US SANCTIONS IRAN??? Foreign Aid To Israel, Sanctions For Iran Following Drone Strike | America First Ep. 1320US SANCTIONS IRAN??? Foreign Aid To Israel, Sanctions For Iran Following Drone Strike | America First Ep. 1320
Tonight we cover fresh sanctions against Iran and a new plan by the Republican House Speaker, Mike Johnson, to provide more military aid to Israel. We also talk about the fallout from Iran's attack on Israel, and how Congress is getting serious about providing aid to the country in the wake of that attack. And we discuss the latest in the ongoing battle between the Freedom Caucus and the rest of the Republican Conference over funding for the border wall and the government shutdown. We finish up the show with the latest on the Iran strike on Israel and the new plan from Speaker Mike Johnson to provide additional military aid for the country, as well as an update on the situation in Ukraine and the situation on the border with Russia. And we finish up with a story about Kevin McCarthy being overthrown as Speaker of the House, and why it matters to the American people more than ever. You're watching America First! with Nicholas J. Fuentes and the crew at the show America First, where you can be sure to find out what's going on in Washington, D.C., and around the world! and what s going on at home. Thank you for tuning into the show! -Your Hosts: Nicholas, J.J. & Nathan, and thanks to our Sponsors: for sponsoring the show and for supporting the show. Thanks to our sponsor, Caff Monster Energy Drink Co. and Caff, for making great tasting margaritas, and for making good tasting coffee and coffee, and good listening to the show you deserve a good cup of coffee and good vibes. - Thank you, thank you're listening to us, we really appreciate it! -- Thank you so much, you're amazing, we appreciate you, we're making it, we love you! and we're listening, we'll send you back, we can't wait to hear you back again! Thanks, bye, bye bye bye, Bye Bye, bye Bye Bye Bye. -- NANCY, MURDERER, KAVANA, RYAN AND KAVANCHOR, JUICY, JORDYA, P.A. & MURCHES, PODCASTING, KEVIN, JOSEPH, JAYE, JEANDS, AND POTTERY, SONGS, MOSCO, AND KIM AND KELLY, GABE, AND TAYLOR.
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00:00:19.000They, they see America merely as a vessel.
00:00:21.000I mean, only, only a class of people so rootless
00:00:46.000Because if you view America in such a way as merely a vessel for abstractions, right?
00:00:52.000We're gonna smash your brain in with the Bible, idiot.
00:00:58.000And I'm addicted to the serotonin rush.
00:10:05.000Fresh sanctions by the United States against Iran.
00:10:09.000Even though the United States will not participate in an offensive strike against Iran in retaliation for the attack on Saturday, we are going to be applying fresh sanctions against the Iranian regime and the Revolutionary Guard Corps.
00:10:26.000And we're also going to work with G7 nations so that they will apply their own sanctions against Iran.
00:10:34.000So I guess Israel is the only country that has a right to defend itself.
00:10:39.000Israel defends itself by murdering 30,000 women and children, and that's fine.
00:10:46.000Iran defends itself after they kill people at the embassy.
00:10:51.000And we have to sanction the country, and condemn the attack, and so on.
00:10:57.000So we'll talk about the fresh sanctions, and we'll also be talking about the opposite side of that, which is that the United States is preparing more military aid for Israel.
00:11:10.000And we were going to talk about this last night, but we ran out of time.
00:11:14.000There was so much to cover with the strike.
00:11:21.000But we'll also be talking tonight about the fresh plan by the Republican Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, to pass four separate military aid bills.
00:11:34.000And three of them involve direct aid to foreign countries, specifically Taiwan, Ukraine, and, of course, Israel.
00:11:44.000And this is after months and months and months of political gridlock over foreign aid and the border.
00:11:51.000And we'll get into the details on this because it's a long story.
00:12:16.000Cannot let Ukraine or the border stand in the way any longer.
00:12:20.000So, Mike Johnson has now separated the appropriations into four separate bills.
00:12:26.000Like I said, one for Israel, one for Ukraine, one for Taiwan, and one for other things.
00:12:33.000And the hope is that by splitting them up, the less controversial ones, hint, the aid for Israel, can pass, and the more controversial ones can be debated, such as the foreign aid for Ukraine.
00:12:51.000And it's a gambit that is a big risk, but also people say has a high chance of succeeding with the help of the Democrats.
00:13:00.000But like I said, we're not even going to get into it yet because it's such a long story and it's so convoluted and so ridiculous.
00:13:09.000If you haven't been paying attention, we have covered it on the show off and on over the months, but it is the story of this Republican House since the midterm elections.
00:13:26.000And what has characterized the dysfunction is not even Republicans versus Democrats, the Republican House against the Democrat-controlled Senate.
00:13:37.000It's within the Republican House, and it's specifically between, like, five Republicans who actually want the GOP to do what it campaigned to do, and the rest of them.
00:13:52.000And so this has been an ongoing subject on the show.
00:13:55.000We've covered now for a little over a year this battle between this very, very small part of the Freedom Caucus and the rest of the Republican Conference.
00:14:09.000And that is the story of Kevin McCarthy being overthrown.
00:14:14.000It's the story of these various deadlines for government shutdowns.
00:14:18.000It's a story that runs through the border crisis and this latest tranche of Ukraine aid as the Ukrainian front collapses in Russia.
00:14:27.000And now, since October 7th and as time goes on, especially concerns what is happening in Israel.
00:14:36.000Because these appropriations have to go through for Israel to get their big aid package from Congress.
00:14:43.000Hasn't stopped the Biden administration from giving them a taste, but they need the aid package to go through Congress.
00:14:51.000And I anticipate that that will affect how things play out on the ground over there.
00:14:56.000I'm sure they want to see that aid money before they begin any hostilities against Hezbollah.
00:15:36.000Not my favorite, but it's gonna be good.
00:15:37.000We got all the information, we got the latest info, so it's gonna be good.
00:15:42.000Before we get into the news though, I want to remind you to smash the follow button here on Rumble and cozy to get a push notification whenever I go live.
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00:17:27.000We're gonna start to slowly release our VIP guest list.
00:17:33.000I think I've already told you some of the big ones.
00:17:36.000But we're gonna start to put that out there on social media do a little more promo stuff.
00:17:41.000So Surprisingly there we kind of did like a soft launch, you know, we put out a little teaser trailer But you're gonna start to see some more promo stuff some of the big VIP guests.
00:17:53.000We have some of our speakers So so that's all forthcoming this week, and I think you're really gonna be excited It's a lot of your favorites are gonna be there
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00:19:23.000They've been fighting over the land for a hundred years and so people kind of get that.
00:19:29.000But some of this other stuff that concerns factionalism within right-wing politics, I feel like it's a little bit convoluted and that's why I think it's hard for people to follow.
00:19:44.000It's things that, it concerns a lot of personalities and names and ideas that a lot of people are not familiar with.
00:19:52.000Although I've broached the subject a little bit on the show.
00:19:55.000A lot of people like that when I do it.
00:19:58.000So what I'm talking about specifically is for the past few months I've hinted at the idea that if you don't know, the white nationalist faction in the country is basically controlled by Zionists.
00:20:16.000And it seems counterintuitive, because I think that everybody identifies white nationalists with Nazis, and of course they equate Nazis with anti-Semitism.
00:20:29.000But in reality nothing could be further from the truth.
00:20:33.000I started to notice this recently and I started to talk about it a little bit.
00:20:38.000Which is that, and this is not a dig at anybody in particular.
00:20:42.000I don't want anybody to take this the wrong way.
00:20:44.000Some of the people that fall under this category I actually like and respect and I've spoken of them very highly on the show.
00:20:54.000But it also does happen to be true that there is a camp in this country.
00:21:00.000It exists on the fringe of the right wing of white nationalists.
00:21:05.000I think that's what they call themselves.
00:21:32.000Their priority is white identity and white nativism.
00:21:39.000Their priority is not to red pill people about Jews.
00:21:43.000It does not seem to be to displace Jews from the highest levels in society.
00:21:49.000It also is decidedly agnostic on religion.
00:21:53.000They view whiteness and race as the organizing principle.
00:21:59.000And so they're very sympathetic to pagans, which they consider to be the folk indigenous religion of the white people.
00:22:06.000And they're tolerant of Christians, but I think they're very apprehensive about fully embracing Christianity because they view religious debates as divisive.
00:22:16.000They don't view religion as the organizing principle.
00:22:21.000So they seem to promote paganism and welcome it.
00:22:26.000They seem to tolerate Christianity, but with some reluctance.
00:22:32.000And with a extreme aversion to any kind of religious debate, and also a calculated avoidance of any discussion about the Jews, Israel, anything like that.
00:22:43.000And if anything, they see an alliance with right-wing Zionist Jews as advantageous, as profitable, because they think that
00:22:54.000And I've talked about this for a long time and I've said that, you know,
00:23:14.000Like I said, there are people that... some of them are quite obvious, you know, I'm not gonna... I'm not going to pretend that it's not.
00:23:22.000And I've spoken very highly of some of these characters, but, you know, I do have somewhat of a disagreement.
00:23:28.000I, of course, believe that Christianity is the organizing principle, although I am pro-white and I do believe in racialism and human biodiversity.
00:23:38.000But I am a devout Catholic and I do think that is fundamental.
00:23:43.000And, consequently, I think the religion as part of it, I think that any alliance with Jews will not be profitable.
00:23:51.000I think any alliance with Jews is disadvantageous.
00:24:00.000But, anyway, I've kind of talked about that off and on over the past so many months.
00:24:05.000And, uh, and again, I don't know how much of that, I don't know how many of you guys have fully processed that and how many people really noticed me talking about that or not, but I've talked about guys like Scott Greer or Amran or V Dare, you know, I think they all fit neatly under that category, although there are others.
00:24:24.000And then I saw on Twitter today, or the other day, a tweet by Patrick Casey.
00:24:30.000And Patrick Casey used to be in the alt-right and was the founder of Identity Europa.
00:24:35.000He used to be friendly with the Groipers until he betrayed us when things got difficult after January 6th.
00:24:44.000And he basically called me out in everything other than name and said, well, there are some people that want to work with Muslims to take out the Jews, but Muslims have no affinity with the West and Jews do, because there are Jews such as Paul Gottfried or Stephen Miller, who you may remember from the Trump administration, who are anti-immigration.
00:25:07.000There are conservative Jews who are based
00:25:12.000And so the argument goes, we should not find any common ground with Muslims in criticizing Israel, because conservatives worship Israel still.
00:25:23.000In reality, the natural alliance is with right-wing pro-Israel Jews, such as Gottfried and Stephen Miller, who want to limit immigration.
00:25:51.000We're not going to red pill everybody.
00:25:52.000We don't need to wake everybody up on the Jews to limit immigration.
00:25:58.000And I've basically been saying since the beginning, this October 7th attack has shed light on so many things, and one of those things is how thoroughly zogged up the right wing is.
00:26:31.000We also know that Fox News is the same.
00:26:33.000We also know that The Blaze and Breitbart and many of them are the same.
00:26:42.000But even as far out on the fringes as a guy like Patrick Casey, a former neo-Nazi, a former white nationalist, even a guy like that, who is now on the cusp of entering the furthest fringe of right-wing politics, even he is out there doing apologetics for Israel.
00:27:11.000And here's the thing, here's the bottom line about that.
00:27:16.000Because I think as time goes on, this is becoming the crux.
00:27:21.000Which is, is it worthwhile to talk about the Jews in Israel?
00:27:27.000If you're a person that talks critically about Jews in Israel, you live in a fundamentally different universe than people that do not.
00:27:35.000If you criticize Jews in Israel, you're on a blacklist, you are blackballed, you are censored, you are banned from payment processors, you can't get an agent, people don't want to work with you.
00:27:49.000If you don't criticize Jews in Israel, the world is your oyster.
00:28:02.000You could be pretty white nationalist.
00:28:03.000You could be pretty extreme in other areas.
00:28:06.000You could be a theocratic fascist, like Matt Walsh calls himself, as long as you don't criticize Jews in Israel.
00:28:13.000And so there are people that agree with a lot of what I say, even my characterization of Jewish power, but they say, why talk about Jews and Israel if it's so injurious?
00:28:25.000They question, is it really necessary from a practical or tactical point of view to talk about that subject?
00:28:36.000Can we work with, cut with the grain rather than against the grain and try to achieve our other goals without necessarily going against that main, without going against that most fortified position and drawing all this negative attention and all of these consequences that are a liability and that hold us back?
00:29:02.000And I would contend that that is the crux because that is the only important issue.
00:29:10.000What we seek to do, most importantly, I mean, what is the name of this show?
00:29:16.000The name of this show is America First.
00:29:29.000When I say America First, it doesn't mean I'm going to get on my knees as a supplicant of Jewish power and say, may we please consider the Americans.
00:30:10.000A certain condition of, you know, well we want immigration to be less, or we want tariffs to be higher.
00:30:19.000It's we want the people in charge to be Americans, whatever they decide.
00:30:26.000I am more open and amenable to the idea that we would have American leftists running America.
00:30:34.000Because at least they would be American than to have foreigners but that have a more rightist disposition.
00:30:41.000I would rather have an American government that is Social Democrat or something but it's run by real Americans than it is a neoliberal right-wing country but it's run by Zionist Jews.
00:30:54.000And that means that we have to go and bomb Syria every few months.
00:30:57.000We have to go and bomb Iran every few months.
00:31:00.000So, and by the way, what stands in the way of Americans running the country is the Jews that actually run the country.
00:31:09.000Consequently, the crux of the issue is we have to displace them.
00:31:14.000We have to get a political will and a political movement to displace them and replace them with Americans.
00:31:25.000And if that's not the end, if that's not the end game,
00:31:30.000If that's not what we're working towards, I don't know what we're really doing.
00:31:35.000And so that seems to be the crux of the debate, is there are some people, and they want to literally kiss the boots of Yoram Hazoni and Ben Shapiro.
00:32:36.000And then Pedro Gonzales called Yoram Hazoni, the dual citizen Israeli national who runs the National Conservative Conference,
00:32:45.000And said, Yoram, I am so, so sorry that I was anti-Semitic.
00:32:50.000And then Pedro Gonzalez went to work for Ron DeSantis.
00:32:54.000Ron DeSantis, who received support from Miriam Adelson in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, and who said that we were going to bomb Iran and we're going to do everything to support Israel and this and that, but DeSantis was a culture warrior who would secure the border and do these things.
00:33:13.000And it seems like that is the kind of compromise that these people have in mind.
00:33:18.000Is that if we quite literally, we can be mentored by Paul, and I like Paul Gottfried for the record, but we can be mentored by Paul Gottfried and then we're gonna get down on our hands and knees.
00:33:32.000And beg Ben Shapiro for forgiveness for being anti-Semitic.
00:35:26.000If I were president, I would close the border tomorrow, and I would send 30 million illegals back across the border, or into the sun, or into the moon, or at the bottom of the ocean, or wherever they need to go.
00:35:39.000Politically speaking, it's not going to happen.
00:35:42.000And politically speaking, what can happen is extremely modest and far too little, far too late.
00:35:50.000So we can either succumb to Jewish power and we can bow to them and become cogs in the Jewish machine that controls our politics in the hopes that we could be a dollar short, a day late,
00:36:08.000Or, we can build up something that is truly revolutionary and truly alternative, something that we control, something that actually challenges Jewish power in the hopes that when there's a calamity in the future, enough people will be in the right places that we can change how the government works entirely.
00:36:26.000I think that's the more practical, honestly.
00:36:30.000When people say, what do you think is more likely?
00:36:32.000That the country gets red-pilled and, you know, the Jews get thrown out of power?
00:36:36.000I think that is actually far more likely than that the Jews will let us create a white ethnostate when the country's already half non-white as it is.
00:36:58.000I don't even buy this argument that it's so strategic.
00:37:00.000I think you have a lot of broke people that found out they couldn't make a lot of money being a groyper and they found it easier to go to these Peter Thiel butt parties, butt plug tranny Jew girl parties where they can go and make some scratch being a writer for some think tank.
00:37:17.000As long as they don't criticize Israel, I think it actually has a lot more to do with that.
00:37:21.000But anyway, I want to cover that extensively on a stream sometime this week.
00:41:51.000I think I'd like to flesh this out at some point maybe later this week in an afternoon rumble stream because this is maybe the the biggest thing that's going on and it has everything to do with J.D.
00:42:05.000Vance becoming the VP and it's got to do with who's going to be controlling the personnel and the next Trump admin and then what happens after whoever is president the next four years.
00:43:03.000Curtis Yarvin is a hardcore Jew, and he's running the show over there.
00:43:07.000I mean, what's the argument against that?
00:43:10.000It's Peter Thiel, who founded Palantir, who's in Israel, doing their facial recognition.
00:43:17.000With Clearview AI and all that stuff, and Curtis Yarvin's the court philosopher, and his assistant is like a hardcore Jewish nationalist with the nose like you've never seen before, and their main guy they're propping up is Castanet Lemariou.
00:47:17.000Vance is like a neocon, intelligence spook, fucking fat race mixer.
00:47:24.000And this is supposed to be our based, this is the based guy that's going to be in the... I would rather have Tim Scott than a fat race-mixing Israel shill as the Vice President.
00:50:58.000Never met an N-word cock she didn't like Ann Coulter.
00:51:01.000If they love him, then hey, where do I sign up?
00:51:05.000Let's just make him president already.
00:51:08.000Okay, you know, this is just coming across like totally racist, but, you know, they want to come at America first and say, oh, well, if you're anti-Semitic, you're just brown.
00:51:19.000It's like, okay, my guy, take a look at the wife of your vice presidential candidate.
00:53:08.000So yeah, so I think I'd rather have Tim Scott at least At least Tim Scott's a nincompoop.
00:53:14.000He's not gonna aggressively and competently prosecute the groipers Yeah, so I think I'm gonna go into that more later this week JD Vance this fat goof
00:54:21.000And I went into depth the other day about how wrong that is.
00:54:24.000And I'm talking about how, of course, the big development of the week is that on Saturday, for the first time ever, Iran directly attacked Israel from Iranian soil.
00:54:37.000Huge deal, although with more symbolic significance than practical significance.
00:54:43.000Hundreds of drones and missiles from Iran, but also from Iran's proxies, mostly intercepted and shot down, although some did minimal damage, those projectiles that landed against a couple of military facilities.
00:54:57.000And one of the first things that I saw a lot of people say, a lot of people who wanted to sit on the fence,
00:55:04.000They came out and said, when you look at the image of Iranian drones headed at Israel, and the Israeli anti-missile system activated to counter the missiles,
00:55:16.000They say this is a this is an incredible photograph of two sides being funded by the United States.
00:55:23.000And I went into detail yesterday about how that is just nowhere near being true.
00:55:28.000I posted a long thing on Telegram about it and I dedicated about 10 or 15 minutes of my show last night to going through how I mean it couldn't be further from the truth.
00:55:39.000And then tonight, if that wasn't enough, we have two stories.
00:55:44.000One is that after Iran's attack on Israel, the United States is sanctioning Iran.
00:55:52.000At the same time, the United States Congress is working to push through an aid package that will give billions in foreign aid to Israel.
00:56:39.000will impose new sanctions on Iran's missile and drone program after the country's unprecedented attack on Israel over the weekend, according to White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.
00:56:51.000President Biden is urging Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to exercise military restraint, but in the economic sphere, the administration is demonstrating a willingness to retaliate against Iran.
00:57:05.000So after Iran bombed Israel, Israel said that they're gonna counter-attack.
00:57:11.000Biden said, we will not commit any kind of offensive action against Iran, so you'll have to do it alone.
00:57:18.000And then, now they've changed their tune.
00:57:21.000A few days later, we're not going to strike Iran militarily, but we are going to sanction them.
00:57:26.000These new sanctions and other ones Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is preparing represent a subtle message to Israel that there is more than one way to harm the ruling regime in Tehran.
00:57:38.000Sullivan said in a statement that Biden is working in coordination with international partners including G7 nations and bipartisan leaders in Congress on a comprehensive response to Iran's attack.
00:57:50.000defense agencies are working on strengthening air and missile defense and early warning systems across the Middle East.
00:57:56.000The new sanctions will also target entities supporting the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Iran's defense ministry.
00:58:03.000Sullivan said, Meanwhile, Yellen vowed that the U.S.
00:58:05.000will not hesitate to inflict economic punishment in response to Iran's attack.
00:58:17.000Now the only thing I have to say about this, it's not surprising, is that of course this brings to light the double standard about the so-called right to defend oneself.
00:58:30.000As long as this operation in Gaza has been going on,
00:58:35.000Whenever a critic of the campaign talks about the civilian casualties and the brutal nature of the campaign and its seemingly perverse objectives to destroy all the infrastructure in the region and kill as many civilians as possible, you always hear the refrain from the pro-Israel side that Israel has a right to defend itself.
00:59:00.000Israel was ostensibly attacked on October 7th,
00:59:04.000And now, when Israel conducts this brutal, murderous campaign for almost a year, they say, well, that's self-defense.
01:01:05.000We're comfortable with how much power America wields because America is a moral nation.
01:01:11.000America doesn't use its power in aggressive, offensive, unethical ways like another country might or like other countries have.
01:01:20.000So, there's a moral case, they say, for American power.
01:01:25.000We don't look at American power as a reality of power politics.
01:01:31.000Which is to say that, for example, when America undermines the government in Ukraine, it does so because that benefits America's security position.
01:01:42.000We're not doing that because it's good.
01:01:44.000We're doing it because it's good for us.
01:01:47.000But of course, whenever we do an action like that, we drape it in this language.
01:01:53.000Well, when we overthrow the government in Ukraine, that was a democratic revolution for liberalism.
01:02:02.000And that was to join the good guys and the right side of history and gay rights and voting.
01:02:09.000When Russia does it, it's an evil empire.
01:02:11.000It's an evil fascist empire that just hates everybody and they hate our freedom and they want to bomb us because they're backwards and it's a gas station country with nukes.
01:03:04.000How can the United States have any moral authority or even any credibility at all?
01:03:09.000Forget about even moral authority about ideology, like that we are a purveyor of democracy or humanism or something like that.
01:03:19.000Let's even just take something more neutral, like that we are an umpire.
01:03:25.000That we alone can protect an international framework of institutions that uphold international law and international trade and this kind of thing.
01:03:38.000How can we even purport to be doing that when we're justifying a genocide in Gaza on the basis of self-defense?
01:03:49.000We acknowledge freely, although in sort of indirect ways, that we resent what Israel is doing.
01:03:59.000We acknowledge that Israel is the instigator in many of these situations.
01:04:03.000We acknowledge that they're trying to draw us into a war.
01:04:06.000But when Israel instigates these conflicts and the other countries defend themselves, we punish them.
01:04:15.000So, out of one side of our mouth, we're gonna say, Israel can genocide as many people as they want, even though we hate it, because they're defending themselves.
01:04:26.000But when Iran does this harmless strike against Israel, a legitimate retaliation for a provocation by Israel, which we freely admit was instigated by Israel, we punish them, we condemn them, we admonish them.
01:05:46.000Decades of neocon control has done because I think at one time there was a time Arguably when that was a legitimate case But it isn't anymore You cannot go out and call Russia a war criminal
01:06:05.000You can't have the International Criminal Court try to drag Putin into a trial for war crimes, and then the next day give Bibi Netanyahu $10 billion to murder women and children in Gaza.
01:06:25.000You can't say that Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a backwards 19th century violation of the rules-based order and then give two aircraft carriers to cover Israel while they annex Gaza while the whole world protests and veto every Security Council resolution condemning it and bomb all Israel's enemies trying to stop it
01:08:37.000I'm sure we'll talk about it later this week anyway.
01:08:42.000So our other big story tonight, like I said, not gonna spend a ton of time on this because we're, we are running out of time and I'm sure we'll have more opportunities later in the week to discuss it.
01:09:05.000So, like I said, the other side of the Iranian sanctions and this ridiculous notion that we're funding both sides is that we are now moving to greenlight more foreign aid to Israel.
01:09:18.000And I'll give you the backstory and the latest and then we're going to move on to the Super Chats.
01:09:23.000But in case you haven't been paying attention, the big story, basically since September,
01:09:30.000is that Congress has been totally gridlocked.
01:09:34.000There was a deadline last year, September 30th, where Congress had to authorize a series of military appropriations bills, military spending bills, a series of 12 military spending bills.
01:09:49.000And we need to authorize those to fund the government.
01:09:52.000They're facing the prospect of a government shutdown on September 30th if they didn't pass the funding.
01:09:59.000But there was a major showdown within the Republican Party in the House of Representatives.
01:10:06.000You have a Democrat Senate, you have a Republican House, and there were maybe a dozen, a little bit more than a dozen Republicans that said, we want to pass a spending bill
01:10:36.000That came from within the Republican Party in the House.
01:10:41.000But the Republican Speaker of the House at that time, Kevin McCarthy, said, I'm not going to pass a bill with border security.
01:10:52.000He said, the Democrats are going to shut it down, so I am not going to even try to negotiate with them.
01:10:58.000He said, the best I can do is we're going to give a little money for border security, and then we're going to give the Democrats everything they want.
01:11:07.000And so the Republicans overthrew Kevin McCarthy.
01:11:50.000Now, of course, the dates are extremely important.
01:11:54.000The first iteration of the battle, as I said, the first deadline was September 30th, October 1st.
01:12:00.000Kevin McCarthy was thrown out a few days later.
01:12:03.000October 7th was the start of the Israel-Hamas war, or the genocide in Gaza.
01:12:09.000So then, after October 7th, you have foreign aid to Israel thrown into the mix.
01:12:18.000So initially, this is a long simmering battle between hardline Republicans in the House and the Republican leadership.
01:12:26.000And that's a compound battle between the Republicans and the Democrats over border security and foreign aid to Ukraine.
01:12:33.000The Republicans won't give the Ukrainian aid, the Democrats won't give the border security, and neither will the Speaker.
01:12:40.000Then, after October 7th, throw into the mix foreign aid to Israel.
01:12:46.000And Israel won't get its foreign aid in this conflict until this impasse about Ukraine and border security is resolved so it further complicates the matter.
01:12:57.000So there's been this long protracted negotiation ever since where they pass these six to eight week stopgap bills.
01:13:05.000It funds the government for a little while so they can negotiate more.
01:13:12.000Six months later, they still have not come to an agreement on foreign aid and border security, and what has been left hanging in the balance is the aid to Israel.
01:13:22.000At one point, earlier this year, I think in January and February, the Senate came up with a plan and said, why don't we pass the Israel aid separately?
01:13:33.000Why don't we decouple the foreign aid to Israel from this impasse over military appropriations, Ukraine aid, and border security?
01:13:42.000Biden said no because Biden knows that the Israel aid hanging in the balance is putting pressure on Republicans.
01:14:10.000So Republicans say, hey, come on, let's just decouple it so that we can put the pressure back on you because you need the money for Ukraine.
01:14:55.000The aid to Israel and now Taiwan and Ukraine and the money for border security has been hanging in the balance in this gridlock, this battle between the Senate and a very very slim Republican majority in the House with these radicals that are, and I say that in a good way, protesting the process.
01:16:09.000Mike Johnson on Monday said he planned this week to advance a long-stalled national security package to aid Israel, Ukraine, and other allies, along with a separate bill aimed at mollifying conservatives who have been vehemently opposed to backing Ukraine.
01:16:27.000Mr. Johnson's announcement, coming after he has agonized for weeks over whether and how to advance an infusion of critical aid to Ukraine amid stiff Republican resistance,
01:16:37.000was the first concrete indication that he had settled on a path forward.
01:16:42.000It comes just days after Iran launched an aerial attack on Israel, amplifying calls for Congress to move quickly to approve the pending aid bill.
01:16:52.000Emerging from a meeting in which he briefed GOP lawmakers on his plan, Mr. Johnson said he would cobble together a legislative package that roughly mirrors the $95 billion aid bill the Senate passed two months ago, but that is broken down into three pieces.
01:17:09.000Lawmakers would vote separately on a bill providing money for Israel, one allocating funding for Ukraine, and a third with aid for Taiwan and other allies.
01:17:18.000They would cast a fourth vote on a separate measure containing other policies popular among Republicans.
01:17:25.000Mr. Johnson told reporters, we know the world is watching to see how we react.
01:17:30.000We have terrorists and tyrants and terrible leaders around the world, like Putin and Xi and in Iran, and they're watching to see if America will stand up for its allies and our interests around the globe, and we will.
01:17:57.000And that is really the most important thing, isn't it?
01:18:01.000Republicans can oppose foreign aid for a losing, bad conflict in Ukraine.
01:18:07.000And Democrats can oppose closing our border to an invasion by illegal immigrants that we don't even know where they're coming from.
01:18:15.000But the thing that nobody can disagree on is giving money to Israel in a foreign conflict that is losing us global public opinion and which will inevitably send millions of refugees that we don't know what they're about into our country.
01:19:01.000Is that we have Americans running the government, not Israelis, not Jews.
01:19:08.000Because I think it is conceivable that in a government run by Americans, we would be equally willing to prevent foreign aid from going to Israel as we are preventing foreign aid from going to Ukraine.
01:19:23.000And I think we would be more willing to close our border than we are to give money to either Ukraine or Israel.
01:20:17.000We won the House, which has the purse strings, which controls appropriations process.
01:20:22.000And for two years, a handful of Republicans have fought tooth and nail, unsuccessfully, to get a pittance to secure the border when we're literally being invaded by millions of people every year.
01:20:36.000Israel's under attack and they are fighting every day to give as much money as possible to Israel.
01:20:42.000Even when the Congress will not greenlight money for Israel, Biden is using dubious methods to give it to Israel anyway through executive actions and authorizing sales of American weapons to them.
01:29:26.000Alexander sent $5, okay I'll get the fish.
01:29:31.000Costanza Groarper sent $10, praying that Nick's superchats aren't as gay tonight as they have been recently, folded hands, 07 love you nigga.
01:33:57.000Hey Nick, long time listener, first time chatter from Australia.
01:34:02.000When you ask chat which US government official is primarily responsible for overseeing and enforcing immigration laws, you get the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, who is currently Alejandro Mayorkas, a Jew.
01:34:14.000Were you like born yesterday by any chance, you fucking idiot?
01:34:20.000So, I asked Chad GPT, hey, uh, who runs immigration?
01:34:25.000And it said the immigration secretary!
01:36:37.000This is a fundamentally Catholic movement.
01:36:41.000So, I don't really see it that way, actually.
01:36:43.000I don't see it that we're all... I mean, and I... like, you know, I would work with Protestants just like I work with Muslims, you know, in a general sense, but...
01:38:15.000That's the toughest pill for people to swallow I think for a lot of men because it accurately describes their life and It also accurately describes a lot of the lives the aspirational life of people that don't have it yet But it's it's true.
01:39:02.000So I'll say something like marriage is the end of the male life cycle For this this and this reason and they say well you could still have a good life after you're married But and it's like okay.
01:39:13.000I didn't say that you can't enjoy your of course people enjoy their lives when they're married but your life fundamentally changes and in certain ways as key aspects of being a male stop after marriage and I said specifically
01:39:32.000You know, right now, I'm unmarried, I'm childless.
01:41:06.000Well, most people realize that at some point you can't tell your wife to get over it because she will either make your life a living hell or she'll leave you and make your life a living hell.
01:41:16.000So, in a sense, your wife controls your life.
01:41:19.000And your wife, who is now a mother, is obsessed with stability, and financial security, and predictability, and a general calm.
01:41:32.000And she also wants to be socially accepted among her peers and in society.
01:41:37.000And so her motivations are fundamentally different than an unmarried male.
01:41:41.000And then your main priorities become procuring resources for the nest,
01:41:47.000You know, you have to kind of lock in at whatever strata that you're in in your life because you immediately have to look at the most reliable highest pay, which is typically a wage job.
01:42:54.000For the vast, vast majority of people, there is no next act.
01:42:59.000You know, for very few people, you may create an invention that makes you a millionaire, or you may hit your big break and become famous or whatever, but for the vast, vast majority of people, you're kind of locked in.
01:43:14.000You're probably not going to get more educated.
01:43:17.000You're probably not going to start a new life.
01:43:47.000And we have to make, you know, when we grow up, we have to make long-term decisions.
01:43:51.000And most people, for better or for worse, are going to be locked in in other ways.
01:43:55.000But we also have to be realistic about what that entails.
01:43:59.000And, you know, there's like this big trad Christian thing, which are similar but not the same, where the emphasis is all about marriage, marriage, marriage, marriage, marriage, and I don't know that I necessarily subscribe to that.
01:44:16.000I think that, you know, marriage and kids is a good thing, but I also think that there's other considerations.
01:44:25.000And I say that as someone who is not, like, someone who is dying to have a sexual partner.
01:44:33.000Also, you know, a lot of guys, that's the primary motivation.
01:44:36.000A lot of guys, they want to meet a girl and fall in love and have a lot of sex.
01:46:03.000They want a woman to give them validation and approval, and they want to have sex, and they're really uncomplicated.
01:46:11.000They want to make a little bit of money for beer on Friday and fun on the weekends, and they want to watch their TV shows, and that's what they want to do, and that's perfectly okay.
01:46:22.000They don't really want, they don't want to be
01:46:48.000And so that means I'm much, much, much less interested in the arrangement of marriage as a guy that is constantly thinking, as a guy that's constantly doing, as a guy that's constantly involved in this kind of stuff.
01:47:02.000I don't really want or need, at this time in my life, a woman who is, you know, telling me about, like, the report card and hockey practice and, you know, what's for dinner and taking family pictures and all that stuff.
01:48:22.000They like the idea of some of the perks.
01:48:25.000You know what they would never want to do?
01:48:27.000They would never want to sleep in the Tesla factory on the brink of bankruptcy for months on end on the floor with the headaches of the business and the technology.
01:50:13.000I drive like a maniac, my life is crazy, you know, people want to kill me, some people think I'm a cult leader, I hate women, like, so there's a lot of, there's a lot of stuff that comes with that and so I'm gonna need a special woman who is gonna not cramp my style too much because I'm a special guy.
01:50:32.000So, if I meet the right woman and if the, you know, if the situation's right, then I'll go for it.
01:50:39.000I want kids, but, you know, some guys, that is their primary motivator and, you know, they talk like it.
01:52:41.000So that's the difference but a lot of people they just they don't get that and they think that I think I'm better and I kind of do but I know that I'm not but I but I recognize that some people that's what they want and other people that's not what they want and that's okay but people don't like to hear it people don't like to hear that when you get married you turn into a pussy whipped bitch because your wife kind of has you by the balls and