00:00:46.000And so we're here for a balanced episode of America First.
00:00:50.000Remember, later on tonight, well, first we've got, I don't want to just gloss over it as I was about to.
00:00:57.000First, we've got an action packed, no holds barred, high octane episode of America First.
00:01:05.000Where we're going to be talking about Donald Trump's first 500 days, Corey Stewart, all kinds of things, super chats, stream labs, remember?
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00:02:39.000And for starters, for starters, We want to talk about the Corey Stewart thing to get the show rolling here and stop talking about what's planned to get into it.
00:02:49.000First, we're going to talk about this Corey Stewart thing, which seems to be escalating.
00:02:54.000We covered it briefly yesterday, but we're going to talk about that tonight and the Weekly Standards now coming after him.
00:03:01.000Cassie Dillon, Kyle Kashu, the conservative Parkland shooting victim, and some other people are all coming out after him because of the Paul Nealon situation.
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00:07:11.000For some reason, some people don't like him.
00:07:13.000I mean, Corey Stewart, maybe I don't know enough about him, but Corey Stewart made one of his biggest issues when he ran in, I think it was 2017, in the special election.
00:07:24.000He lost out to Ed Gillespie, but he ran, and one of the central issues was the Confederate monuments.
00:07:29.000Because if you remember, after the Dylan Roof shooting, the Confederate flag, the Confederate monument thing became a big issue in the South, in the Mid Atlantic in particular.
00:07:41.000Of course, it became kind of Difficult issue after Charlottesville, but this was something that Southerners in particular were very, I think, offended by.
00:07:50.000They felt very under siege that their heritage, their culture, their customs was under attack with the call to take down the Robert E. Lee Monument or the Confederate flags and all the rest.
00:08:02.000And so, one of the central issues of his campaign was standing up for the Confederate monuments.
00:08:08.000He's very strong on guns, he's very strong on immigration.
00:08:11.000He was a very early and vocal supporter of President Trump.
00:08:15.000He led the Trump campaign in Virginia in 2016.
00:09:01.000Paul Nealon, when he ran, and the election was August 2016, he ran as a pro Trump, Mogapede, like boomer conservative.
00:09:10.000And that was true in February of 2017 when he was with Corey Stewart and Corey Stewart called him a personal hero of his.
00:09:18.000And at that point in time, when he said Paul Nealon's a personal hero and they appeared together, this was in the context of Nealon just being a pro Trump challenger to Paul Ryan, who even Trump himself backed.
00:09:32.000And so this video surfaced recently, and Cassie Dillon, my old friend, she did a big article about it in the Daily Wire about how Corey Stewart said that anti Semite Paul Nealon was a hero of his.
00:10:06.000The Weekly Standard did an article about this.
00:10:10.000And here is just, I think, the perfect example of basically like the Jewish lobby in full effect here, where if you don't see it at this point, it's so transparent and it shouldn't even be controversial.
00:10:26.000You know, I don't say the Jewish lobby with like an overwhelming hatred or like bigotry.
00:10:33.000Toward anybody, any group, but it's just so transparent what's going on here.
00:10:37.000You have a candidate who's pro Trump, pro America, completely nationalist, and he in 2017 February said that this guy was okay.
00:10:47.000Like a year later, it turned out that that guy did say some nasty things about Jews, which I think we can all agree whether there's truth to it, whether there's did he go too far?
00:10:59.000He said some things that were not so great, that were a little bit too far for a politician.
00:11:05.000And so that's all fair, but this was a year before we heard all these things about Paul Nealon.
00:11:10.000But nevertheless, even though, despite the context of it, despite the fact that at the time Paul Nealon was just a regular conservative, and Corey Stewart disavowed Jason Kessler, who is the organizer of Charlottesville, and he disavowed Charlottesville, and we're not saying even that that's a totally good thing, but we are saying that he went out of his way to demonstrate that he was an acceptable, non bigoted type person.
00:11:35.000He went out of his way to disavow Kessler, went out of his way to say that.
00:11:39.000You know, I don't care if immigrants are coming from Mexico or from America and all the rest.
00:11:44.000He went out of his way to say that I'm not a bigot and all that, which I don't think is a great strategy, but nevertheless, he did make an effort.
00:13:25.000And yet these people are going to wage a totally unfair attack.
00:13:30.000And people get called on it left and right and they just ignore it and they just march on full steam ahead.
00:13:36.000They get called on this by alt-right people, alt-right people, people in the middle, people like myself, and they just march on full steam ahead.
00:13:44.000It's obviously coordinated because it's all the same lackeys.
00:13:48.000You know, Reagan Battalion is run by Benny Politic, a literal pedophile, a literal pedophile, which there is copious evidence for this, allegedly.
00:13:57.000Who's an underling of Ben Shapiro, who did logo design for Ben Shapiro?
00:14:01.000Kyle Khashuv, who is being groomed by Ben Shapiro to be the next big Zion con.
00:14:07.000Cassie Dillon, which is the same thing.
00:14:12.000The Weekly Standard, which is parallel to him.
00:14:15.000And so I think this is just a fascinating case study in the Jewish lobby in full effect here, where it's just downright disgusting.
00:14:23.000These people have to be called on that.
00:14:26.000You know, if there were like an Hispanic contingent, Of people who are aggressive in a disingenuous attack on a politician, like, for example, Donald Trump, because of his comments about illegal immigrants being drug, crime, and rapists, they would be called out, or black conservatives, or anybody else.
00:14:43.000But it seems like with this case, nobody's really going to say anything.
00:14:48.000We have to stick up for Corey Stewart.
00:14:50.000And like I said, I don't know everything about Corey Stewart.
00:14:53.000I didn't pay too much attention to that race, the special election, which unfolded in 2017.
00:14:59.000But as far as I'm concerned, he seems like an upstanding guy.
00:15:02.000He doesn't seem like Of crazy anti Semite, you know, and someone who's posting these crazy things on Gab like Paul Nealon.
00:15:11.000And because he didn't give them the response they wanted, which was, oh no, please, please, of course I'm not, you know, respond to a totally illegitimate and fraudulent attack in exactly the way they wanted, they're going to do this attack on him.
00:15:41.000You know, I understand there's an ethnic interest.
00:15:43.000I understand there's a, you know, a Zionist interest, but we've got to cut that shit out.
00:15:48.000If we want to have, and here's the grand irony I think of the Jewish lobby and their ideology.
00:15:55.000They say they are civic, and this is fascinating stuff here.
00:15:59.000They say they are civic nationalists, right?
00:16:02.000And of course, the differentiation between a civic nationalist and an ethnic nationalist, this is kind of a sloppy dichotomy, which I don't want to really get into all that right now, but.
00:16:14.000For the sake of simplicity here, for expediency, a civic nationalist says that you can build a national identity based purely on the state, based on the law, based on the American creed, and ethnic, racial, religious, and all the rest, all those other identities are basically arbitrary.
00:16:31.000That as long as we get in people that agree on the same values, which are free speech and Protestant work ethic and those kinds of things, we can forge a national identity.
00:16:42.000That's the civic identity, that's a civic nationalism that.
00:16:49.000Let's say maybe you can forge an American national identity based on the creedal values, which are that liberalism, that Protestant, kind of like civic religion, these kinds of things.
00:17:04.000Let's entertain it for a moment and say maybe.
00:17:06.000The only way that this is possible, the only way that we could turn away from white nativism, the only way that we could turn away from the rise of other ethnic.
00:17:16.000Interests and the bifurcation of the country between Hispanics and broader Anglos.
00:17:23.000The only way we can avert a disaster, which has been delivered upon every other civic nationalist country in the world, is if we put aside those ethnic identities.
00:17:33.000That's the only way that we could make this civic nationalism that all the Jewish people promote work, is if we put aside the ethnic identity.
00:17:41.000But the very people that are pushing civic nationalism don't want to do that.
00:17:50.000Where these people at once, and it's always the same people, by the way, they at once push, we have to have civic nationalism.
00:17:58.000We have to have a nationalism that is not contingent on ethnicity or race or anything like that, because of course, Jewish people are the eternal outsiders, unassimilable forever.
00:18:10.000So of course they're going to push that.
00:18:11.000But by the same token, they want to have their cake and eat it too.
00:18:14.000They want to have civic nationalism, and it's going to work.
00:18:22.000But at the same time, They don't want to put aside their own ethnic self interest and throw in their lot with this deracinated, raceless country, ethnic-less country.
00:18:33.000So I just think it's all very fascinating.
00:18:39.000The real feature of the show, though, what I really wanted to get into, because we did talk about that yesterday, but it's just fascinating to see this unfold with all these other publications and people in a very coordinated and organized way.
00:19:10.000But I did want to give a good summary of it because, of course, this is the biggest event in American politics, definitely in the last 25 years, maybe in the last 100 years, possibly quite.
00:19:24.000Possibly since the beginning of the country.
00:19:26.000It's one of the biggest political events.
00:19:29.000And we have to evaluate where we are because, of course, we're in this crisis right now with our country where we have all these pernicious trends, whether they be social, political, economic.
00:19:40.000I mean, I think we could all agree that before Trump, we were headed in the wrong direction and we had no idea how to get out of it.
00:19:48.000Trump has presented a window of opportunity, he's presented a model for how we can move forward.
00:19:54.000And so he's basically like the seminal figure, like the exemplar of what it means to be in this political era.
00:20:02.000And so it's, it's, Highly important that we analyze how successful this experiment has been because nobody's really ever done this before.
00:20:11.000You know, the idea was it would be this long march through the institutions or it would be some kind of coup.
00:20:18.000I don't even know how that would be brought about.
00:20:20.000But here was a guy who said, you know, I'll just do it.
00:20:40.000And so, being that he is such an important figure, that this is such an historic time, it's very important that we evaluate what was promised, what has been achieved, and how it's been achieved.
00:20:53.000So, I think this is a very important exercise.
00:20:54.000It's not just going to be a laundry list of, well, he did this and he did that.
00:20:59.000We're going to have to really contrast what was said, what was done, what's a reasonable expectation, what we can look For in the future.
00:21:06.000So, I'm going to pull up my notes here for the first 500 days, and it should be, I think, an exciting thing.
00:21:12.000I think it should be an informative exercise.
00:21:15.000And of course, my credibility, because I'm a young guy, is based on my predictive capacity.
00:21:22.000You know, and people tell me when people can't argue with me, they say things like, oh, you're just young, you need experience, or you're just a kid, blah, blah.
00:21:32.000But my credibility comes from the fact that I have a very good instinct, a very good intuition on predicting these things.
00:21:38.000So, this is also very important for that to say, Well, you know, I basically predicted everything from the start.
00:21:43.000I will remind everybody before we jump into the list that I did predict Donald Trump would win when I was good friends with Cassie Dillon, even.
00:21:52.000I went on several podcasts with her, and she said, you know, I don't think he's going to win.
00:21:57.000And I was like, I know he's going to win, babe.
00:22:08.000And it was funny because I actually put $100 down.
00:22:11.000After the convention, you know, after he came out with that huge speech at the convention where it was like two hours because of the applause.
00:22:19.000And I'll never forget the one line where he said, What did he say?
00:22:23.000He said, Things have got to change and they've got to change right now.
00:22:28.000And the way that he yelled it was like chills, you know, it's just goosebumps, right?
00:23:15.000So, first, we're going to start with we're really going to look at the key issues here just to give you a brief overview of how I've systematized it.
00:23:24.000We're going to look at really the four or five big issues that I think are determinant.
00:23:31.000You know, we could say that education hasn't been a grand slam, but he didn't get elected on education, right?
00:23:37.000He didn't get elected really that much on health care.
00:23:40.000Health care has always been big, but not so much.
00:23:42.000The big issues we're going to look at are the economy, because that's always, that is always one of the number one predictors of an election is how people are feeling about the economy.
00:23:54.000You know, George W. Bush, it's arguable that.
00:23:57.000That he allowed Barack Obama to become president because the economy blew up in 2008.
00:24:03.000I mean, I think John McCain and Sarah Palin, they weren't a great team, but I think they would have stood a chance if you didn't have the recession going on.
00:24:11.000So, economy is always going to be one of the biggest ones.
00:24:15.000Particularly with Trump, we see these big three ones because these are the three ones that he really distinguished himself from the rest of the establishment.
00:24:23.000And that's why these three will be crucial, which are trade, immigration, and foreign policy.
00:24:28.000These four together, economy, which is.
00:24:31.000Always going to be a staple, and then foreign policy, trade, and immigration.
00:24:35.000These three are the defining issues of the Trump revolution because, of course, it wasn't just a revolution for the country, it was a revolution within the party.
00:24:46.000He broke from the Republican Democrat like monoparty that has the same views, that has the same basically goals on those three crucial issues, which are intervention, open borders, and free trade.
00:24:58.000And so that's where he's really going to draw a lot of strength.
00:25:01.000That's where we're really going to look in terms of is this a success?
00:25:05.000I don't really care too much if he makes college affordable.
00:25:21.000The only thing people can argue is that is that the number one priority?
00:25:26.000And this is something that a lot of people on the dissident right will argue this ascendant category, which is much more focused on immigration and demographic issues than economy.
00:25:37.000They'll say, oh, well, GDP doesn't matter.
00:25:49.000And just generally, you know, most people that are in the heartland between the two coasts, they're worried about how they're going to pay their bills.
00:25:56.000This has been a very tough decade for people that are older and also younger people, people getting out of the workforce.
00:26:03.000The fact that everything costs a lot of money, taxes are high, health care costs a lot.
00:26:08.000That's a big problem for a lot of working class people.
00:27:27.000And of course, he blows him out of the water.
00:27:29.000Just to look at the big accomplishment, which of course is the tax cuts.
00:27:34.000This happened in December, November or December of 2017.
00:27:38.000It was the Tax Cuts Act, and this ended up being, according to the Treasury Department, a tax cut for 90 to 95% of Americans, cut the corporate tax rate from 35 to 21%.
00:27:53.000More of a national system as opposed to the former system.
00:27:57.000There were all kinds of things in there that really unleashed the growth potential of the country.
00:28:02.000Whereas the Democrats said it's got to be revenue neutral and you've got to balance it by raising taxes on some people and lowering on others.
00:28:10.000This was basically just a tax cut across the board for just about everybody.
00:28:17.000Now, there is some skepticism, there is some maybe cynicism about this because this was, of course, Paul Ryan's agenda.
00:28:26.000This was the agenda of the donor class.
00:28:28.000This was the agenda of the Republican establishment.
00:28:31.000The tax cut thing would have happened under Rubio, Cruz, anybody.
00:28:36.000And so we're going to get into that in a moment, you know, the significance of that.
00:28:40.000But really, I think it's important to say that whether or not that was a part of Paul Ryan's agenda or Trump's agenda, if that's a big priority, it was a good thing.
00:28:49.000We see that the numbers just simply don't lie.
00:28:51.000Since Trump got elected, 3 million jobs have been created, which includes 304,000 jobs.
00:28:57.000Manufacturing jobs, 337,000 construction jobs, unemployment down to 3.8%, which is the most recent numbers.
00:29:05.000For every one new regulation, 22 regulations have been cut.
00:29:10.000So that's the biggest deregulation in history.
00:29:12.000In just one year, more regulations cut than any other president ever.
00:29:17.000And that's in their entire terms two terms, one term, sometimes three terms in the case of Roosevelt.
00:29:22.000But he added regulations, so it doesn't really count.
00:30:11.000We elected Trump for these cultural reasons.
00:30:14.000You know, it doesn't really matter to me so much what the deficit is if the country is speaking Spanish in 100 years, right?
00:30:23.000It doesn't really matter so much to me what the gross domestic product growth rate is if you have a country that is atomized, that is.
00:30:32.000Speaking a million different languages and it's deracinated all the rest.
00:30:36.000So we can say that on the one hand, but on the other hand, you can't totally rule out the efficacy of a good economic policy, a sound economic policy.
00:30:47.000This is going to have good repercussions for 2018.
00:30:50.000And I predicted from the get go that that was Trump's hand here.
00:30:54.000I predicted this back in summer of 2017, fall of 2017.
00:30:59.000I said he'll make the deal on economics.
00:31:02.000And this will get him the donor money for 2018.
00:31:05.000This will get him a good enough economy.
00:31:07.000People start getting more money in their paychecks.
00:31:09.000People get less money in taxes, paying less money in taxes.
00:31:14.000And this will all shape up very well to deflate the blue wave and also increase support for the GOP in 2018.
00:31:48.000By passing this tax cut, we've gotten incredible donor money.
00:31:52.000You can also look at the generic ballot, which has gone from a 15 point Democrat advantage before the tax cut to like a four point Democrat advantage now.
00:32:02.000And some polls even say it's even, it's within the margin of error.
00:32:05.000So this strategy has definitely played off.
00:32:07.000And people might say, well, but they didn't give him immigration, the omnibus spending bill.
00:32:13.000They didn't give him everything they wanted here or there.
00:35:08.000I call them, and they're called officially rogue states.
00:35:13.000You know, it's gone from like axis of evil to, you know, rogue states basically at this point.
00:35:19.000I'm not wild about the terminology, as you well know the reasons why, but this is just the way that we classify them compared to revisionist powers, which would be like Russia and China.
00:35:30.000The rogue states are the smaller countries, the mid regional size powers, which are contesting American influence and hegemony.
00:35:40.000So, these would be Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, the rogue states.
00:35:47.000And I'm not, again, not thrilled about the terminology.
00:35:50.000So, don't go in the comments saying, Nick said rogue states.
00:35:55.000You know, I'm well aware that Israel is the rogue state.
00:35:58.000You know, believe me, we've done a lot of content on that.
00:36:01.000But as a category, these countries have really presented kind of, I think, one of the most controversial elements of the 500 days so far, which is to say that we look at.
00:36:13.000Syria, where there have been two missile strikes.
00:36:15.000The first one was the 59 Tomahawk missiles in Homs in April of 2017.
00:36:21.000The second one, much more recently, we remember, was in April 2018, which was actually targeted in Damascus.
00:36:29.000And this was much more, about 103, I think, missiles or a little bit more than that.
00:36:34.000That was also a coalition strike with France and the UK as well.
00:36:38.000So we have that going on in Syria, and there's still a presence in Syria.
00:36:42.000We look at Iran, where they're tearing up the Iran nuclear deal, the joint comprehensive.
00:36:46.000Plan of action, and they're instituting sanctions.
00:36:49.000And those have been the controversial ones.
00:36:51.000North Korea, it looks like, is the model for the other two, tentatively speaking.
00:36:56.000You know, that's where it's a little bit less controversial, but the big ones are Syria and Iran.
00:37:01.000And you have to look at all three to really get the full picture.
00:37:04.000This is what I've been saying all year, and I'm not going to re litigate the case for why the strikes were a good thing and all the rest, but we have to look at the entire strategy, which Trump has tried to create.
00:37:16.000And the best way to assess the strategy so far has been.
00:37:20.000Dual containment of Iran and North Korea.
00:37:24.000It's been, I don't want to say non interventionist, but like a minimal interventionist kind of a thinking.
00:37:31.000It's also been a system of very public deal making and leveraging.
00:37:36.000These are the three characteristics which define this presidency, which is it's the dual containment, which is to say that it's not regime change, it's not war, it's not neoconservatism.
00:37:49.000Let's rewrite the world order according to our values.
00:38:36.000But if they don't, they'll be destroyed.
00:38:38.000So it's very public and it's deal making.
00:38:41.000And then lastly, it's a minimal interventionist kind of a thing.
00:38:45.000Maybe it's like a peace through strength.
00:38:47.000So it's not war and it's not isolationist, but he does have this selective use of military power and that kind of goes along with the deal making.
00:38:58.000If we understand and we acknowledge that that's the strategy, this is a really brilliant innovation.
00:39:04.000This is basically a combination of maybe the best elements of Nixon, the best elements of Kennedy, where Kennedy was this minimalist, Nixon was the real politique strategist, and maybe a little bit of Reagan with the military buildup.
00:39:19.000You really get some of the best elements of the past three big game changing foreign policy administrations, maybe Bush not included.
00:39:28.000And I think you have a very coherent foreign policy that has a chance of succeeding in our goals.
00:39:33.000If our goals are that we want to withdraw.
00:39:38.000Withdraw, and I, you know, that's a very loaded word.
00:39:40.000It's very tough because some people say, we don't want to withdraw.
00:39:43.000Some people say, yes, we want to draw up the drawbridges to Fort America.
00:39:49.000But if we want to minimize our role in foreign affairs, which is to say we don't want these occupations, we don't want these big wars, I think this is your best shot at doing it.
00:40:01.000This is the biggest foreign policy success in the 500 days, which is that we have this groundbreaking diplomacy, the summit, which is planned.
00:40:09.000They've already given up hostages, they took down a nuclear plant.
00:40:13.000And it went from the very aggressive kind of thing that we see with Iran currently, maximum pressure that we see with Iran currently.
00:40:20.000And within a matter of 12, 13, 14, 15 months, it turned into actually less, less than that.
00:40:29.000About a year, a little more than a year, like 13 months.
00:40:32.000It's turned into a great diplomacy, which is historic and has great promise.
00:40:37.000And so if you understand the totality of what's being attempted here and the significance of that and the potential of that, I think it's a little premature.
00:40:46.000To say that, well, Iran hasn't been completely left alone, and that's a terrible thing.
00:40:51.000He tore up the nuclear deal and he bombed Syria.
00:40:54.000It's a little premature to say exactly has this policy succeeded or has it failed?
00:40:58.000If you acknowledge everything about it, I think you say there's good potential.
00:42:22.000Dependent on the success of the Korea summit, which I think is a pretty good example of how far this could go.
00:42:28.000On Russia and China broadly, you know, these revisionist powers, I think we're doing well.
00:42:34.000We have a good rapport with China, which is assertive but also cooperative, which is, you know, paradoxical, but it is necessary.
00:42:42.000China is going to contest the hegemony of America in the Pacific in the next century, and we want to have a relationship that we're not going to be taken advantage of economically or militarily, but also.
00:42:54.000So, it's not going to be so rigid so that there will be this very ugly confrontation where nobody wins, which we saw with the same situation in the beginning of the last century with Germany and Great Britain.
00:43:07.000When Germany was rising on the continent to challenge Britain, because there wasn't enough cooperation, it all fell apart.
00:43:14.000So, America and China have a good rapport.
00:43:17.000We see that with the trade with terrorists, which we're going to get into in a moment.
00:43:22.000We see that with the North Korea situation, but it's also cooperative, and there is some element of respect.
00:43:28.000And friendliness, which is mutual respect for mutual self interest.
00:43:31.000And so I think he's really gone a long way in terms of Asian geopolitics.
00:43:36.000With Russia, this is the mixed bag here because we all wanted a rapport, her rapport, we all wanted some kind of reconciliation with Russia.
00:43:48.000And it hasn't happened quite the way we wanted.
00:43:50.000I don't say that's totally Trump's fault.
00:43:53.000Again, we have to get back to what's the expectation.
00:43:56.000We've had 15, 18 years of hostility with this country, about 10 years actually, since the.
00:46:18.000And you don't have to be an expansionist or an imperialist to believe that that is good for the country in the sense that we're getting ripped off on trade.
00:46:27.000These relationships that we have with these countries are a net negative to us.
00:46:31.000And so that we're doing these tariffs, that we're asserting our interests there is a beautiful thing.
00:46:38.000But that he's been so aggressive on these issues is unequivocally a winner.
00:46:43.000So trade, he's knocked it out of the ballpark.
00:46:46.000And the reason why he's done so well on trade.
00:46:49.000And why he's done pretty well in foreign policy is because, and this is the important thing to consider in the back of your head while we're going over these what power does the president have?
00:47:00.000You know, people think Trump is like a king or a dictator or whatever, or maybe that's the expectation, but the president has a very limited range in terms of his jurisdiction.
00:47:10.000And then you have to consider the entire apparatus is working against him.
00:47:14.000So maybe the president, if he had everyone working on his side in the bureaucracy, in the federal departments, in the White House, If they were all working and they were all on the same page and there were no special interests and none of them were dissenters or anything like that, even then it would be a very limited jurisdiction.
00:47:33.000But you have to imagine it's this limited jurisdiction and he's got an open revolt in the White House, in the military industrial complex, the intelligence community, the bureaucracies, the departments.
00:47:44.000You know, people are not even like a lot of the positions are not even filled because the Senate won't approve them.
00:47:50.000So once you consider that the president has these narrow, These narrow powers and the White House is in revolt against him, you realize that the only areas where he can really be effective are the ones where he can act basically unilaterally.
00:48:07.000And those are, it's definitely trade and to a lesser extent foreign policy.
00:48:11.000And I think that's why you've seen the biggest successes on those, is because Trump can just do what he knows best.
00:48:18.000He can make deals, he can call the shots, and there's very little people can do to get in the way of that.
00:48:24.000The last big issue, bread and butter issue, is immigration.
00:48:28.000And it's important that we talk about the power and the jurisdiction before we get into immigration because this is the area that's been the most lacking.
00:48:37.000Of course, he said we would build a wall.
00:48:39.000We would have immigration reform, which means merit based immigration, which means we cut chain migration, the diversity visa lottery system.
00:48:48.000We have mass deportations and all the rest.
00:48:51.000And it's so important to remember that Trump cannot act unilaterally.
00:48:58.000And it's tough even what he can work with because he passes an executive order and it's clogged up in the judiciary for a year, you know, or he sends down a memorandum and people in his own departments are revolting against him.
00:49:12.000So before we get into this one, it's very crucial we remember what the responsibility is.
00:49:18.000And that's not a rationalization, that's not an excuse, that's not 4D.
00:49:23.000It's simply the reality that it's a massive apparatus of which it's very difficult to control.
00:49:29.000And on top of that, The legislature and the judiciary are really ripping him to pieces in terms of what he's able to do here.
00:49:37.000So we'll start with some of these successes.
00:50:39.000There was a great deal underway, but undermined by the judiciary.
00:50:43.000If you look at the illegal immigrant numbers, it's fantastic.
00:50:47.000Arrests of MS 13 gang members are up 83%.
00:50:51.000You had 110,000 illegal immigrant arrests from the beginning of the presidency until the end of the fiscal year in 2017, which is a 42% increase from the year before.
00:51:05.000There was also an Obama era regulation which said that ICE would only target people who have like violent crime convictions.
00:51:13.000Trump repealed that and said if you're abusing welfare, if you've got any criminal record, ICE is going after.
00:51:18.000You and even if you're just an illegal, they're coming after you.
00:51:22.000So, what he's been able to do with ICE has been good.
00:51:24.000He sent the National Guard to the border to protect, which has been a good thing.
00:51:29.000We had the executive order on vetting for those six, it ended up being six Muslim countries, which went off without a hitch.
00:51:37.000And actually, the way that that executive order functioned said that, well, you have this many days to fix your vetting procedures, after which we'll reevaluate.
00:52:18.000He let it slip through his fingers in the first year or so.
00:52:23.000And then there was the omnibus spending bill where we had.
00:52:26.000A massive spending bill where we allocated more money for Israel and more money for the military and all the rest than we did for border security.
00:52:38.000And it was a slap in the face because we got a billion and a half, but it said explicitly can't be used for a concrete barrier along the border.
00:52:45.000And additionally, it said you can't even study ways to secure the border.
00:52:50.000So this was a slap in the face, obviously.
00:52:53.000And this is probably the most glaring thing.
00:53:39.000And they rely on open borders for cheap labor and for their own other political interests.
00:53:47.000And so we understand these people control the Congress, and that's why the Congress hasn't given him the wall.
00:53:52.000Now, there is a small white pill here.
00:53:55.000When the omnibus spending bill was passed, I think it was in March or February.
00:54:01.000Donald Trump said, I will never sign a bill like this again.
00:54:05.000This is important and pay attention because this is where it gets into some details.
00:54:09.000The Senate rules state that every year you can pass an appropriations bill in the Senate with a simple majority.
00:54:19.000One of the biggest, I guess, obstacles to us passing good legislation is that for some reason the press has been set that in the Senate basically everything now needs a supermajority of 60 votes.
00:54:32.000This is nowhere in the Constitution, but somewhere along the way.
00:54:35.000It has become the precedent in the Senate that you need 60 votes to pass just about anything.
00:54:40.000There's one exception that every year you get one chance.
00:54:44.000You get one appropriations bill where you can pass it with a simple majority.
00:54:49.000This is important because the Republicans have exactly a 51 vote majority since we lost Jeff Sessions' seat in the Alabama special Senate election.
00:55:00.000And since John McCain's not returning, we have exactly 50 plus Mike Pence as a tiebreaker.
00:55:06.000So if every Republican votes, we get a simple majority.
00:55:10.000If we don't use that rule, we have to rely on nine Democrats.
00:55:15.000Now, here's where the white pill comes in.
00:55:17.000We used that rule in 2017, fiscal year 2017, to get the tax cuts passed.
00:55:26.000Or, I'm sorry, we used that for Obamacare.
00:55:29.000Fiscal year 2017, we used that rule, our one bill that we would pass with a simple majority, we used that for Obamacare.
00:55:35.000And it failed because John McCain came in and gave the thumbs down because it was going to pass and we would repeal and replace.
00:55:41.000In 2018, we used that rule to pass the tax cuts and that worked.
00:55:46.000The omnibus spending bill, which was passed earlier this year, which was a big slap in the face, which Trump said he would never sign another bill like this.
00:56:43.000But here is the optimistic portion here 2019, when it starts, the bill expires, there's another budget crisis, we have an opportunity to pass an appropriations bill with a simple majority.
00:56:54.000You've got Republicans less than what six weeks away from the 2018 midterm elections, a lot of them incumbents.
00:57:03.000You're going to have a really great window to make a good deal on wall funding, where it's basically like, look, Adelson, the Koch brothers, they've already spent their money for the election.
00:57:13.000Four weeks out, what are they going to do?
00:57:52.000Some of the other extraneous things, and I'm just running out of time here, but.
00:57:57.000Some of the extraneous things, we had the individual mandate, which was repealed, which is a good thing.
00:58:01.000Right to try, which was passed, which is great.
00:58:04.000We've had about a billion dollars appropriated for combating the opioid epidemic in the last spending bill, I think like $4 billion total over the course of the presidency.
00:58:14.000Defense, we allocated $700 billion for this year and $716 billion for the next year, which is a great thing.
00:58:22.000I think you gotta build up the military.
00:58:25.000This is something that has to be done.
00:58:27.000And then some of the other issues, the judiciary.
00:58:30.000This is something nobody's talking about, but this is very crucial.
00:58:33.000He elected Neil Gorsuch, or appointed rather, Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
00:58:38.000And then additionally, he has appointed more circuit judges than any president in their first year in history.
00:58:44.000He's really filling up the federal judiciary at all levels.
00:58:48.000And that is a fantastic thing because, of course, we've witnessed what happens when the judiciary gets out of control.
00:59:18.000I think you look at just the use of the bully pulpit to delegitimize the press, to delegitimize the mainstream media, Hollywood, the NFL, these big institutions, legacy institutions, that have kind of been like almost stronger than the Democratic Party itself in advancing the left wing cause.
00:59:38.000I think that's been one of the big takeaways as well.
00:59:47.000But it's really been a fantastic thing.
00:59:49.000I know people are not, some people are going to say, oh, you're making excuses, you're rationalizing.
00:59:54.000But, you know, if you have a high IQ, which I do, and people who watch this show do, if you have a high IQ, if you have a good instinct and understanding of where things are headed and the constraints here, I don't think you could really be disappointed with this.
01:00:08.000It's been unprecedented obstruction from within his own party, from the Democrats, from all these other forces.
01:00:52.000I mean, once you put it in context, once you have a sense of proportion, you realize that what he is working against historically, present, the obstacles, no experience, his own why.
01:01:06.000I mean, all these things taken all in context with a sense of proportion, you realize it's a miraculous presidency.
01:02:37.000So that's possibly one of the more significant legacies of the first 500 days.
01:02:42.000Is you think about 2015, summer of 2015, it has been a slow but steady march from 5% of the GOP to 87%.
01:02:53.000You know, we can all remember when he's not a real conservative and, you know, National Review published against Trump and all the, you know, all the efforts that came down to get Trump out.
01:03:25.000We need a dictator to get us from point A to point B. Because things suck, and there's no way to get out of it through conventional means.
01:03:35.000And if there are, it's going to be very difficult.
01:03:38.000The expedient, which should be obvious, is for there to be a military coup by the civilian government to reinstall a legitimate government that executes the will of the people because we don't have that.
01:03:52.000We have a government that's controlled by financial interests, we have a government that's controlled by a very select corporate transnational elite.
01:04:02.000I'm saying this kind of tongue in cheek, but I think that you look at other situations in past times where there's been infiltration by Marxists or communists or Whatever, the way that you do it is you have a moderate, but you do have a dictatorship that you get from point A to point B. You get to a point where, okay, now things are normal again.
01:04:25.000You had this in Spain when the Marxists were exhuming the corpses of nuns and they were about to take over the country.
01:04:31.000You had Francisco Franco, which restored order, restored the monarchy, and then he faded away.
01:04:38.000He came and he went in a matter of half a century.
01:04:42.000Parliamentary monarchy, and you know, woohoo, it's all great.
01:05:01.000And now in Italy, my homeland, Catholic Italy, now they are doing the right thing there.
01:05:08.000So, all these, like in the alt right, you get all the Nordcucks and the Anglos, they say Mediterranean, Spanish, we have a real problem with them.
01:06:07.000Imagine politicians there, like in the corridors of Washington, D.C., and you have somebody from like Coca Cola or Gatorade, and they're like lobbying a politician or something, and it's totally unsuccessful.
01:06:19.000They're like, Jim, please, could you just vote for the, you know, the.
01:06:23.000The pro Coke bill, please, you know, you're killing us.
01:06:26.000And they're like, I just can't, I don't really have time for this.
01:06:29.000And, like, the Gatorade employee calls up headquarters and they're like, it's the damn water lobby.
01:07:58.000And they're putting fluoride in the water.
01:08:00.000And it's basically like a laboratory where you have George Soros.
01:08:05.000And the devil, and Bibi Netanyahu, and the leader of the World Bank, and an alien, and they're all sitting around a stainless steel table with the test tube, and they're cracking open birth control pills, and they're putting in all kinds of toxins.
01:08:25.000Let's put in some fentanyl in there, and one of them just farts in it.
01:11:11.000I would never, and I would never advocate that.
01:11:15.000But you know, look, virgin or not, Fadi making the first move, that's a red flag.
01:11:20.000You know, I had a good friend of mine who you may know, you probably all know him, who he was courting a lady online and put it was this lewd posting right out of the gate.
01:11:45.000And this is so, of course, if she's sending on the first night lewd pictures like that right out of the gate, and at all, imagine what she's sending to anybody else.
01:11:57.000Floozy, you know, to anybody who gives her the time of day.
01:13:42.000Christian means you're in communion with Christ's church.
01:13:44.000Now, you could technically be called a Christian so long as you're baptized and you believe that Christ is the Son of God and all that, but really what we want to aim for is people that are in the church.
01:13:57.000And this is for a reason the church has authority, the church has hierarchy.
01:14:03.000Those are the things necessary for reconstituting a society.
01:14:07.000Protestants, for example, can say things like we'll have female priests and gay bishops and this kind of stuff, and that's because there's no authority.
01:14:16.000So, to have an authentic Christian tradition, it has to be coherent.
01:14:20.000To be coherent, it has to have authority.
01:14:22.000Otherwise, who's to say what interpretation is correct?
01:14:25.000You'll just have fragmentation and modernism and all the rest.
01:17:24.000I never talk about it because it's illegitimate, but I could do that.
01:17:29.000Sharia LaBeouf says, all else being equal, which anti immigration Republican would you vote for?
01:17:36.000A Catholic who wrote a 2013 op ed. Against the death penalty, or a former judge who wants to execute illegal immigrants convicted of murder.
01:18:24.000You know, I think we have to have a kind of a practical mindset on that, which is to say that it's kind of a scary thing that the people that are in power don't like us.
01:18:34.000If they got a legitimate means to kill us, that scares me.
01:18:39.000So the death penalty is not a big deal for me at this juncture.
01:18:44.000So I would say they are both equally good.
01:18:46.000I'd probably opt for the Catholic then because he would be my Catholic brother.
01:19:01.000I'm not a primitivist, but I do believe that we have to reintroduce things that are natural to us natural light, organic food, food with like minerals and vitamins in them, clean water, clean air.
01:19:15.000There has to be a reintroduction of that or we're going to die.
01:19:20.000Joe Bro, you should talk historical events on America first.
01:19:31.000So people say, you know, talk about Catholic theology, talk about history, talk about this or that.
01:19:36.000And, you know, I know a little bit about all these subjects, but really my expertise is politics because, you know, I've watched it for a long time.
01:19:43.000I know a lot of the numbers and the data and the theories and the science behind it.
01:21:39.000You know, how could you respect somebody who does that?
01:21:42.000You know, they call you on the carpet with that picture and all the child, illegitimate child, and you're going to say, oh, you know, I would respond to that, but it would be too mean.
01:21:59.000And, you know, I had somebody who was interviewing me once, and I was talking to them about millennial woes who hit me, and then I hit him back very publicly.
01:22:08.000And they were like, well, why do you do that?
01:22:10.000Can't you just, like, let it go or whatever?
01:22:24.000It's a matter of pride and also principle.
01:22:26.000That if people come after you, if people try and screw you over, whatever, you have to go after them so hard that nobody would ever think about doing that again, particularly if you're in a public atmosphere.
01:22:39.000So, when Drake did that, that was a big mistake.
01:22:43.000So, he definitely took the L. Roscoe says, I asked that because that is what Montana is doing tonight in the Senate primary.
01:23:22.000Logical person, and I never really change.
01:23:25.000I'm very honest about who I am, what I am for the most part, and I never have changed, I never will change.
01:23:34.000I'm experiencing this thing right now where a lot of my friends are drifting away because of what I've chosen to do with my life, and this has happened in the past couple of years, but I've stayed the same.
01:25:03.000These are things I take great pride in.
01:25:06.000Eris Bueller says, How the hell can you honestly believe that the doctrine of transubstantiation is true?
01:25:12.000It seems to me like anytime there is an inconsistency and contradiction in church doctrine, the church seems to just label it a mystery and call it a day.
01:25:23.000Again, folks, we have the authority of Christ and other people don't.
01:25:32.000And by the way, you talk about mysteries.
01:25:35.000Talk about like the Orthodox Church, for example, where their whole thing, you know, it's funny because Jay Dyer, to his credit, he comes at it with a very scholarly approach and it's based on source material and he's educated on the subject, but this is not the Orthodox tradition.
01:25:52.000The Catholic tradition is one of vigorous scholastic debate and logic and reason, and the Orthodox Church says, oh, it's all mysterious, it's all based on feeling, we can never understand it.
01:26:04.000And the Protestant, you know, forget about it if you're Protestant, right?
01:26:08.000So people criticize Catholics all day long, but At the end of the day, we have authority.
01:27:07.000Go fix yourself a snack, stretch your legs a little bit.
01:27:11.000But strap yourselves back in at 10 o'clock because when polls close in California, I'm going to be back with Bryden to talk about the California primary results.
01:27:19.000And it'll be, I think, a fun stream, late night stream.
01:27:22.000I'll have to get to bed a little bit late, but that's all right.
01:27:25.000But for now, we're going to call it a show.