America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - Trump's First 500 Days | America First Ep. 178

00:00:03.000 Good evening, everybody.

00:00:04.000 You are watching America First.

00:00:05.000 My name is Nicholas J. Fuentes.

00:00:07.000 We've got a great show for you tonight.

00:00:10.000 Oh, we're talking about so much, such a packed show, such a packed night of America First content.

00:00:19.000 You know, we're excited.

00:00:20.000 You know, we are well rested, back on the sleep schedule.

00:00:25.000 So I'm feeling healthy.

00:00:26.000 I'm feeling very balanced.

00:00:28.000 You can tell.

00:00:29.000 I think you can tell when I'm not on my sleep schedule because.

00:00:33.000 I'm all over the place, you know, if I'm taking naps or I'm up all night.

00:00:37.000 But tonight, we are on a firm sleep schedule.

00:00:40.000 I am well rested, completely chemically balanced.

00:00:44.000 Mood is perfect.

00:00:46.000 And so we're here for a balanced episode of America First.

00:00:50.000 Remember, later on tonight, well, first we've got, I don't want to just gloss over it as I was about to.

00:00:57.000 First, we've got an action packed, no holds barred, high octane episode of America First.

00:01:05.000 Where we're going to be talking about Donald Trump's first 500 days, Corey Stewart, all kinds of things, super chats, stream labs, remember?

00:01:16.000 And then later tonight, 10 o'clock Central Time, 8 o'clock Pacific Time, 11 o'clock Eastern Time, whatever time zone you're in, 8 o'clock Central, that's me.

00:01:29.000 Or I'm sorry, 10 o'clock Central, I come back on after the show with Bryden from Ripe to Bryden podcast, and we're going to cover.

00:01:39.000 The results of the California primary and also all the other primaries that are happening, but particularly California.

00:01:46.000 He's from there, and so he's got a special insight.

00:01:49.000 So it's a very exciting evening.

00:01:52.000 We've got a big show with America First, and later tonight we're doing the coverage of the primaries there.

00:01:57.000 We're going to be looking at turnout, we're going to be looking at some of the hotly contested races.

00:02:02.000 We're going to watch as Patrick Little ascends to the position of King of America.

00:02:09.000 Finally, you know, as time has come, we're going to win big with Patrick Little as he is not just elected as a nominee for the Senate for California, but he will accede to the presidency and self appoint himself king of America.

00:02:28.000 And so I'm so excited to watch that happen.

00:02:30.000 You know, all my brethren from Europa are going to be very excited to watch that happen.

00:02:36.000 But really, it'll be a jam packed evening.

00:02:39.000 And 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.

00:02:49.000 First, we're going to talk about this Corey Stewart thing, which seems to be escalating.

00:02:54.000 We covered it briefly yesterday, but we're going to talk about that tonight and the Weekly Standards now coming after him.

00:03:01.000 Cassie Dillon, Kyle Kashu, the conservative Parkland shooting victim, and some other people are all coming out after him because of the Paul Nealon situation.

00:03:12.000 And then later on, we're going to talk about.

00:03:15.000 Trump's first 500 days as president.

00:03:17.000 We're going to compare what he promised and what has been achieved in a pretty comprehensive way.

00:03:24.000 And so it'll be very exciting.

00:03:26.000 Before we get into any of that, I want to remind you to sign up on our mailing list at nicholasjfuentes.com to get an update about the premium content.

00:03:36.000 It's just always something with these people.

00:03:38.000 Where first, all I wanted to do was to send an email and say, hey, if you want the premium content, This is where to get it.

00:03:47.000 So simple, I thought, but then it turns out you got to jump through a million hoops to send an email to more than 100 people.

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00:03:59.000 I tried them all, okay?

00:04:00.000 I've looked at all of them.

00:04:02.000 So, we were going to do Amazon SES.

00:04:04.000 Well, they have to lift the limit for how many people you're able to send emails to.

00:04:09.000 So, we wait 24 hours for them to do that.

00:04:13.000 Then they send an email to the guy who's setting it up.

00:04:15.000 Oh, actually, you've asked for a limit increase before, so now it'll take a million years.

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00:04:27.000 And with that out of the way, also today I saw, just want to tell you real quick, and let me know if you're interested in this.

00:04:34.000 I saw the movie today, Isle of Dogs.

00:04:37.000 It's the Wes Anderson movie, the newest one.

00:04:39.000 It's like a stop motion animation film.

00:04:43.000 That was pretty good.

00:04:44.000 You know, so I'm all excited.

00:04:46.000 I got a good night's sleep.

00:04:47.000 I saw my movie.

00:04:47.000 And let me know what you think of this.

00:04:49.000 We're going to be rolling out the premium content coming soon, and it's going to be some of the old favorites.

00:04:54.000 And let me know what you think of me doing movie reviews.

00:04:57.000 Would you guys be interested in that, in the premium content?

00:05:01.000 I'm not going to tell you everything that's in there right now, but it's going to be pretty similar to what we had going before.

00:05:06.000 Would that be something that interests people?

00:05:08.000 Because I'm always tempted to go on the show and talk about the movie that I saw or whatever.

00:05:15.000 And I always get people in the comments or in the live chat that are like, boo, get to the news.

00:05:19.000 We don't want to hear about it.

00:05:21.000 In the comments the other day, I thought I was being glib and funny talking about the new desk.

00:05:28.000 And everybody in the comments is like, we don't care about your desk. 0.96

00:05:32.000 Shut up. 0.98

00:05:32.000 Get to the news. 0.98

00:05:33.000 And I'm like, all right, all right.

00:05:35.000 Like, I didn't think I was.

00:05:37.000 Talking about it for that long.

00:05:39.000 So let me know what you guys think about that if you want to hear about that in the premium content, maybe like a 15 minute weekly movie review.

00:05:46.000 I don't know.

00:05:47.000 I've always been a big movie fan, so let me know what you think of that in the comments or whatever.

00:05:50.000 But with all that out of the way, with all the housekeeping things out of the way, we're going to get right into the show.

00:05:58.000 Speaking of Isle of Dogs, I hear my dog barking this little rascal.

00:06:03.000 I swear to God, every time I went to dog, you can't hear him probably, but I can.

00:06:09.000 And it's always my complaint about the dog.

00:06:12.000 We may like the dog, but you don't like the atmosphere that's created by the dog, right?

00:06:18.000 Which is the constant barking and the noise and the smells and the hair.

00:06:23.000 And me, as somebody who's kind of OCD, it's just a lot.

00:06:27.000 It's just a lot, okay?

00:06:28.000 You know, I like to be able to sit on a chair and get up and not have my back covered in dog hair.

00:06:35.000 You know, that's one of the things I used to enjoy, right?

00:06:39.000 And, you know, people knock on the door and the dog goes ballistic.

00:06:43.000 He's yelling, screaming, running all over the place, clawing at the door.

00:06:47.000 It's like, enough already.

00:06:49.000 Settle down.

00:06:50.000 It's just a mailman.

00:06:51.000 It happens every day.

00:06:54.000 But what we're even going to talk about Corey Stewart.

00:06:57.000 So, yesterday we touched on this briefly.

00:06:59.000 Corey Stewart is running for Senate in Virginia as a Republican.

00:07:04.000 He's running in the primary there.

00:07:06.000 And it's a very narrow race right now.

00:07:08.000 But we like Corey Stewart.

00:07:09.000 I've always liked Corey Stewart.

00:07:11.000 For some reason, some people don't like him.

00:07:13.000 I 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.

00:07:13.000 I don't get it.

00:07:24.000 He lost out to Ed Gillespie, but he ran, and one of the central issues was the Confederate monuments.

00:07:29.000 Because 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.

00:07:41.000 Of course, it became kind of Difficult issue after Charlottesville, but this was something that Southerners in particular were very, I think, offended by.

00:07:50.000 They 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.

00:08:02.000 And so, one of the central issues of his campaign was standing up for the Confederate monuments.

00:08:08.000 He's very strong on guns, he's very strong on immigration.

00:08:11.000 He was a very early and vocal supporter of President Trump.

00:08:15.000 He led the Trump campaign in Virginia in 2016.

00:08:19.000 So, he's a solid guy in my book.

00:08:21.000 He's a nationalist, America First kind of guy.

00:08:24.000 And we touched on this briefly yesterday.

00:08:27.000 He's run into some trouble.

00:08:28.000 He's kind of the scandal because a video has surfaced of him last year in February, February 2017, praising Paul Nealon.

00:08:39.000 He was at a fundraiser with Paul Nealon or some kind of manga event.

00:08:43.000 And at the time, you got to remember context is everything.

00:08:46.000 Paul Nealon had just come off of an unsuccessful attempt to primary Paul Ryan in the first district of Wisconsin.

00:08:55.000 That was in 2016.

00:08:56.000 And at the time, it was a very tame.

00:08:58.000 Very conventional campaign.

00:09:01.000 Paul Nealon, when he ran, and the election was August 2016, he ran as a pro Trump, Mogapede, like boomer conservative.

00:09:10.000 And that was true in February of 2017 when he was with Corey Stewart and Corey Stewart called him a personal hero of his.

00:09:18.000 And 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.

00:09:32.000 And 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.

00:09:46.000 This is beyond the pale.

00:09:48.000 This is terrible. 0.73

00:09:49.000 Anti Semite apocalypse, disavowed, dox him, ruin his career, all the rest.

00:09:54.000 And so we reported on that yesterday, and it seems like it's getting a lot of momentum because now Kyle Kashu has been tweeting about it.

00:10:01.000 Reagan Battalion has been tweeting about it.

00:10:03.000 It's all over the Daily Wire.

00:10:05.000 They keep plugging it there.

00:10:06.000 The Weekly Standard did an article about this. 0.73

00:10:10.000 And 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.

00:10:26.000 You know, I don't say the Jewish lobby with like an overwhelming hatred or like bigotry.

00:10:33.000 Toward anybody, any group, but it's just so transparent what's going on here.

00:10:37.000 You have a candidate who's pro Trump, pro America, completely nationalist, and he in 2017 February said that this guy was okay.

00:10:47.000 Like 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?

00:10:59.000 He said some things that were not so great, that were a little bit too far for a politician.

00:11:05.000 And so that's all fair, but this was a year before we heard all these things about Paul Nealon.

00:11:10.000 But 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.

00:11:35.000 He went out of his way to disavow Kessler, went out of his way to say that.

00:11:39.000 You know, I don't care if immigrants are coming from Mexico or from America and all the rest.

00:11:44.000 He 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.

00:11:44.000 Right.

00:11:52.000 And still, it's still not enough for these people.

00:11:55.000 And what is the common characteristic uniting them all?

00:11:58.000 Cassie Dillon, Kyle Kashu, Ben Shapiro, The Daily Wire.

00:12:03.000 You know, look at any of the authors on there, whether it's Elliot Hamilton or Aaron Bandler or all the rest.

00:12:09.000 I mean, just look at the names. 0.91

00:12:11.000 And they're all Zionists, right?

00:12:13.000 The Weekly Standard, which, who's the editor in chief?

00:12:15.000 Bill Kristol.

00:12:17.000 And we see so clearly an agenda that is not ideological, that is not even really political.

00:12:25.000 It's ethnic. 0.82

00:12:26.000 It's always been ethnic.

00:12:28.000 And so I think it's just a very interesting thing.

00:12:31.000 It's a very important thing to point out. 0.97

00:12:33.000 Nobody really has the balls to talk about this. 0.97

00:12:36.000 Nobody really, I don't think, has the courage to talk about this, but it's something that's so apparent and so naked. 0.98

00:12:44.000 And people will be very quick, even on our own side, to say, oh, that's bigoted.

00:12:49.000 Nick, you can't say that.

00:12:50.000 That's that.

00:12:51.000 To call this out is anti Semitic and all the rest.

00:12:54.000 But I mean, really, I come at it from the perspective of here's Corey Stewart, who's a conservative, who's a nationalist, who's pro Trump.

00:13:03.000 I mean, he's got everything going for him.

00:13:06.000 And there's this weird establishment clique who is obsessed with taking this guy down.

00:13:12.000 Our own guy in our own, allegedly our, you know, like we're in the same team, right?

00:13:18.000 Our party, our values, our whatever.

00:13:20.000 He's got a fighting chance to win for.

00:13:22.000 For our interests and our policies.

00:13:25.000 And yet these people are going to wage a totally unfair attack.

00:13:30.000 And people get called on it left and right and they just ignore it and they just march on full steam ahead.

00:13:36.000 They 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.

00:13:44.000 It's obviously coordinated because it's all the same lackeys. 0.87

00:13:48.000 You know, Reagan Battalion is run by Benny Politic, a literal pedophile, a literal pedophile, which there is copious evidence for this, allegedly.

00:13:57.000 Who's an underling of Ben Shapiro, who did logo design for Ben Shapiro? 0.69

00:14:01.000 Kyle Khashuv, who is being groomed by Ben Shapiro to be the next big Zion con. 0.55

00:14:07.000 Cassie Dillon, which is the same thing. 0.52

00:14:10.000 Daily Wire, which is his publication.

00:14:12.000 The Weekly Standard, which is parallel to him. 1.00

00:14:15.000 And so I think this is just a fascinating case study in the Jewish lobby in full effect here, where it's just downright disgusting. 0.99

00:14:23.000 These people have to be called on that. 0.97

00:14:26.000 You 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.

00:14:43.000 But it seems like with this case, nobody's really going to say anything.

00:14:48.000 We have to stick up for Corey Stewart.

00:14:50.000 And like I said, I don't know everything about Corey Stewart.

00:14:53.000 I didn't pay too much attention to that race, the special election, which unfolded in 2017.

00:14:59.000 But as far as I'm concerned, he seems like an upstanding guy.

00:15:02.000 He doesn't seem like Of crazy anti Semite, you know, and someone who's posting these crazy things on Gab like Paul Nealon.

00:15:11.000 And 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.

00:15:24.000 I think it's very telling.

00:15:26.000 It's a very interesting case study.

00:15:28.000 It really makes you think.

00:15:30.000 And it has to be called out.

00:15:33.000 I'm calling it out right here.

00:15:35.000 You know, Cassie, Kyle, Ben, you got to knock this stuff off.

00:15:39.000 You got to put America first.

00:15:41.000 You know, I understand there's an ethnic interest. 0.99

00:15:43.000 I understand there's a, you know, a Zionist interest, but we've got to cut that shit out. 1.00

00:15:48.000 If we want to have, and here's the grand irony I think of the Jewish lobby and their ideology. 0.96

00:15:55.000 They say they are civic, and this is fascinating stuff here.

00:15:59.000 They say they are civic nationalists, right?

00:16:02.000 And 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.

00:16:14.000 For 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.

00:16:31.000 That 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.

00:16:42.000 That's the civic identity, that's a civic nationalism that.

00:16:45.000 People like Ben Shapiro promote.

00:16:47.000 And let's say maybe.

00:16:49.000 Let'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.

00:17:04.000 Let's entertain it for a moment and say maybe. 0.96

00:17:06.000 The 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. 0.80

00:17:16.000 Interests and the bifurcation of the country between Hispanics and broader Anglos. 0.95

00:17:23.000 The 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. 0.98

00:17:33.000 That'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. 0.94

00:17:41.000 But the very people that are pushing civic nationalism don't want to do that. 0.90

00:17:46.000 They don't want to make it work.

00:17:47.000 So it's just a paradox here.

00:17:50.000 Where these people at once, and it's always the same people, by the way, they at once push, we have to have civic nationalism. 0.99

00:17:58.000 We 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. 0.97

00:18:10.000 So of course they're going to push that. 1.00

00:18:11.000 But by the same token, they want to have their cake and eat it too.

00:18:14.000 They want to have civic nationalism, and it's going to work.

00:18:18.000 Trust us.

00:18:19.000 Bet everything on it.

00:18:20.000 Maybe it'll work this time. 0.99

00:18:22.000 But 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. 0.98

00:18:33.000 So I just think it's all very fascinating. 0.91

00:18:35.000 But that's Corey Stewart.

00:18:35.000 That's all, folks.

00:18:37.000 We've got to stand up for him.

00:18:39.000 The 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.

00:18:51.000 And we know what it's all about.

00:18:53.000 But to get into the real feature of the show that I wanted to talk about was a summary of President Trump's first 500 days in office.

00:19:01.000 And I don't know if the first 500 was Saturday or Sunday or Monday.

00:19:07.000 It was this week.

00:19:09.000 We're a little bit past it now.

00:19:10.000 But 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.

00:19:24.000 Possibly since the beginning of the country.

00:19:26.000 It's one of the biggest political events.

00:19:29.000 And 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.

00:19:40.000 I 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.

00:19:48.000 Trump has presented a window of opportunity, he's presented a model for how we can move forward.

00:19:54.000 And so he's basically like the seminal figure, like the exemplar of what it means to be in this political era.

00:20:02.000 And so it's, it's, Highly important that we analyze how successful this experiment has been because nobody's really ever done this before.

00:20:11.000 You know, the idea was it would be this long march through the institutions or it would be some kind of coup.

00:20:18.000 I don't even know how that would be brought about.

00:20:20.000 But here was a guy who said, you know, I'll just do it.

00:20:24.000 The country's doing poorly.

00:20:26.000 Screw this idea of, you know, we're going to do this grassroots thing or we're going to do this.

00:20:30.000 He said, you know, I'll just become the president.

00:20:34.000 I'm a civilian.

00:20:36.000 Never held government office.

00:20:37.000 I don't need to climb the ladder.

00:20:38.000 I will just go in and take it.

00:20:40.000 And 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.

00:20:53.000 So, I think this is a very important exercise.

00:20:54.000 It's not just going to be a laundry list of, well, he did this and he did that.

00:20:59.000 We'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.

00:21:06.000 So, I'm going to pull up my notes here for the first 500 days, and it should be, I think, an exciting thing.

00:21:12.000 I think it should be an informative exercise.

00:21:15.000 And of course, my credibility, because I'm a young guy, is based on my predictive capacity.

00:21:22.000 You 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.

00:21:32.000 But my credibility comes from the fact that I have a very good instinct, a very good intuition on predicting these things.

00:21:38.000 So, this is also very important for that to say, Well, you know, I basically predicted everything from the start.

00:21:43.000 I 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.

00:21:52.000 I went on several podcasts with her, and she said, you know, I don't think he's going to win.

00:21:57.000 And I was like, I know he's going to win, babe.

00:21:58.000 I know he's going to win, darling.

00:21:59.000 And I actually put down like $300 on predicted.

00:22:03.000 I bet that he was going to win, and I won big.

00:22:05.000 I won like a grand off of that.

00:22:08.000 And it was funny because I actually put $100 down.

00:22:11.000 After 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.

00:22:19.000 And I'll never forget the one line where he said, What did he say?

00:22:23.000 He said, Things have got to change and they've got to change right now.

00:22:28.000 And the way that he yelled it was like chills, you know, it's just goosebumps, right?

00:22:34.000 So I put down $100 after that.

00:22:37.000 I put down $100, I think, in like August.

00:22:41.000 He was doing really good.

00:22:42.000 In late August of 2016.

00:22:45.000 This was when he visited Louisiana after I think they had a hurricane.

00:22:49.000 This was when he visited the president of Mexico.

00:22:52.000 So the polling was really good.

00:22:54.000 And then I put down another $100.

00:22:57.000 And the second debate, during the second debate, after he said, You'll be in jail, I ran to my computer and threw down another $100.

00:23:04.000 So just to say, I called it right from the start.

00:23:07.000 But let's look at the list.

00:23:08.000 Let's see what we have done in the past 500 days.

00:23:13.000 What was promised?

00:23:14.000 And where are we now?

00:23:15.000 So, 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.

00:23:24.000 We're going to look at really the four or five big issues that I think are determinant.

00:23:31.000 You know, we could say that education hasn't been a grand slam, but he didn't get elected on education, right?

00:23:37.000 He didn't get elected really that much on health care.

00:23:40.000 Health care has always been big, but not so much.

00:23:42.000 The 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.

00:23:54.000 You know, George W. Bush, it's arguable that.

00:23:57.000 That he allowed Barack Obama to become president because the economy blew up in 2008.

00:24:02.000 Right?

00:24:03.000 I 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.

00:24:11.000 So, economy is always going to be one of the biggest ones.

00:24:15.000 Particularly 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.

00:24:23.000 And that's why these three will be crucial, which are trade, immigration, and foreign policy.

00:24:28.000 These four together, economy, which is.

00:24:31.000 Always going to be a staple, and then foreign policy, trade, and immigration.

00:24:35.000 These 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.

00:24:44.000 And he broke from the monoparty.

00:24:46.000 He 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.

00:24:58.000 And so that's where he's really going to draw a lot of strength.

00:25:01.000 That's where we're really going to look in terms of is this a success?

00:25:05.000 I don't really care too much if he makes college affordable.

00:25:08.000 Is that good?

00:25:08.000 Like, yeah, but that's our bread and butter.

00:25:11.000 So, to start off with on the economy, I think this is inarguably the area where he has succeeded the most.

00:25:19.000 Nobody can argue this.

00:25:21.000 The only thing people can argue is that is that the number one priority?

00:25:26.000 And 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.

00:25:37.000 They'll say, oh, well, GDP doesn't matter.

00:25:38.000 All these things don't matter.

00:25:40.000 I think the economy actually does matter.

00:25:43.000 It matters for voters.

00:25:44.000 It matters for taxpayers.

00:25:46.000 It matters for election purposes.

00:25:49.000 And 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.

00:25:56.000 This has been a very tough decade for people that are older and also younger people, people getting out of the workforce.

00:26:03.000 The fact that everything costs a lot of money, taxes are high, health care costs a lot.

00:26:08.000 That's a big problem for a lot of working class people.

00:26:11.000 Things are just very expensive.

00:26:13.000 Wages have not risen.

00:26:14.000 Unemployment is rampant.

00:26:16.000 So these were big issues coming into the election, and it's a big deal that he solved them.

00:26:21.000 And not only solved them, but solved these problems with flying colors.

00:26:26.000 So I think actually it's a good place to start to look at Barack Obama.

00:26:31.000 This is from during the election in 2016.

00:26:34.000 This is a good place to start to just give you some context.

00:26:38.000 He was referencing Trump's promise to bring back jobs, manufacturing jobs, to the United States.

00:26:44.000 And this is what Barack Obama said, infamous at this point.

00:26:47.000 He said, Well, how exactly are you going to do that?

00:26:50.000 What exactly are you going to do?

00:26:52.000 There's no answer to it.

00:26:54.000 He just says, Well, I'm going to negotiate a better deal.

00:26:56.000 Well, what?

00:26:57.000 How exactly are you going to negotiate that?

00:27:00.000 What magic wand do you have?

00:27:02.000 And usually the answer is he doesn't have an answer.

00:27:04.000 This is Barack Obama about Trump, which is so rich.

00:27:08.000 I feel so smug about this, you know, because this guy was such an amateur. 0.99

00:27:12.000 This guy was such a disgrace, such a fraud. 0.98

00:27:15.000 You know, maybe that's my inner boomer coming out, just my. 1.00

00:27:18.000 Contempt for Barack Obama. 1.00

00:27:20.000 I mean, this guy was a fraud from the beginning, and he gets up there and says, Oh, well, you know, I suck. 0.99

00:27:25.000 How's Trump going to do any better? 1.00

00:27:27.000 And of course, he blows him out of the water.

00:27:29.000 Just to look at the big accomplishment, which of course is the tax cuts.

00:27:34.000 This happened in December, November or December of 2017.

00:27:38.000 It 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%.

00:27:51.000 It made the tax code in general.

00:27:53.000 More of a national system as opposed to the former system.

00:27:57.000 There were all kinds of things in there that really unleashed the growth potential of the country.

00:28:02.000 Whereas 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.

00:28:10.000 This was basically just a tax cut across the board for just about everybody.

00:28:15.000 And this was a big win.

00:28:17.000 Now, there is some skepticism, there is some maybe cynicism about this because this was, of course, Paul Ryan's agenda.

00:28:26.000 This was the agenda of the donor class.

00:28:28.000 This was the agenda of the Republican establishment.

00:28:31.000 The tax cut thing would have happened under Rubio, Cruz, anybody.

00:28:36.000 And so we're going to get into that in a moment, you know, the significance of that.

00:28:40.000 But 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.

00:28:49.000 We see that the numbers just simply don't lie.

00:28:51.000 Since Trump got elected, 3 million jobs have been created, which includes 304,000 jobs.

00:28:57.000 Manufacturing jobs, 337,000 construction jobs, unemployment down to 3.8%, which is the most recent numbers.

00:29:05.000 For every one new regulation, 22 regulations have been cut.

00:29:10.000 So that's the biggest deregulation in history.

00:29:12.000 In just one year, more regulations cut than any other president ever.

00:29:17.000 And that's in their entire terms two terms, one term, sometimes three terms in the case of Roosevelt.

00:29:22.000 But he added regulations, so it doesn't really count.

00:29:25.000 The Dow Jones had more.

00:29:27.000 Had more all time closing highs and a larger increase than any other year in history in 2017.

00:29:34.000 And the GDP we saw in the first three quarters of the presidency was over 3%.

00:29:40.000 This quarter, it's projected to be 4.8% growth by the Atlanta Fed.

00:29:44.000 You know, those kinds of outlandish predictions usually tend to mellow out, but still a great prediction.

00:29:50.000 And this general economic picture, to summarize, it's a good thing.

00:29:56.000 And the only reason it's good, I think, is because.

00:30:00.000 It's really just good for election purposes, right?

00:30:02.000 I mean, we can say that, wow, this is great and the economy is doing well, but we elected Trump for immigration.

00:30:09.000 We elected Trump for demographics.

00:30:11.000 We elected Trump for these cultural reasons.

00:30:14.000 You know, it doesn't really matter to me so much what the deficit is if the country is speaking Spanish in 100 years, right? 0.50

00:30:23.000 It 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. 0.99

00:30:32.000 Speaking a million different languages and it's deracinated all the rest.

00:30:36.000 So 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.

00:30:47.000 This is going to have good repercussions for 2018.

00:30:50.000 And I predicted from the get go that that was Trump's hand here.

00:30:54.000 I predicted this back in summer of 2017, fall of 2017.

00:30:59.000 I said he'll make the deal on economics.

00:31:02.000 And this will get him the donor money for 2018.

00:31:05.000 This will get him a good enough economy.

00:31:07.000 People start getting more money in their paychecks.

00:31:09.000 People get less money in taxes, paying less money in taxes.

00:31:14.000 And this will all shape up very well to deflate the blue wave and also increase support for the GOP in 2018.

00:31:21.000 And that's already working. 0.75

00:31:23.000 You can see that in, and this is not just me spouting out on my butt 4D chess kind of nonsense. 0.81

00:31:29.000 You can already see this.

00:31:30.000 In response to the tax cuts being passed, the Republicans have raised just crazy money for 2018 for campaigning.

00:31:39.000 And you can be cynical about that, but for us to win elections, we need money.

00:31:43.000 For us to pass bills, we need to win elections.

00:31:46.000 So it's all downstream from that.

00:31:48.000 By passing this tax cut, we've gotten incredible donor money.

00:31:52.000 You 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.

00:32:02.000 And some polls even say it's even, it's within the margin of error.

00:32:05.000 So this strategy has definitely played off.

00:32:07.000 And people might say, well, but they didn't give him immigration, the omnibus spending bill.

00:32:13.000 They didn't give him everything they wanted here or there.

00:32:18.000 Objective there.

00:32:19.000 I mean, certainly that's part of it, but I think the eye is on 2018 because, of course, if we lose in 2018, it becomes exactly impossible.

00:32:29.000 The odds of us passing, for example, funding for a wall or any kind of immigration reform become exactly 0%.

00:32:37.000 I mean, understand that.

00:32:40.000 You could say that, oh, well, we have Republican Congress now and it's not doing very well.

00:32:44.000 It's difficult, but if we don't have Republican Congress, the odds become exactly 0% because they will.

00:32:51.000 They will not pass anything.

00:32:53.000 They will impeach if they control the House.

00:32:56.000 They will tie things up so badly, nothing can get done.

00:32:59.000 And then the possibility a Republican wins in the next election, presidential, is zero as well.

00:33:05.000 So it's really all contingent on 2018.

00:33:08.000 If you understand that, the economy doing well is a fantastic, a great thing.

00:33:13.000 But of course, we have to look at the bread and butter issues.

00:33:17.000 It's fine and well if you get economy, so long as you're getting the solid issues.

00:33:21.000 Of course, What good is an economy and a good Congress and all the rest if the leadership isn't there on the bread and butter issues?

00:33:28.000 But it is there.

00:33:29.000 We'll start, I guess, with foreign policy, foreign policy, trade, immigration.

00:33:34.000 We'll start with foreign policy here.

00:33:36.000 We look at some of the promises, I think, that are basically overlooked.

00:33:40.000 For example, ISIS, which is gone.

00:33:42.000 You remember ISIS?

00:33:44.000 I remember when they first came around in 2014 or 2013.

00:33:48.000 I was in high school.

00:33:49.000 I was like a sophomore in high school.

00:33:50.000 Can you believe it when ISIS came on the scene?

00:33:53.000 And I remember, like, who is this ISIS guy?

00:33:56.000 Who is this ISIS, whatever, you know?

00:33:59.000 And it was a big deal. 0.96

00:34:00.000 Journalists were getting their heads chopped off. 0.99

00:34:02.000 And, oh no, journalists getting killed. 0.98

00:34:05.000 That's the worst thing in the world, right?

00:34:08.000 But, I mean, it was all over the news these graphic killings.

00:34:11.000 They were seizing territory.

00:34:12.000 And that was a real big deal.

00:34:14.000 Barack Obama himself said, right up until 2016, there is not going to be an immediate solution.

00:34:21.000 He said, whatever we decide with ISIS, it's going to be around for about a decade or longer.

00:34:28.000 Trump cleaned it up in a year.

00:34:29.000 There's less than 1,000 active ISIS fighters now.

00:34:33.000 Less than 1,000.

00:34:35.000 It was 100,000 two or three years ago.

00:34:37.000 It's down to less than 1,000.

00:34:39.000 They've got no significant cities or towns.

00:34:43.000 The only land they have is these agricultural places, vacated land, not a lot of infrastructure or resources.

00:34:51.000 So he's defeated ISIS.

00:34:53.000 Nobody really talks about that, but that was a victory.

00:34:57.000 We look at some of the other areas where it's a little bit more complicated.

00:35:00.000 These are the things.

00:35:02.000 That have been very contentious, particularly on this show.

00:35:05.000 And this is the issue of the.

00:35:08.000 I call them, and they're called officially rogue states.

00:35:13.000 You know, it's gone from like axis of evil to, you know, rogue states basically at this point.

00:35:19.000 I'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.

00:35:30.000 The rogue states are the smaller countries, the mid regional size powers, which are contesting American influence and hegemony.

00:35:40.000 So, these would be Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, the rogue states.

00:35:47.000 And I'm not, again, not thrilled about the terminology.

00:35:50.000 So, don't go in the comments saying, Nick said rogue states. 0.88

00:35:54.000 He's a Zionist shill. 0.99

00:35:55.000 You know, I'm well aware that Israel is the rogue state. 1.00

00:35:58.000 You know, believe me, we've done a lot of content on that. 1.00

00:36:01.000 But 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.

00:36:13.000 Syria, where there have been two missile strikes.

00:36:15.000 The first one was the 59 Tomahawk missiles in Homs in April of 2017.

00:36:21.000 The second one, much more recently, we remember, was in April 2018, which was actually targeted in Damascus.

00:36:29.000 And this was much more, about 103, I think, missiles or a little bit more than that.

00:36:34.000 That was also a coalition strike with France and the UK as well.

00:36:38.000 So we have that going on in Syria, and there's still a presence in Syria.

00:36:42.000 We look at Iran, where they're tearing up the Iran nuclear deal, the joint comprehensive.

00:36:46.000 Plan of action, and they're instituting sanctions.

00:36:49.000 And those have been the controversial ones.

00:36:51.000 North Korea, it looks like, is the model for the other two, tentatively speaking.

00:36:56.000 You know, that's where it's a little bit less controversial, but the big ones are Syria and Iran.

00:37:01.000 And you have to look at all three to really get the full picture.

00:37:04.000 This 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.

00:37:16.000 And the best way to assess the strategy so far has been. 0.75

00:37:20.000 Dual containment of Iran and North Korea.

00:37:24.000 It's been, I don't want to say non interventionist, but like a minimal interventionist kind of a thinking.

00:37:31.000 It's also been a system of very public deal making and leveraging.

00:37:36.000 These 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.

00:37:49.000 Let's rewrite the world order according to our values.

00:37:52.000 It's containment.

00:37:53.000 It's saying, We're going to put maximum pressure until a regime change is brought about internally.

00:37:59.000 So, not, you know, we're going to go to war or sponsor a coup.

00:38:02.000 It's we're going to put maximum pressure until the country collapses or they cooperate, which more often than not they cooperate.

00:38:10.000 It has been so it's on the one hand, it's containment.

00:38:14.000 It's this very public deal making strategy, which is to say that it's not CIA covert stuff.

00:38:20.000 It's not war. 0.97

00:38:22.000 It's not this smart power bullshit we heard about. 0.99

00:38:24.000 It's. 0.99

00:38:25.000 Through Twitter.com. 0.88

00:38:26.000 It's through this system of leverage where it's Iran better make a good deal or else we'd love to have them. 0.95

00:38:33.000 We're going to give them all this money. 0.99

00:38:34.000 There's a bright future.

00:38:36.000 But if they don't, they'll be destroyed.

00:38:38.000 So it's very public and it's deal making.

00:38:41.000 And then lastly, it's a minimal interventionist kind of a thing.

00:38:45.000 Maybe it's like a peace through strength.

00:38:47.000 So 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.

00:38:56.000 That shores up the deal making.

00:38:58.000 If we understand and we acknowledge that that's the strategy, this is a really brilliant innovation.

00:39:04.000 This 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.

00:39:19.000 You really get some of the best elements of the past three big game changing foreign policy administrations, maybe Bush not included.

00:39:28.000 And I think you have a very coherent foreign policy that has a chance of succeeding in our goals.

00:39:33.000 If our goals are that we want to withdraw.

00:39:38.000 Withdraw, and I, you know, that's a very loaded word.

00:39:40.000 It's very tough because some people say, we don't want to withdraw.

00:39:43.000 Some people say, yes, we want to draw up the drawbridges to Fort America.

00:39:47.000 So it's very loaded rhetoric.

00:39:49.000 But 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. 0.82

00:39:59.000 And we see that with North Korea. 0.99

00:40:00.000 It's a big success.

00:40:01.000 This is the biggest foreign policy success in the 500 days, which is that we have this groundbreaking diplomacy, the summit, which is planned.

00:40:09.000 They've already given up hostages, they took down a nuclear plant. 0.64

00:40:13.000 And it went from the very aggressive kind of thing that we see with Iran currently, maximum pressure that we see with Iran currently.

00:40:20.000 And within a matter of 12, 13, 14, 15 months, it turned into actually less, less than that. 0.56

00:40:29.000 About a year, a little more than a year, like 13 months.

00:40:32.000 It's turned into a great diplomacy, which is historic and has great promise.

00:40:37.000 And 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.

00:40:46.000 To say that, well, Iran hasn't been completely left alone, and that's a terrible thing. 0.52

00:40:51.000 He tore up the nuclear deal and he bombed Syria.

00:40:54.000 It's a little premature to say exactly has this policy succeeded or has it failed? 0.99

00:40:58.000 If you acknowledge everything about it, I think you say there's good potential.

00:41:01.000 It's a great innovation.

00:41:02.000 And on Syria, we're not at war in Syria.

00:41:06.000 We've got a small contingent of forces there, which Trump wants to get out as soon as possible.

00:41:12.000 But that's not anything like Iraq.

00:41:14.000 You know, people are comparing it to a ground war in Iraq.

00:41:18.000 Iraq, you had a quarter of a million troops there.

00:41:20.000 Afghanistan, you had 100,000 troops in there.

00:41:23.000 We've got 5,000 contractors in Syria and 2,000 combat personnel.

00:41:29.000 So a combined total of 7,000.

00:41:32.000 Is it ideal?

00:41:33.000 Absolutely not.

00:41:34.000 Do we want to get out as soon as possible? 0.98

00:41:36.000 Is it comparable to Iraq?

00:41:38.000 Is it comparable to the ground war for regime change that Hillary Clinton would have put in place?

00:41:43.000 Not even close.

00:41:45.000 So I think that he's kept us out of Syria in a big way. 1.00

00:41:48.000 That's a success. 1.00

00:41:50.000 He's kept us out of Iran so far, which I think is a good thing. 1.00

00:41:54.000 And North Korea, we're doing very well. 0.99

00:41:56.000 So, foreign policy, it's a mixed bag.

00:42:00.000 We've pulled out of Iraq almost completely.

00:42:03.000 Afghanistan, we're doing well, but it looks like more troops are going in. 0.99

00:42:06.000 We're going to finish the job, I guess, and then pull out. 0.99

00:42:09.000 And I don't think that's necessarily the end of the world. 0.61

00:42:12.000 It took Nixon five years to get out of Vietnam, but he got us out of there.

00:42:16.000 I think you're seeing something similar in Afghanistan.

00:42:19.000 And then the rogue state question is.

00:42:22.000 Dependent on the success of the Korea summit, which I think is a pretty good example of how far this could go.

00:42:28.000 On Russia and China broadly, you know, these revisionist powers, I think we're doing well.

00:42:34.000 We have a good rapport with China, which is assertive but also cooperative, which is, you know, paradoxical, but it is necessary.

00:42:42.000 China 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.

00:42:54.000 So, 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.

00:43:07.000 When Germany was rising on the continent to challenge Britain, because there wasn't enough cooperation, it all fell apart.

00:43:14.000 So, America and China have a good rapport.

00:43:17.000 We see that with the trade with terrorists, which we're going to get into in a moment.

00:43:17.000 It is assertive.

00:43:22.000 We see that with the North Korea situation, but it's also cooperative, and there is some element of respect.

00:43:28.000 And friendliness, which is mutual respect for mutual self interest.

00:43:31.000 And so I think he's really gone a long way in terms of Asian geopolitics.

00:43:36.000 With Russia, this is the mixed bag here because we all wanted a rapport, her rapport, we all wanted some kind of reconciliation with Russia.

00:43:48.000 And it hasn't happened quite the way we wanted.

00:43:50.000 I don't say that's totally Trump's fault.

00:43:53.000 Again, we have to get back to what's the expectation.

00:43:56.000 We've had 15, 18 years of hostility with this country, about 10 years actually, since the.

00:44:02.000 Incursion into Georgia.

00:44:04.000 That's not totally going to go away in a minute. 0.83

00:44:07.000 You know, that's not going to go away in a year.

00:44:08.000 Decades of mistrust and hostility and espionage and open hostility in the Cold War.

00:44:16.000 So I think as long as you have a reasonable expectation for this, it's, you know, we're working on it basically.

00:44:24.000 I've often said that we have to base it off of mutual respect, which I think is being built.

00:44:29.000 That Trump is asserting our power is a necessary precondition to any kind of reconciliation, and we're in that.

00:44:36.000 Phase right now, but it's definitely not where we want it to be.

00:44:39.000 So, Russia is the only area where I say this is something we really are going to have to work on.

00:44:44.000 But Putin's really not doing us any favors in that area either.

00:44:47.000 So, that's foreign policy.

00:44:49.000 It's kind of a mixed bag there, but generally, I think it's optimistic.

00:44:53.000 Trade is the next big issue.

00:44:56.000 Trade has basically been an unequivocal winner, I have to say.

00:44:59.000 I don't think there's really many complaints about trade.

00:45:02.000 TPP has been repealed.

00:45:04.000 We negotiated a great trade deal with South Korea.

00:45:07.000 NAFTA is being renegotiated in a way that is.

00:45:10.000 I think in our interest, in the sense that Trump hasn't caved on a bad deal or compromised too much.

00:45:16.000 It's still going on, which goes to show that he is fighting for a really good deal for us.

00:45:22.000 So NAFTA is going well.

00:45:24.000 The trade war or the tariffs with the European Union, China, Canada, Mexico, I think is a fantastic and a beautiful thing.

00:45:32.000 You know, America has real power in terms of our market.

00:45:36.000 China has a billion and a half people, India has a billion people, Africa has a billion people.

00:45:41.000 Our country of 300 and some million.

00:45:44.000 Is the biggest market in the world.

00:45:47.000 It's the market with the most money, it's the most consumption, it's the most production, it's the most coveted market in the world.

00:45:53.000 We produce the most, we consume the most.

00:45:56.000 And so we ought to exercise real leverage over people through economics in trade affairs and also other affairs.

00:46:04.000 So that he's doing the trade war, regardless of whether or not people are bending the knee right away, this is absolutely a good thing.

00:46:12.000 That he's making American power and might respected again.

00:46:16.000 That's a beautiful thing.

00:46:18.000 And 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.

00:46:27.000 These relationships that we have with these countries are a net negative to us.

00:46:31.000 And so that we're doing these tariffs, that we're asserting our interests there is a beautiful thing.

00:46:36.000 And will it be successful?

00:46:37.000 Who knows?

00:46:38.000 But that he's been so aggressive on these issues is unequivocally a winner.

00:46:43.000 So trade, he's knocked it out of the ballpark.

00:46:46.000 And the reason why he's done so well on trade.

00:46:49.000 And 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?

00:47:00.000 You 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.

00:47:10.000 And then you have to consider the entire apparatus is working against him.

00:47:14.000 So 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.

00:47:33.000 But 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.

00:47:44.000 You know, people are not even like a lot of the positions are not even filled because the Senate won't approve them.

00:47:50.000 So 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.

00:48:07.000 And those are, it's definitely trade and to a lesser extent foreign policy.

00:48:11.000 And I think that's why you've seen the biggest successes on those, is because Trump can just do what he knows best.

00:48:18.000 He can make deals, he can call the shots, and there's very little people can do to get in the way of that.

00:48:24.000 The last big issue, bread and butter issue, is immigration.

00:48:28.000 And 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.

00:48:37.000 Of course, he said we would build a wall.

00:48:39.000 We would have immigration reform, which means merit based immigration, which means we cut chain migration, the diversity visa lottery system.

00:48:48.000 We have mass deportations and all the rest.

00:48:51.000 And it's so important to remember that Trump cannot act unilaterally.

00:48:57.000 On immigration.

00:48:58.000 And 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.

00:49:12.000 So before we get into this one, it's very crucial we remember what the responsibility is.

00:49:18.000 And that's not a rationalization, that's not an excuse, that's not 4D.

00:49:23.000 It's simply the reality that it's a massive apparatus of which it's very difficult to control.

00:49:29.000 And 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.

00:49:37.000 So we'll start with some of these successes.

00:49:41.000 We have DACA, which was rescinded.

00:49:43.000 He rescinded DACA, and then, as we mentioned previously, it got jammed up in the courts.

00:49:49.000 So DACA, like, technically, it should be gone by now.

00:49:53.000 It was supposed to have been completely eliminated by March, but then the court stepped in and said, actually, you can't do that.

00:50:01.000 And unfortunately, it has to go through a process.

00:50:03.000 Eventually, it'll get eventually the court's objection will be overruled, but there's a process there.

00:50:09.000 It went to the appeals court, and then it'll go to Supreme Court eventually.

00:50:13.000 He tried to jump the gun and go to the Supreme Court.

00:50:13.000 That's just the way it works.

00:50:16.000 They said, no, no, you got to take it to a lower court first.

00:50:19.000 That's beyond his control.

00:50:21.000 Yeah, I don't think you could really blame him for that.

00:50:23.000 You can't blame Trump for the judiciary overstepping their bounds and then it just taking a long time to get through the process.

00:50:31.000 Unfortunately, how it works.

00:50:33.000 I don't like it.

00:50:34.000 It's not ideal, but is that his fault?

00:50:36.000 Not really.

00:50:37.000 So he did take out DACA.

00:50:39.000 There was a great deal underway, but undermined by the judiciary. 0.99

00:50:43.000 If you look at the illegal immigrant numbers, it's fantastic. 0.92

00:50:47.000 Arrests of MS 13 gang members are up 83%.

00:50:51.000 You 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.

00:51:03.000 So arrests are up.

00:51:05.000 There was also an Obama era regulation which said that ICE would only target people who have like violent crime convictions.

00:51:13.000 Trump repealed that and said if you're abusing welfare, if you've got any criminal record, ICE is going after.

00:51:18.000 You and even if you're just an illegal, they're coming after you.

00:51:22.000 So, what he's been able to do with ICE has been good.

00:51:24.000 He sent the National Guard to the border to protect, which has been a good thing. 0.96

00:51:29.000 We had the executive order on vetting for those six, it ended up being six Muslim countries, which went off without a hitch. 1.00

00:51:37.000 And 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.

00:51:45.000 Well, only one country did that.

00:51:47.000 So, you have a de facto travel ban on countries like Somalia, Libya, Iraq.

00:51:54.000 Afghanistan and all these other countries. 1.00

00:51:56.000 So that's a very good thing.

00:51:57.000 That was a big deal during the election. 0.57

00:52:00.000 Refugee numbers are way, way down.

00:52:02.000 You look at Syrian refugees, I think he's accepted like 100 this year as opposed to thousands, tens of thousands in prior years. 1.00

00:52:11.000 So it's looking like all those things are good.

00:52:15.000 The glaring issue is the wall.

00:52:17.000 That's the big thing.

00:52:18.000 He let it slip through his fingers in the first year or so.

00:52:23.000 And then there was the omnibus spending bill where we had.

00:52:26.000 A 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.

00:52:36.000 We got what?

00:52:37.000 A billion and a half dollars.

00:52:38.000 And 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.

00:52:45.000 And additionally, it said you can't even study ways to secure the border.

00:52:50.000 So this was a slap in the face, obviously.

00:52:53.000 And this is probably the most glaring thing.

00:52:56.000 And even I spoke out against that.

00:52:58.000 But again, it's important the context of it.

00:53:02.000 Funding from the federal government comes from the House of Representatives.

00:53:05.000 It comes from the Congress.

00:53:06.000 Specifically, it comes from the House, which has the power of the purse.

00:53:10.000 You cannot hold Trump 100% responsible for the fact that the Congress has not appropriated money for the wall.

00:53:18.000 The White House has made the blueprints, they've drawn up the plans, they've estimated the price, they've built the prototypes.

00:53:25.000 I mean, they've done everything in their power to put the wall into action.

00:53:31.000 But you understand.

00:53:32.000 I think everybody understands the interests that control the Congress.

00:53:35.000 It's people like the Koch brothers.

00:53:36.000 It's people like Sheldon Adelson.

00:53:39.000 And they rely on open borders for cheap labor and for their own other political interests.

00:53:47.000 And so we understand these people control the Congress, and that's why the Congress hasn't given him the wall.

00:53:52.000 Now, there is a small white pill here.

00:53:55.000 When the omnibus spending bill was passed, I think it was in March or February.

00:54:01.000 Donald Trump said, I will never sign a bill like this again.

00:54:05.000 This is important and pay attention because this is where it gets into some details.

00:54:09.000 The Senate rules state that every year you can pass an appropriations bill in the Senate with a simple majority.

00:54:19.000 One 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.

00:54:32.000 This is nowhere in the Constitution, but somewhere along the way.

00:54:35.000 It has become the precedent in the Senate that you need 60 votes to pass just about anything.

00:54:40.000 There's one exception that every year you get one chance.

00:54:44.000 You get one appropriations bill where you can pass it with a simple majority.

00:54:49.000 This is important because the Republicans have exactly a 51 vote majority since we lost Jeff Sessions' seat in the Alabama special Senate election.

00:55:00.000 And since John McCain's not returning, we have exactly 50 plus Mike Pence as a tiebreaker.

00:55:06.000 So if every Republican votes, we get a simple majority.

00:55:10.000 If we don't use that rule, we have to rely on nine Democrats.

00:55:13.000 You never get immigration reform.

00:55:14.000 Form with them. 0.99

00:55:15.000 Now, here's where the white pill comes in.

00:55:17.000 We used that rule in 2017, fiscal year 2017, to get the tax cuts passed.

00:55:26.000 Or, I'm sorry, we used that for Obamacare.

00:55:29.000 Fiscal year 2017, we used that rule, our one bill that we would pass with a simple majority, we used that for Obamacare.

00:55:35.000 And it failed because John McCain came in and gave the thumbs down because it was going to pass and we would repeal and replace.

00:55:41.000 In 2018, we used that rule to pass the tax cuts and that worked.

00:55:46.000 The 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.

00:55:54.000 He said he wasn't happy.

00:55:56.000 I don't like this bill, but there's no other way around it.

00:55:59.000 I will never sign anything like this again.

00:56:01.000 That bill and all its provisions about restrictions on wall funding expires September 30th, 2018.

00:56:09.000 October 1st is when the next fiscal year begins.

00:56:13.000 With the new fiscal year 2019, beginning in October of this year, we get another vote.

00:56:20.000 With a simple majority in the Senate.

00:56:21.000 Now, you put all that together, and people are going to say, oh, well, it's four dimensional.

00:56:26.000 Oh, my God, isn't that?

00:56:27.000 But really, I think this is a strategy here.

00:56:29.000 This is the white pill where, trust me, I am not satisfied that there's no wall.

00:56:34.000 I am not in favor of that.

00:56:36.000 I don't like that.

00:56:37.000 Do I think that Trump bears all the responsibility?

00:56:41.000 Not all of it.

00:56:42.000 Some of it, definitely.

00:56:43.000 But 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.

00:56:54.000 You've got Republicans less than what six weeks away from the 2018 midterm elections, a lot of them incumbents.

00:57:03.000 You'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.

00:57:13.000 Four weeks out, what are they going to do?

00:57:14.000 They can't take their money back.

00:57:16.000 So Trump can really fight hard on immigration.

00:57:18.000 He said he'd never pass a bill like that again.

00:57:20.000 We've got the simple majority rule, so the pressure's there.

00:57:23.000 And Republicans, if they go against it, Maybe they get primaried.

00:57:26.000 Maybe something bad happens, right?

00:57:28.000 So I think immigration is a work in progress.

00:57:32.000 I think Trump is, he's got the political will to do it.

00:57:35.000 I think he wants to do it.

00:57:37.000 I think he's being hamstrung by forces beyond his control.

00:57:40.000 Can he do more?

00:57:41.000 I think he could always do more, but the criticisms have really kind of been unfair.

00:57:46.000 And that's not to say that pressure on him is not a good thing, but you know how I feel about that. 0.99

00:57:51.000 So that's immigration. 0.96

00:57:52.000 Some of the other extraneous things, and I'm just running out of time here, but.

00:57:57.000 Some of the extraneous things, we had the individual mandate, which was repealed, which is a good thing.

00:58:01.000 Right to try, which was passed, which is great.

00:58:04.000 We'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.

00:58:14.000 Defense, we allocated $700 billion for this year and $716 billion for the next year, which is a great thing.

00:58:22.000 I think you gotta build up the military.

00:58:25.000 This is something that has to be done.

00:58:27.000 And then some of the other issues, the judiciary.

00:58:30.000 This is something nobody's talking about, but this is very crucial.

00:58:33.000 He elected Neil Gorsuch, or appointed rather, Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.

00:58:38.000 And then additionally, he has appointed more circuit judges than any president in their first year in history.

00:58:44.000 He's really filling up the federal judiciary at all levels.

00:58:48.000 And that is a fantastic thing because, of course, we've witnessed what happens when the judiciary gets out of control.

00:58:54.000 So that he's reshaping the courts.

00:58:56.000 And I think it's like a third of federal judges he's appointed at this point.

00:59:00.000 He is reshaping the judiciary in a far right way.

00:59:05.000 And that's going to change the face of that branch of government for generations.

00:59:10.000 So that's a huge thing that's being done.

00:59:12.000 Culturally, he's delegitimized the NFL, the media, which is a grand slam.

00:59:17.000 That's huge.

00:59:18.000 I 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.

00:59:38.000 I think that's been one of the big takeaways as well.

00:59:41.000 So.

00:59:42.000 The first 500 days, I would say he gets an A.

00:59:45.000 I would say he gets an A minus.

00:59:47.000 But it's really been a fantastic thing.

00:59:49.000 I know people are not, some people are going to say, oh, you're making excuses, you're rationalizing.

00:59:54.000 But, 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.

01:00:08.000 It's been unprecedented obstruction from within his own party, from the Democrats, from all these other forces.

01:00:15.000 He's got no experience.

01:00:17.000 People in his own White House are against him.

01:00:19.000 And in spite of all odds, he has come away with a record that is admirable, that is impressive, if it was the president like Barack Obama.

01:00:28.000 You know, think about this Barack Obama had a party that went with him like 100% for two years, okay?

01:00:36.000 A media that was fawning.

01:00:38.000 I mean, there was no special counsel, there was no, none of that kind of stuff.

01:00:42.000 His own party went along with him.

01:00:44.000 The White House wasn't in revolt, he had all his nominees in place.

01:00:48.000 And he has done like a fraction of what Trump did in one year.

01:00:52.000 Think of that.

01:00:52.000 I 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.

01:01:06.000 I mean, all these things taken all in context with a sense of proportion, you realize it's a miraculous presidency.

01:01:14.000 Is it like 100% like divine?

01:01:18.000 No.

01:01:18.000 And you'll never get there.

01:01:20.000 But I think it's been.

01:01:21.000 Very good so far.

01:01:22.000 I don't think you'd really complain with anything.

01:01:25.000 The wall has to be built, but we elected him for four years.

01:01:30.000 Let's see what happens.

01:01:31.000 So that's Trump's first 500 days.

01:01:34.000 We're going to have to save.

01:01:35.000 I was going to talk about his approval rating because he's got an 87% approval rating within his own party.

01:01:42.000 And I guess I'll touch on that briefly.

01:01:43.000 We're way over time here and we still got Super Chats and Streamlabs.

01:01:47.000 But the thing I wanted to touch on here is that what this shows is that Trump has completely taken over the party.

01:01:55.000 That's possibly the biggest legacy here.

01:01:58.000 Is that if his polling within the GOP is at 87%, this shows that the party coup has been successful.

01:02:06.000 Trump is the party now.

01:02:08.000 You know, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, the Bush family, bye bye, they're gone.

01:02:13.000 The Republican Party is now the party of the worker, of protection, of non intervention, of anti immigration, all these things.

01:02:23.000 That's now the Republican Party.

01:02:25.000 And people who oppose it are going to pay a price.

01:02:27.000 Because if the people say, This is our party.

01:02:30.000 We support Trump.

01:02:32.000 The Republican Party will pay a hefty price if they go back.

01:02:35.000 And why would they?

01:02:36.000 How could they do that?

01:02:37.000 So that's possibly one of the more significant legacies of the first 500 days.

01:02:42.000 Is you think about 2015, summer of 2015, it has been a slow but steady march from 5% of the GOP to 87%.

01:02:53.000 You 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.

01:03:04.000 I mean, this is his party now.

01:03:06.000 And God bless them.

01:03:08.000 I would honestly prefer a Trump dictatorship over the present system.

01:03:11.000 I really would.

01:03:13.000 Temporary, but I would prefer it.

01:03:13.000 I really would.

01:03:15.000 Well, maybe not.

01:03:16.000 Maybe for life.

01:03:17.000 And then we'd revert back to something.

01:03:19.000 At this point, that's what we need.

01:03:21.000 We need like a Francisco Franco.

01:03:22.000 We need an Augusto Pinochet.

01:03:25.000 We 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. 0.74

01:03:35.000 And if there are, it's going to be very difficult. 0.85

01:03:38.000 The 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.

01:03:52.000 We have a government that's controlled by financial interests, we have a government that's controlled by a very select corporate transnational elite.

01:04:00.000 And I'm kind of joking here.

01:04:02.000 I'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.

01:04:25.000 You had this in Spain when the Marxists were exhuming the corpses of nuns and they were about to take over the country.

01:04:31.000 You had Francisco Franco, which restored order, restored the monarchy, and then he faded away.

01:04:38.000 He came and he went in a matter of half a century.

01:04:42.000 Parliamentary monarchy, and you know, woohoo, it's all great.

01:04:45.000 And Chile, same thing.

01:04:47.000 You had Salvador Allende, who was a Marxist.

01:04:50.000 Augusto Pinochet came in, he cleaned it up, and now you have a good country again.

01:04:55.000 And you know, people say there's a lot wrong with Hispanics, Catholics. 1.00

01:04:58.000 Hey, look, we got it right. 1.00

01:05:00.000 We got it right.

01:05:01.000 And now in Italy, my homeland, Catholic Italy, now they are doing the right thing there. 0.79

01:05:08.000 So, 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.

01:05:17.000 We've done it right. 0.72

01:05:18.000 We're doing it right. 1.00

01:05:19.000 And you guys are getting raped by Islam and, you know, grenade attacks. 1.00

01:05:24.000 But that's Trump. 1.00

01:05:25.000 It's been a pretty good 500 days.

01:05:27.000 We're going to take a look at Streamlabs and Super Chats in that order.

01:05:33.000 So let's see what we've got.

01:05:35.000 Let's see what we got going on here.

01:05:38.000 Let me pull them up.

01:05:45.000 Let me take a little swig, too.

01:05:45.000 Let's take a look.

01:05:47.000 I'm getting a little dry.

01:05:55.000 Our only sponsor, the only sponsor we'll ever have on the show is the water industry.

01:05:55.000 Big water.

01:06:01.000 The big water lobby.

01:06:03.000 Oh, blast.

01:06:04.000 Big water.

01:06:07.000 Imagine 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.

01:06:19.000 They're like, Jim, please, could you just vote for the, you know, the.

01:06:23.000 The pro Coke bill, please, you know, you're killing us.

01:06:26.000 And they're like, I just can't, I don't really have time for this. 0.98

01:06:29.000 And, like, the Gatorade employee calls up headquarters and they're like, it's the damn water lobby. 0.98

01:06:36.000 They say we can't beat them. 0.98

01:06:38.000 The money they've got, the reach they've got, they're unbeatable.

01:06:42.000 You know, we have to have a water lobby.

01:06:44.000 We have to have a clean drinking water lobby because the drinking water is not clean.

01:06:49.000 That's the biggest problem.

01:06:51.000 We have to get back to fundamentals, people.

01:06:54.000 The water that you drink is not clean.

01:06:57.000 How?

01:06:58.000 Who cares about anything else?

01:07:00.000 The water that you drink has contaminants in it.

01:07:06.000 I don't understand.

01:07:07.000 If we can't get that right, if we can't get that right, who cares about anything else?

01:07:12.000 You rely on water to live, folks.

01:07:15.000 This is your precious bodily fluids that's coursing through your veins.

01:07:23.000 And if you have, what do they call it?

01:07:27.000 I forget.

01:07:28.000 I forget all the scientific talk about it, but you've got.

01:07:31.000 You've got metals in the water.

01:07:33.000 You've got pharmaceuticals in the water.

01:07:35.000 You've got chemicals in there, estrogen, birth control in the water.

01:07:40.000 The water that you drink on a daily basis, if that's not clean, how do you get a healthy, functioning society?

01:07:47.000 The food that you eat is contaminated.

01:07:50.000 Folks, we got to fix that first.

01:07:52.000 Capitalism, what a glorious system.

01:07:55.000 What a glorious invention.

01:07:58.000 And they're putting fluoride in the water.

01:08:00.000 And it's basically like a laboratory where you have George Soros.

01:08:05.000 And 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.

01:08:25.000 Let's put in some fentanyl in there, and one of them just farts in it. 1.00

01:08:29.000 Yeah, you Christians. 1.00

01:08:32.000 So that's what we've got going on. 1.00

01:08:34.000 And then you turn it on and brush your teeth with it, and you drink it.

01:08:37.000 I mean, that's.

01:08:39.000 You got to fix that first.

01:08:41.000 Let's see.

01:08:42.000 What else?

01:08:43.000 Let's look at our Streamlabs here.

01:08:45.000 Tico Boy says, Hey, Nick, I just wanted to say that I like your ancestral or your anecdotal stories about your life.

01:08:52.000 They're usually pretty funny, and it's nice to get a break from the politics every now and then.

01:08:56.000 Love you, Nick.

01:08:57.000 Have a good one. 1.00

01:08:57.000 Love you too, white brother. 1.00

01:09:01.000 Yeah, a lot of people like the anecdotes, but a lot of people really get on my case. 0.75

01:09:06.000 So, as always, my life is a balance.

01:09:09.000 Is a constant tug of war, a push and pull between different extremes, passions, factions.

01:09:17.000 You know, it's always a tightrope.

01:09:20.000 That's what it's like in the life of a content creator.

01:09:23.000 You know, every decision I make, highly calculated, like a king, you know. 1.00

01:09:29.000 Well, you know, if I say this about anime right, I'll really alienate the traditional Catholics. 0.99

01:09:35.000 Well, you know, if I speak out too openly against the homosexuals, the Catboys are going to have my ass, and not in a good way. 0.99

01:09:43.000 You know, so it's always a balance. 1.00

01:09:45.000 You know, it's should I eat fast food?

01:09:48.000 People are going to love it.

01:09:49.000 It'll be funny.

01:09:51.000 People are really going to love that when I post myself going to McDonald's.

01:09:54.000 They like to see me destroy my body, but Sean, will he turn against me?

01:10:00.000 Will he start posting incriminating DMs and messages?

01:10:03.000 I don't know.

01:10:03.000 You know, so it's constantly will I alienate the army or the judges?

01:10:07.000 So Travis Bickle says get True Dill Tom to debate you on free trade.

01:10:15.000 You know, somebody said that I should wait a little while because he was disrespectful as a power move.

01:10:19.000 I think that's a good move.

01:10:21.000 Maybe I'll have him on.

01:10:22.000 We'll see.

01:10:23.000 I want to get the academic agent on, but there's no way to DM him.

01:10:26.000 Everybody who I want to get on the show, they don't do DMs.

01:10:29.000 There's no email.

01:10:31.000 For me, the contact information is so easy.

01:10:34.000 Go to my website, and my email address is there.

01:10:39.000 Or, you know, I don't know. 0.86

01:10:42.000 So, American Rebel says, A virgin QT was hitting on me today.

01:10:46.000 Little did she know I was a supreme gentleman and slayer of thoughts. 0.95

01:10:50.000 So, for her crime of first contact, I punched her in the nose like you told me to, Nick.

01:10:54.000 Yeah, I have never advocated.

01:10:57.000 Violence against women.

01:10:58.000 Never, ever. 1.00

01:10:59.000 I love women. 1.00

01:11:00.000 I would never, I would never punch a woman in the stomach or anything like that. 1.00

01:11:05.000 I would never throw a woman down a flight of stairs.

01:11:07.000 I would never do anything like that.

01:11:09.000 It's terrible.

01:11:11.000 I would never, and I would never advocate that.

01:11:15.000 But you know, look, virgin or not, Fadi making the first move, that's a red flag.

01:11:20.000 You 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.

01:11:31.000 Like that.

01:11:32.000 They start talking one night and it's lewd pictures posts.

01:11:36.000 And he goes, You know, listen, Nick, I like this girl, but that kind of lewd posting, what do you think I should do?

01:11:43.000 That seems like a red flag.

01:11:44.000 And I said, You know what?

01:11:45.000 And 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.

01:11:57.000 Floozy, you know, to anybody who gives her the time of day.

01:12:03.000 Common sense stuff. 1.00

01:12:04.000 You know, we want our women to be a little bit coy. 1.00

01:12:07.000 You know, they can't be like they are now where it's like insanity, but we want them to be a little coy. 1.00

01:12:15.000 You know, a courtship is a process and it's one that is not led by women. 1.00

01:12:20.000 So Sherwood Baker says, Hey, big guy, what are your thoughts on other Christians such as Mormons, Orthodox, etc.?

01:12:28.000 What seems to be that are that seem to be pushing back against degeneracy?

01:12:32.000 What do you think makes their approach effective?

01:12:35.000 Well, you know, look, folks, I'm a Catholic because it is true.

01:12:43.000 Because it is true.

01:12:45.000 People want to say, oh, well, the Orthodox are more nationalist, or well, the Protestants are more based on this issue.

01:12:52.000 Okay, but they're not true.

01:12:55.000 So what does it matter, right?

01:12:59.000 You could come up with a religion in a laboratory that's like, we hail Europa, you know, but it wouldn't be true. 0.84

01:13:09.000 So, Mormonism, well, I don't want to get on Mormons' case.

01:13:13.000 Look, if I ever wanted to run for president, I can never insult the Mormons.

01:13:16.000 They're great people, fine people.

01:13:20.000 But you know, I'm a Catholic. 0.66

01:13:21.000 I think Catholicism is true. 0.89

01:13:24.000 So, Mormons, Orthodox, look, we're all in it together against modernism, against degeneracy. 0.65

01:13:30.000 We're all fighting the real enemy, which is like atheists and demons and all that.

01:13:35.000 But you know that I'm a Catholic.

01:13:36.000 And I believe that the one true, holy, and apostolic church is the Catholic Church.

01:13:41.000 I believe that.

01:13:42.000 Christian means you're in communion with Christ's church.

01:13:44.000 Now, 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.

01:13:57.000 And this is for a reason the church has authority, the church has hierarchy.

01:14:03.000 Those are the things necessary for reconstituting a society.

01:14:07.000 Protestants, 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.

01:14:16.000 So, to have an authentic Christian tradition, it has to be coherent.

01:14:20.000 To be coherent, it has to have authority.

01:14:22.000 Otherwise, who's to say what interpretation is correct?

01:14:25.000 You'll just have fragmentation and modernism and all the rest.

01:14:29.000 And people point to Vatican II.

01:14:30.000 Yeah, well, guess what?

01:14:31.000 We're still against contraception.

01:14:33.000 We're still against abortion. 0.77

01:14:34.000 We're still against homosexuality. 1.00

01:14:36.000 We're still against all the other religions. 1.00

01:14:39.000 So that's how I feel about it. 1.00

01:14:42.000 We're all on the same team against these guys, but at the end of the day, we want Catholics.

01:14:47.000 We want people that are right with God.

01:14:50.000 I want people to be saved.

01:14:53.000 Brosif, NJF movie review.

01:14:55.000 I like it.

01:14:56.000 Let's see your take on our movie, Blade Runner 2.

01:14:59.000 2049.

01:14:59.000 I actually addressed that when it came out, but I may do a redux of that when the premium content comes out.

01:15:06.000 I'll watch it again.

01:15:09.000 Alvaro says Remember, James Woods is an A list actor that always supported Trump and is active in Twitter.

01:15:15.000 Sad you don't mention him, Nick.

01:15:17.000 Also, you should get in contact with Mark Dice.

01:15:20.000 He shares a lot of our ideas and has a big following.

01:15:24.000 Well, you know, James Woods, what's to say about him, really?

01:15:28.000 I mean, it's sad you don't mention him.

01:15:30.000 I mean, I follow him.

01:15:31.000 I retweet his content, but not a lot of newsworthy stuff.

01:15:36.000 And Mark Dice, I don't think he's really on our side.

01:15:39.000 He hasn't really tackled the right issues.

01:15:41.000 Brother Mole says, benefits came through.

01:15:44.000 Thank you, big guy, my ward of the state friend.

01:15:47.000 Yuri says, oh, and this one's from yesterday.

01:15:50.000 So let's take a look at our super chats then.

01:15:53.000 Transition to our super chats.

01:15:55.000 We'll see what we got going on here.

01:15:58.000 Joshua Larson says, Nick, what's going on, big guy? 0.95

01:16:00.000 You just tripped my wife.

01:16:02.000 I didn't trip your wife. 0.97

01:16:05.000 I did not trip your wife.

01:16:07.000 Blunderbuss says, get Wilhelm Pedzer on to talk about South Africa.

01:16:13.000 I'll check him out.

01:16:14.000 Jason Porte says, California polls are still open.

01:16:17.000 Vote Travis Allen.

01:16:18.000 Get on it, folks.

01:16:20.000 Alvaro says, you should research national syndicalism. 0.97

01:16:23.000 Any isms, I'm against.

01:16:26.000 I am against ideology.

01:16:28.000 I am a non ideological person.

01:16:30.000 You know this.

01:16:31.000 I don't, you know, people say, like, what are you?

01:16:33.000 It's like, Right wing.

01:16:35.000 I'm a right wing person, but really I'm for virtue.

01:16:38.000 I'm not for political ideas.

01:16:42.000 I'm for virtue.

01:16:42.000 I'm for family.

01:16:43.000 I'm for those things.

01:16:46.000 Nation.

01:16:47.000 But I don't have an ideological commitment to the free market.

01:16:52.000 Gavin McGinnis always says that the free market, the entrepreneur.

01:16:56.000 Go to hell with that kind of stuff.

01:16:57.000 We want families. 0.99

01:16:59.000 We want the nation.

01:17:01.000 We want clean water.

01:17:03.000 My ideology is clean water.

01:17:06.000 And strong families, marriages, men and women coming together and having moral procreative sex within the confines of monogamous unions.

01:17:17.000 Bennett Bresman, can you do an exhaustive episode on the Russia investigation, please?

01:17:22.000 Yeah, sure, I could do that.

01:17:24.000 I never talk about it because it's illegitimate, but I could do that.

01:17:29.000 Sharia LaBeouf says, all else being equal, which anti immigration Republican would you vote for? 0.65

01:17:36.000 A Catholic who wrote a 2013 op ed. Against the death penalty, or a former judge who wants to execute illegal immigrants convicted of murder.

01:17:48.000 I don't know. 1.00

01:17:49.000 I think that if there were other variables, I think they would both be fine choices, to be honest.

01:17:54.000 You know, on the death penalty, the jury's kind of out for me because, like, I'm not principally opposed to the death penalty.

01:18:03.000 My fear is that with the state the way it is right now, them getting the death penalty scares me.

01:18:11.000 The death penalty is a concept I have no problem with.

01:18:14.000 But let's imagine, for example, that President Mark Zuckerberg controls the death penalty and can write the laws.

01:18:23.000 Would we feel safe?

01:18:24.000 You 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.

01:18:34.000 If they got a legitimate means to kill us, that scares me.

01:18:39.000 So the death penalty is not a big deal for me at this juncture.

01:18:44.000 So I would say they are both equally good.

01:18:46.000 I'd probably opt for the Catholic then because he would be my Catholic brother.

01:18:51.000 But they would both be fine choices.

01:18:53.000 Jake Destabia, the Virgin municipal water supply versus the Chad well.

01:18:58.000 There you go.

01:18:59.000 We got to get back to it.

01:19:00.000 We need to introduce.

01:19:01.000 I'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.

01:19:15.000 There has to be a reintroduction of that or we're going to die.

01:19:20.000 Joe Bro, you should talk historical events on America first.

01:19:23.000 I'm not a historian.

01:19:24.000 That's a thing.

01:19:25.000 You know, all the issues are basically parallel.

01:19:28.000 But my expertise is really politics.

01:19:31.000 So people say, you know, talk about Catholic theology, talk about history, talk about this or that.

01:19:36.000 And, 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.

01:19:43.000 I know a lot of the numbers and the data and the theories and the science behind it.

01:19:50.000 So I don't want to overreach.

01:19:53.000 This is what happens with intellectuals they have expertise in one area and they say, I can pontificate on everything.

01:20:00.000 And I do.

01:20:01.000 From time to time.

01:20:03.000 But I don't pretend to be like an expert and say, oh, here's, you know, whatever.

01:20:07.000 So, like a Noam Chomsky, like you're a linguist. 0.98

01:20:10.000 Shut up about politics. 0.93

01:20:11.000 What do you know about politics? 0.99

01:20:13.000 If people ask me, well, what do you think about this?

01:20:15.000 I'll give my opinion, but I'm not going to say, oh, maybe I'll do an historical episode one of these days. 1.00

01:20:21.000 Al Sabadi says, Globohomoism is truth. 0.99

01:20:25.000 Yeah.

01:20:26.000 No, Globohomoism is satanic.

01:20:29.000 It is demons. 0.99

01:20:31.000 I will destroy Globohomoism. 0.99

01:20:34.000 Righteously, with the righteous blade of my knife. 1.00

01:20:39.000 No, but we hate the global homo. 1.00

01:20:40.000 It's a big problem. 0.96

01:20:42.000 We hate globalism.

01:20:43.000 We hate homoism.

01:20:46.000 It's a degenerate world. 0.98

01:20:49.000 We just want something that is natural, that makes sense, that obeys the will of God, and yet we are persecuted.

01:20:56.000 It's a test.

01:20:57.000 I mean, that's.

01:20:58.000 We're living in the millennium, which is when God holds back Satan so that his church can promulgate the word of God.

01:21:07.000 But don't.

01:21:08.000 Don't be confused about who rules this world, which is the devil.

01:21:13.000 And that's why it's always going to be.

01:21:14.000 You're always going to have Christians, believers, moral people.

01:21:19.000 They're always going to be persecuted.

01:21:20.000 They're always going to be in the minority.

01:21:22.000 And, you know, that's the way it is.

01:21:24.000 But that's what we're called to do.

01:21:26.000 Michael Jones, Drake beat TFO or not?

01:21:29.000 And then he came back and he's like, oh, I would release my diss track, but it would be too mean.

01:21:29.000 No, he definitely was.

01:21:35.000 You know, it's like, you're a bitch. 1.00

01:21:37.000 Okay. 1.00

01:21:38.000 You have to do that.

01:21:39.000 You know, how could you respect somebody who does that?

01:21:42.000 You 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.

01:21:52.000 Like, no, you got to go all the way.

01:21:54.000 You always have to go all the way.

01:21:58.000 That's how I operate with people. 0.71

01:21:59.000 And, 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.

01:22:08.000 And they were like, well, why do you do that?

01:22:10.000 Can't you just, like, let it go or whatever?

01:22:13.000 But no, of course you can't do that.

01:22:14.000 And I explain this.

01:22:16.000 People don't understand this because it's like, oh, well, can't you just let it go or whatever?

01:22:20.000 No.

01:22:21.000 You have to send a message.

01:22:23.000 It's about principle.

01:22:24.000 It's a matter of pride and also principle.

01:22:26.000 That 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.

01:22:39.000 So, when Drake did that, that was a big mistake.

01:22:43.000 So, he definitely took the L. Roscoe says, I asked that because that is what Montana is doing tonight in the Senate primary.

01:22:50.000 Like you.

01:22:51.000 I'd vote Catholic, but wouldn't be upset if the other guy won.

01:22:54.000 Well, there you go.

01:22:55.000 There you go.

01:22:56.000 And let's see, do we have any more Streamlabs or do we not?

01:23:03.000 It looks like we've got two more from Yuri first, who says, Tilted OCD Nick is the best Nick.

01:23:10.000 Never change, big guy.

01:23:11.000 I never will.

01:23:12.000 I never have.

01:23:13.000 You know, people change.

01:23:15.000 I always say it's everybody else around me.

01:23:17.000 It always is.

01:23:18.000 It always is.

01:23:19.000 I'm a very, I'm a supremely rational.

01:23:22.000 Logical person, and I never really change.

01:23:25.000 I'm very honest about who I am, what I am for the most part, and I never have changed, I never will change.

01:23:34.000 I'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.

01:23:48.000 Same Nick, nothing's changed.

01:23:50.000 People, other people change.

01:23:53.000 But there is something about, and this is me. 0.98

01:23:57.000 Where I have, I'm set in my ways and I acknowledge, you know, areas where people might say he's a jerk or he's this or he's that. 0.95

01:24:05.000 But I have a very straightforward nature and I don't really try and hide that. 0.97

01:24:10.000 I'm pretty straightforward about it.

01:24:12.000 And that's just the way it is.

01:24:13.000 I would prefer that because so often I encounter people who are nice or I encounter people who like don't want to say things or whatever.

01:24:21.000 And in my experience, people that are nice are just people that won't like, they're just secretive or they just hide things.

01:24:28.000 You know, that's the kind of way.

01:24:30.000 So, So that's where I'm at right now on a personal level.

01:24:34.000 It's very difficult because I'm juggling all kinds of things for the show and what I'm doing in my career and my mission.

01:24:43.000 And then personal things get in the way.

01:24:45.000 And to me, it's just like a distraction.

01:24:46.000 It's like, really?

01:24:48.000 But that's kind of my experience right now.

01:24:50.000 So I appreciate that when you say never change because I never will.

01:24:54.000 I'm always the same guy, always have been, same old Nick for better or for worse.

01:25:00.000 And I think that's the way to be, take it or leave it.

01:25:02.000 What you see is what you get.

01:25:03.000 These are things I take great pride in.

01:25:06.000 Eris Bueller says, How the hell can you honestly believe that the doctrine of transubstantiation is true?

01:25:12.000 It 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.

01:25:23.000 Again, folks, we have the authority of Christ and other people don't.

01:25:30.000 So there it is.

01:25:32.000 And by the way, you talk about mysteries.

01:25:35.000 Talk 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.

01:25:52.000 The 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.

01:26:04.000 And the Protestant, you know, forget about it if you're Protestant, right?

01:26:08.000 So people criticize Catholics all day long, but At the end of the day, we have authority.

01:26:13.000 Nobody else does.

01:26:14.000 We've rigorously debated all these subjects.

01:26:16.000 Nobody else has, for the most part.

01:26:18.000 Some have, some have not.

01:26:20.000 So there you have it.

01:26:24.000 And let's see, we've got two more.

01:26:26.000 Gaius Gracchus says, I'm declaring the 10th crusade.

01:26:31.000 I'm in, big guy.

01:26:31.000 Who's in?

01:26:33.000 And Sharia LaBeouf says, Bryden's mom, big gay. 0.99

01:26:36.000 Send super chat. 0.98

01:26:37.000 Appreciate you, big guy.

01:26:39.000 And that's right, that's a perfect segue.

01:26:41.000 So it obviously wasn't the desk because my nose is itching right now.

01:26:45.000 I wonder what it could be.

01:26:47.000 Somebody said it was nicotine aerosols.

01:26:49.000 I don't know.

01:26:50.000 But whenever I'm on the air, I just get this itching sensation.

01:26:55.000 I don't know.

01:26:55.000 But anyway, it's a great segue because we've got coming up at 10 o'clock Central Time.

01:27:02.000 Me and Bryden will be back on this channel.

01:27:05.000 So it's an intermission.

01:27:07.000 Go fix yourself a snack, stretch your legs a little bit.

01:27:11.000 But 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.

01:27:19.000 And it'll be, I think, a fun stream, late night stream.

01:27:22.000 I'll have to get to bed a little bit late, but that's all right.

01:27:25.000 But for now, we're going to call it a show.

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America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - June 05, 2018

Trump's First 500 Days | America First Ep. 178

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