America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - Trump's Pivot to Asia | America First Ep. 147

00:00:01.000 Good evening, everybody.

00:00:02.000 You are watching America First.

00:00:04.000 My name is Nicholas J. Fuentes, and we have a great show for you tonight.

00:00:09.000 There are no thoughts on the show, no drug addicts, no drug dealers, no e-celeb drama.

00:00:16.000 It's just straight content.

00:00:18.000 It's just the straight-up facts.

00:00:20.000 And we're feeling good.

00:00:21.000 Pretty solid day today.

00:00:22.000 Things have winded down a little bit since the weekend, which was very contentious, of course.

00:00:29.000 And we covered it last night.

00:00:31.000 A lot of people are happy.

00:00:33.000 Some people are not so happy, I have to say, from the episode yesterday.

00:00:38.000 We covered the Serious Strike yesterday.

00:00:41.000 And if you watch, if you look at the like to dislike ratio, we still did very good in terms of there's still almost double the amount of likes that there are dislikes.

00:00:50.000 But that said, the Dislike Brigade was out in full force yesterday.

00:00:55.000 There's like 200 and some dislikes.

00:00:57.000 The comments are a mess.

00:01:00.000 And I said yesterday, I titled the episode, Why I Support the Serious Strike, which is a very provocative title, admittedly, and it's to get people.

00:01:07.000 To click on it.

00:01:09.000 But I prefaced the whole show by saying, look, you have to listen very carefully to what's about to be said because I laid out, I think, pretty convincingly and factually, a pretty solid case for why one might support the Syria strike.

00:01:23.000 Even if you support Bashar Assad, even if you're against the neocon foreign policy establishment, even if you think we have no business in Syria, I think I laid out a pretty convincing case.

00:01:33.000 And I laid it out before I laid it out, I said, you have to listen very carefully.

00:01:39.000 You have to.

00:01:40.000 Hear everything, not just the things you don't want to hear, the things you want to hear.

00:01:45.000 And it's astounding because all the comments, and I delete all the comments because I'm not about to let my show become a platform for people to insult me.

00:01:53.000 But I read through the comments, and it's either just completely not substantive.

00:01:58.000 It's, I'm disappointed that you disagree with me. 0.99

00:02:01.000 You're a Zionist shill. 0.97

00:02:03.000 You know, we're going to do mental gymnastics to support Trump. 0.96

00:02:06.000 Or it's something that was totally covered in the show.

00:02:08.000 And at least I give credit to the people.

00:02:11.000 That they offer a substantive rebuttal, but it's like, listen to the show.

00:02:15.000 I hear people saying, well, Nick, if he attacks every time there's a chemical attack, then every time they have an incentive to do chemical attacks and we'll have to strike.

00:02:25.000 Yeah, we covered that one.

00:02:26.000 We heard that one a few times.

00:02:27.000 And if it wasn't, you know, they don't watch the show, they try and make their point.

00:02:31.000 And then on the converse, on the other side, you got people who say, this is really disappointing.

00:02:37.000 I thought you were smart.

00:02:38.000 I thought you were this and that.

00:02:39.000 And it's just hilarious to me because.

00:02:41.000 Is the expectation that I get on the show to tell you things that you want to hear?

00:02:46.000 Is that the expectation?

00:02:48.000 Do people watch this show so they can hear things they agree with?

00:02:52.000 If that's the case, don't watch the show.

00:02:54.000 I don't understand.

00:02:55.000 You know, I turn on Tucker Carlson sometimes and I say, okay, there's things I agree with here.

00:03:00.000 There's things I disagree with here. 0.96

00:03:02.000 But I've never said Tucker Carlson is an idiot and I hate him and I'm disappointed and I'm unsubscribing because he said something I disagree with. 0.97

00:03:09.000 So just had to cover that. 0.99

00:03:11.000 I know.

00:03:13.000 I'm not complaining about it.

00:03:14.000 These are the realities of doing a show, of being a political person.

00:03:18.000 But it's just unfortunate to see the dialogue is just so polluted with people who I don't think are coming at it in good faith.

00:03:27.000 But anywho, we are here with a fresh show.

00:03:30.000 It's not about Syria.

00:03:32.000 We've been talking about Syria, I feel like, for my whole life. 0.98

00:03:32.000 Thank God. 0.98

00:03:36.000 I feel like we've been talking about Syria for 15 years.

00:03:41.000 I feel like we've been talking about Syria since.

00:03:44.000 Since I was born. 1.00

00:03:46.000 You know, all last week it was Syria, it was Syria last night, and so finally we can say, I think we're done with it for now.

00:03:53.000 We're still going to be talking about it as the situation is ongoing, as the Syrian civil war continues.

00:03:59.000 And we will discuss some of the aftermath towards the end of the show tonight.

00:04:03.000 There are some new things we've learned about the strike, about the reaction, about what's going to happen moving forward.

00:04:10.000 And also, if you are interested, America First World Report, there's a new episode coming out tonight.

00:04:16.000 And this is, I think, my most important episode of that show or any America First show to date, because we really do some digging, not From the American lens, but from the Israeli lens.

00:04:28.000 And so we've been covering the Syrian civil war mostly from America's perspective, how it benefits America, the American strikes, and so on.

00:04:37.000 And, excuse me, on the podcast tonight on World Report, which is our exclusive foreign affairs podcast for premium members, we are looking into it from the Israeli perspective.

00:04:48.000 And you'll find if you look into a certain memo called the Clean Break Memo, which was published in 1996.

00:04:57.000 Written by a man by the name of Robert Pearl for Benjamin Netanyahu, you start to really peel back the layers and see just why we're involved in Syria, why we're involved in Iraq for that matter, why we've been involved in countries like Somalia, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, and quite possibly in the near future, Iran.

00:05:17.000 And so we're going to do a very important show.

00:05:18.000 I'll be publishing that shortly after this show tonight on Maker Support for the Premium Members.

00:05:24.000 It's only for premium.

00:05:25.000 You've got to sign up.

00:05:26.000 And I really think.

00:05:27.000 For those people that are on board, you're going to enjoy it.

00:05:29.000 It's a real deep dive.

00:05:33.000 We get through to Ben Gurion's speeches.

00:05:35.000 You go back to 1948.

00:05:37.000 We get into Oded Yanon's plans in the 1980s.

00:05:41.000 We get into Wolfowitz, Pearl, Fife, and all kinds of people, the neoconservative architects of the Iraq War and the Bush administration.

00:05:49.000 It's really a deep dive into just about everything that we see in the Middle East from a lens you're not going to hear about on Fox News.

00:05:56.000 Let's put it that way.

00:05:58.000 With that out of the way, a lot of the housekeeping stuff out of the way, we are here to report on the current events, some new developments about North Korea.

00:06:07.000 Seeing the North Korea summit coming together, President Trump met with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan this afternoon at Mar a Lago.

00:06:16.000 So we'll be talking about that.

00:06:17.000 We'll be talking about the Supreme Court case where Justice Neil Gorsuch sided with the liberals.

00:06:24.000 And we'll talk about why that's not the end of the world, what the case was, what that was all about.

00:06:29.000 And the constitutional consideration there.

00:06:32.000 So, we got a big show, and I guarantee there's no e-celeb drama.

00:06:36.000 I know this Baked Alaska thing, good God, has been going on.

00:06:41.000 Another thing that feels like it's been going on for months. 0.95

00:06:44.000 We've been talking about this all weekend, and it's just ridiculous. 0.98

00:06:49.000 It's a silly thing.

00:06:50.000 You know, everybody's always asking me on the Discord and on Twitter this whole weekend: what do you think about Baked Alaska?

00:06:56.000 What do you think about this?

00:06:57.000 What do you think about that?

00:06:58.000 I really, I gotta be honest: I don't care.

00:07:01.000 You know, Baked Alaska's a friend of mine.

00:07:04.000 And that's, I think, about as far as it goes.

00:07:06.000 Do I have a really hard hitting take about the fact that, you know, he spurged out on his live chat and now so and so saying this and they're saying he did this?

00:07:16.000 I don't care, folks, and we're not going to cover it. 1.00

00:07:18.000 There's no trailer trash bimbos on the show either. 1.00

00:07:21.000 So it's just hard hitting news. 1.00

00:07:23.000 Let's get straight into it for some real content.

00:07:27.000 And the first big thing we got to talk about, finally, is North Korea.

00:07:31.000 And this is, I think, gives you a little bit of an insight into.

00:07:34.000 Where I was coming from with the Syria strike, when we get into North Korea.

00:07:39.000 This has been, and we hear a lot about Syria when the strikes come, when the strike came down in April of last year, and when the strike came down this weekend.

00:07:48.000 But if you look at President Trump, you look at the anatomy of this presidency, really the focus of this administration, which is striking, has been on North Korea and specifically, or rather more generally, on the Pacific, which I think is very much different.

00:08:04.000 Than the last two or three or four administrations, particularly starting with Bush.

00:08:09.000 Because we look at President Bush, whose main concern was obviously the Middle East.

00:08:14.000 That was a theater he was concerned with.

00:08:15.000 That was because of 9 11.

00:08:17.000 That was because of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

00:08:21.000 And although George W. Bush talked about the axis of evil, which was Iraq, Iran, and North Korea, he really only focused on Iraq and Iran.

00:08:30.000 He really only focused on the Middle East.

00:08:32.000 Same was true with Barack Obama.

00:08:34.000 So much concerned with what was happening in the Pacific.

00:08:37.000 Although Barack Obama had this vaunted policy of the pivot to Asia, this was a big initiative in the Obama administration where they said we're going to engage with the Pacific, and for good reason.

00:08:50.000 All the biggest emerging markets are in the Pacific.

00:08:52.000 You look at Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan, South Korea, China.

00:08:58.000 The future is going to be in the Pacific, the future is going to be in Southeast and East Asia.

00:09:04.000 And so, President Obama, though he promised we're going to pivot to Asia, we're going to have great relations, really haven't seen it.

00:09:12.000 Really, we were confined to North Africa and the Middle East.

00:09:16.000 And this isn't totally, I don't think it's totally Barack Obama's fault, given that you had the Arab Spring, which happened in 2011.

00:09:24.000 You had the rise of ISIS in 2014.

00:09:27.000 So, I don't think it was totally his fault.

00:09:29.000 You could see where a lot of those events were partly or in full a result of the Obama administration's foreign policy.

00:09:37.000 But nevertheless, Past two administrations were concerned with the Middle East.

00:09:41.000 The Trump administration is different.

00:09:44.000 And to really drive this point home before we get into current events, because I think it's really key here to understanding the Trump doctrine, his focus has been on the Pacific since he got into office.

00:09:54.000 And it's not surprising.

00:09:55.000 Trump is a businessman, he's done business since the 1980s.

00:09:59.000 And because he's in the private sector, because he understands the world economy and how integrated the American economy is into the world economy, and who are the big movers and shakers, and which Sectors of the economy are really kicking off for the next 100 years.

00:10:16.000 He understands the money's in Asia.

00:10:18.000 He understands and has understood in the 80s and 90s what an important emerging market Japan was, what an important emerging market South Korea is, and ultimately what an important emerging market China is.

00:10:30.000 He also sees that in terms of defense, that's going to be a big consideration with China rising and rising and challenging our allies in the Pacific as Russia is on the decline in terms of population and economy, as the Middle East, this is another key thing.

00:10:46.000 Were energy factors in a big concern for why we got into the Middle East in the first place?

00:10:51.000 Although people say it's because of energy, and it has been because of energy.

00:10:55.000 We originally got into cahoots with Saudi Arabia and others because of energy.

00:11:00.000 Now we're in there more so to protect Israel.

00:11:03.000 But in terms of the explicit, or rather the public interest for why we're in the Middle East, which is energy, even that is on the decline.

00:11:10.000 You think, or rather, you see in the Trump administration that we've really taken advantage of America's energy resources.

00:11:17.000 I believe I saw a report.

00:11:19.000 Sometime this week, that the United States is now the world's number one producer of oil and natural gas.

00:11:26.000 And you'll see that as the United States increases our oil production, our energy production, as we switch over just as a result of the technology to more electric and other kinds of energy, you're going to see the prominence and the role of these Middle Eastern countries decrease.

00:11:41.000 The only reason we care about Saudi Arabia, as opposed to other countries that are entangled with Israel, one of the main reasons we're concerned with Saudi Arabia is because of the Persian Gulf. 0.60

00:11:52.000 One of the main reasons why we see Iran as such a big threat is because of the Persian Gulf, because of how much oil.

00:11:58.000 And other energy resources come out of there.

00:12:01.000 If we're energy self sufficient in 10 to 15 years, when Saudi Arabia stops being one of the preeminent suppliers of oil, and you see already they're putting into place economic plans, long term and short term plans to diversify their economy, to prepare for the inevitable end of their oil production and being able to shore up this massively wealthy kingdom, very precariously placed royal family based on a single commodity.

00:12:28.000 I think you're going to see more and more of this pivot to Asia be seen in the future as a very intelligent, a very smart, a very prescient move.

00:12:35.000 So, Trump, I think, from the beginning has been preoccupied with Asia, and you see this in the North Korea situation.

00:12:42.000 And it's striking, not just in the general sense, where we see it's a profound and a smart thing to do to go from Middle East to Asia, but also in terms of security and defense to go from Iran and Iraq and Syria over to North Korea.

00:12:57.000 Very intelligent play.

00:12:59.000 And, like I said a moment ago, Although we get very preoccupied with Syria and we say Trump is a neocon in Syria, Trump is a neocon in the Middle East, you look at the news cycle, and I've been looking at the news cycle since inauguration.

00:13:13.000 This show's been going on since February 5th, 2017.

00:13:17.000 So, about two weeks after the inauguration, I started covering the news on a daily basis, every day and in excruciating detail sometimes.

00:13:25.000 And I can tell you from my personal experience, and I'm sure the data would support this as well, the vast majority of time and energy and rhetoric.

00:13:35.000 That is given on foreign affairs.

00:13:37.000 It's about North Korea.

00:13:38.000 It's about Asia.

00:13:40.000 And we saw this throughout the campaign as well in 2016.

00:13:43.000 We talked far more, or rather, Trump talked far more about China and North Korea than he did about Iran or Iraq or even Russia for that matter.

00:13:51.000 Although Russia was played up, he really didn't talk about Russia that much.

00:13:54.000 The focus really is on North Korea.

00:13:56.000 And that's where we see other foreign policy decisions are there maybe to shore up the policy in Asia because Trump understands the strategic importance.

00:14:06.000 And as we look at the Syria strike last week, As an example to North Korea and China, we look at even tariffs.

00:14:12.000 I was reading an article today in USA Today where they were saying that actually the tariffs on steel and aluminum, they had a 25 and a 10% tariff on steel and aluminum because of the nature of that industry.

00:14:26.000 It's about $140 billion in global trade that that 25 and 10% tariff pertains to.

00:14:33.000 It was 15 and 10?

00:14:33.000 Was it 25?

00:14:35.000 Or was it 25 and 10?

00:14:36.000 It escapes me right now.

00:14:37.000 I think it was 15 and 10.

00:14:39.000 But regardless, that would be about $140 billion in global tariffs.

00:14:43.000 And all the economic experts say on that kind of tariff on steel and aluminum, which is such a big industry globally with all our trading partners, that it's unenforceable.

00:14:54.000 And we'd only be able to tariff about $1.5 billion worth of either because of how much of these raw materials are circulating in the world.

00:15:02.000 And so you can interpret economic measures such as the trade war.

00:15:06.000 You look at how we renegotiated that trade deal with South Korea from 2002.

00:15:11.000 And before we signed it, Trump said actually now it's contingent on peace with North Korea.

00:15:16.000 And we have tariffs now on China.

00:15:18.000 That may be directed at North Korea.

00:15:20.000 We have the serious strikes. 0.94

00:15:21.000 I think the first one was undoubtedly directed at North Korea. 0.93

00:15:25.000 The second one is a little bit more dubious, admittedly, but I still think it's there.

00:15:28.000 I think you can look at everything in the context of China and North Korea.

00:15:32.000 And even North Korea, in a broader perspective, I think is in service to our relationship with China.

00:15:39.000 People look at it like the focus here is North Korea.

00:15:42.000 I think the bigger focus is China.

00:15:44.000 Because if you look at it from the perspective that China is going to be here for a long time, China is going to be a major player, China is going to be.

00:15:53.000 A rising star, if there is going to be this multipolar world order, China's going to be a big player in it, maybe secondary or tertiary to the United States and Russia, then you understand that North Korea is the short term, China's the long term.

00:16:09.000 And what it serves to do in dealing with North Korea now is to set a precedent with China, is to build rapport with China.

00:16:18.000 We can look at Syria, we can look at tariffs as focused on North Korea, but we look at North Korea as a focus on China.

00:16:25.000 Where, what we're trying to do with North Korea is actually diplomacy with China.

00:16:29.000 What we're really doing is saying, this is how we can negotiate, this is how we can cooperate in a multipolar world order.

00:16:37.000 This is how we can engage with China and finesse China into a world order where both countries can coexist.

00:16:45.000 And this makes a lot of sense because Mearsheimer has written about this. 0.98

00:16:49.000 Many people have written about this that a conflict with China is almost inevitable in the next century, given the rise of China economically, demographically, militarily.

00:16:59.000 Given the United States, our hegemony on the seas, our hegemony in the Pacific, it's almost bound to happen by the Thucydides trap, where it says that a pre existing regional or global hegemon naturally comes into conflict with a rising hegemon, regionally or globally.

00:17:16.000 This is what happened in World War I when a rising Germany challenged Britain, and that carried into World War II.

00:17:22.000 This is what tends to happen with great powers. 0.78

00:17:24.000 And so I think you have to look at North Korea, and this is a very extended and long winded. 0.79

00:17:29.000 Context for the current events that we're about to dive into with North Korea is we have to look at North Korea as the building block in a better relationship with China.

00:17:39.000 North Korea is how we build rapport with China.

00:17:42.000 It's almost like, and this is going to be a difficult analogy to follow maybe, but it's almost like how people say the Civil War was about slavery and actually it was about states' rights.

00:17:52.000 In the same vein, our conflict with North Korea is really about China.

00:17:55.000 It's like this is a particular issue that will be tackled in the larger premise of our relationship with China.

00:18:03.000 And I don't know.

00:18:04.000 Maybe that's difficult to follow.

00:18:05.000 But so the news today, of course, big news President Trump had Shinzo Abe over at Mar a Lago, the Mar a Lago resort in Florida today for a meeting.

00:18:17.000 And this is partly because of North Korea.

00:18:20.000 It's partly because of trade.

00:18:21.000 But it's also because of Shinzo Abe, who's having a very difficult time domestically.

00:18:25.000 He was almost guaranteed to win another term in the upcoming elections.

00:18:30.000 Now that's looking to be not so certain with Shinzo Abe because.

00:18:35.000 Trump pulled out of the TPP.

00:18:36.000 That's seen as disastrous for Shinzo Abe.

00:18:39.000 That was a big part of Abenomics, which was this transformative economic policy ad in China.

00:18:44.000 You have the summit with North Korea, which, by virtue of Trump agreeing to meet Kim Jong un one to one in a bilateral meeting, many in Japan see that as elbowing Japan out of the conversation.

00:18:57.000 And one of the biggest and most important issues for Japan in the North Korea United States situation is Japanese hostages that were taken in 1980 by North Korea or throughout the 1980s by North Korea.

00:19:09.000 They see that Shinzo Abe's maybe weak, not so strong.

00:19:12.000 So, a part of the reason why you even have a summit today between Abe and Trump is so that Abe can be seen as he's still a preeminent world leader.

00:19:21.000 He's still relevant.

00:19:22.000 Trump is seen with a lot of respect in Japan and Asia, or if not respect, it's at least seen as a distraction, and it shows that Abe is relevant in the world.

00:19:33.000 And so, they sat down today to talk about terrorists.

00:19:35.000 They sat down today to talk about North Korea.

00:19:37.000 And during their meeting, there was some press, there were some conversations, and Trump confirmed that there are high level discussions happening directly.

00:19:46.000 Between the U.S. government and North Korea.

00:19:49.000 President Trump said that he takes credit for the success of the South Korean Olympics this year, and he also says that he gives South and North Korea his blessing for ending the war.

00:20:00.000 And there was a report earlier this week from an unnamed South Korean official that both North and South Korea are preparing an official statement to bring an end to the Korean War, which has not ended since 1950.

00:20:13.000 Started in 1950, there was an armistice.

00:20:17.000 In 1953, but no peace treaty. 0.73

00:20:19.000 And so that's where we are with North Korea.

00:20:21.000 And I think once you look at what's in development there, and the meeting is planned for June or a little bit earlier, which is what President Trump says, they have five locations that are in the conversation right now, five different locations that are considering to hold the summit.

00:20:39.000 There will be a summit between North and South Korea later this month on April 28th, and they're allegedly putting together a statement where they're going to bring an end to the war and additionally.

00:20:49.000 The South Korean president said that North Korea has tacitly committed to denuclearization by even being a part of those talks.

00:20:57.000 Well, it looks like that's really on the table.

00:20:59.000 And right now, what we're seeing, the major reports about what is planned for this meeting.

00:21:03.000 So we have the summit between North and South Korea later this month.

00:21:07.000 We have the U.S. North Korea summit in later May.

00:21:11.000 And it's five different cities they're looking at.

00:21:13.000 The major considerations here for how we can move forward is that either there's going to be denuclearization by 2020, by summer. 0.65

00:21:22.000 Of 2020, which would be a few months before the 2020 elections, very smart in that way.

00:21:27.000 It'll either be a year, a year after the summit, so that would be summer 2019, or it would be sometime before the 2018 midterm elections.

00:21:37.000 Now, obviously, it'd be a little bit strained.

00:21:39.000 That's a little dubious that they would get him out in a matter of three or four months, but who knows?

00:21:43.000 And that's what's in discussion right now.

00:21:46.000 I think it's important, however, because many people are talking about should he meet with Kim Jong un, should he not.

00:21:51.000 And really, what it comes down to is this with the meeting that's coming up.

00:21:55.000 Is Trump has not committed to anything yet, right?

00:21:59.000 Trump still has sanctions on North Korea.

00:22:02.000 Trump still has drills being carried out, joint military drills with South Korea in the Pacific. 0.56

00:22:08.000 And so we're giving up nothing by agreeing to meet with Kim Jong un.

00:22:11.000 We meet. 0.80

00:22:12.000 If it works out, great.

00:22:14.000 And we have a big success and we plan on what's going to happen moving forward.

00:22:18.000 If it's not a success, we go home.

00:22:20.000 The pressure is still there in terms of sanctions, the military drills are still there. 0.54

00:22:25.000 Still a credible threat that we could invade North Korea.

00:22:27.000 Who knows what could happen?

00:22:29.000 Kim Jong Un, on the other hand, he stands a lot to lose from this in the sense that he's obviously losing a lot of face.

00:22:36.000 That he said earlier in the year that we're going to keep doing these nuclear tests, still do these missile tests.

00:22:41.000 We're never giving up our nuclear program.

00:22:43.000 It's non negotiable.

00:22:44.000 It's obviously a big step down.

00:22:46.000 But the thing to watch for here here's what would change that calculus.

00:22:50.000 If we agree that it's probably a good thing that he's meeting, there's not a lot for us to lose.

00:22:55.000 Maybe Kim Jong Un is losing something here.

00:22:58.000 There's one scenario where we do lose.

00:23:00.000 There's one scenario.

00:23:01.000 Where we can say this is probably not a great idea.

00:23:04.000 And that's if the president agrees to incremental adjustments in the sanctions regime.

00:23:10.000 And this is kind of what happened with the Iran deal, a little bit, not totally.

00:23:14.000 Which is to say that if President Trump sits down with Kim Jong un and they agree to synchronized incremental peace or treaty or negotiation or whatever, what that would mean is that, let's say, Kim Jong un disables a nuclear centrifuge.

00:23:30.000 He disables some element of the nuclear program.

00:23:33.000 And in exchange, we disable one element of the sanctions regime.

00:23:37.000 If it's anything like that, it's a bad deal.

00:23:39.000 We've seen this time and time again.

00:23:41.000 We saw this with Bill Clinton.

00:23:42.000 We saw.

00:23:43.000 Different kinds of meetings and summits take place before where Kim Jong Un, North Korea, or rather, Kim Jong Un took power, I think in 2011, but other North Korean leaders, other rogue regimes like Iran.

00:23:55.000 And when I say rogue, people say, oh, you say rogue regime, what is that? 0.73

00:23:59.000 Just anti Zionist regimes? 0.89

00:24:01.000 I'm only using the language of the establishment.

00:24:04.000 What I mean by that is a nation with a nuclear arsenal that is not a part of the NPT or some kind of weapon of mass destruction.

00:24:11.000 So you look at other actors like Iran, Syria, Libya, all kinds of actors where They agree to talks, they agree to incremental synchronized reform, and then they renege on their responsibility.

00:24:23.000 So that could very easily happen, where Trump goes in and says, let's agree to you take the first step, we'll take the first step, you take the next step, and so on and so forth.

00:24:32.000 And before you know it, sanctions regime has unraveled. 0.66

00:24:35.000 Maybe we get our troops out of South Korea, and North Korea is rebuilding their nuclear arsenal. 0.72

00:24:39.000 And that would be a terrible failure. 0.76

00:24:42.000 So whatever happens in North Korea, whatever happens with North Korea in the summit, it has to be they agree to denuclearization, and it has to be a package deal.

00:24:51.000 That the assurances we give them is we don't seek regime change.

00:24:55.000 The assurances, you know, we come up with some kind of way to guarantee we won't invade.

00:25:00.000 Maybe we end in some kind of a peace with South Korea, something like that.

00:25:04.000 But can't let up the sanctions regime, can't let up anything else incrementally.

00:25:07.000 Maybe you put a consulate in North Korea, but you can't disable the sanctions regime.

00:25:11.000 That's where all the leverage comes from. 0.55

00:25:13.000 And we saw that's what's happening with Iran right now. 0.93

00:25:16.000 The problem with the Iran nuclear deal, and I favor a deal with Iran. 0.99

00:25:20.000 Iran is a country that should be contained. 1.00

00:25:22.000 I mean, that's one of the only ways that we'll be able to. 1.00

00:25:26.000 In some way, control them within our interest in the sense that we can guide their behavior in a way that's not going to harm us without having to enforce anything that will also harm us. 0.95

00:25:37.000 In the sense that if you abandon the idea of containment with Iran, if you abandon the idea that you can make a deal, that you can have bilateral talks and negotiations with them, well, then it's either invasion or it's something else. 0.90

00:25:50.000 I don't even know what the alternative would be. 0.95

00:25:51.000 It's that they get a nuclear weapon.

00:25:53.000 So containment has to be the way. 0.98

00:25:55.000 I'm for the Iran nuclear deal.

00:25:57.000 But the problem with the one that was put in place by Obama was that there is no assurances now that they follow through on the deal.

00:26:04.000 They got the money.

00:26:05.000 We lifted the sanctions regime.

00:26:06.000 They got $150 billion.

00:26:09.000 European nations are doing business with them. 0.74

00:26:11.000 This international sanctions regime that took 20 years to construct, and even with other P5 nations in the security counts like Russia and China, we built that up over a long time using leverage that has long since vanished over those other great powers to build up this pressure, this leverage on Iran. 0.75

00:26:29.000 And we gave it all up. 0.52

00:26:30.000 And we gave them money, and now there's no guarantee. 0.72

00:26:34.000 There's no way we could possibly enforce that deal without going to war.

00:26:37.000 And that's a big problem. 1.00

00:26:39.000 We want to have containment for Iran. 1.00

00:26:41.000 We want to have some kind of a deal with Iran. 1.00

00:26:43.000 We don't want war, but the way to do that is a good deal. 0.97

00:26:46.000 And the same is true with North Korea. 0.97

00:26:48.000 We have to make deals.

00:26:49.000 And the only way to go about it with these countries is to say, look, they're not evil, they're not these apocalyptic regimes, they're probably not going to nuke us.

00:26:58.000 We have to understand it's probably in our best interest.

00:27:01.000 If weapons of mass destruction are not proliferating in the world, if they're not spreading, if they're not going all over the place, and they're not falling into the hands of the wrong people, that doesn't mean it's in our interest to invade.

00:27:13.000 That doesn't mean it's in our interest to go in and destroy them or take them.

00:27:17.000 But it is to say it's probably in our interest that they don't spread.

00:27:21.000 Let's find a way to do that peacefully through deals.

00:27:23.000 And I think Trump's the guy to do it.

00:27:25.000 I think he's the smartest guy to do it.

00:27:27.000 He's the best man for the job.

00:27:29.000 He's made deals in the private sector.

00:27:31.000 And we'll see what happens, but he's got to follow those guidelines.

00:27:34.000 Either way, I think it's very reassuring.

00:27:36.000 I think it's a very reassuring thing that we're seeing some kind of a deal being made. 0.92

00:27:40.000 Because if you recall, the same kind of rhetoric that we heard about Syria, and I'll never forget, because I remember, I'm Italian, I remember every slight, I remember every nasty thing that's been said or done. 0.96

00:27:52.000 We heard the same rhetoric about Syria that we heard about North Korea throughout the Trump administration.

00:27:58.000 Whenever Trump said, you know, little Kim, rocket man, whatever, when he tweeted something provocative, when he made a provocative statement, When he sent three carriers over into the Japanese sea to do joint military exercises with South Korea, all the black pillars said the deep state has got Trump. 0.87

00:28:16.000 War with North Korea is inevitable.

00:28:18.000 We've seen this all before. 1.00

00:28:20.000 I'm older than you.

00:28:21.000 I'm older than you and more cynical.

00:28:22.000 I saw what it was like before Iraq. 0.89

00:28:24.000 And this is what's going to happen with North Korea. 0.70

00:28:26.000 They're going to do war.

00:28:28.000 It's already been decided by the deep state, it's already been decided by the neocons.

00:28:33.000 You trust Trump? 0.51

00:28:34.000 You trust Trump to deliver on his promises and make a deal with North Korea? 1.00

00:28:38.000 You're foolish. 1.00

00:28:40.000 The neocons will have their way just like they had their way with Iraq. 1.00

00:28:44.000 Embrace the black pill.

00:28:44.000 Give up hope.

00:28:46.000 And they said that.

00:28:47.000 And I said all along, this is all part of the strategy.

00:28:49.000 It's all part of the plan.

00:28:51.000 Madman strategy.

00:28:53.000 You threaten, you do the drills, you do the sanctions, you beat up China, you blow people up in other corners of the world, and you make it out there that you're serious, and then you bring them to the negotiating table.

00:29:05.000 And then you close a deal.

00:29:06.000 And the same is true with Syria.

00:29:08.000 The same is true with Iran. 0.97

00:29:09.000 And I predict right now, going on. 1.00

00:29:12.000 Going on the record to make another prediction, another bold, another ballsy prediction.

00:29:17.000 And this is for the long term.

00:29:18.000 This is not in the short term.

00:29:20.000 This is a longer term prediction.

00:29:21.000 So bookmark this, whatever you got to do.

00:29:24.000 I don't know.

00:29:25.000 It's very difficult for me because it's like, if I want to remember something, where do you even put a reminder for that thing that you're supposed to remember, right?

00:29:34.000 If it's like, I want to remember this in a year, it's like, do I put it in a bookmark?

00:29:38.000 Do I put it in a note on my phone?

00:29:41.000 Do I write it down on a piece of paper?

00:29:43.000 The problem is then in a year, it's like, How are you even supposed to remember where you put that or even if it even happened, right?

00:29:49.000 So it's difficult. 0.89

00:29:50.000 But nevertheless, for the elephants, for the good memoried people watching the show, my ballsy prediction is this you will see the same approach with Iran that you saw with North Korea. 0.91

00:30:02.000 I think that if we have significant momentum on North Korea, if we start to do a good job with North Korea and we see that there is some promise in this diplomacy, mark my words, I think you'll see a very similar process. 0.86

00:30:17.000 Similar, but not the same, a similar process with Iran in trying to renegotiate the nuclear deal because we're already hearing about renegotiating the Iran nuclear deal.

00:30:29.000 There's a deadline coming up where Trump has to certify the deal.

00:30:33.000 He refused to certify it, I think, the last time that he was supposed to.

00:30:37.000 It's something like every 90 days or every six months, the president has to certify the deal to say that Iran is in compliance and that we're moving forward with it.

00:30:46.000 And Trump has yet to certify it.

00:30:47.000 So there's a deadline coming up.

00:30:49.000 Mark my words, the Iran nuclear deal will be renegotiated in a manner very similar to North Korea and also even to some of the other situations like NAFTA or trade with China.

00:31:01.000 I think it's going to happen in the same way.

00:31:03.000 So if people say, oh, Trump's got neocon rhetoric in Syria and Iran and North Korea, I believe it's all part of a broader strategy.

00:31:11.000 Once you start to see that this is the way that Trump operates, once you start to see that this is just the way the man's mind works, not in terms of ideology, not in terms of grand strategy.

00:31:22.000 But in terms of deals, in terms of tactics, in terms of leverage, negotiations, this is the way the man thinks.

00:31:29.000 I don't think, like the Bush administration or the neocons in the Bush administration, I don't think he has grand designs for democracy in North Korea.

00:31:38.000 I don't think he has any illusions about what a peace would look like.

00:31:42.000 I think he's trying to make a deal.

00:31:44.000 And so we'll see if that happens in North Korea.

00:31:46.000 We'll see if that even happens in Iran.

00:31:48.000 But there are some new developments we heard about the Syria strike, which we'll go over very briefly and then get into Neil Gorsuch, which I think are important.

00:31:57.000 I read the other day on Vox that actually there are some very good reports from some sources in the White House which say that actually the plan that John Bolton proposed for Syria, who's the new national security chief, who everybody said, John Bolton's the national security chief, it's all over.

00:32:16.000 They said, Trump has gone full neocon.

00:32:19.000 John Bolton's in the administration.

00:32:21.000 John Bolton owns him.

00:32:22.000 It's done. 0.65

00:32:23.000 We're going to war with Syria. 0.97

00:32:25.000 We're going to war with Iran, North Korea, and everyone else. 0.89

00:32:28.000 And I said, no, no, no, it's all part of the plan.

00:32:30.000 That serves to demonstrate that there are some hawkish elements in the cabinet.

00:32:34.000 It's to make these other countries scared that maybe Trump is serious and he's credible when he says we're going to go to war.

00:32:41.000 And so we actually found out the other day that after Trump struck three empty facilities in Syria, killing no one, we found out that John Bolton was actually pushing for something far worse. 0.51

00:32:51.000 John Bolton's proposal for the response to the Syrian chemical weapons attack was that we do significant, extensive air raids to destroy Assad's entire war making capability.

00:33:04.000 So, whereas Trump said, let's do five days of warning, we'll warn Syria we're coming for five days, and then we'll do a precise surgical strike on three empty facilities and kill no one.

00:33:17.000 And he shot down John Bolton's proposal, which was let's do extensive air raids and destroy the Assad regime's capability to fight a war.

00:33:26.000 Big difference.

00:33:27.000 And that just goes to show that this is not neocon, this is not, that's none of that.

00:33:31.000 The neocon that's in the administration got shut down by Madison Trump, got rejected.

00:33:36.000 They said, no.

00:33:37.000 We're not doing that.

00:33:38.000 We can't do that.

00:33:39.000 Just goes to show John Bolton doesn't own this administration.

00:33:42.000 There were far worse options on the table.

00:33:44.000 Where, at the very least, at the very least, people have to acknowledge this is not the worst that it could have been.

00:33:50.000 People might not be on board and say it was a good thing, as I do, but at the very least, you have to acknowledge this is the worst.

00:33:58.000 This is the least bad outcome.

00:34:00.000 The least bad outcome that could have come from this.

00:34:02.000 If the neocons, and I believe that they did, if the neocons did a false flag chemical attack, this is the least bad response.

00:34:09.000 Maybe you could say the least bad is.

00:34:11.000 If he said, oh no, we sent chemical weapons inspectors and determined that wasn't going to happen, that's completely unrealistic.

00:34:18.000 But even if that did happen, I still think this is not even a bad option at all.

00:34:22.000 The second thing we learned is that there are some high level sources that reported to the Wall Street Journal that actually Trump wants some kind of an Arab force to come in and replace the United States occupation of Syria. 0.94

00:34:34.000 There was a press conference on Air Force One where Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, we still want to get out of Syria as soon as possible.

00:34:43.000 And then there was a report that came in that said actually, Trump has been looking into replacing our residual force in Syria with some kind of Arab coalition of Egypt, the Emirates, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia to consolidate northeastern Syria and stabilize the country.

00:35:00.000 And I just really think it's staggering because I've gotten tons of backlash for my take on the Syria strike.

00:35:06.000 And the amount that the goalposts have shifted on this issue is insane.

00:35:12.000 It should make people embarrassed.

00:35:15.000 People who continue to shift the goalposts on this, they have no shame.

00:35:19.000 They should be humiliated. 0.72

00:35:20.000 They should be ridiculed because they were telling us on Friday. 0.94

00:35:25.000 And I remember there was somebody, I have a really good friend of mine who watches the show.

00:35:29.000 She was telling me that one of these prominent alt right personalities who does like a talk show, somebody that you all know, was telling people in group DMs and group chats start stocking up on water and buying non perishables and head to your basement.

00:35:45.000 Somebody, a very prominent, By all means, an otherwise credible person was telling people that they should shelter in place on Friday because World War III was coming and we were going to get nuked.

00:35:58.000 Go out, and by the way, saying this to people with families, with wives, people who maybe they don't know what's going on, telling them, shelter in place.

00:36:07.000 You're going to get nuked. 0.99

00:36:08.000 You're going to die today. 0.99

00:36:10.000 So they went from on Friday saying, Trump has cucked. 0.92

00:36:13.000 He's not only going to war with Syria, but he's also going to war with Russia.

00:36:18.000 And therefore, we can never support him again.

00:36:20.000 To fast forward just four days later, they're saying that the point of no return, the line which we cannot cross, is blowing up a few empty buildings.

00:36:30.000 And then, and here's the best part of all: then, when you show them, and actually, not only did we do the least bad option, not only did we shut down John Bolton, and we did something that had no consequence whatsoever for the Assad regime, for Putin, for anything, not only that, but we're actually going to replace our American presence with. 1.00

00:36:50.000 An Arab presence, and we're going to get our troops out of there. 0.98

00:36:52.000 They say that's not good enough. 1.00

00:36:56.000 Why should I support an Arab coalition defending Israel's interests in Syria instead of an American one?

00:37:01.000 What's even the difference?

00:37:03.000 So these people go from we're off the Trump train because he went to war with Russia, which if he went to war with Russia, yeah, I'm with you.

00:37:11.000 If he went to war with Syria, I'm with you. 0.85

00:37:13.000 But they went from that to Trump is not doing a good enough job because he's having an Arab coalition take over for the United States, and that's still really bad. 0.75

00:37:24.000 There was no consequence for what he did to appease the neocons, but it violated international law. 0.79

00:37:30.000 And I didn't see the point to it.

00:37:31.000 And it cost a lot of money.

00:37:32.000 The goalpost shifting should make people embarrassed.

00:37:36.000 Every announcement we've heard since the strike, Bolton wanted a lot more. 1.00

00:37:40.000 We want an Arab force to take over.

00:37:43.000 Trump still wants to meet with Putin, still wants to meet with him. 0.98

00:37:47.000 After he made an overture in his tweets, after he made an overture in a statement to say we can cooperate with Russia, we can reintegrate Russia.

00:37:55.000 He says he still wants to meet with Russia.

00:37:57.000 He says that when the United States, when he found out that the United States had expelled more diplomats in response to the assassination of that former Russian spy in the UK, he was furious that we had such an over the top response to Russia.

00:38:13.000 So you see, every announcement, every development, whether it's with North Korea or Russia or with Syria, I mean, just everything that's come out shows that the narrative that Trump is a good guy trying to do the right thing.

00:38:27.000 And it fits into a deal making mindset as opposed to Trump is a doofus. 1.00

00:38:31.000 Trump is an idiot. 1.00

00:38:32.000 He does whatever he's told. 1.00

00:38:34.000 They have blackmail material on him.

00:38:37.000 They'll in the same breath tell me it's a convoluted conspiracy theory to say that Trump is a deal maker and he's making a deal.

00:38:45.000 They'll say that, and then in the same breath say it's actually more credible to believe that they're blackmailing him and they have a gun to his head and they're controlling him because they have something on him based on no evidence.

00:38:57.000 So, anyhow, I don't mean to fly off the rails or rather go off the rails, fly off the handle on that.

00:39:04.000 But really, I mean, the Syria strike, it's a seminal.

00:39:08.000 Event in the presidency, it really makes or breaks different and competing paradigms on how we analyze Trump.

00:39:17.000 And that's why it's so important.

00:39:18.000 That's why it's really important to drive the point home.

00:39:20.000 It's not about me.

00:39:21.000 And people were saying the other day, Nick is really cocky. 0.71

00:39:25.000 I agree with Nick, but he's really arrogant about it.

00:39:27.000 It's not about any of that.

00:39:28.000 It's not about look at me, look at me, I'm right.

00:39:31.000 The point is to say this what you think of the serious strike is indicative of your opinion, not just about Trump, but about electoral politics as well.

00:39:41.000 The serious strike is one of these rare flashpoints where we see what people really think about the world.

00:39:47.000 If people immediately have an emotive response as to how we made this decision, there's an emotional response about the decision that right away we're going to say, you know what?

00:39:59.000 The ballot box doesn't work. 0.98

00:40:01.000 The ballot box doesn't work because they control Trump and he's either dumb or he's controlled and therefore electoral politics doesn't matter. 0.97

00:40:09.000 I mean, that's a whole different worldview as opposed to somebody saying, Let's wait and see what happens. 0.96

00:40:14.000 It's out of our control.

00:40:16.000 It goes against everything we know about Trump.

00:40:19.000 So let's wait and see five or four days, or we'll wait and see what the effects are in the coming months.

00:40:24.000 And we'll see does that conform to this theory that Trump is a good guy?

00:40:28.000 It probably does.

00:40:29.000 They're totally different worldviews. 1.00

00:40:30.000 And so when I say I was right, I was vindicated, black pillars are dumb, BTFO, what I'm saying is simply this it's important to understand where Trump is coming from. 1.00

00:40:42.000 Because if you don't, you have people saying, We're not going to vote for a Republican president in 2020. 1.00

00:40:48.000 We won't vote for Republican candidates in 2018 because of something that we thought before we got the whole story.

00:40:55.000 And that's a big problem.

00:40:56.000 If people are telling you we should, it would be better for us or would be no different for us to have a Democratic president in 2020 because of a strike on three buildings, that to me is real damage done.

00:41:10.000 That to me is real, that's real bad if people think that.

00:41:14.000 If people are, Being told, if people are saying you should go out and vote for a Democrat or not vote for President Trump in 2020 because he blew up three buildings.

00:41:25.000 And that means he's a neocon shill and therefore elections don't matter.

00:41:29.000 We have to really hit back hard on those kinds of conclusions.

00:41:35.000 Not because I'm right, I'm right, look at me, although it's fun to say that, but because these have real and lasting effects on the morale of the movement.

00:41:43.000 We need to be out there voting.

00:41:44.000 We need to be out there.

00:41:46.000 Even if Trump isn't perfect, maybe it was the neocons got the better of him one time.

00:41:50.000 Okay, it was a setback.

00:41:51.000 Okay, it was a bad thing.

00:41:53.000 I'm not saying that's what happened, but even if you believe that, it's a setback.

00:41:56.000 And it's still better than the alternative.

00:41:58.000 That's what politics is the art of the possible.

00:42:01.000 And so I just really want to drive that point home because I don't feel I made it convincingly enough yesterday that whatever your thoughts are, the electoral politics, Trump, all of that, it still matters.

00:42:12.000 It's still better than the alternative.

00:42:14.000 So those were the developments from Syria.

00:42:16.000 I don't know if we'll get to Gorsuch.

00:42:18.000 Maybe I'll cover it briefly because I do want to get into it.

00:42:22.000 This is another thing.

00:42:23.000 People are saying Gorsuch made a bad ruling, therefore Trump is a sellout, as though one has anything to do with the other.

00:42:30.000 That's another funny thing the Supreme Court decided on a case today where it was some kind of a Philippine immigrant.

00:42:38.000 He came here when he was 13 and he became a citizen and he was involved in an aggravated burglary.

00:42:44.000 And the case was that because that was a quote unquote a crime of violence, this is the language of the law.

00:42:50.000 If you're an immigrant and you commit a crime of violence, you're subject to a mandatory deportation.

00:42:56.000 And it got all the way up to the Supreme Court because they said, well, what is a crime of violence?

00:43:00.000 Is an aggravated burglary a crime of violence?

00:43:03.000 Even though no violence was committed.

00:43:05.000 Because there was potential for violence, does that constitute a crime of violence?

00:43:09.000 What does that actually mean?

00:43:10.000 And so it went all the way up to the Supreme Court, and Neil Gorsuch went on the side of the liberals in saying the language is too ambiguous, and therefore this statute has to be struck down.

00:43:22.000 If they're saying it's a mandatory deportation because you commit a crime of violence, and we don't even know what a crime of violence is, we have to strike it down.

00:43:30.000 And so right away, people are saying all over the place Neil Gorsuch cucked.

00:43:34.000 Somehow that's Trump's fault.

00:43:35.000 Neil Gorsuch made.

00:43:37.000 A ruling they disagreed with, and therefore Trump is at fault.

00:43:40.000 When in actuality, and this is important again that we set the facts straight on this from a white pill and a pro Trump, I guess I'm the last vestige outside of MPC and some of the others, Ricky Vaughn's gone as well, of white pill content.

00:43:55.000 This had nothing to do with immigration at the end of the day.

00:43:58.000 This was about the language of the law.

00:44:01.000 You understand that this was not about are you for immigrants who commit crimes being deported or not.

00:44:07.000 It was about the fact that.

00:44:08.000 This statute, which says that there are no exceptions, if you commit a crime of violence, you're deported.

00:44:13.000 It's the language is simply too ambiguous for anybody to govern on.

00:44:16.000 And this is what Antonin Scalia would have ruled.

00:44:19.000 There are earlier rulings from 2015 where he made similar rulings about that kind of language in federal statutes.

00:44:28.000 And by the way, this is in multiple news sources.

00:44:31.000 This has no effect on Trump's ability to deport illegals, for him to deport criminal illegal aliens, or anybody else.

00:44:38.000 It's just something, another loophole that has to be sewn up by the Congress.

00:44:42.000 I know I just wanted to cover that very briefly because I know people are very up in arms about that.

00:44:47.000 Trump, BTFO, Neil Gorsuch, cucks.

00:44:50.000 You know, at a certain point, we have to say, we have to interpret the letter of the law. 0.77

00:44:55.000 You know, there's considerations beyond just the consequentialist lens of what deports more immigrants versus what doesn't.

00:45:02.000 This is a weakness in the law.

00:45:03.000 It had to be addressed sooner rather than later.

00:45:06.000 And now hopefully the House or the Senate sews it up.

00:45:09.000 But I don't think this was that terribly bad.

00:45:12.000 And even.

00:45:14.000 And again, this has absolutely no effect, cannot be said enough, has no effect on the deportation of illegal aliens. 0.78

00:45:22.000 This is about legal people, people who are illegally and they commit a crime of violence.

00:45:27.000 And this isn't even a protection for people who commit a crime of violence.

00:45:30.000 It's just that the statute that it's mandatory that if you commit a crime of violence, you're deported.

00:45:36.000 That's the only thing being struck down.

00:45:38.000 So, not the end of the world, folks.

00:45:39.000 But with that, we're going to get into our Super Chats and our Streamlabs donations, and we'll see what people are saying.

00:45:47.000 We'll see what the masses are saying on Korea and also on Syria and on Gorsuch.

00:45:53.000 Let's take a look.

00:45:55.000 Let me pull it up.

00:45:56.000 I got the wrong tab open here.

00:45:59.000 So let's pull up our super chats first and we'll see.

00:46:02.000 Let me take a little swig of water here.

00:46:07.000 People are saying that my, when I look at the screen, people are saying that the mic gets a lot quieter.

00:46:13.000 So I'll move the mic over here.

00:46:14.000 A temporary fix here.

00:46:17.000 And we'll see.

00:46:18.000 Let's see. 0.68

00:46:19.000 So, for starters, we have a logical conclusion of tolerance who says, Nick, I got to give you kudos for a hot take on Syria.

00:46:26.000 I haven't seen your position in other sources. 0.95

00:46:29.000 So if you're right, it's a mitzvah.

00:46:30.000 Still disagree.

00:46:31.000 Okay, and that's fair.

00:46:32.000 People are entitled to disagree.

00:46:34.000 But don't call me, don't say I'm a Zionist shill. 0.79

00:46:37.000 Like, I have been so blacklisted from everything because I've been committed to opposing Israeli influence in our government.

00:46:46.000 And I disagree with people on the interpretation of the Syria strike. 0.90

00:46:49.000 And automatically, it's, oh, well, you must be a shill for Israel. 0.73

00:46:54.000 And this is why the movement, as it exists, will never take off, because the people in it have no loyalty.

00:47:00.000 They talk about a high trust society.

00:47:02.000 They talk about a high IQ society and all the rest.

00:47:05.000 And the minute they don't like what somebody is saying, in the case of Ricky Vaughn, you get doxxed.

00:47:10.000 In the case of I got doxxed for the same thing.

00:47:13.000 Or they'll say you're a sellout, nasty things.

00:47:16.000 That's just not how it's built.

00:47:18.000 But National Capitalist says, as a Catholic, what's your take on the Old Testament? 0.62

00:47:24.000 It seems the heavy Jewish influence in the Bible is evidence of mind control over Christianity. 0.89

00:47:29.000 That's just. 0.86

00:47:30.000 A ridiculous thing to say, and as evidenced by somebody who probably knows nothing about the Old Testament or the New Testament, it was made clear by Jesus Christ in the gospel, and it's just true by the practices of Christians that all of the Old Testament rituals and rules and regulations, for the most part, were abrogated by the New Testament, the new covenant that was the coming of Christ. 0.72

00:47:53.000 And I'm not even, you know, people ask me all the time about Catholicism. 0.65

00:47:57.000 I'm not an expert, I'm not a theologian.

00:47:59.000 I have to say that because people ask me about my faith.

00:48:02.000 I give an answer that isn't.

00:48:04.000 Totally sufficient as a theologian, and people say, Nick is in. 0.99

00:48:08.000 Shut up, shut up. 1.00

00:48:09.000 You're not qualified to talk about it. 1.00

00:48:11.000 Why are you saying this?

00:48:12.000 So, I have to say, I'm not an expert, but I will say, as somebody who's read the gospel, that Jesus Christ's coming in the New Testament, by and large, abrogated many of the practices and rituals and influences of the Old Testament.

00:48:28.000 It's still part of the Bible, it's still part of the Word of God.

00:48:31.000 We still recognize it's divine, but by the same token, we look at a lot of the things that happened in the Old Testament.

00:48:37.000 And they are anachronistic after the coming of Jesus Christ.

00:48:41.000 There's a reason that there's two separate books, right?

00:48:44.000 There's a reason that one side believes in the five books of Moses and one side believes in the New Testament.

00:48:52.000 It's because it's a big difference.

00:48:53.000 And the coming of Christ, when God becomes man and descends down to earth to save all mankind, that's kind of a big deal.

00:49:01.000 That's a big turning point.

00:49:04.000 And nevertheless, for people that say, Oh, you know, Jesus Christ was Jewish.

00:49:09.000 It's a Jewish religion.

00:49:11.000 Number one, that's just nonsensical. 1.00

00:49:14.000 It's just a ridiculous accusation. 0.93

00:49:16.000 And number two, I'll be the first to say God is more important than race. 0.97

00:49:21.000 I know people are going to have a big problem with that. 0.96

00:49:23.000 I know people are going to say that's cucking, that's Christ cucking, whatever. 1.00

00:49:28.000 And this is the low IQ, like retarded segment of the right wing, which doesn't really even deserve, I don't think, a platform in the country. 1.00

00:49:37.000 But that's just simply true. 1.00

00:49:38.000 I would rather be on the good side of God.

00:49:41.000 And I think, by the way, that if you believe in God, you have your race and you have God.

00:49:47.000 If you don't believe in God, I think you have neither. 0.84

00:49:49.000 You look at the birth rate for atheists and people, for the consequentialists who say Christianity is bad for the race, look at the birth rate for atheists and then tell me, and then look at the birth rate for Christians and tell me that religion, specifically Christianity, is an impediment to the revival of our civilization.

00:50:07.000 I don't think you're going to find the numbers are very appealing. 0.95

00:50:09.000 So, a ridiculous and an absurd contention. 0.94

00:50:14.000 Sorry to say. 0.95

00:50:16.000 Ian Weber, that's an 80 IQ take by national capitalists.

00:50:19.000 It's true. 1.00

00:50:20.000 You don't want to counter signal the Christians.

00:50:22.000 We are much more powerful than the pagans.

00:50:24.000 We're much more powerful than the atheists. 0.86

00:50:27.000 Drake God says, We can't vote our way out of it anymore.

00:50:30.000 There it is.

00:50:31.000 There it is right there.

00:50:32.000 And what did I tell you?

00:50:33.000 People will tell me, Nick, so you're saying it's not okay to criticize.

00:50:37.000 You're saying it's not okay to voice criticism.

00:50:40.000 Never said that.

00:50:41.000 This is the kind of thinking that we should have no tolerance for and must be ridiculed every step of the way.

00:50:48.000 Alex Wytoslawski, every time I say, People are being too hard on the president, et cetera, et cetera. 0.95

00:50:55.000 And I criticize the black pillars. 1.00

00:50:57.000 He's all on my case. 0.91

00:50:58.000 He's all in my mentions saying we should never criticize the president.

00:51:01.000 There's mild criticism.

00:51:03.000 Everything's mild criticism.

00:51:05.000 Never said that's the problem.

00:51:06.000 The problem is this when people say we have no faith in the ballot box, we can't vote our way out of it, Trump is just as bad as Hillary, Alex Witteslaski's never there.

00:51:17.000 And it's not just him.

00:51:18.000 I single him out because he's always the vocal one in the mentions.

00:51:21.000 But nobody's ever there.

00:51:22.000 We're always there to defend people criticizing, we're always there to defend people.

00:51:27.000 Voicing the worst case scenario.

00:51:29.000 Nobody's ever there criticizing people who are encouraging their hundreds or thousands of followers to not vote, to not get involved, to not actively change it.

00:51:39.000 And notice all the people who are saying we can't vote our way out of it anymore.

00:51:42.000 What are they doing?

00:51:44.000 What are they doing to change the country?

00:51:45.000 What's their plan?

00:51:46.000 We have a plan.

00:51:47.000 Infiltrate the party, make this series of reforms.

00:51:51.000 What's their proposal?

00:51:53.000 Watch YouTube?

00:51:55.000 Listen to podcasts? 0.84

00:51:56.000 Wait for the race war?

00:51:58.000 Absurdity and it has to be ridiculed.

00:52:00.000 It has to be ostracized right out of the movement.

00:52:03.000 We absolutely can vote.

00:52:05.000 We absolutely can win our way out of it through the ballot box.

00:52:08.000 It's the only way through the system.

00:52:10.000 There's no alternative.

00:52:12.000 In a hundred years, maybe in 50 years, we'll be left to those kinds of things, to a last resort.

00:52:19.000 But for now, anybody who's saying we can't vote our way out of it, do not listen to those people. 1.00

00:52:25.000 They are subversive, they're infiltrators, or they're just plain stupid. 1.00

00:52:28.000 Sorry to say. 1.00

00:52:29.000 We appreciate the super chat, but that kind of thinking is going to kill us all.

00:52:34.000 Rick Smith says, Thank you for not piling on baked because it's trendy.

00:52:38.000 You seem to be the only one in this movement who is pure.

00:52:41.000 You have good instincts.

00:52:42.000 I try.

00:52:43.000 I go by instinct.

00:52:44.000 I really do.

00:52:45.000 I don't sit there.

00:52:46.000 I don't have them.

00:52:48.000 I will hit baked a little bit.

00:52:49.000 I don't have a manager.

00:52:50.000 I don't have somebody in my ear telling me this way or that way.

00:52:54.000 It's a one man show.

00:52:55.000 And believe me, I take advice from all kinds of people.

00:52:57.000 I take advice from people I agree with, people I don't agree with, people in the system, people out of the system.

00:53:03.000 But I rely on the instincts.

00:53:04.000 And with Baked, Baked is my friend.

00:53:07.000 And I don't betray my friends, you know, unless I see otherwise, unless I see there's like something really problematic there.

00:53:16.000 I'm not going to jump all over him just because it's trendy.

00:53:20.000 And I, for some reason, I've earned this reputation that I'm hard to work with, that I'm not a great ally.

00:53:25.000 And I think anybody who knows me, anybody who's never attacked me or betrayed me themselves, will tell you that it takes a lot for me to go against somebody that's a friend.

00:53:35.000 And, uh, I'm not going to pile on Mr. Tim, Mr. Baked, just because everybody else is.

00:53:42.000 I still think he's a stand up guy.

00:53:44.000 And, you know, look, not for nothing, but I went to L.A. and he let me stay at his house and he showed me around town and he took me out to lunch and we hung out and we had a great time.

00:53:54.000 And that's somebody who I met personally and in my personal experience was a great guy.

00:54:00.000 And if people are saying on the internet, oh, well, he's this, he's that, he's doing that, I'm going to err on the side of me knowing him personally than the drama.

00:54:10.000 Good guy, a great guy.

00:54:12.000 I was very allergic to his cats, I will say.

00:54:16.000 I was sleeping over at his house and I almost died in the middle of the night because there was cat hair everywhere.

00:54:21.000 I don't know how he lives like that with the cat dander everywhere.

00:54:24.000 I like my esophagus was closing up because of all the cats.

00:54:28.000 I'm very allergic to cats.

00:54:30.000 And so he almost killed me in that way.

00:54:33.000 But other than that, a very good guy.

00:54:36.000 Simon Scola, is Michelle Obama a man?

00:54:39.000 Obama called her Michael.

00:54:40.000 Yeah.

00:54:41.000 Yeah. 0.99

00:54:42.000 Michelle Obama is a man and Barack Obama is a gay man. 0.99

00:54:46.000 And that's true. 1.00

00:54:47.000 She's a transvestite and Barack Obama is a gay man. 1.00

00:54:50.000 And a Muslim. 1.00

00:54:50.000 All true. 1.00

00:54:52.000 I still don't believe he's.

00:54:54.000 I say that part ironically, kind of.

00:54:57.000 I still don't believe Barack Obama was a natural born citizen of the United States.

00:55:02.000 I really don't.

00:55:03.000 You look at that.

00:55:04.000 What was that document that was produced by somebody when he lived in Indonesia, where it said something like Barry?

00:55:11.000 What was his previous last name?

00:55:13.000 He had a very ethnic sounding last name, and he was in Indonesia, and his religion was Muslim, and he wasn't.

00:55:19.000 I don't believe he was born here. 0.89

00:55:21.000 I think they faked it.

00:55:22.000 I really believe it.

00:55:24.000 The Michelle Obama stuff, I don't know.

00:55:27.000 It's kind of convincing.

00:55:28.000 You look at some of her features, a little bit mannish. 0.75

00:55:31.000 I don't know if you could totally get away with that, but definitely the citizen thing and the religion thing is highly dubious.

00:55:40.000 LC1707, checking to see if super chats are working.

00:55:43.000 They're working.

00:55:45.000 Naseem Sobs, what topic will Murdoch cover this week?

00:55:48.000 Dude, I don't know.

00:55:50.000 I don't know.

00:55:51.000 I don't know Murdoch Murdoch. 1.00

00:55:53.000 Russian colluder, we did not give Iran money.

00:55:55.000 It was unfrozen assets. 0.95

00:55:57.000 Stop lying. 0.60

00:55:58.000 American and Iran and Russia equals coalition to fight terrorist state of Israel.

00:56:03.000 Okay, so another really intelligent person here who's accusing me of lying.

00:56:08.000 It was unfrozen assets.

00:56:10.000 Oh, I'm sorry.

00:56:11.000 So $150 billion.

00:56:13.000 No, I'm not actually even referring to that.

00:56:15.000 I'm referring to the pallet.

00:56:18.000 What is it?

00:56:19.000 The wooden.

00:56:20.000 Is that what it's called?

00:56:21.000 I'm blanking right now on the word.

00:56:23.000 But the stack of money that was delivered to Iran by the United States.

00:56:28.000 Sure, they unfroze $150 billion in assets, and they also delivered.

00:56:33.000 Pallets.

00:56:34.000 Is it pallets or is it something else?

00:56:36.000 But they delivered tons of cash money to Iran anyway.

00:56:39.000 And it's not a lie to say that they gave them.

00:56:42.000 Oh, I'm sorry.

00:56:42.000 They unfroze $150 billion.

00:56:46.000 Previously, inaccessible money became accessible money because of the deal.

00:56:51.000 So they didn't give it to them.

00:56:52.000 They just allowed them to access it.

00:56:54.000 I'm sorry.

00:56:54.000 You're right.

00:56:55.000 And this idea about America and Iran and Israel teaming up against Israel is honestly the stupidest thing I've ever heard. 0.99

00:57:02.000 And nobody wants to say it, but the alt right. 0.99

00:57:05.000 Is bankrupt on ideas when it comes to foreign affairs.

00:57:08.000 Their ideas about foreign affairs are like you would see in a comic book or a cartoon.

00:57:15.000 It's simply not realistic.

00:57:16.000 It's simply not pragmatic. 1.00

00:57:18.000 It's just downright ignorant and foolish. 1.00

00:57:20.000 And if you say things like that, you're not an intelligent person. 1.00

00:57:23.000 You know, people who want to say Israel is bad.

00:57:26.000 Why is Israel bad? 0.75

00:57:27.000 Because they have an illegal nuclear weapons program. 0.99

00:57:29.000 That's why we're faulting Iran. 0.86

00:57:31.000 Israel's bad because they spy on us, Russia spies on us. 0.95

00:57:35.000 Israel is bad because they sell our military technology to China. 0.89

00:57:38.000 Yeah, so does Russia.

00:57:41.000 So I don't understand this absurd standard where we say Israel is bad because they do what our enemies do. 0.73

00:57:48.000 Therefore, we'll team up with our enemies to destroy Israel.

00:57:50.000 It's a joke. 0.95

00:57:51.000 It's absurd. 0.83

00:57:52.000 The answer is America first, not Russia first, not Iran first, not Israel first. 0.83

00:57:58.000 America first. 0.94

00:57:59.000 Iran should not be our enemy, maybe, but they're not our friend. 0.96

00:58:03.000 Russia should not be our enemy, but they're not our friend.

00:58:06.000 I am so sick of the Russophilia in the movement.

00:58:10.000 It's just downright wrong.

00:58:12.000 People who talk about Russia as a traditionalist nation, yeah, relatively speaking, but Russia, look at the rate of abortions in Russia. 0.85

00:58:19.000 Russia is not a Christian nation.

00:58:21.000 Yeah, Christianity is coming back, but it's still not anywhere near what it is in America today.

00:58:27.000 So people need to really get over their hard on for Russia and Iran and all these countries.

00:58:32.000 We are not on that train.

00:58:34.000 Iran is not our friend. 1.00

00:58:36.000 And I don't understand it.

00:58:38.000 Israel does terrible things to the United States, and Iran would like to do terrible things to us, and they say terrible things about us.

00:58:44.000 If Israel said half the things that Iran says about us, you would have an uproar on the alt right.

00:58:50.000 You know, Iran, who, whether you like it or not, sure, they didn't do any terrorist attacks on U.S. soils, but they still say death to America.

00:58:57.000 They still burn our flag.

00:58:59.000 And that's not a casus belli.

00:59:01.000 That doesn't mean we go to war with them.

00:59:03.000 That doesn't mean we don't have some kind of a consulate there or we don't have relations with them.

00:59:08.000 But it doesn't mean that they suddenly become our allies. 0.99

00:59:11.000 So, a ridiculous and just a downright stupid thing to say from Russian colluder. 1.00

00:59:17.000 These kinds of low IQ people, they have to go. 1.00

00:59:21.000 I don't know, says Nick.

00:59:22.000 You keep it classy.

00:59:23.000 I try my best.

00:59:23.000 I try.

00:59:25.000 Except for when I curse, you know, and I try not to.

00:59:28.000 Michael Jones, the irrational crying from the alt right is embarrassing and over the top.

00:59:32.000 No coincidence they downvote a show that's pro America and not a Putin shill.

00:59:37.000 Well, that's the big problem there's no middle ground between neocon and isolationist.

00:59:44.000 You're either an isolationist completely or you're a neocon.

00:59:47.000 You either believe that Putin is a great man and should be our best friend and we should cuck ourselves for Russia.

00:59:54.000 Or you're with the mainstream media and you want war with Russia.

00:59:58.000 Russia is not our friend.

01:00:00.000 They're not our enemy.

01:00:01.000 We should get along with them.

01:00:02.000 We have shared interests, which we should explore.

01:00:05.000 We shouldn't go to war with them.

01:00:06.000 But that does not mean that they are an ally.

01:00:09.000 That does not mean that they are a friend or anything like that.

01:00:12.000 And you look, and Alex Jones, Richard Spencer, a lot of these people, not to say that they're bad people or anything, but Richard Spencer is good friends with Alexander Dugan.

01:00:24.000 Not to be Glenn Beck over here, but.

01:00:26.000 Dugin is known to broker deals for Vladimir Putin in Turkey and other foreign nations, and he's very close with Spencer.

01:00:32.000 You see, Russia Today, which is a state funded Russian media outlet, they give great coverage to Alex Jones.

01:00:39.000 They give great interviews to Alex Jones and so on.

01:00:43.000 And it's no surprise that they shill for this Russia first, Iran first agenda.

01:00:48.000 I'm America first, not Israel first, not Russia first, not Iran first.

01:00:52.000 And that's how we have to look at it.

01:00:54.000 Russia, they, and it's funny too, because when we do a missile strike like that, it's, oh my gosh, How could we do that to Russia? 0.87

01:01:02.000 But when Russia sails their intelligence gathering ships off of the eastern seaboard, when they buzz our bombers in Alaska, they violate our airspace, when they buzz our ships in the Black Sea, when they exploit every opportunity to send us a message, oh, well, we had it coming, we deserved it, it's our fault, or we just ignore it. 0.86

01:01:23.000 But when we do something, then, oh, America's the great Satan, America's evil, we shouldn't support our military.

01:01:30.000 I'm not on that ship at all.

01:01:31.000 Still love America. 0.69

01:01:33.000 Ian Weber says, all right, Russian colluder, back to Neilan's Tumblr page with you. 0.99

01:01:39.000 True. 0.90

01:01:40.000 Bill Raffi, it's our greatest ally that must be contained. 1.00

01:01:43.000 Why must Iran be contained? 0.98

01:01:45.000 Should our greatest ally have all the power in the Middle East?

01:01:48.000 No, we should have a balance of power in the Middle East.

01:01:51.000 Israel is the preeminent rogue state in the Middle East. 0.99

01:01:54.000 That I will grant you. 1.00

01:01:56.000 Israel has their tentacles in our State Department and our Defense Department. 0.86

01:02:01.000 They've engineered our intervention in Iraq, in Somalia, in Sudan, in Libya, to some extent, in Egypt and Syria.

01:02:08.000 But that said, Iran has their interests everywhere as well. 0.84

01:02:11.000 Iran is involved in Iraq, Iran is involved in Syria, Iran is involved in Yemen, in Bahrain.

01:02:18.000 And it's funny because people have this big conception of national sovereignty, but when Iran is doing it, then it's okay.

01:02:24.000 When Iran is sponsoring Hezbollah, which is a state in resistance to the sovereign Lebanese government, they're based, they're epic.

01:02:32.000 When Iran is sponsoring all kinds of militias throughout Iraq, no, it's based Iran, add it again.

01:02:38.000 They don't care that Iran is sponsoring the Houthi rebels in Yemen, overthrowing the sovereign government there.

01:02:43.000 That's no problem, right?

01:02:45.000 So I just really, the double standards, I'm not about the double standards.

01:02:50.000 We have to contain both. 0.99

01:02:51.000 And look, Iran, if they got a nuclear arsenal, we want to contain them. 1.00

01:02:55.000 We should also contain Israel. 0.94

01:02:56.000 Israel should also not have a nuclear weapon. 0.98

01:02:59.000 But they do.

01:03:00.000 They have a nuclear arsenal.

01:03:01.000 And it's unfortunate.

01:03:02.000 They're past the point of containment in terms of weapons of mass destruction. 0.99

01:03:06.000 Pakistan, past the point of containment. 0.93

01:03:08.000 India, past the point of containment. 0.80

01:03:10.000 Iran, they don't have an arsenal yet.

01:03:12.000 They have a capability, I believe, not an arsenal.

01:03:15.000 North Korea has an arsenal.

01:03:16.000 We're trying to shove that back in the bag. 0.99

01:03:19.000 And it's obviously very difficult.

01:03:20.000 So. 1.00

01:03:21.000 We should have contained Israel, but it's 50 years too late on that. 1.00

01:03:25.000 Iran, we still have a shot, so that's why. 1.00

01:03:28.000 I don't know. 1.00

01:03:29.000 Says, I'm just donating to negate negs, my guy. 1.00

01:03:32.000 Colin Gorton says, keep mocking the Black Pillars. 1.00

01:03:36.000 They deserve it. 1.00

01:03:37.000 They're very low IQ people. 0.94

01:03:37.000 It's true. 0.94

01:03:39.000 It's just true. 0.95

01:03:41.000 Russian colluder, Arab coalition of Sunni crazies like Saudi, Egypt, Qatar. 0.92

01:03:45.000 You support that? 0.99

01:03:46.000 You just killed Syria's Christian community. 0.99

01:03:49.000 They have Iran and Russia. 0.99

01:03:50.000 Oh, shove it. 0.99

01:03:52.000 I love how people, we say, hey, look.

01:03:54.000 We're going to bring American troops home.

01:03:56.000 We're going to bring American troops out of the Middle East.

01:03:59.000 And they say, no, no, no, that's not good enough because now it's Arab countries in Syria.

01:04:05.000 Oh, gosh, you know, these people do not care about America.

01:04:08.000 They just don't.

01:04:09.000 They want to be contrarian, they want to be edgy.

01:04:12.000 Any American patriot would celebrate American troops coming home, getting out of harm's way, not being in a foreign country where they don't belong, seeing the region take responsibility for itself.

01:04:23.000 But these people say, no, no, no, that's not good enough.

01:04:26.000 And that just tells you everything you need to know about them.

01:04:29.000 It tells you everything you need to know about them. 0.99

01:04:31.000 They are eternal losers, eternally in misery, and they want us all down there with us. 0.94

01:04:36.000 And the reason being is this if we have a viable nationalist political movement in the country, the alt right goes away. 0.99

01:04:44.000 All these circle jerk people who want to say, let's have a militia, let's do these cool meetups, let's do these cool rallies, all of that goes away. 0.52

01:04:54.000 The clout, all of that stuff is gone the next day. 0.97

01:04:57.000 And so they have a vested interest in telling you.

01:05:00.000 That Trump is no good, Trump isn't cool, because then they have clout with, oh, but these are the real leaders.

01:05:05.000 Trump created this movement, Trump put the work in, he took the initiative.

01:05:10.000 You have done nothing.

01:05:12.000 You've done rallies, great.

01:05:15.000 He gave speeches, good for you.

01:05:17.000 You comment on videos, you do podcasts.

01:05:20.000 We wish you luck, great success.

01:05:22.000 But every reform, every change in the dialectic that's occurred in the past two or three years, it's because of one man, and that's Donald Trump.

01:05:31.000 He's the leader of this movement. 0.98

01:05:33.000 Not the losers, not the black pillars, not these wacky Russophiles and Muslim sympathizers and all these other guys. 0.99

01:05:41.000 I'm with you right there, criticizing Israel, talking about media ownership, all that kind of stuff, but I'm not on this wacky loser train. 0.99

01:05:49.000 And we have Totally Not a Troll who says, Your audio is very low.

01:05:52.000 Please turn it up.

01:05:53.000 I'll just put the microphone over here.

01:05:57.000 Ian Weber, we either win politically or we depend on the silly idea of a revolution.

01:06:02.000 Where God knows what technology the government will have after 2050.

01:06:05.000 Exactly right.

01:06:07.000 Ian Weber says cats in triple parentheses.

01:06:10.000 True.

01:06:11.000 True.

01:06:12.000 Alex DeVore, Earl of Gray, was right when he said that cats are just thoughts with fur.

01:06:17.000 Also true, also a fair point. 0.99

01:06:19.000 And National Capitalist says Obama's mother was Jewish.

01:06:22.000 Was she really?

01:06:23.000 I didn't know that.

01:06:25.000 Well, there you go.

01:06:26.000 You heard it here first.

01:06:26.000 There you have it.

01:06:27.000 He's part of the conspiracy as well.

01:06:30.000 And let's see our Streamlabs for tonight.

01:06:33.000 We've got Reagan who says Trump keeps Bolton just so he has a neocon to bully around the White House.

01:06:39.000 Sources tell me that Bolton begged for a big Syrian war.

01:06:43.000 Trump dismissively chewed bubble gum and popped it in his face.

01:06:46.000 Secret Service regularly had to remove kick me signs from Bolton's back.

01:06:50.000 There you go.

01:06:51.000 I don't know if that's totally true, but I think it's a good point regardless.

01:06:56.000 Richard Dixon, what's the difference between traditionalism and fascism?

01:07:00.000 And why aren't you a fascist?

01:07:02.000 Well, you look at certain elements of fascism, and fascism, at least if we look at National Socialism, if we look at some of the other strains, it's a revolutionary ideology.

01:07:13.000 Traditionalism is not, I think that's almost a misnomer.

01:07:17.000 These people say, oh, well, what about traditions?

01:07:19.000 It's about perennialism.

01:07:20.000 It's about perennial wisdom, which is about men and women and about religion and about traditions.

01:07:27.000 It's very much less to do with what is a national tradition versus what is perennially true.

01:07:33.000 Right?

01:07:34.000 You know, so that's the same way that people say, Nick, you are a traditionalist, but America is a Protestant country.

01:07:40.000 So how can you be a Catholic?

01:07:42.000 Well, we believe that Catholicism is more perennially true than Protestantism.

01:07:47.000 And so even though Protestantism is The religion is the tradition of the country.

01:07:51.000 We can preserve the trappings of Protestantism, the traditions of a good work ethic, and all these other things, while also embracing a perennially true religion in Catholicism.

01:08:02.000 And so fascism is revolutionary as opposed to reformist.

01:08:05.000 We're reformists.

01:08:06.000 I'm a Burkean.

01:08:07.000 I believe in gradual reform.

01:08:09.000 I don't believe in these wild swings one way or the other, these grand utopian designs, which I think fascism to an extent may have that in mind.

01:08:18.000 So I don't know.

01:08:19.000 I wouldn't describe myself as a fascist, maybe something like that.

01:08:22.000 Proto fascist?

01:08:23.000 I don't know.

01:08:25.000 I certainly believe in a stronger national government, but I also think fascism is outside the experience of this country and of our ancestral countries.

01:08:35.000 You know, look at where fascism prevailed.

01:08:37.000 It prevailed in Germany, in Italy, in Spain, very different countries. 0.60

01:08:42.000 Fascism failed in the United Kingdom and the United States, and I think for good reason. 0.63

01:08:46.000 The culture is different.

01:08:48.000 We're a different people. 1.00

01:08:50.000 We might need it going down the road if we continue down this multi ethnic, Whatever kind of country we're creating.

01:08:56.000 But I think the country to become who we are is a constitutional republic. 0.99

01:09:03.000 And Butt Mountain says, discussing revenge. 0.94

01:09:07.000 A fellow church member told the group of us that he wouldn't even seek revenge if a man raped his wife. 0.94

01:09:13.000 Then accused me of being a bad Christian for teaching boxing. 1.00

01:09:15.000 Why are so many Christians fags? 1.00

01:09:19.000 Well, you know, I think it's tough because I think you'd have to seek revenge. 1.00

01:09:24.000 If somebody raped your wife, I think you'd have to do it. 0.65

01:09:26.000 I think you'd have to ask for a waiver. 0.93

01:09:28.000 You'd have to go to the priest, and well, maybe you do it and then you ask for forgiveness, right?

01:09:32.000 Better to ask for forgiveness than for permission.

01:09:35.000 But I think people have taken Christianity outside of its context.

01:09:40.000 You know, people take something like turn the other cheek outside of the context of the Bible, of which there's an historical context and also a textual context in the sense that Jesus Christ speaks in hyperboles all the time in the Bible, right?

01:09:53.000 I mean, he says, if somebody hits you, you know, turn the other cheek.

01:09:56.000 And this is hyperbolic, of course.

01:09:58.000 He also says, That if you sin with your right hand, you should cut your right hand off because it's better to get into heaven without your right hand than to be dragged to hell with your whole body.

01:10:07.000 I mean, so I don't think he meant literally you should cut your hands off if you sin.

01:10:12.000 I don't think he literally meant if somebody's killing you, you should just let them.

01:10:16.000 And so that's the textual context.

01:10:18.000 The historical context was, and I read this on poll, so I don't know if this is totally legitimate.

01:10:23.000 Again, not an expert.

01:10:25.000 But the biblical, the historical context is I believe that back in the day, if you were to get slapped and turn the other cheek, this was more a message of defiance, and it was more about being strategic as opposed to fighting back directly.

01:10:39.000 Now, again, I read that on poll, so I don't know.

01:10:41.000 Maybe that's not entirely accurate, but I don't know.

01:10:43.000 It sounds like it makes sense to me.

01:10:45.000 Either way, the Christian religion has never been about being a Quaker, you know, being a pacifist.

01:10:53.000 You look at the popes, you look at the crusades, you look at all kinds of things.

01:10:57.000 You know, people will read in the Bible and say, well, what about this?

01:11:00.000 But you look at the lived experience of the church and you say, oh, wait a minute.

01:11:04.000 Obviously, that's not the case.

01:11:05.000 Obviously, there were crusades, there was Reconquista, there was the Inquisition.

01:11:10.000 So.

01:11:12.000 It's become this new age expression of hippie stuff.

01:11:17.000 Richard Dixon says, Did you know that guy Ralph you went on stream with has a packy wife?

01:11:21.000 Maybe you shouldn't associate with him anymore. 0.99

01:11:23.000 What a ridiculous thing to say. 1.00

01:11:25.000 Do I disagree with race mixing? 1.00

01:11:26.000 Yes. 1.00

01:11:27.000 Am I going to disassociate from everybody who has race mixed?

01:11:31.000 Of course not.

01:11:34.000 What is going on?

01:11:37.000 Why?

01:11:37.000 I don't understand.

01:11:38.000 Why am I. Do you see why I get so cocky?

01:11:41.000 It's like I'm the only person that is sensible in this movement.

01:11:45.000 People would say, yeah, you know Ralph Retort?

01:11:48.000 That guy where you were on a stream, you probably agree with him on 90% of things.

01:11:53.000 He exposes your message to a lot of people.

01:11:55.000 He can be a good friend on a lot of things. 1.00

01:11:58.000 You probably shouldn't associate with him because he's got a Pakistani wife. 1.00

01:12:01.000 You disagree with race mixing because it's not great for the longevity of the marriage and the health of the children, but because he's doing it, you probably shouldn't. 1.00

01:12:11.000 Are we supposed to have a movement with no allies? 0.95

01:12:14.000 You know, these are the same people who would say, You know, Nick, you should associate with Trad Thoughts because they're a net good and overall they're serving a great function.

01:12:23.000 And then the same people say this kind of stuff.

01:12:25.000 We have to be, folks, at the end of the day, at the end of the day, I'm really not an ideological person.

01:12:31.000 I got to tell you, I'm a pragmatist.

01:12:33.000 I want what's best for my people, I want what's best for my nation, and I will do what it takes to win for them.

01:12:39.000 And if that means that you get called names on the internet, I'm fine with that.

01:12:43.000 If that means you have to associate with people that are not totally in line with our values, we have to do it.

01:12:49.000 But these are the same people who make fun of National Review Online for taking the Constitution to the grave that'll tell you we can't compromise on anything.

01:12:57.000 And they'll go right to the grave with Bill Crystal and all the others.

01:13:02.000 Can't have it.

01:13:03.000 We have to be pragmatic.

01:13:05.000 And let's see, do we have any more super chats or is that?

01:13:08.000 Looks like we got one more.

01:13:10.000 And then we're going to have to go.

01:13:11.000 It's 20 minutes over and the podcast on the way.

01:13:14.000 The Daily Oven says forgiveness and justice are not mutually exclusive.

01:13:18.000 Justice does not require mercy.

01:13:20.000 There you go.

01:13:22.000 There you go.

01:13:22.000 And so it will be done.

01:13:24.000 Bam.

01:13:25.000 I would, yeah.

01:13:26.000 If that ever happened, I think you'd have to.

01:13:28.000 I don't know how you could not.

01:13:30.000 I mean, God said he was a vengeful God in the Old Testament.

01:13:33.000 I know we're not God, but it's like, you know, it's like, hey, we see you doing this and we're made in your image.

01:13:39.000 We probably have the same feeling.

01:13:41.000 So, but anyhow, I'm not an expert.

01:13:43.000 I'm not an expert.

01:13:44.000 You should ask the classical theist or ask Constantinople.

01:13:49.000 I don't know.

01:13:50.000 I just simply don't.

01:13:51.000 I can only afford, at 19 years old, I'm only an expert on one subject or a few.

01:13:56.000 Well, that's going to do it for us here on the show tonight.

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