11.000In the case of the Iranian drone that was allegedly shot down.
01:26:14.000So there's been a tremendous amount of restraint on our part as we have conducted a policy of containment against Iran.
01:26:23.000It means that one of the bigger existential threats to the United States is the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
01:26:31.000The spread of nuclear weapons in particular into the hands of rogue states which is sort of a loaded expression.
01:26:38.000It's states that are opposed to the American-led world order.
01:26:42.000States like Venezuela, Iran, North Korea.
01:26:45.000One 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.
01:26:57.000Because 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.
01:27:09.000You know, if Iran gets a nuclear weapon, then that's a checkmate.
01:27:12.000That 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.
01:27:18.000The same is true with North Korea on the Korean Peninsula.
01:27:21.000So that is one of our major strategic objectives, is to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.
01:27:26.000The policy of containment says that, well, it's not really worth it to go to war with Iran over nuclear weapons.
01:27:35.000From 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.
01:27:47.000Like, that just doesn't make any sense.
01:27:49.000So 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.
01:28:01.000And 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,
01:28:30.000Or conditions will get so bad that either within the regime or from outside the regime, a new regime will come forward.
01:28:37.000You 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.
01:28:51.000Now again, I'm not saying, you know, before people get on my case, I'm not saying one way or the other.
01:28:57.000You know, everything that I have described on the show so far has been descriptive, not prescriptive.
01:29:04.000I'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.
01:29:13.000I haven't made any valid judgments yet, but this is how we got here.
01:29:36.000To get the United States to back down.
01:29:39.000In 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.
01:29:49.000We're saying, you know, look, you can either not have an economy or you can give up nuclear weapons.
01:29:54.000You know, either we'll make it intolerable for you to live in your country or you can give up nuclear weapons.
01:30:00.000Now Iran is sort of turning the tables on us and they're saying, okay,
01:30:04.000Well 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
01:30:22.000All 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.
01:30:29.000We're going to make it costly as well.
01:30:31.000We'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.
01:31:27.000I'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,
01:31:36.000The recent events have constituted an escalation, specifically the killing of Qassam Soleimani.
01:31:42.000We 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.
01:31:53.000You know, we're talking about the leader of the IRGC.
01:31:56.000This 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?
01:32:10.000Or the Secretary of State or somebody like that.
01:32:12.000If they killed one of the Supreme Commanders and one of the, you know, DOD
01:32:40.000Kassam Soleimani is inside of the Iranian government and a very powerful person inside the Iranian government.
01:32:46.000So to kill him would be on par with if Iran killed one of our government officials.
01:32:50.000And 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.
01:33:28.000Bill Clinton's a... There's a lot of terrible people.
01:33:31.000Some of the worst people ever are in government.
01:33:34.000You 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.
01:33:42.000But that does not inform your foreign policy.
01:33:47.000It would not make sense for us to drone strike Xi Jinping.
01:33:51.000It would not make sense for us to drone strike Kim Jong-un.
01:33:54.000You know, to kill a foreign head of state does not solve your problems.
01:34:36.000And the response has been commensurate to that.
01:34:39.000People have been freaking out about World War III, possible conflict with Iran, and I'll read you very briefly some of the responses.
01:34:47.000I'll read you a full report about Iran's response.
01:34:50.000Iranian 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.
01:34:59.000The announcement came yesterday after another Iranian official said it would consider taking even harsher steps over the U.S.
01:35:08.000State 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.
01:35:20.000Iran's Foreign Minister Javad Zarif condemned the attacks on Twitter.
01:35:25.000's act of international terrorism targeting and assassinating General Soleimani, the most effective force fighting ISIS, al-Nusra, al-Qaeda,
01:35:34.000It's extremely dangerous and a foolish escalation.
01:35:37.000bears full responsibility for all consequences of its rogue adventurism.
01:35:42.000Iran'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.
01:35:55.000The 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.
01:36:04.000In other words, will for sure be a military response.
01:36:07.000In 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.
01:36:22.000He said Iran would retaliate directly against U.S.
01:36:38.000I'll read you now how the United States has responded.
01:36:40.000Trump has tweeted out, quote, Iran is talking very boldly about targeting certain U.S.
01:36:45.000assets 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.
01:37:56.000reaction so far has been to send in 3,000 additional troops into the Middle East.
01:38:01.000And so now I will give you my thoughts on the situation.
01:38:04.000So 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,
01:38:20.000You 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.
01:38:31.000Some people get it, but I'll give you sort of a breakdown of where I stand on all this.
01:39:07.000If 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.
01:39:18.000Now, a little bit more on that in a moment.
01:39:21.000It really ought to be economic in nature, or diplomatic or political, but mostly economic.
01:39:27.000The 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.
01:40:24.000War with Iran is just simply unacceptable.
01:40:26.000Any kind of ground engagement would just not go well for us.
01:40:31.000It would require something like a quarter of a million ground troops to liberate Iran, to defeat Iran.
01:40:39.000Moreover, the terrain would be a disaster.
01:40:41.000It would require us to occupy the country.
01:40:44.000It would cost at least two trillion dollars.
01:40:46.000This is something that is simply not in the cards.
01:40:49.000I 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.
01:41:02.000You know, so I'll just say that at the outset.
01:41:05.000And having said that, the policy of containment is informed by that priority.
01:41:09.000The idea that our priorities are at home, not overseas.
01:41:14.000You know, we shouldn't be in Iran, but frankly we also shouldn't be in Iraq.
01:41:18.000And we also shouldn't be in Syria, and we also shouldn't be in Yemen.
01:41:21.000And I'll tell you what, it's hard for Iranians to kill Americans if Americans are not in Iraq.
01:41:28.000So 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?
01:41:37.000If we were not in Iraq, Iran could not attack Americans in Iraq.
01:41:41.000If we were not in Syria, Iran could not attack Americans in Syria.
01:41:45.000If we were not in Yemen, Iran could not attack Americans in Yemen.
01:42:07.000We can achieve them without unilateral, expensive, costly, unnecessary conflict.
01:42:12.000Without sending a quarter of a million ground troops to occupy a country forever.
01:42:17.000So containment says we can convince them to not build a nuclear weapon by just crushing their economy.
01:42:23.000You know, simply crushing their economy.
01:42:25.000You 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.
01:45:11.000And 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.
01:45:23.000I shouldn't say nobody, but none of the American people want.
01:45:26.000I don't think the President wants that, but that's how you get there.
01:47:57.000If 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.
01:48:07.000And they respond, they come to our embassy.
01:48:09.000Okay, 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.
01:48:18.000Kill the leader of the, what is it, the Popular Movement?
01:50:46.000And 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?
01:50:54.000You 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?
01:53:15.000So to me, this is probably a huge crisis.
01:53:20.000I think that this could really go sour.
01:53:22.000Now, honestly, my gut is telling me that nothing ever happens.
01:53:27.000We'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.
01:53:39.000One 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.
01:53:47.000Now, it's questionable whether or not it was worth it, right?
01:53:50.000But, you know, we started out the decade with these horrible wars.
01:53:54.000We'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
01:54:04.000So 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.
01:54:58.000Was that on New Year's Eve, Kim Jong Un said, I will not denuclearize.
01:55:03.000You 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.
01:55:13.000So I wonder if, just like two years ago, when Trump did the Syria strikes, is he playing the Middle East off of Asia?
01:55:43.000Their government there says they want us out of their country.
01:55:46.000I don't think that's gonna happen anytime soon, but, you know, that's definitely gonna cause friction between us and their government.
01:55:52.000So there's a lot of different theories on where this could go.
01:55:55.000We will really just have to wait and see.
01:55:57.000The 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.
01:56:08.000If they attack some Europeans, we'll have to see what that'll be like.
01:56:12.000If they attack Americans, we'll be in serious jeopardy of a war starting.
01:56:16.000But to me, I always have to revert back to the fact that...
01:57:19.000Now 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.
01:57:27.000And that not every military action constitutes war or something that could lead to war.
01:57:32.000But this is different than everything we've seen for the past couple of years.
01:57:35.000You 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.
01:57:47.000I've been down for just about everything shy of war, but this is something that could seriously escalate.
01:58:58.000People have called me like a neocon over this.
01:59:00.000I don't know how anything I've said is like neocon-like.
01:59:03.000I've seen some people online are very upset about the Trump tweeted out that he would attack cultural sites.
01:59:10.000And 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.
01:59:20.000Some people are very offended by... I made some remarks on Telegram where I said...
01:59:25.000That people are babies because they're whining about cultural sites and this kind of thing.
01:59:31.000And 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.
01:59:42.000I don't oppose war with Iran because we might blow up like a mosque or something.
01:59:46.000I oppose war with Iran because it would ruin America.
02:00:40.000Well, 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?
02:00:49.000You know the one party that really wants war with Iran?
02:00:52.000In case anybody didn't know, it is Israel, right?
02:01:09.000Before 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.
02:01:22.000We 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.
02:02:22.000Now, it doesn't mean that Iran is our friend.
02:02:24.000It doesn't mean that Iran doesn't do things that are counter to our interests.
02:02:28.000But in terms of priority, Iran is Israel's biggest problem.
02:02:32.000And it's Saudi Arabia's biggest problem, and it's the Emirates' biggest problem, but primarily, I mean, who's the lobby, right?
02:02:39.000So, I just forgot to throw that in there.
02:02:42.000I'm thinking about sort of my perspective on this, which is, I've always said that North Korea, Iran, we should use containment strategies.
02:02:49.000But, 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.
02:03:18.000So they hate the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Palestinians there, and they hate the militant groups that support them.
02:03:24.000Hamas, Hezbollah, and they have a big problem on their northern border where Lebanon is almost controlled by Hezbollah.
02:03:31.000Hezbollah, which is sponsored by Iran.
02:03:34.000Hezbollah, which is a group that formed out of response to the war in Lebanon.
02:03:40.000That Israel fought, you know, that's why they support our presence in Syria.
02:03:44.000When 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.
02:03:52.000AIPAC said, the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee, said, this is the biggest mistake, how dare you!
02:03:57.000And 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,
02:04:09.000And if Syria is destabilized, that means that Israel can attack Syria with impunity.
02:04:48.000They had this really convoluted theory in the 1990s about the nature of Ba'athism in Iraq and Syria.
02:04:55.000But they took out Iraq because Iraq was this powerful and antagonistic country.
02:04:59.000They 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.
02:05:07.000And then ultimately if they take out Iran, well then there's no support to be given to Hezbollah in the first place.
02:05:12.000But that is what they want to achieve.
02:05:52.000Now that we've taken care of that, the problem is it's such a big topic tonight.
02:05:57.000Obviously, 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.
02:06:06.000You 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.
02:09:07.000This 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
02:09:21.000Negative thoughts says the super chats are gonna be interesting tonight.
02:09:35.000I 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
02:12:44.000We'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.
02:12:52.000You know, that's why the debates with destiny aren't fun They're just painful
02:12:56.000Cause the guy just like literally spurgs out, you know, the fast talking, the interrupting, the whatever.
02:13:02.000And Bausch has said in the past, after the Sargon debate, he said, well, I won't debate.
02:13:06.000I'm done doing debates on neutral platforms because Nazis can say whatever they want.
02:13:11.000It's like, that's kind of the point of a debate.
02:13:13.000You know, he wants it to be like, oh, you talk for as much as I want.
02:13:17.000And then I'm going to correct the record.
02:13:18.000And then you talk more than I correct the record.
02:13:25.000Part of a debate is, you have to hear out both sides.
02:13:29.000You 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.
02:13:42.000So, 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.
02:14:34.000We're on the brink of war with Iran and people are, Nick, you hung out with this guy?
02:14:39.000John 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?
02:14:51.000Um 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
02:15:12.000You 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?
02:15:27.000Look at the results of the last election.
02:15:39.000The 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,
02:15:54.000You don't really see, like, a real nationalist force, at least not yet.
02:16:02.000You know, in Italy they've got Lega, which is now the biggest party in Italy.
02:16:06.000And 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.
02:17:37.000Groyper leaks reveals, uh, Vaush is gay and fat.
02:17:42.000Glenn 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.
02:18:57.000Everybody 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.
02:19:11.000I'm against war in Iraq, against war in Syria, whatever You know
02:19:16.000And this, uh, Groyper going the way of Kekistan, this is a line of thinking that was literally created by Brittany Venti.
02:19:24.000All 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.
02:21:06.000Charlie Kirk says me pulling in the drive-thru.
02:21:08.000Yeah, can I get three five-layer burritos and a Baja blast taco bell cashier?
02:21:13.000Maybe 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.
02:21:26.000But yeah, there's some truth in that I saw there who said that this week some like neocon said that about Kurdistan
02:22:13.000These 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
02:22:41.000Because, you know, Israel's not stupid.
02:22:43.000They fight four wars with the Arabs, and they say, we don't like fighting, you know, powerful, autocratic, strong Arab governments.
02:23:29.000That's what it's been for the past three months, is lies.
02:23:33.000And 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.
02:23:45.000Honesty, the truth, it's something that matters very much to me.
02:23:48.000And so when people constantly, when people lie about politics, that irritates me.
02:23:53.000But when people lie about me, well, it irritates me more, so.
02:23:56.000Yeah, yeah, I guess I'm just extremely tough.
02:23:58.000I guess I'm just the toughest guy in the world.
02:24:20.000I advise him to change his name, because, you know, lollisocks, not great optics.
02:24:24.000Frankly, I didn't necessarily, like, I didn't put my stamp of approval on Catboy Cammy.
02:24:28.000I 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?
02:24:35.000In any case, this guy, if you don't know who he is, he's been on the Weekly Sweat.
02:24:40.000I did a stream with him, like, last month.
02:24:53.000So he had his wall papered over with, like, anime posters.
02:24:57.000He would go out to anime conventions and other things wearing anime dresses.
02:25:02.000And he would do IRL, like, lifestyle content.
02:25:06.000Um, you know, I don't approve of everything anybody you've ever hung out with has ever done obviously, right?
02:25:12.000Uh, 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.
02:25:56.000Other 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
02:27:44.000Feel 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.
02:27:54.000The Vausch guy who made the video where a lot of that has originated is a far-left Marxist pedophile.
02:28:23.000I 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.
02:28:33.000If we can't survive things like this, it's never gonna work.
02:28:37.000Because this has been going... You know, the bigger picture here, the bigger story,
02:28:41.000I said for three months it has been constant FUD tactics.
02:28:46.000It has been constant lying, slandering, misdirection.
02:28:55.000And it's been all kinds of things for the past three months, but you just haven't noticed it, right?
02:28:59.000It'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,
02:29:10.000Nick is a neocon, and this is the latest one.
02:29:27.000People 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.
02:29:54.000I'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.
02:30:05.000But it is important to clarify for the record if there are people that do support me that are
02:30:12.000It's important to correct the record make sure everybody's on board.
02:30:15.000I would not be promoting Somebody who is a homosexual.
02:30:18.000He 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.
02:30:30.000He slays Femoids, you know, so it's not like it's not like what people are portraying it to be so
02:30:37.000In any case, we're going to get back to the superchats here.
02:30:39.000I'm sure it'll come up in further superchats, but hopefully that puts it to bed.
02:30:44.000Hopefully that's the final clarification.
02:30:46.000People are saying, well, how is it misinformation?
02:31:59.000Let's see, quality content says, if you support Trump, you are not America first, you are Israel first.
02:32:04.000This entire attack was so Benjamin Netanyahu would win his re-election.
02:32:10.000I don't know if that's necessarily true, the part about just being for Benjamin Netanyahu.
02:32:16.000Certainly, 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.
02:32:24.000I mean, let's not be under any illusions.
02:32:28.000You know, just look at, like, Nancy Pelosi.
02:32:31.000Anytime Ilhan Omar raises, like, completely legitimate skepticism of the Israel lobby, Nancy Pelosi, like, has the whole party shut her down.
02:32:40.000You know, so it's like, well, Trump is Israel first.
02:32:43.000Yeah, but, but, you know, so are the Democrats.
02:32:46.000So 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?
02:32:55.000Or do you want somebody that's effectively Israel first, but is gonna put us in jail for being white nationalists?
02:33:00.000You know, because that's what we get with the Democrats, so.
02:33:03.000To 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.
02:33:10.000Trump, you know, there's a lot of evidence to support this, but it doesn't really change the calculation.
02:35:18.000Well, no, because you understand the context of what was happening there.
02:35:21.000So when people say, oh, he's promoting degeneracy, it's like, well, let's look at the context.
02:35:25.000If I was promoting Lady Maga, who is unironically a drag queen, homosexual, well, that would be one thing.
02:35:33.000But 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.
02:36:11.000Elston 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.
02:36:27.000Evner 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.
02:37:42.000People that have this, like, people that are isolationist or non-interventionist, we might agree on substance, but the posting, the energy is all wrong.
02:37:53.000You know, they're all so, like, butthurt and coping.
02:38:26.000I'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.
02:38:39.000But 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.
02:39:22.000says, 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.
02:39:57.000Happy 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
02:40:17.000My view of relationships is very, like, pragmatic.
02:40:22.000You 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.
02:40:30.000So the media's telling you, like, you know, like, you can fall in love, you can find the right person when you're 45.
02:41:53.000Let'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.
02:42:05.000is 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
02:42:53.000You 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.
02:43:07.000It's not going to happen like that in 2020.
02:43:15.000Fat 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
02:43:32.000I'll just say, ever since I started naming the cube, the shilling has been off the charts.
02:43:38.000Ever 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.
02:43:49.000Ever since I started talking about the black cube, all of a sudden, what are they hiding?
02:44:56.000I don't even know what the election is gonna look like.
02:44:59.000We 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.
02:45:06.000But I can tell you that if we lose the election, it's going to be over.
02:45:10.000I think when Trump leaves office, it's going to be over.
02:45:13.000In some sense, it's... I don't mean to black pill you here, but...
02:45:18.000You know, in some capacity, it's been over for a long time.
02:45:22.000But Trump is sort of like the last dying gasp.
02:45:25.000He'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.
02:45:38.000He'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!
02:45:45.000Exchange phone numbers, get connected, whatever, I can't hold on much longer!
02:46:35.000Super says please address the cat boy question.
02:46:37.000I 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
02:47:23.000I don't believe in any necessary steps.
02:47:26.000I 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
02:47:47.000Dissent against neocons and fusionists was coming from libertarians.
02:48:30.000I 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.
02:48:50.000That's not to say they weren't neocons and they weren't, you know, free marketeers or whatever, but I think
02:48:56.000A lot of what existed at the time in the mainstream was libertarian.
02:49:01.000A lot of the most prominent anti-war stuff on the right came from the libertarians.
02:49:06.000A lot of the most prominent anti-establishment stuff on the right came from the libertarians.
02:49:12.000So I would say that it was sort of more about that cultural moment that libertarians were the dissents, they were the dissidents.
02:49:20.000So I think that that's why it happened.
02:49:23.000I 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
02:50:34.000Okay, they're actively promoting homosexuality and normalizing it.
02:50:38.000That 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.
02:50:46.000Going on his platform, not inviting him onto mine.
02:50:49.000In the case of lollisocks, you know, he's not even a homosexual, so.
02:50:53.000I've heard a lot of people making that argument.
02:51:24.000Steadfast 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.
02:52:02.000says, 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?
02:52:35.000Well we know that every hostility, well most of the hostilities with Iran is driven by Israel.
02:52:42.000You 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
02:55:17.000He 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.
02:56:16.000Unrest that I have to crush like the IRGC crush dissents It's because of this guy.
02:56:22.000It'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.
03:00:47.000alternate 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
03:01:19.000Bob Sa- I guess we're gay just for having this conversation.
03:01:23.000Bob 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.
03:01:43.000Even 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?
03:05:55.000morning 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
03:06:19.000I'm gonna have to disagree with you on that one.
03:07:37.000Lacks a subtlety to not... I don't... Oh, I... I don't know exactly what you're getting at there, but yeah.
03:07:43.000Well, and I... That's the best part, is during our stream, we talked for an hour.
03:07:47.000I 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?
03:07:58.000But yeah, I mean, that's the only... He is a... I mean, that part is degenerate.
03:08:01.000He is a coomer, which is unfortunate, but...
03:08:04.000It's not quite the same as what he's being accused of, right?
03:08:10.000Nabal says, Protestants, how do you know which books are in the Bible?
03:09:10.000Minnesota 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.
03:09:18.000This is a classic Marxist subversion tactic designed to divide us.
03:09:22.000Yeah, I think that that's totally legitimate.
03:11:30.000Osama 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.
03:11:40.000Elijah says, hey Nick, glad to have you back.
03:11:43.000For my first day of college, I dragged my you-know-what on the bathroom sinks and door handles.
03:13:48.000Big 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.
03:14:31.000I 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
03:14:45.000Quality 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.
03:15:04.000Okay, that's a woman saying that's kind of cringe.
03:15:09.000Name 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.
03:15:20.000Yeah, it is a, it is a Twilight Zone scenario.
03:15:25.000You know, do the show and it's no news forever.
03:15:27.000Don't do the show for a week and the world is on fire and you have to come back, right?
03:15:32.000Quality Hops says, shout out to the Groip Wives with more than five kids.
03:16:54.000Thanks FedInLaw says Wignet Anakin destroys intergalactic democracy installs the autocratic Imperial Empire and finally took care of the eternal interfering Jedi.
03:17:05.000He even donned a certain facial mask Yeah based Wignet Anakin.
03:17:10.000I 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.
03:17:22.000Let'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
03:17:44.000Gavin says, thanks Nick for everything you do.
03:17:46.000Myself and other artists are working hard to bring America first and God to the art world.
03:18:08.000Welfare 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.
03:18:21.000So in other words, it gave them $150 billion.
03:18:24.000We could quibble about the details, but if that's the effect of it, you know, it's effectively the same.
03:18:32.000Jay 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
03:19:01.000Austin says, honest answer, is there really any need for us to be in the Middle East acting as the world's police officer?
03:19:12.000Master Debater says, the contractor killed starting this escalation was hit by an inaccurate Katyusha rocket and the investigators found no one at the Elantra.
03:19:31.000Nobody knows except for the guy that launched it, whoever ordered this thing, you know what I mean?
03:19:36.000So, what we know is what the media, or some form of media, tells us.
03:19:42.000So, so, judge... I'm going off what we have from the news.
03:19:45.000If 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.
03:19:54.000We have to work with sort of what the, you know, what the world believes about this, if that makes sense.
03:20:01.000Josh says, why was there a complete lack of mention of Israel in your timeline?
03:20:05.000Do you think the state of Israel has any influence in the Iran situation?
03:20:08.000Thanks for the big super chat, but why is there any lack of mention of Israel?
03:20:14.000I 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.
03:20:28.000I don't know if you're implying anything.
03:20:30.000What was your complete lack of mention?
03:20:32.000What a fucking dishonest thing to say.
03:20:59.000I 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.
03:21:31.000Everything, you know the Ben Shapiro thing.
03:21:33.000None 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
03:21:53.000Pro-truth anti-media says Trump ruined US credibility with countries that we had great potential with.
03:21:58.000Make everyone hate us before we are tossed aside for China to move into the new Belt and Road trade route.
03:22:39.000Rudolf 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.
03:23:44.000Suko 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.
03:23:52.000We want returns for our tax expenditure.
03:25:04.000James 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
03:26:25.000Anonymous 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.
03:27:00.000Like, yeah, you know, it's communists, pedophiles, leftists.
03:27:04.000You 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.
03:28:31.000So 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
03:29:56.000That's another part of it, too, is they have always been trying to undermine male friendships.
03:30:04.000You 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.
03:30:13.000And we even talked about that on the stream.
03:30:14.000We addressed the very, you know, all this controversy we addressed even on the stream before it happened.