00:02:29.000We were going to do the show outside today, but we step outside.
00:02:33.000And if you're in the South, maybe you're laughing at me right now because you get it, but we step outside for five seconds and get swarmed by mosquitoes, moths.
00:03:53.000It's going to be a shorter show because we're in extreme discomfort.
00:03:56.000Like I said, we're in the middle of nowhere, so I'm actually going to take the time to lock the doors right now, just out of an abundance of caution.
00:04:06.000But I wanted to talk tonight a little bit about what's gone on over the past weekend.
00:04:10.000It's been a very eventful weekend, of course, and I haven't even been able to get my message out because of the nature of the events of this weekend.
00:04:20.000Specifically, I want to talk about my ban on Twitter, which happened last Friday, and I want to talk about CPAC and our press conference, which happened on Saturday.
00:04:30.000So, in the first place, if you haven't seen already, I have finally been banned from Twitter.com.
00:04:38.000And it is unironically ranks among the worst things that has ever happened to me in my entire life.
00:04:47.000And I am contemplating suicide every waking second that I'm not on Twitter.
00:05:45.000I don't know exactly, but that's the reason they gave me.
00:05:49.000And they told the press that I was finally banned for repeated violations of terms of service, which I don't think I was ever violating the terms of service.
00:05:57.000You know, they had suspended me a couple of times over the past few months, one week suspensions.
00:06:03.000And I've been reported almost every day since the Capitol.
00:06:06.000And every time I get reported, I get an email.
00:06:08.000And it says your account has been reported, but we've reviewed the content and found no violation of Twitter's rules.
00:06:15.000So, like I said, I did get suspended twice so far this year, but I get reported en masse almost every day.
00:06:23.000And they tell me almost every other day that my account is in good standing.
00:06:29.000So, you know, nothing has really changed since the last time I got suspended, and nothing has changed since the last time they told me my account was not in violation of the rules.
00:06:39.000So, I honestly don't know what exactly the cause of the suspension is because everybody's asking me, well, why did they tell you your account got banned?
00:06:48.000And, you know, of course, they don't give you a specific tweet or a specific violation of the rules.
00:06:54.000They tell you very broadly what happened.
00:06:57.000And then if I try to speculate on the timing of the ban, I can't really figure that out either.
00:07:04.000I think the reason they banned me is because it could have been any number of these factors.
00:07:09.000This was the first time that I was at the Infowars studio live in person.
00:07:15.000I was in Austin, Texas last Wednesday, and I was on The Alex Jones Show.
00:07:20.000I was on American Journal with Harrison Smith.
00:07:41.000So I think it could have been any combination of maybe being at InfoWars Studio because Alex Jones is one of the most banned, censored people on the internet.
00:07:50.000And maybe they thought I was working for him or with Infowars or something like that.
00:07:55.000Or it could have been the two hit pieces.
00:07:58.000Although, there have been hit pieces about me by both the SPLC and the ADL before.
00:08:04.000And they were hit pieces that were higher profile, got more attention, more publicity after the Capitol riot, after AFPAC.
00:08:11.000So it's kind of weird because, you know, nothing was really happening in particular this week.
00:08:17.000You know, the appearance that I made at CPAC was in response to the Twitter ban.
00:08:23.000You know, there was nothing major going on this weekend that was planned, and there was nothing that had already occurred over the past week which would have catalyzed a ban on Friday.
00:08:32.000So I don't know exactly why it happened, but it sucks.
00:08:37.000That being said, though, we knew it was coming.
00:08:39.000I thought it was going to happen, honestly, years ago.
00:08:44.000I thought I was going to get banned from Twitter after the Groyper War, which was December, November 2019.
00:08:55.000And I thought for sure I would have been banned.
00:08:57.000After the Capitol riot, they banned the sitting president of the United States, Donald Trump, the Friday or Thursday after the January 6th Capitol so called insurrection, the event on 1 6.
00:09:09.000And so I thought I would have been banned in January.
00:09:12.000I thought I might have been banned after AFPAC in February.
00:09:16.000I was honestly surprised that I lasted all the way through 19, 2020, 2021.
00:09:21.000And I'm surprised I made it this far this year.
00:10:35.000Sometimes I don't do it at all for a week or for a month.
00:10:38.000So, I don't even rely upon Twitter to promote my show.
00:10:41.000They banned me from Twitter, and they think that if they banned me from everything else and that didn't work to make me go away or deplatform me or make me less influential, then they thought, well, if we just ban them from one more thing, then that'll be it.
00:11:29.000But it's not going to make me go away.
00:11:32.000That's the important thing to keep in mind.
00:11:34.000We knew that this was going to happen, not specifically the Twitter ban, although we did, but being deplatformed from Twitter.
00:11:42.000Sort of surface level internet, which is the major social media platforms and major tech services.
00:11:49.000I've been anticipating this for years, and I've talked about it on my show for years.
00:11:54.000That's why I was very critical of Donald Trump for the past two years because I said the clock is ticking on tech censorship.
00:12:01.000I said, if Trump didn't pass an executive order, if he didn't go after them with antitrust, if he didn't reinterpret Section 230, if he didn't do it in the courts before the end of his first term in 2021, January 2021, I said then the final, you know, the end game of tech censorship is that everybody will be banned from every major platform.
00:12:24.000And by and large, that's what's happened.
00:12:48.000And now we're entering a very new phase in the right wing movement because, of course, my show and the America First movement, the Groypers, I would say even the Trump movement to a large extent, was born on the internet and born of social media and aspects of it had been born of live streaming in particular.
00:13:09.000Now that we're banned from all the major platforms, we're kind of in a new era.
00:13:12.000It's a new chapter where we can't break through and go viral on sort of like a white listed. platform like Twitter.
00:13:21.000You can't make a viral YouTube video about election fraud or vaccine skepticism or talking about BLM or anything like that.
00:13:31.000So what's going to happen now, and this is just factual, unless and until the dynamic changes, is that we will have to use the dissident platforms, these sort of alternative tech platforms, and our own proprietary platforms to wage sort of guerrilla political activism on the major platforms.
00:13:50.000And that means that we have to use Telegram, Gab, Potentially parlor, things like Getter, to the extent that those are even functional, the latter two.
00:14:00.000We have to use things like AmericaFirst.live, banned.video, Infowars, all of that to sort of wage a rhetorical propaganda warfare, information warfare on the platforms.
00:14:13.000Even though we're not on the platforms getting our message out directly, we can still have our message on the platforms by, you know, linking to the platforms on Telegram and other things, organizing people to go on the platforms and do things.
00:14:26.000I think that is going to be the next phase, whether we like it or not.
00:14:30.000And the reason being is because what the major platforms have going for them is that that's where the user base is.
00:14:38.000You've got billions of people on Facebook.
00:15:06.000In the future, I think Gab could be a viable solution, but it doesn't have the network effect that you have right now on the major platforms.
00:15:14.000It doesn't have 2 billion people on it like Facebook does.
00:15:16.000It doesn't have 2 billion people on it like YouTube does.
00:15:19.000And the value in that is that you can spread your message to people that don't already know it.
00:15:25.000On Gab, it's largely an audience of people that are already believers or Adjacent.
00:15:31.000They're already Groypers or they're Groyper adjacent or they're sort of in the ballpark of right-wing or conservative or anarchist or dissident in some form.
00:15:42.000On Twitter, that's where the uninitiated are.
00:15:48.000Those are the people that we're supposed to win over.
00:15:50.000So we're in this new phase where all the interesting, dissident, controversial thinkers are banned from the platforms, but we still have to play for the platforms.
00:15:59.000We just have to do it in a way that is really not authorized in a sort of guerrilla way.
00:16:04.000launching attacks from, and not attacks like in a malicious way, but sort of doing things strategically from these other platforms.
00:16:12.000And I've always said that, by the way.
00:16:14.000I've always said that that's going to be the future, including, for example, shows like this.
00:16:18.000People can still watch America First on AmericaFirst.live every night, Monday through Friday, 8 o'clock Central.
00:16:24.000But unfortunately, the only people that are going to watch my show are people that already are aware of it, people that have maybe already even watched it.
00:16:34.000Nobody's going to be going to AmericaFirst.live and finding us by accident like they would getting recommended this show on YouTube or even Twitch or DLive for that matter.
00:16:58.000They are making it very difficult, but it's an asymmetrical battle.
00:17:01.000We're fighting against serious, well funded, Well resourced institutions like ADL, SPLC, like the major universities, major mainstream media, and the platforms itself, big tech itself.
00:17:15.000So, I mean, they're not going to let us just stroll right in and, you know, mess them up.
00:17:20.000They're not going to let us just walk over on YouTube and start making videos about how they stole the election and the vaccine is lethal and the disease is fake and the Capitol was a Fed inside job.
00:17:32.000They're not going to let us just walk onto the platforms and spill the beans about their whole agenda.
00:17:37.000So, We are going to have to get smarter.
00:17:40.000We're going to have to figure something else out.
00:17:42.000And I'm confident that we're going to do that.
00:17:44.000Right now, it's really a battle for survival, but we're going to have to do something to change a dynamic and make it so that we're really able to thrive.
00:19:01.000I drove from Houston to Dallas overnight.
00:19:03.000I think we left Houston at like midnight.
00:19:06.000We got to Dallas at like 4 a.m. or something.
00:19:09.000Took a short nap, woke up early, got Assistant Groyper down there, Jaden, the intern squad.
00:19:17.000And in like less than 12 hours, we put together this big press conference to talk about the Twitter censorship and also CPAC.
00:19:24.000We got a big room, a conference room at the Sheridan Hotel, which it was an okay hotel, but the reason we got that one is because it was across the street from the Hilton, which is where CPAC was.
00:19:39.000We had a live stream, which didn't really work.
00:19:41.000We had a slideshow put together, a graphic of all the people at CPAC that hadn't been censored and all the things that I'd been banned from.
00:19:49.000I pulled up in a Rolls Royce with three security guards jumping out of a Mercedes van, which light in front of us.
00:19:55.000And I gave what I thought was maybe one of my best speeches that I've ever given.
00:20:00.000And if you haven't seen it already, it's on Gab TV.
00:20:03.000I think you can find it on YouTube if you search Nick Fuentes and go to, if you filter it by upload date, it'll show you the most recent uploads with the keyword Nick Fuentes.
00:20:14.000If you search Nick Fuentes on YouTube, it'll show you curated results, which are from left wing sources.
00:20:19.000But if you search Nick Fuentes on YouTube and filter the results by, The date that they were uploaded.
00:20:31.000I believe we'll be uploading it to Band Video and America First.live.
00:20:35.000But I hosted this press conference and we had about, I think, 150 to 200 people show up, which was amazing because it was like, like I said, less than 24 hours notice.
00:20:46.000I said, hey, we'll be across the street from CPAC doing a big press conference.
00:21:02.000And we had some high-profile people there, too, some popular YouTubers and other people.
00:21:06.000I don't know if they want me to say who they are that they were there, but it was a pretty great event.
00:21:12.000And I gave a speech about not just the Twitter censorship in particular, but really more about CPAC.
00:21:18.000And in case you didn't know, I don't know what the story is behind this, but normally CPAC is at the end of February, beginning of March, and it's in Washington, D.C.
00:21:29.000This year, they held CPAC in Orlando, Florida because of the COVID restrictions in the D.C. metro area.
00:21:36.000There's capacity occupancy restrictions in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia, which would have limited the size of CPAC to like 100 people if they held it there this year.
00:21:50.000And then for some reason, I don't know exactly why, because I don't think I've ever heard of this before, they put another CPAC on the schedule for July in Dallas, Texas.
00:22:02.000And I remember people were texting me.
00:22:04.000They're like, Are you going to CPAC this year?
00:22:05.000I'm like, This year, what, like two months ago?
00:22:40.000It was on Saturday, and their theme, just like it was in February, was America uncanceled.
00:22:48.000And I gave the speech on Saturday at my press conference, which happened after CPAC, I think their itinerary was finished for the day, saying, you know, look, everybody at CPAC is not canceled.
00:23:00.000And I actually put together, or I should say, my interns put together a graphic which showed literally every single speaker at CPAC this year.
00:23:09.000And the only one who was banned from a single platform was Donald Trump.
00:23:49.000And they say that they have such a vested interest in fighting censorship, and yet not one of them has been banned from any one of the major social media platforms.
00:24:00.000And the speech was about, you know, the reason why that is is because their message isn't really all that different from the message that is pushed by the people that run big tech and the people that are doing the canceling.
00:24:11.000And I went through, you know, the reason that they canceled me and banned me from every platform under the sun, not just the big four, but also everything from Twitter all the way through to like.
00:24:22.000Shopify and they ban me from email octopus and they ban me from Amazon AWS and they ban me from Airbnb and TSA Precheck and Delta Airlines and like I can't go anywhere.
00:24:36.000And the reason for that is because my ideology is actually against the status quo.
00:24:42.000It's meaningfully, significantly, and actually against what's being pushed by the big tech companies, private sector, you know, major Wall Street firms, academia, government.
00:26:48.000I feel like garbage eating nothing but fast food and gas station snacks and never being able to wash your hands and packing stuff up, packing, unpacking, and clothes are wrinkled.
00:27:02.000Got to deal with hotel irons and everything's so expensive.
00:27:06.000You've got to pay for parking, got to pay for hotels, got to pay for car rental, got to pay for gas.
00:27:13.000So it's been a long and fun white boy summer journey, but it's finally coming to an end.
00:27:19.000I think tomorrow, tomorrow we'll be returning back to Chicago.
00:27:24.000And like I said, I'll be resuming my show just like always at 8 o'clock Central Time, Monday through Friday on AmericaFirst.live.
00:27:31.000And I think tomorrow I'll be back in time to do it in the studio, which will be huge because doing the show on the road sucks because there's never good reception.
00:27:43.000There's never a good location to do it.
00:28:14.000I'll try to give you the full debrief tomorrow on the show at 8 o'clock.
00:28:19.000But I just wanted to do this stream for maybe people that aren't familiar, if they're tuning in for the first time, if you've heard of me over the past weekend because of the Twitter ban, the CPAC blitzkrieg, or the press conference, welcome.
00:28:33.000Like I said, we do the show Monday through Friday, 8 o'clock, only on AmericaFirst.live.
00:29:03.000This is what it's always been for the America First movement.
00:29:06.000It's been a cascading series of censorship, bans, blacklisting, legal persecution, financial blacklisting, you know.
00:29:16.000We've dealt with this from the beginning.
00:29:18.000They didn't take me out when they banned me from YouTube and PayPal.
00:29:21.000They didn't take me out when they banned me from DLive and Epic Pay.
00:29:24.000Didn't take me out when they banned me from CPAC or refused to say my name on Fox News or waged a full war against me during the Groyper War.
00:29:33.000Didn't take me out after the Capitol riot.
00:29:44.000But the reason we've been so successful and why we've Survived and really thrived and only grown stronger in the face of these things is because honestly, we're just smarter than the people that are against us.
00:29:55.000We're more adaptable, we're more innovative, we're tougher, meaner, and we, at the end of the day, are just purely smarter.
00:30:02.000So we'll figure it out as we always have.
00:30:05.000But remember to follow me on Telegram.
00:30:07.000Go to t.meslash nickjfuentes to follow me there.
00:30:10.000That's going to probably be my main platform in the future.