In this episode of America First, host Nicholas J. Fuentes talks about the latest in the Iran crisis, and tries to explain why a biblical strike on Iran is not imminent. He also talks about his thoughts on the Boomer Generation and its consequences for the human race, Bigfoot, and much, much more. America First is a show about the American people, the country, and the people who make up the majority of the population. It's a place where we talk about what's going on in the world, what's happening, and what's to come in the future. America First will be a show where you get to know the hosts, ask the questions, and get the answers you've been asking for! Enjoy, and tweet me if you have any thoughts, suggestions, or opinions on any of the topics covered in this episode. Tweet Me! and let me know what you think! Timestamps: 1:00:00 - What is a Biblical strike? 2:30 - Is a strike imminent? 3:20 - What would you like to see happen? 4:15 - Does a biblical attack on Iran seem imminent to you? 5:25 - What are your thoughts on Iran? 6:40 - How would you authorize a strike on an Iran strike ? 7:00- What is your answer? 8:15- Is there any biblical strike imminent ? 9:30- Is a biblical military strike possible? 10:00 11:40- What do we need to do? 13:00 | What is an option? 15:00? 16:10 - What do you think of the answer to that question? 17:00 + 16: What is the answer we should we do next? 18:10 | 17:40 | Is there a biblical response? 19:30 | What would we do now? 21:20 | Is that a big deal? 22:40 + 17:35:00 // 17:30 +16:10:40 // 18: Is it imminent? / 16:00 / 17: Does that sound like a biblical? & 17: Do you think that s a biblical move? 20:00/16:40/17:10 19, can I do that? +17:40 / 18:40 Is that an option ? &
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00:24:53.000And actually, the President said that he wants to pick an option specifically that does not draw us into a greater conflict in the region.
00:25:02.000For example, they're thinking that they might have Saudi Arabia carry out a limited strike on Iran with some form of American support in the way of intelligence or material, something like that.
00:25:13.000So, you know, people clicked on the video thinking, Whoa!
00:25:33.000I would say that basically my take from yesterday was vindicated in the sense that it looks like the president is trying to restrain the military-industrial complex here, trying to restrain some of the impulses from the more hawkish elements in the administration who want to see big retaliation, war, big military action.
00:25:58.000We'll be talking about the Israeli elections which were today not looking good for Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:26:05.000Now his party might still be in power after all is said and done but he was not able to secure enough seats outright to form a government and that was the problem is that they had elections actually this year not too long ago
00:26:20.000But they had to force a new round of elections because they couldn't form a coalition in Parliament.
00:26:25.000Well, he failed once again to secure a majority outright, so now things are back up in the air again, and it's looking like either he won't be the Prime Minister, but his party will be in the coalition government, or he may be the Prime Minister, but it'll be some kind of compromise unity government, or he might not even be in charge of his party at all by the end of this.
00:26:46.000So we'll talk about some of the possibilities here, what we have in front of us right now, which is exit polling data.
00:26:52.000And then we'll also be looking at a new poll, a poll from NBC.
00:26:57.000It's a national poll for the Democratic presidential primary.
00:27:03.000The new poll from NBC says that Joe Biden remains in first place.
00:27:07.000He's got, I think it says, 31% of the vote, but now Elizabeth Warren has inched up and now she is in second place with 25%.
00:27:16.000And there's some other great numbers within this poll that show, I think, that this is Elizabeth Warren's race to win.
00:27:23.000You know, we talked about this last week, of course,
00:27:26.000Last week was the third Democratic presidential debate and what I've been saying over the past like three or four weeks now is that if it's anybody's race to win, if it's not Joe Biden, it's Elizabeth Warren.
00:27:39.000I would say that the whole field is basically uncompetitive
00:27:42.000It's Joe Biden's race to lose, but if there's anybody who's gonna replace him and it's looking increasingly like he won't be a viable candidate for the next year or so, Elizabeth Warren is going to be the one to take the top spot.
00:27:55.000And I think this polling bears it out.
00:28:49.000We'll talk about what that means for the race, what's that, what is that going to mean for 2020, and it should be a pretty fun show, pretty exciting.
00:28:56.000I gotta say it was kind of a slow news day today.
00:28:58.000I started really early trying to put the show together.
00:29:02.000I was trying to be, I was trying so hard to be on time today, and I started putting the show together really early, or a lot earlier than I usually do.
00:29:28.000I guess that's what... It goes with the territory with a daily show, I guess, right?
00:29:31.000That it's just a lot of the daily grind.
00:29:34.000I also have to say, you know, I was getting ready to do the show.
00:29:37.000This is one reason why I'm high energy.
00:29:40.000And I said, I'm going to go out and get McDonald's for dinner.
00:29:43.000My mom, bless her heart, she's always telling me, because I'm always complaining, she's like, I make dinner for you every night.
00:29:49.000And, you know, these days I'm like, you ought to put an asterisk whenever you say that, because I don't know if you could say I make dinner every night, but you only make dinner three nights a week.
00:29:59.000Yeah, that's not even really half, right?
00:30:02.000But anyway, so she said, well, I'm not making dinner tonight.
00:30:04.000You're gonna have to fend for yourself.
00:30:12.000Because I left at like a quarter to five, and there was so much traffic because I get up to where the
00:30:20.000the train the railroad crossing is and there's a train literally just stopped right in the middle of the tracks it like the the first car of the train pulls up and then stops so it's not even like it's the end of the train it's like the whole train is stopped and it's rush hour and it's already backed up now there's a train blocking like three different stops
00:30:41.000You know, so it took me a full 60 minutes to go get the McDonald's, which should be like 10 minutes from my house, pick it up, come home, eat it, all that.
00:30:50.000So, things just aren't going my way today, I guess you could say.
00:30:53.000I got, don't get me wrong, I'm high energy because I got a quarter pounder, a hamburger, fries.
00:30:58.000I mean, we're locked and loaded, so to speak, like Trump said, but...
00:31:22.000It says former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Elizabeth Warren
00:31:27.000Continue to top the Democratic 2020 presidential field after last week's debate in a race for the nomination that breaks along ideological and racial lines according to a national NBC News Wall Street Journal poll released on Tuesday.
00:31:42.000The survey also shows that Warren has the advantage in enthusiasm and that she gets the most second choice support.
00:31:49.000Biden leads the overall horse race with backing from 31% of Democratic primary voters, which is up 5 points since July, while Warren gets 25% up 6 points since July.
00:32:03.000And before I continue, why is that significant?
00:32:06.000You have to remember that in July, this was right after the first debate in June.
00:32:10.000Joe Biden took a pretty serious hit in the national polling after the first debate in June.
00:32:16.000So Joe Biden may have gained five points since July but this is misleading because he was probably five points higher before the June debate.
00:32:25.000So really if you compare the polling to June or May there's not much of a change from where he was before.
00:32:32.000If he gained five points since July he only recaptured the numbers that he had before he totally
00:33:15.000So you know, like I said last week, a lot of the polling has sort of gone back to where it was before the debates, the debates really have not had a significant impact.
00:33:25.000You know, the biggest impact we've seen from the debates so far on the polling was after the first one, Joe Biden went down, Kamala Harris went up.
00:33:54.000Reverting in the way that other people's rises or falls have is Elizabeth Warren.
00:33:59.000The only story of really dynamism in the horse race has been Elizabeth Warren steadily rising up.
00:34:06.000The report goes on, it says 35% of Democratic primary voters say they're enthusiastic about Warren.
00:34:13.000Another 35% say they are comfortable with her, and just 6% say they are very uncomfortable with her.
00:34:19.000That's compared with 23% who are enthusiastic about Biden, 41% who are comfortable with Biden, and 13% who are very uncomfortable, which is unchanged since June.
00:34:30.000So, Warren has about 12% more people who are enthusiastic, a little bit less who are comfortable, but a lot less, about half, who are uncomfortable.
00:34:39.000With her being the nominee, and like I said, Warren also gets the most second-choice support with 21% of Democrats picking her as their second choice.
00:34:48.000Sanders is at 16%, Buttigieg at 12%, and Biden at 11%.
00:34:53.000And so to me, this national poll basically vindicates everything I've been saying about the race from the beginning, which is that honestly, the debates really don't matter.
00:35:02.000The people that are winning and losing the debates, and I always roll my eyes at this stuff, people are so... I mean, I don't want to say people are stupid, but I think people are very childlike when it comes to watching the so-called horse race, you know?
00:35:18.000They watch the live coverage and everybody's so interested in, oh, well, you know, this person is saying this about policy, and oh, I don't know, you know, this person had a great performance.
00:35:27.000Fundamentally, a lot of this stuff really doesn't matter in general.
00:35:32.000If we're going to look at these two-hour debates that we keep slavishly watching, and the debate about healthcare and gun control and climate change, about 99% of it doesn't matter in general.
00:36:09.000You know, after all these debates and all these different episodes, the polling is basically unchanged over three months, over three different debates.
00:36:16.000Like I said, the only dynamic trend that we're seeing, because Joe Biden is, he's staying strong, steadily at number one by far.
00:36:25.000Sanders remains a Tier 2 candidate at around 15%.
00:36:30.000All these other guys have failed to breach double digits.
00:36:33.000The only dynamic trend is that Elizabeth Warren has been steadily rising.
00:37:00.000or will have been four years when uh the 2020 election comes around that he's been on the scene and moreover he's an old white guy i mean he's jewish but he's an old white guy elizabeth warren is not only a fresh face because she's new in national politics but also it's because she is a woman and she brings with her not only all of the populist
00:37:20.000Perhaps social democratic, really progressive kind of politics of Sanders, but also she brings with it the racial and social woke aspect to it.
00:37:28.000So to me, I see the real race at this point.
00:37:32.000You can really forget about everything else and everybody else.
00:37:35.000The real race to me, unless something dramatically changes, is between Biden and Warren.
00:37:40.000I think these are the only two contenders for the nomination.
00:37:43.000And honestly, at this stage in the game, you know, like I said, I think I made this prediction a couple of weeks ago,
00:37:51.000Hands down, based on all the information that we had before the debates, it was just fundraising, it was just polling, I would have said it's Biden's race to lose.
00:38:00.000At this point I think Warren is now the favorite to win.
00:38:02.000I think she has got this trajectory where she could overtake Biden.
00:38:09.000And you look at these debate performances, and generally speaking they don't matter, but to me the one consistent trend, the one thing that I'm noticing, is that Biden as a candidate is tired, he's foolish, he's making all these gaffes, he's forgetting things.
00:38:23.000I mean his age is really bringing him down.
00:38:26.000I think there's something going on upstairs.
00:39:10.000But in every other poll, he's number one by far.
00:39:12.000But I think that if we really want to predict and forecast out in the long term, I think Elizabeth Warren is going to stay strong.
00:39:19.000I think Biden will continue to get weaker as time goes on.
00:39:23.000And I think the enthusiasm and that number two, that second choice number, those are probably the most important numbers out of this poll.
00:39:30.000Because you'll see that by the Democratic caucuses and primaries in 2020, I think they start in February 2020,
00:39:38.000You'll see a lot of candidates will have already dropped out by then.
00:39:42.000Probably you'll be down to now it's 10 candidates in the debates.
00:39:46.000I think by the primaries and caucuses at the very least, you'll see, you know, 10 candidates in the race altogether, notwithstanding whether they qualify for debates.
00:39:54.000And then it'll narrow further from that.
00:39:56.000And I think as people begin to exit the race, I think they're going to rally around Elizabeth Warren.
00:40:02.000I think Elizabeth Warren has a lot more to gain from people dropping out than Joe Biden.
00:40:06.000I think Joe Biden is basically maxed out in terms of where his support is at.
00:40:10.000You know, he's got about 11% second-choice support, and sure, maybe he's got a little bit more room to grow if the race does narrow to a two-person field, right, to a two-person contest, but nevertheless, I think Warren has a lot more potential, particularly if Kamala Harris, if some of the more progressive candidates, if Bernie Sanders ever leaves the race, I think she'll be the main beneficiary of that.
00:40:34.000Tentatively, I'm gonna say, based on this poll, it's sort of indicating where I've been at for the past couple of weeks, based on the first three debates, that I think Warren is probably gonna take the nomination.
00:40:44.000I would say, you know, again, very tentatively, still very early, lots can change, lots of dramatic things can happen.
00:40:52.000I would say at this point in time, I'm gonna say Warren's gonna be the nominee.
00:40:55.000I think Trump's gonna beat her, but I think she's gonna be the nominee.
00:41:09.000So, if you felt like you did not get enough, if you didn't get enough of the Democratic, you know, 5-10 hour debates, however long they are, right, of the same issues, same policies,
00:41:21.000Hey, you're going to get another opportunity for us to do this all over again next month, right?
00:41:26.000And of course we'll be doing this for another year.
00:41:28.000So that's the NBC poll, but we're going to move on.
00:41:30.000We're going to talk about these Israeli elections.
00:41:33.000And you know, I was debating whether I was going to cover the Israeli elections or not.
00:41:38.000Because the show is called America First and you know, whereas Israel is peripherally important for us because they control our foreign policy.
00:41:48.000So in a way, it's like an extension of America.
00:41:51.000But their domestic affairs, is that really an area of concern for us?
00:41:55.000But you know, I think a lot of people watching this show probably want to hear about it considering what's going on with Iran and we did bring it up last night.
00:42:03.000Briefly, and I have to say at the outset, I don't know very much about domestic Israeli politics.
00:42:09.000I don't make it a habit to follow Israeli politics, so I know we might get some Ziocons, some Jews who are going to be correcting me in the comments saying, well, actually, you know, whatever.
00:42:28.000It says, quote, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has failed to secure a ruling majority in Israel's second election of 2019, according to exit polls released by Israeli television channels.
00:42:40.000Exit polls show that Netanyahu's right-wing bloc will gain 53 to 56 seats.
00:42:47.000The biggest party, according to the polls, is Benny Gantz's Kahool-Levon party.
00:42:52.000And, you know, forgive me if I'm butchering the devil scratches Hebrew language.
00:42:58.000However, since neither Netanyahu nor Gantz appear to have gained a 61-seat majority, the two are likely to head to deliberations with President Rivlin, who will determine which of them gets the mandate to try and form a governing coalition.
00:43:12.000According to the polls, Lavon is leading with 32 Knesset seats, while Likud is projected to garner between 30 and 32 seats.
00:43:21.000So to me the takeaway at this point, and we don't have any of the official data yet, the polls, or rather the votes, are still being tallied.
00:43:30.000I think the polls have closed at this point.
00:43:32.000The votes are still being counted and tallied, and we don't have official numbers on which parties won how many seats yet, but I think the consensus at this point is that we don't know who won, but we know that Benjamin Netanyahu lost.
00:43:45.000And I have to say, before we dive into our, you know, real analysis of this, I'm very happy that Benjamin Netanyahu is lost, on a personal level.
00:43:53.000Because, you gotta understand, this guy's been in control.
00:43:56.000He's been at the helm since, I think, what?
00:44:02.000We've seen it go on in the Obama administration.
00:44:05.000We saw it go on in the Trump administration.
00:44:07.000I'll never forget when this guy, and I never liked Barack Obama,
00:44:12.000But Benjamin Netanyahu at some point during the Obama administration, he went to the Republican Congress against the President's wishes to deliver a statement to a joint session of Congress.
00:44:23.000You know, the disrespect that this guy has for our political system, and I don't care if it's the Democrats, we hate the Democrats too.
00:44:31.000But the disrespect that he shows our system, that he would flagrantly go against the sitting president like that.
00:44:37.000And we've seen how he abuses this president.
00:44:40.000You know, our president told them explicitly, do not annex more settlements, or do not annex more land, do not build more settlements.
00:44:47.000And he goes and builds record settlements, it's record annexation of Palestinian, or in some cases Syrian, territory.
00:44:54.000To me at a very personal level I'm glad he's out and I'm going to get into some serious analysis and maybe this is not going to be the best thing in the world for the Trump administration or for the American government that Netanyahu is out for reasons I'll get into, but just for me on a personal level I'm glad that he lost.
00:45:13.000If it's going to be harder for us to conduct diplomacy with Israel, if they're going to cause more problems, I'm glad that this guy lost.
00:45:19.000I'm glad that Likud, this warmongering, in my opinion, just straight-up evil party that has controlled Israel and our State Department, I'm glad they're out of power.
00:45:30.000You know, who knows what's going to happen.
00:45:32.000Some of the consequences of this election, depending on what the final tallies are, like I said, it varies.
00:45:39.000It could be that Bibi Netanyahu remains the Prime Minister, but that they have a unity government with a more moderate party.
00:45:47.000That they'll have a center-right governing coalition in the parliament and they'll have to moderate a lot of their policies with the white and blue party in Israel.
00:45:54.000Some are saying that Bibi Netanyahu would be in the opposition and that this this other party which I like I said Benny Gantz's party they might form a coalition with other parties and Netanyahu's totally out.
00:46:06.000Some say that Likud could form a governing coalition with another party but with Benjamin Netanyahu not at the head of the Likud party.
00:46:14.000So there's a lot of different options and we'll see how this plays out over the coming weeks.
00:46:18.000Now we're kind of back to square one in Israel because the whole reason why we're having another election in Israel in 2019 is
00:46:44.000It probably is not going to be the best thing in the world for America, because, you know, while we do have a bone to pick with these people on a certain level, because we see the way in which they disrespect us, the way they abuse our foreign policy apparatus, our State Department, all of that, by the same token, this country still wields the same influence.
00:47:03.000And so the question is, are they going to wield that influence with a nominally nationalist leader in office?
00:47:10.000A basically authoritarian nationalist leader who in Israel is trying to form a one-state solution built around Jewish ethnic and national identity?
00:47:21.000Or are we going to have that same country have the same influence but instead it's left-wing?
00:47:26.000But instead, these are people that are supporting our enemies and supporting the enemies in Europe.
00:47:31.000You know, so, we do have to temper this with a little bit of real politique.
00:47:35.000It might be easy and nice to say, well, we don't like Bibi Netanyahu, therefore it's a good thing that he's going.
00:47:40.000Well, maybe on a personal level, but on a greater level, Bibi Netanyahu has been supporting people throughout the world, like Bolsonaro, like Salvini, like Orban, like some of these other leaders throughout Europe.
00:47:52.000And we could say that in our country, the Israeli influence is pretty pernicious.
00:47:56.000You know, they draw us into conflicts in the Middle East, they're spying on us, they steal our intelligence, and all the rest.
00:48:02.000In other countries, I think the influence is more benign, and perhaps maybe, dare I say it, even somewhat beneficial.
00:48:10.000There is more or less even though they do come together quite frequently a distinction between the left-wing Jewish people in Europe who are trying to rip the country or rip the continent apart with mass migration and social degeneracy and more or less the Zionist nationalist Jews from Israel who are propping up these more right-wing governments.
00:48:30.000So again I'm not going to say that these are all perfect options.
00:48:34.000I'm not going to say it's a good option that Bibi Netanyahu and the Likud party have their mitts
00:49:03.000Because, you know, a lot of people would say, well, the number one problem with Netanyahu and the Likud party is that they're insane war hawks.
00:49:10.000They want a one-state solution in Israel.
00:49:26.000He said almost virtually the same things about foreign policy that Netanyahu has said.
00:49:30.000And again, I'm no expert, but the brief research that I did on these two people, Benny Gantz made this same commitment a few months ago in the last round of elections, when he said that, yeah, we will not hesitate to blow up Iran, and yeah, we're not going to hesitate to blow up these elements in Syria.
00:49:46.000So you know if they're both war hawks, if they both want America to fight their wars for them, I don't know, maybe Bibi Netanyahu leaving might in the end be a bad thing for Europe and America.
00:49:57.000I would say that ultimately we don't want to see necessarily Bibi Netanyahu out of power in Israel.
00:50:02.000I could care less about who's in power in Israel.
00:50:05.000What we really want to see is Israel's influence outside of Washington DC and Israel's influence
00:50:19.000You know, like I said, I'm not a perfect expert on what exactly is going on there.
00:50:24.000But I would say, as an outsider, as somebody who looks at things from the American perspective, I would say that, you know, we look at things like Yoram Mazony's National Conservatism Conference.
00:50:46.000By the same token, Sheldon Adelson was the number one supporter.
00:50:50.000He was the number one individual in terms of political contributions in the 2016 election.
00:50:55.000And he was giving money to the good guys.
00:50:57.000So you have to always temper that rage about the current situation, and I get it, saying, well, ideally, none of these people would be involved, right?
00:51:06.000And ideally, none of these people would be giving money or interfering, anything like that.
00:51:10.000But, given the situation, given that, I mean, there's a lot of these Jewish people giving the money, and there's a lot of influence from Israel, maybe we're better off if it's a nationalist, nominally right-wing, somewhat authoritarian leader, as opposed to a left-wing person.
00:51:28.000For that reason, maybe there's a different strategic consideration than just the purely personal consideration, which is Netanyahu has been kind of a dirtbag and he deserves to lose, right?
00:51:38.000And maybe it's good to see an Israeli leader go to jail, right?
00:52:12.000And this is our featured story last night that there was this massive strike on the oil refineries, the oil field, in Saudi Arabia over the weekend.
00:52:21.0005.7 million barrels of crude oil destroyed.
00:52:30.000And the question last night was who is responsible for the strike?
00:52:34.000You know, and I thought it was very interesting that
00:52:36.000From the outset, we were quick to blame the Iranians.
00:52:40.000Mike Pompeo, a lot of people at the State Department, a lot of intelligence officials, they said that, of course, this was a strike by Iran.
00:52:47.000Which was interesting because Iran denied involvement, whereas the Houthi rebels in Yemen took credit for the strike, which received some backing from Iran.
00:52:56.000But then we also got the announcement right before the show last night that Brian Hook, who was the envoy to Iran, confirmed
00:53:02.000That the missile strike did not come from Iraq, in other words, not come from Iranian proxies in Iraq, and it didn't come from the Houthis, the Iranian proxies in Yemen, which is where I believed and many others believed the strike originated.
00:53:15.000So I said last night, well, if it didn't come from Yemen, if it didn't come from Iraq, and Iran is denying it, maybe it came from somebody else.
00:53:21.000Maybe it came from Saudi Arabia themselves.
00:53:26.000You know, Bibi Netanyahu's election was today.
00:53:29.000So maybe that was some kind of last-ditch effort to get America to rebuke Iran and gain some favorability in the minds of very paranoid Jewish people in Israel who would vote for Netanyahu.
00:53:40.000But I guess now they've established that the missile did come from Iran.
00:53:45.000It says, quote, the attack on a major Saudi oil field facility originated geographically from Iranian territory with a series of low-altitude cruise missiles fired from at least one location in the western region of the country, according to two US officials familiar with the latest intelligence.
00:54:03.000Now again, I don't know if we believe that entirely.
00:54:06.000I don't know if I'm gonna buy that wholesale.
00:54:08.000This would not be the first time that the State Department lied about an attack
00:54:13.000On our soil or anybody else's soil, right?
00:54:16.000I mean, we know that our government has lied many, many times to get us into conflict.
00:54:23.000intelligence officials that, well, now we know for certain the missile strike came from Iran.
00:54:27.000It's like, well, we know for certain that's what the government is saying, but we don't know for certain the government is telling the truth.
00:54:34.000They haven't always told the truth before, right?
00:54:36.000But now NBC is reporting that the Trump administration is considering retaliatory
00:54:42.000Measures they can take to punish Iran.
00:54:47.000It says, quote, the Trump administration is weighing a range of options for a retaliatory action against Iran including a cyber attack or physical strike on Iranian oil facilities or Revolutionary Guard assets.
00:55:00.000In a national security meeting on Monday, U.S.
00:55:02.000military leaders provided President Donald Trump with a menu of possible actions against Iran.
00:55:07.000But the President, seeking a narrowly focused response that would not draw the U.S.
00:55:12.000into broader military conflict with Iran, asked for more options.
00:55:17.000That could entail a strike by Saudi Arabia, whose oil facilities were hit Sunday in an unprecedented attack that the U.S.
00:55:23.000would support with intelligence, targeting information, and surveillance capabilities, but without the U.S.
00:56:55.000You know, we can be skeptical that the American government is telling the truth, you know, probably not, maybe not, but that's the information we have to work with.
00:57:03.000So Iran has blown up Saudi Arabia, and certainly Saudi Arabia is an ally.
00:57:58.000Nation state in the proper sense of the word.
00:58:00.000Saudi Arabia could not really be described as this, right?
00:58:04.000So I'm gonna go out on a limb and say I don't really care for either of them, but if we were to align with one or the other, would I choose Saudi Arabia over Iran?
00:58:12.000If it were a vacuum, if it were a clean slate and we could just pick which one we liked more, you know, maybe I'd go for Iran.
00:59:23.000So we have to work with the frame that we have, which is Saudi Arabia is, for better or for worse, nominally or in fact an ally, and Iran is the adversary, right?
00:59:49.000To me, I think the most appropriate form of response would be Saudi Arabia attacking Iran.
00:59:54.000Because I would say that I understand why America feels the need to reestablish deterrence.
00:59:59.000To reestablish discipline and restraint in the region.
01:00:03.000We are the hegemon in the Middle East.
01:00:06.000And so if you have a rogue state like Iran attacking people, blowing people up, we should work to restrain that.
01:00:12.000I think that should be a no-no for a country like Iran.
01:00:16.000That said, we have no business being the ones to dole out the punishment.
01:00:20.000You consider what's going on between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and while in a way it's our business because it concerns the Persian Gulf,
01:00:27.000This is a conflict which is taking place literally directly over the Persian Gulf, where like 30% of the world's oil comes from.
01:00:35.000In another way, this is their conflict to sort out.
01:00:38.000We don't have a defense treaty with Saudi Arabia.
01:00:40.000We have no legal obligation or any other obligation to defend Saudi Arabia.
01:00:46.000Consider that President Trump's first foreign visit in this term as president was to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to make one of the biggest arms contracts in the history of the world, selling them something like $400 billion worth of supplies to Saudi Arabia.
01:01:54.000On the one hand, we don't lose face in the eyes of the world.
01:01:57.000If an adversary attacks an ally, even if we don't have a defense treaty, that gets a response.
01:02:03.000And by the same token, it does not draw us into a greater conflict.
01:02:07.000I would say though, I would say though, however,
01:02:09.000That any kind of response is going to escalate the situation.
01:02:14.000If Saudi Arabia responds to Iran, who's to say that Iran's not going to counter that?
01:02:19.000And then we're caught in the same escalation situation.
01:02:23.000And even if it's not us directly involved, even if it's not us directly attacking Iran, by giving material support to Saudi Arabia to carry out an attack,
01:02:32.000Or ultimately having to protect Saudi Arabia because they are our ally and they are a major oil exporter.
01:02:38.000That could, in any case, bring us into war in Iran, even if we're not the ones to carry out the strike.
01:02:43.000So I would say that, to me, at the end of the day, what I'm most excited about is that Trump says clearly and explicitly, at every stage that this has happened, whether it was him pulling out of the nuclear deal last year, or whether it was him
01:02:58.000Pulling the waiver for oil sanctions for Iran in May, or it was the drone being shot down, or the tankers being blown up, or this episode.
01:03:06.000To me it is the most white-pilling that at every step of the way Trump has reiterated, I do not want us to get drawn into another war, do not want to make this a broader conflict, does not want to escalate into a ground war, and he has maintained throughout that he wants to meet with the Iranians, which is the proper course.
01:03:24.000And again to me this is reiterating and reaffirming
01:03:27.000The Trump Doctrine, which is containment of Iran.
01:03:30.000You know, a lot of people, like a lot of people watch this show and they're all like Ron Paul, sycophants, they're libertarians, isolationists, whatever.
01:03:38.000Not that I'm like a neocon or like, you know, some guy who loves war or anything, but I'm not ideologically opposed to using our military.
01:03:46.000I'm not ideologically opposed to the idea that America has interests in places that are not the United States.
01:04:21.000It's not saying, hey Iran, we're gonna be your best good friend, like the Obama administration did.
01:04:26.000We're gonna make a deal, everything's gonna be great, we don't wanna harm you, we have no military, we're not a great power anymore, we're pussies, we're pushovers.
01:05:25.000This is the best of both worlds because we are at once
01:05:28.000Defending our interests in the region, but it is also I think a pretty strong acknowledgement that these are secondary or tertiary interests to America.
01:05:37.000It's saying that yes, we are going to work to constrain Iran, we are going to punish them, but we're also not going to invade them because fundamentally that's not what we care about.
01:05:46.000We care about what's happening domestically and the threats that we care about, you know, having wars and really attacking head-on militarily are the ones that are a direct threat to the United States.
01:06:47.000I think if anything happens, it's going to be, you know, though the worst that we would have to worry about would be some kind of a minor strike on Iran that would not escalate beyond our control.
01:06:57.000You know, I don't think we're in any danger of
01:06:59.000What I what I title the video as imminent biblical strike on Iran.
01:07:03.000I think at most we're gonna see some kind of minor military retaliation and probably it would be a non-military option.
01:07:10.000I would think maybe some kind of a cyber attack maybe something from Saudi Arabia.
01:07:15.000So in that regard I'm gonna say again cautiously tentatively I trust Trump.
01:07:20.000Not to say it could inspire a lot of control, not to say that that's not a possibility, but I think it's highly unlikely.
01:07:26.000I think Trump basically knows what he's doing at this point.
01:07:29.000I think we're going to see this play out somewhat similarly to what happened with North Korea.
01:07:34.000Maybe it'll take longer, maybe the Iranians are going to be less friendly, less open to the idea of detente, but I think it'll play out in a similar fashion.
01:07:45.000I guess we'll have to wait and see this week how this all resolves, what the strike will look like, what the conversation evolves into, but that's where we're at right now.
01:07:54.000So we're going to take a look at our superchats.
01:07:55.000We'll see what you guys are saying about all this.
01:07:58.000I know people are not always in love with my foreign policy takes.
01:12:11.000You'd think there'd be some other Zoomer, some other person out there trying to make this flavor of content, but here I am, alone again, you know?
01:12:21.000I guess Faith Goldie's doing something similar, but, I mean, she's been at it for a while, and Patrick Casey, too, and Jarrah Taylor, but these people, you know, they've existed in the movement.
01:13:38.000If I'm being honest, I would probably freak out.
01:13:42.000But if I had really prepared, if I really was disciplined, I don't know what I would say.
01:13:48.000Honestly, I don't think if you had to say anything to anybody for 30 seconds... If somebody talked to me for 30 seconds, nothing that they would say to me as, like, a total and complete stranger would, like, change my life, you know?
01:14:00.000Like, if some... if one audience member came up to me and had 30 seconds and said, like, blah blah blah... I don't think there's anything in the world a stranger could say to me in 30 seconds that, like, would meaningfully change my life or opinions about anything in any meaningful way.
01:14:15.000You know, because it's like, fuck you.
01:14:24.000You know, he gets unsolicited advice all the time.
01:14:27.000So, as an e-celebrity, out of respect for my fellow e-celebrity, Donald Trump, I wouldn't give him any unsolicited advice because he knows better than I do.
01:14:37.000And I'm sure people tell him all the time everything that I'm saying to him.
01:15:04.000I don't know what it is, what happened along the way where people just think like, well, I know, I know best and you need to hear my opinion.
01:15:11.000You're gonna hear my opinion because I'm going to tell it to you.
01:15:14.000People need to shut the hell up and just be more gracious.
01:15:18.000And maybe if you build a relationship and over time it's mutual, it's reciprocal, then
01:15:24.000You know, you say, hey, look, you know, not for nothing, but as a friend, you know, here's my advice to you, something like this, but it's just this, this is symptomatic of the mentality.
01:15:33.000If you had 30 seconds, what are you going to tell him?
01:15:36.000Well, coming to him humbly as a civilian, as somebody 50 years, his junior, as somebody who is not the president, I would say thank you.
01:16:24.000I don't know how people believe that if you eat hamburgers, you're gonna... That's... This is all... This is all Jewish propaganda when they say to me, you know, you have to stop eating McDonald's.
01:16:40.000You're eating vegetables from the garden?
01:16:42.000You think that's really boosting your tea count?
01:16:44.000What, are you eating a banana from the garden?
01:16:47.000And you're telling me, oh, Nick, you have to stop eating meat.
01:16:49.000You have to stop eating steak and hamburgers and french fries.
01:16:53.000You ought to start eating fresh yogurt whipped up from my garden.
01:16:57.000Fresh yogurt whipped up from my cow's milk and this little salad.
01:17:02.000I see these people, and I always go off on this, but it's so true.
01:17:06.000These people pretending to be masculine and they're posting these like, they're posting these VSCO, V-S-C-O pictures of their salads on Twitter.
01:18:11.000That's in your blood, you know, you're just, your veins are, it's coursing through your veins, it's meat, it's protein, it's testosterone, it's Christian, Christian nutrients, things like that.
01:18:25.000So I believe it, but, you know, the destroyer of bug man thing, maybe we could check that at the door?
01:18:31.000Can we get a cringe check and chat for that?
01:18:33.000Anon says Nick claims to be a populist and espouses big state economic policies all while streaming from an NYC penthouse.
01:19:22.000He says part of the reason we are in this situation with Iran obviously has to do with America's support for Israel, but also the plotting of the British and the Anglo-Iranian oil company in the Iranian coup of 1953.
01:19:35.000But somehow America gets all the blame.
01:19:38.000And then he sends another one that says pee-pee poo-poo.
01:20:05.000America is the regional hegemon in the Middle East.
01:20:08.000And I think that probably at least 50% of all the problems
01:20:13.000That people have with our country originates from that.
01:20:16.000You know, it's sort of like the buck stops with us.
01:20:19.000Because we are the formal and informal leader of the current world order, I think we get all the blame and we take all the heat from these countries that, you know, whether they be rival great powers, whether they be rogue actors,
01:23:48.000So Graham tweeted, the measured response by Trump regarding the shooting down of an American drone was clearly seen by the Iranian regime as a sign of weakness.
01:23:57.000And Trump responds, no Lindsey, it was a sign of strength that some people just don't understand.
01:24:08.000Thanks for bringing that to my attention.
01:24:09.000Doopus says, Cracked a few jokes around my mom about getting ready for the second civil war and the elites conspiring against us and now she wants to take away my phone.
01:24:20.000Don't joke around with your parents like that.
01:24:27.000They're gonna, they're gonna put you on some kind of regime, you know, or regimen rather, where they see these, like, concerned mothers on Twitter that are like, my Justin got radicalized online!
01:24:38.000Pretty soon he was saying things like, kill all normies, and you know, blah blah blah, because he was on R the Donald!
01:24:45.000So now I, I watch, uh, you know, what's that girl's name, uh...
01:24:58.000I saw some Twitter thread like this where some mom was like... It was the saddest thing ever.
01:25:03.000Some Zoomer got totally based in Red Pill was like, you know...
01:25:07.000Beating the hell out of his mom, dragging her to these rallies and things, and then his mom totally paused him up.
01:25:14.000Then his mom was like, you know, he was like crying to his mom about people being mean or something, and she was like, here, watch like this feminist YouTuber, watch ContraPoints, whatever.
01:25:24.000And it's just sad to see, but that's the eternal woman, right?
01:26:27.000You bled social security dry, you're the reason immigrants are coming to the country, you got to live in the greatest country ever, the greatest period of prosperity in world history, and you ruined it for us.
01:27:20.000It took a lot of massaging, a lot of, you know, massaging political opinions and things and...
01:27:26.000To get them to a point where they would be like, well, I kind of get what you're saying, you know, but came out with the wrong approach, clearly.
01:27:53.000Just like, you know, the sun rises in the East and sets in the West, the North will always be better than the South, no matter where you are geographically.
01:28:45.000And Southerners are like, but, but, but, the North crushed us just so they could take over the country and, you know, amass political power.
01:29:19.000Yeah, I guess it's that time of the evening.
01:29:21.000Big Mike says, the best part about making lasagna is knowing that dirty Angloids don't know how to, and that's important to make lasagna, so that you can remind those savages that they can't have anything good in life.
01:32:11.000You just haven't been around long enough, I guess.
01:32:13.000Every so many months, this picture of Breezewood, Pennsylvania goes floating around.
01:32:19.000Some retarded bitch, because they want dopamine, posts that.
01:32:23.000It's a picture of a very busy rest stop with all these gas stations and fast food restaurants, and they're like,
01:32:29.000Good thing, bad thing, good thing, tradition, bad thing, capitalism, you know whatever.
01:32:46.000I kind of agree with the premise, but clearly this is not comparable.
01:32:51.000You know, clearly we could take a bad picture of an ugly castle or an ugly church and a picture of a beautiful McDonald's, you know, or something like that, and we could just as easily...
01:33:02.000And also, that post has been done so many times.
01:33:05.000That same post has been done for years, and people are posting, Church, good.
01:33:35.000And uh, so that's that's then then we sort of have reappropriated the breezewood thing is like now now we are injecting it We're taking it back.
01:33:43.000So that's where that comes from But nothing makes me angrier than bad content like that because it's just people and that's what it is is people want attention They want dopamine They don't really care about anything.
01:33:54.000They're no better than anybody else than anybody else caring about, you know television shows or Sports, it's all the same But let's see jag
01:34:04.000Says, uh, can you wish my friend Richard a happy birthday?
01:34:43.000Let your competitors destroy each other.
01:34:44.000Make some splashes when you can, I guess.
01:34:48.000Yeah, yeah, I mean that's what it is with the debates.
01:34:50.000And even the splashes aren't a huge deal in this race.
01:34:53.000It'd be one thing if somebody was really consistently, you know, showing how they were distinct and blowing up the rest of the field like Trump did, but that's not happening.
01:35:03.000The splashes are, you know, somebody does some kind of very calculated attack that their consultant told them to, like Kamala did, and yeah, get some good poll numbers for a minute, but then they go back to where they were before.
01:35:16.000So yeah, I mean, it really comes down to being presentable, and that's it.
01:35:20.000Looking good, looking the part, sounding the part, being basically compelling, having on average and above average performance, you know, consistently an above average performance, and not messing up.
01:38:34.000I wouldn't know what it's like to be subject to the...
01:38:37.000indignity of being a wagee show up to work on time you slavishly drive to work in the morning hello i'm here i'm here to clock in you know we're taking clumps of your hair today hey hey get over here wagee hey smith get over here we're taking clumps of your hair today get over it's a drug test all right mandatory well all right snap snap i can't imagine can't imagine then you get in your cage you know put on your muzzle
01:39:07.000And your VR glasses and get in the cage.
01:39:31.000Unforgivable says, do you remember the green and purple Heinz ketchup?
01:39:36.000No, I don't remember the green and purple ketchup.
01:39:39.000Vash says evolutionary psychology is the fakest and gayest pseudoscience ever.
01:39:45.000Yeah, I'm sure you know what 20 million year old monkey man was thinking and why.
01:39:51.000I don't know if it's... I'm not a scientist, so I'm not an expert on evolutionary psychology, but I think some of it... there's something to be said for it.
01:40:03.000You know, some insights there, but I'm no expert.
01:40:06.000So I wouldn't, I wouldn't be able to tell you one way or the other.
01:40:08.000I think, I think anything with the word evolution in it is probably gay and fake, but you know, some of it, I get, I understand where they're coming from.
01:40:16.000Daniel says, does this mean BB t-shirts are cancelled?
01:40:39.000And I don't think people should be talking about our country that way.
01:40:42.000Even if, like, I understand the premise, and maybe I can say that, but if you're wanting to become the president, I don't think you should say that.
01:40:50.000And also, I don't think you should speak in explicit and vulgar terms like that.
01:40:53.000Maybe a leader is that way, maybe a certain person is, whatever, but I don't think that's how people should talk about our country no matter what.
01:41:01.000Maybe I'm old-fashioned like that, but I just think that's wrong.
01:41:04.000I think it's uncouth, and especially for a woman.
01:41:08.000Tom Cruise says big things happening in Tom Cruise Super Chat Studio.
01:44:49.000from other denominations, is we believe that Jesus gave the keys to Peter, Peter was the church, and da da da, and this is Peter's successor.
01:45:02.000Okay, but I don't see how you could be a Catholic, and you could say, yeah, this is his successor and all this, and then say, me, a layman, I get to decide who is and who is not the Pope.
01:45:11.000I don't think it really works like that.
01:45:13.000So, with that attitude, you might as well be a Seidei, honestly, but you should pray.
01:45:18.000Audio chronic says when are you gonna transition you poser?
01:45:24.000Okay, like I said, I'm transsexual, but I'm just so at war with myself about it It's a transsexual show and that means that you can't discriminate it against the show, right?
01:45:34.000But it's just I'm just so at war with myself who knows who knows when I'll ever transition
01:45:40.000Mr. Leons is calling Israel the only democracy in the Middle East.
01:45:44.000It's a flex on our vets by the chicken-hawk neocons.
01:51:20.000I usually go in for the chicken products.
01:51:23.000Usually I just do the burger, but yeah, I guess I got to try them.
01:51:27.000Lawrence says interviewed a fan of yours for aim today always a white pill to see the fruits of positive culture you have created keep it up bro well thanks man that means a lot good to hear it good to hear that the Knickers are representing very well CIA defector says you've got 15 minutes with dr. Manhattan powers what do you do with the remaining 14 and 59 seconds after you take the trip to Israel I don't know I haven't seen Watchmen so I don't know what those I don't know what that entails
01:51:57.000Dr.. Manhattan yeah, I'm not a comic book guy, so I don't know what that means
01:52:16.000Annoying that China will recreate the world in its image if it has the power to.
01:52:20.000Well, that's fundamentally the naive mentality of the isolationist, which is, if we weren't causing problems,
01:52:28.000Everything would just be fine, when in reality, if we rolled back our military, other powers would take our place.
01:52:35.000China, Russia, regional actors, and they are actors that would cause more instability, more conflict, and there are people that would spread bad values, there would be people that would gain at our expense.
01:52:47.000Why would we not want to control the world?
01:53:21.000And we know about power that it's all about jockeying for power.
01:53:24.000It's about who can exert themselves to the maximum extent.
01:53:27.000And why should we not want to exert ourselves to the maximum extent?
01:53:31.000I understand insofar as exerting ourselves hurts our own interests, yeah, we would not want to do that.
01:53:37.000A war in Iraq falls under that category.
01:53:39.000But generally speaking, having a powerful military that, you know, we bomb people if we don't like what they're doing, if we don't want someone to have a nuclear program, we blow them up.
01:53:48.000I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
01:53:50.000I think that's, that is the natural expression of the nation-state and the national interest.
01:53:55.000And if you're not on board with that, you're not a realist.
01:54:09.000Literal human garbage says, uh, isolationist nibbos pretend to be authoritarian, but then when it comes to foreign policy, it's live and let live.
01:54:17.000Hmm, yeah, okay, dummy, I know, right?
01:57:15.000I'm gonna tell you to eat a hamburger.
01:57:16.000I'm gonna tell you, live in the city, eat a hamburger, just eat the Big Mac, and if you don't like that, you know, watch something else.
01:57:23.000Anon says and then he sends another one saying pp poopoo the duality of super chatter uh yeah uh doug morgan says as long as opsec or rather as long as opac
01:58:45.000ASDF says yo was just paying at McDonald's when you said kill all something and I just turned it down in time for the black woman at the window not to hear.
02:00:50.000But thanks for that, buddy, and glad you're enjoying the merch.
02:00:53.000You know, that was really what I wanted to achieve with the merch was
02:00:56.000to make it such that people would want to wear it not just because it was my merch but because it was good so i'm glad you're you're wearing it and you're enjoying it uh boss vivo says anglo land is north of italy checkmated epically i don't know what that oh ah yeah okay yeah yeah touche you got me with that
02:01:16.000Monster Kill says North is always better than the South wherever you are.
02:01:20.000Seems like Nick admitted that Anglos and Scandinavians are better than Southern Europe.
02:01:47.000ASDF says, when I told my boomer dad that it was illegal in much of Europe to deny the big H, he said, well, I don't know why you would deny that.
02:02:16.000You know, if you deny it, it's illegal, and if it wasn't illegal, they'd just firebomb your warehouse, like they've done numerous times to people that deny the Holocaust.
02:02:23.000They'd just arrest you, they'd assassinate you like they did in France that one time, they'd firebomb your warehouse like they did in America, they'd burn all your books, they'd show up at your front door, you know?
02:02:34.000Who would even want to deny the Holocaust?
02:03:20.000But you know, you're in a, you reveal to her that you're in a place of emotional unease or instability and that's, that's where she thrives, that's where she does the damage.
02:03:29.000So be careful, always gotta be strong.
02:03:32.000You wanna cry, you wanna be emotional, do it in front of your bros.
02:03:36.000I don't advise for men to be emotional in general, but you wanna be emotional, do it in front of your bros.
02:04:06.000Justin says my dad's only defense after I red-pilled him about Israel is that Jews are the chosen people and Israel is more important than America.
02:05:26.000People should be apprised of this, but it's like, you got one thing that works, and now people are like, let's do the same thing, but it's two.
02:09:23.000uh weekdays says are you a fan of review brah aka report of the week yeah i know who review brah is i'm a fan josh there so super chats making fun of super chats are becoming the real gay just like this one yeah well meta but true play goy cardi says please do a stream for x's mausoleum in florida yeah i'm definitely not gonna do that
02:09:47.000CIA defectors is dr. Manhattan has godlike powers big guy.
02:10:57.000And also white girls have appropriated that.
02:11:00.000You guys is implicit because now they're saying well you guys is gendered language and that's like a microaggression and I know that's very cringe but you know we you guys belongs to us.
02:11:44.000I think it sounds incorrect at least better than used guys Chad ethnic heartland of the country Italian Masculine, okay ASDF says you said it when imitating a wignap talking to their mom Said what?
02:13:12.000Diligence says, hey Nick just watching your show enjoying a fresh bug salad from the garden topping it off with immigrant hand-picked greens.