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00:03:56.000I go, only drop jewels way before they drop gentle.
00:04:00.000I go, only drop jewels way before only drop jewels way before they drop.
00:04:30.000I go, only drop jewels way before only drop jewels way before they drop.
00:05:00.000I go, only drop jewels way before they drop.
00:05:12.000And people don't realize what they have.
00:05:17.000And then nowadays, I am so upset that the things we did and the things we fought for and the boys that died for it, it's all gone down the drain.
00:05:31.000Our country's gone to hell in a handbasket.
00:05:37.000We haven't got the country we had when I was raised.
00:07:15.000This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
00:07:20.000We're being slowly poisoned and, in some cases, quickly murdered and assassinated.
00:07:26.000And we're killing ourselves every day, inadvertently, with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
00:07:34.000People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.
00:07:42.000People have got to start to get courageous.
00:07:45.000And this is the time for everybody to turn and look to God and to pray and to ask for strength and to ask for wisdom to get through this time and to transform and sanctify this country.
00:07:59.000And the alternative is that there will be no country.
00:08:02.000Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
00:08:06.000Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
00:08:13.000It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.
00:08:17.000It's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.
00:08:46.000My own narrative is not one of some sudden looming bolt of lightning out of the blue.
00:08:52.000It was a slow and steady, unrelenting stream of blips and blinks, glimmers and glares, low beams and high beams of light, some of which I did not want to see.
00:09:06.000And then finally, a point of no return reckoning.
00:09:16.000I think it was because I fiercely came out during the Greupel Wars of 2019 when so many of these brave young men were on college campuses challenging the likes of Zio Schill Dan Crenshaw, questioning him about his undying loyalty and,
00:09:31.000of course, defending Nick Fuentes and so many of the stars of the burgeoning America First movement who, through an increasing amount of activism, are really going to ensure America is a nation of believers, dreamers, and strivers that is being led by a group of censors, critics, and cynics.
00:09:58.000These interests have rigged our political and economic system for their exclusive benefit.
00:14:53.000because if there are thousands and millions and tens of millions and hundreds of millions of Christians ready to meet their final destiny, then nothing can stop us and nothing will.
00:16:38.000*music* *music* *music* Lawrence, I found something really interesting.
00:16:58.000*music* In 2016, Donald Trump vowed that the United States would buy, and more importantly, hire Americans.
00:17:10.000But in June of 2024, during the All In podcast hosted by his donor, David Sachs, he committed that he would not only expand work visas, but he would staple green cards to them.
00:20:24.000I should have supported Groy for War II. Some
00:26:22.000of them may look back and ask themselves whether they've made the right choice, whether they've made the most of the opportunities they've been given.
00:31:44.000Can I just say, are you trusting Brian Adams?
00:32:02.000Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American people.
00:32:13.000The Washington establishment and the financial and media corporations that fund it exist for only one reason, to protect and enrich itself.
00:32:24.000The establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election.
00:32:28.000For those who control the levers of power in Washington and for the global special interest, they partner with these people that don't have your good in mind.
00:32:39.000Our campaign represents a true existential threat.
00:32:47.000This is not simply another four-year election.
00:32:50.000This is a crossroads in the history of our civilization that will determine whether or not we, the people, reclaim control over our government.
00:33:02.000The political establishment that is trying to stop us is the same group responsible for our disastrous trade deals, massive illegal immigration.
00:33:14.000And economic and foreign policies that have bled our country dry.
00:33:21.000The political establishment has brought about the destruction of our factories and our jobs as they flee to Mexico, China, and other countries all around the world.
00:33:32.000It's a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth, and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities.
00:33:49.000This is a struggle for the survival of our nation.
00:33:54.000And this will be our last chance to save it.
00:33:58.000This election will determine whether we're a free nation or whether we have only the illusion of democracy, but are in fact controlled by a small handful of global special interests rigging the system, and our system is rigged.
00:35:57.000This nation belongs to you, belongs to me.
00:36:02.000It was patriots like you that built this country, and it's patriots like you that are going to save our country.
00:36:24.000To all of those who think that they can coerce and subjugate the citizens of this land, hear these words from me tonight: The people of America will not surrender our borders.
00:37:31.000As long as we are led by politicians who will not put America first, then we can be assured that other nations will not treat America with respect, the respect that we deserve. the respect that we deserve.
00:43:23.000My own narrative is not one of some sudden, booming bolt of lightning out of the blue.
00:43:30.000It was a slow and steady, unrelenting stream of blips and blinks, glimmers and glares, low beams and high beams of light, some of which I did not want to see.
00:43:44.000And then finally, a point of no return reckoning.
00:43:55.000I think it was because I fiercely came out during the Griper Wars of 2019 when so many of these brave young men were on college campuses challenging the likes of Zio Schill, Dan Crenshaw, questioning him about his undying loyalty and, of course, defending Nick Fuentes and so many of the stars of the burgeoning America First movement who, through an increasing amount of activism, are really going to ensure the future and the success of that.
00:44:26.000Alexander the Great, Donald Trump, we're all cut from the same cloth, and that cloth is very, very large.
00:52:49.000Why wouldn't you dedicate yourself to public service?
00:52:52.000Because I think it's a very mean life.
00:52:54.000I would love and I would dedicate my life to this country, but I see it as being a mean life.
00:53:00.000And I also see it as somebody with strong views and somebody with the kind of views that are maybe a little bit unpopular, which may be right, but may be unpopular, wouldn't necessarily have a chance of getting elected against somebody with no great brain but a big smile.
00:53:15.000And that's a sad commentary for the political process.
00:53:18.000And if you have a minute, why don't we go?
00:54:41.000Donald Trump vowed that the United States would buy and, more importantly, hire American.
00:54:48.000But in June of 2024, during the All In podcast hosted by his donor, David Sachs, he committed that he would not only expand work visas, but he would staple green cards to them.
00:55:05.000And I will not encourage my followers to turn out in November to vote for this or campaign for this.
00:55:13.000It is not an unreasonable demand to say that we will not vote for a candidate that promises to import more legal immigrants.
00:55:23.000And it is not unreasonable because for the first time in 20 years, it is the majority opinion that there are too many legal immigrants coming into the country.
01:12:00.000And now he wants to be the governor of Ohio.
01:12:04.000And it's interesting because I was reassured by many of the Trump supporters that he was done.
01:12:10.000They said that Vivek was the worst offender during the H-1B crash out from Little Tech and that he was expelled from the MAGA movement and we don't have to worry about him anymore.
01:12:22.000But now he's running for Ohio with J.D. Vance's team in Ohio and he's been endorsed by Donald Trump.
01:13:01.000Who embodies the old version of conservatism in this crowd more than Vivek himself.
01:13:07.000He literally said between Christmas and New Year's after Trump's election in 2024, he said the reason that white people are not competitive against immigrants like himself, like from India, is because they're too busy chilling and having sleepovers and watching too much Friends.
01:13:30.000And if we want America to be great, then we have to stop being so lazy, unlike the hardworking immigrants from Asia.
01:13:39.000It's like, I'm sorry, is this Bill Kristol?
01:14:09.000Yesterday, Trump announced a new program where he's selling citizenship to the United States.
01:14:16.000And now anybody from any country can pay $5 million to the government and get citizenship in the United States.
01:14:25.000He's calling it a gold card, like a green card, a gold card, and he says that he aims to sell 10 million gold cards, 10 million new citizens.
01:14:39.000Now, that's not going to happen, but he said that's the number he gave.
01:14:43.000He said he wants 10 million people to buy gold cards for $5 million apiece, and then we'll be able to pay off the debt.
01:14:54.000If we sell 10 million gold cards, although that's unrealistic, we get $50 trillion in revenue, we can pay down the debt at the cost of 10 million new Americans.
01:15:09.000So what is it all really about anymore?
01:15:12.000I mean, what is it all really for, honestly?
01:15:18.000And a lot of you guys have been critical of me, not my fans, not the people that watch the show, but many people have been critical of me because I did not support Trump in the last election and I've been very critical of Trump.
01:21:23.000I wanted to throw one other thing at you before we get into the news.
01:21:28.000I've been noticing something a lot lately, and tell me if you've seen this as well.
01:21:35.000So, of course, for the past two years, everybody has been talking about, or year and a half, everybody has been talking about the war in Gaza.
01:22:08.000And the vast majority that are killed are Arab Muslims, but they are also killing Christians and they're destroying Christian churches.
01:22:18.000And that's happening in Gaza and in the West Bank.
01:22:21.000And this has been going on for years, and this has been a major source of antipathy towards Israel.
01:22:29.000People are saying, how can Jews keep trotting out the Holocaust narrative and talk about anti-Semitism on October 7th when they, by all accounts, appear to be the ones perpetrating a genocide in the present day?
01:22:48.000How can the ADL and SPLC tone police and finger wag about political speech in America?
01:22:57.000How can the various Holocaust alliances and museums and memorials finger wag at the American right wing or the European right wing when they are supporting a country that is in the process of ethnically cleansing a group of people from their home?
01:23:16.000Never mind some of the historical inaccuracies about those narratives.
01:23:21.000Well, lately on Twitter, I've seen a narrative spun up to counter that.
01:23:58.000They say that Muslims perpetrated a massacre of Christians at a church in the DRC's eastern province this week at the hands of a group called ADF, Allied Democratic Forces.
01:24:13.000And so now the refrain from the pro-Israel right is, you criticize Gaza, or rather, you criticize Israel's conduct in Gaza.
01:25:29.000That the group they're referring to, the Allied Democratic Forces, when they say, what about the Congo?
01:25:35.000They're talking about a massacre against Christians committed in the DRC's eastern province by a group called the ADF. And it's a very complicated conflict that's happening in Congo right now.
01:25:48.000It's happening in Congo's eastern province.
01:25:52.000And there is a very complex dispute going on.
01:25:56.000Where there are foreign militant groups operating inside Congo made up of Rwandan rebels, Ugandan rebels, and the Rwandan and Ugandan governments are backing their own proxies to fight the respective rebel groups from their countries operating in Congo.
01:26:21.000So there are Rwandan rebels in Congo, Ugandan rebels in Congo, and the Rwandan and Ugandan governments are fighting those respective rebels in Congo.
01:26:33.000Now, the reason they're fighting the rebels in Congo is because in the DRC's eastern province, Democratic Republic of Congo, in Congo's eastern province, that is where all of their...
01:26:47.000Very valuable mineral resources and diamonds are located.
01:27:42.000That he is paying lobbying firms to lobby the U.S. government to remove sanctions on him or even to empower the government in Congo to retake the province so that Congo and the United States and Israel can share in the profits from extracting the resources.
01:28:03.000Now, why do you think all of a sudden all of these pro-Israel voices on Twitter Are talking about Congo.
01:28:13.000Do you think it's because they're really interested in African politics?
01:28:18.000Do you think it's because they've really been following the M23 offensive in 2025 in Congo?
01:28:25.000Or is it because, like I talked about last night, they are being paid.
01:28:31.000They are being paid by foreign governments.
01:28:35.000And they run in the same networks with Israeli intelligence.
01:28:41.000And we may do a deep dive on that later this week.
01:28:44.000I still have to do more research on it.
01:28:48.000But if you look into, in particular, what is happening in Uganda, it goes back a long way with the state of Israel.
01:28:57.000Do you know that Israel backed three successive regimes in Uganda?
01:29:05.000They backed Uganda's president in the 60s.
01:29:09.000Because that president was funneling money to a Sudanese rebel group and distracting the Sudanese government from supporting Palestine.
01:29:19.000When that Ugandan president stopped supporting the South Sudanese rebels, Israel overthrew him and replaced him with Idi Amin.
01:29:29.000When Idi Amin denounced Zionism, expelled his Israeli military advisors, and let skyjacking Muslims land a plane full of Jewish hostages in Uganda, Israel backed a coup against him and replaced him with Uganda's current president,
01:29:47.000who was friends with Israeli super spies and Netanyahu, who made a visit to Uganda in 2020. And this is all part of the legacy of Britain's imperial government in Uganda because the British Empire was controlled by the Jewish Rothschilds who controlled the mining in Central and Southern Africa, the mining of diamonds, the mining of other valuable resources.
01:30:19.000And so you might ask yourself, why all of a sudden are James Lindsay and all these other influencers talking about Congo?
01:30:27.000All of a sudden, it's because the Jewish billionaires who have been extracting and who have been exploiting Africa's resources formerly in the British Empire and then over the past 100 years or 70 years since then is because they are attempting to once again reclaim control over the mineral rights, over the mining operation.
01:30:56.000So that Israel can start importing diamonds again for the diamond trade, so that the United States can have the cobalt, so they can make the batteries to diminish the leverage of petrostates, like the Muslim Arab countries that are adversaries with Israel.
01:31:15.000And because they all have the same PR managers, they all have the same lobbying managers and agents.
01:31:25.000And so anyway, so I saw that on Twitter and, you know, it's so funny.
01:31:30.000So much of what I have discovered about this stuff is just looking at Twitter, looking at the end product and things that obviously, things that are obviously a pattern and don't fit or don't make sense and just saying, hmm, I wonder what's going on there and just doing cursory research.
01:31:57.000Ashley St. Clair has just claimed that Elon Musk fathered a child with her.
01:32:05.000Ashley St. Clair is being managed by a fixer, a crisis management consultant, by the name of Glicklick.
01:32:16.000That guy lobbied on behalf of Congo for the American government.
01:32:22.000And he was paid by an Israeli security firm to do it.
01:32:27.000An Israeli security firm that is also tied to Gertler, who is running Congo's diamond mining and other mining operations.
01:32:37.000An Israeli company whose members are in Eric Prince's off-leash group chat and who are close with Eric Prince, if you know anything about him.
01:32:52.000How do you connect Twitter influencers like Ashley St. Clair, Eric Prince, State of Israel, and the M23 Offensive in Congo?
01:33:03.000Well, there's a three-letter word that brings them all together.
01:33:06.000Three-letter word, or five, or six, that ties it all together.
01:33:15.000Okay, that is the common denominator with all of this.
01:33:20.000You know, the difference between your favorite influencer, well, your favorite influencer is me.
01:33:25.000The difference between your average person's favorite influencer and me is you'll never see me start to flap my gums about Congo out of nowhere.
01:36:47.000So Donald Trump yesterday in the Oval Office proposed a new...
01:36:52.000He's calling it a gold card citizenship where anyone in the world can spend $5 million and immediately become a citizen of the United States.
01:37:03.000This is the plan, and this is what it said.
01:37:07.000It says, quote, President Trump on Tuesday previewed his plans for a new visa program he was calling the gold card, describing it as somewhat like a green card, but at a higher level of sophistication.
01:37:21.000The new program would allow very high-level people a new route to citizenship.
01:37:25.000The price tag, he said, would be about $5 million.
01:37:29.000Mr. Trump revealed his gold card plan to reporters in the Oval Office where he was signing his latest round of executive orders, including one related to tariffs on copper imports.
01:37:38.000His Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, filled in some of the details.
01:37:43.000Mr. Lutnick explained that the Trump gold card would replace the EB-5 visa program.
01:37:49.000Which similarly provides a pathway to citizenship for wealthy foreign investor types, but has been an avenue for fraud.
01:37:57.000Lutnik implied the administration would be more discerning as to who might qualify for a gold card, although details were scant.
01:38:04.000He predicted the gold card program would be a moneymaker for the government, reasoning that many companies would pay the $5 million fee to bring in skilled workers.
01:38:51.000But I was under the impression since 2015 and 2016 that America First and MAGA identified mass migration as one of the misguided schemes of the globalists to undercut American labor and fundamentally alter the American social fabric.
01:39:10.000At least that was the idea back in 2015 and 2016. And now it seems like they're coming up with new ways to bring foreigners to the country.
01:39:22.000Have we not had enough immigrants in the past 60 years that we have to come up with new programs to bring them in?
01:39:30.000And I warned about this throughout the election.
01:39:35.000Under Joe Biden, we brought in 10 million illegal immigrants.
01:39:39.000And millions of legal immigrants in four years.
01:39:44.000Why now are we talking about bringing in 10 million additional immigrants paying $5 million?
01:39:51.000I don't care if they're paying $5 million.
01:41:51.00055% of the German voters voted against uncontrolled immigration.
01:41:57.000And the incoming German chancellor said, in spite of the result, they're not closing the borders.
01:42:06.000And it's like we talked about last night.
01:42:08.000Whether you're electing the Tories in the United Kingdom, whether you're electing the center-right party in Germany, Maloney in Italy, Trump in the United States, admitting fewer immigrants is never on the table.
01:42:44.000We'd like to bring in H-2B visas, highly skilled immigrants.
01:42:50.000But understand that whether you're bringing in low-skilled people or refugees from Haiti or Africa or Latin America, or whether you're bringing in so-called high-skilled rich people from India, China, and the Middle East, the result is functionally the same, which is that more brown people are coming into our country, more brown people who are not Christian.
01:43:15.000More brown people who are not European, who do not share our culture, do not share our values, do not speak English.
01:43:36.000The country should be growing due to people getting married and having children.
01:43:42.000And the native population should be replacing and perpetuating itself.
01:43:47.000Instead, the government is replacing those that would have been born with foreigners because they need foreigners to come here and prop up the economy.
01:44:01.000They need foreigners to come here and prop up spending and debt and investment and all the rest.
01:45:28.000And they're bringing in all these people.
01:45:32.000And understand, that is the globalist, neoliberal consensus of both parties.
01:45:39.000The left and the right agree for different reasons.
01:45:43.000And different groups and different types of immigrants, but they both agree that the population must always increase by any means necessary, and that means importing foreigners.
01:45:55.000And the Democrats want to bring in the immigrants through chain migration or family-based migration.
01:46:10.000They're looking at refugees, family reunification.
01:46:14.000They see immigration as a form of charity to the poor, and they're opening up the gates to economic migrants.
01:46:22.000They call them asylum seekers, political refugees, and they see that as a form of helping the poor.
01:46:29.000And then when Republicans get in, they want to bring in the workers so that Silicon Valley and big agriculture can hire Very cheap labor inside the United States.
01:48:17.000They know that's what they promised, and that is what they insinuated.
01:48:21.000They know that was the popular mandate.
01:48:23.000And now that they've been elected and they want to bring in more immigrants, the Trump shills and cheerleaders say, well, why don't you try tagging him on Twitter?
01:48:33.000Mr. Trump, please, fewer immigrants, like they haven't already made up their mind.
01:50:07.000There are those that go to work and provide their labor for money.
01:50:12.000And then there are those that earn money through owning productive assets.
01:50:18.000The largest expense for the capitalists, for those that own the capital, is the labor.
01:50:27.000If you own a business and make money from a business, you make profit from a business.
01:50:34.000The way that you make profit is by employing workers.
01:50:40.000And the workers work to bring in revenue, and that is how the capitalist makes a profit.
01:50:47.000Their largest cost in that equation is paying the laborers.
01:50:53.000Well, this is where immigration Becomes a variable.
01:50:58.000The more workers there are in the economy, the lower the wages are.
01:51:03.000The greater the supply, the lower the price, the lower the demand.
01:51:09.000So it is better for the capitalists to have as many workers competing in the country as possible to achieve the lowest wage and therefore the lowest costs and therefore the highest profit.
01:51:42.000And when they import labor from foreign countries with a lower standard of living, and when those workers depend upon their employer for residence in the United States, They can pay those workers a lower wage.
01:51:59.000And when they do it under the table, they can do it with no benefits, without the proper safety regulations, without providing health care, without having to provide for FICO, for Social Security, and all that stuff.
01:52:17.000And so this is why, across the board, the people that have the money The people that pay the politicians for their campaigns, this is why they always favor more immigration in a nutshell, in essence, to keep the labor cost down.
01:52:37.000And so what is being done, to put it very simply, and there are other ways in which labor affects the economy or immigration affects the economy.
01:52:44.000The more people that are here, the more scarce housing becomes.
01:53:16.000So, it is a question of Does the nation and its planners prioritize the profits of the capitalists?
01:53:26.000Does it prioritize the bottom line of those that employ the labor, of those that own the productive assets, that own stock in companies, securities that own real estate, that own companies?
01:53:41.000Or do we put the well-being and the quality of life of the people first and the intangible assets of the country?
01:53:49.000Which is that you have a social fabric.
01:53:52.000Because the consequence of bringing the people here is that they change the country.
01:55:44.000That should be the right of any people that has a home.
01:55:48.000But our home is being destroyed and invaded by foreigners that are nothing like us because it's good for the economy.
01:55:55.000When we say it's good for the economy, it is good for the people that own the economy.
01:56:02.000And so unless and until you get a truly national movement that puts the well-being of the nation ahead of the well-being of its capital owners – You're never going to reduce immigration.
01:56:17.000At some point, a politician has to say, I'm not taking money from the business interests.
01:56:24.000I am going to reduce immigration overall, and I don't care what happens to the economy.
01:56:30.000We will find a way, but we're not going to bring in any more foreigners.
01:56:39.000For the United States, I think it's too late.
01:56:41.000When you look at the proportion of newborns that are white versus non-white, when you look at the proportion of foreign-born, it's already too late.
01:56:48.000This is an alien country, and it's not strictly race.
01:56:52.000I mean, you have black people that have lived in America, you have white people, and you've had other people that have lived in America.
01:56:58.000But the amount of people that have arrived in this country in the past 30 years is enormous.
01:57:05.000And it has forever transformed the country.
01:57:08.000And we're going to be dealing with the fallout for a very long time.
01:57:11.000And we're still not even close to slowing down the transformation, even with Trump in office.
01:57:17.000And you need to remember that the next time they try to sell you on budget cuts.
01:57:54.000So remember that the next time they tell you that all of this was so that RFK could ban Red 40, so that Doge, a fucking ridiculous internet meme, could cut $18 million at USAID. That's not what this is about.
01:58:16.000They have successfully obfuscated that completely, and people have forgotten the original reason why we did any of this.
01:58:25.000First and foremost and fundamentally, it was about immigration.
01:58:28.000But that issue was effectively used to get people to go along with this agenda.
01:58:37.000And the reason why it matters is because whether the United States is more competitive or less competitive, whether it defaults on the debt or it doesn't, whether there's a period of calamity or not.
01:58:50.000Without the immigrants, it's still America.
01:59:12.000It's a big deal that we cut the debt for the maintenance of an economic order.
01:59:19.000But in terms of preserving the survival of our civilization and what we have, immigration is the biggest priority by far still.
01:59:29.000And we're electing across the board in these countries, these political parties.
01:59:36.000They talk about immigration, but what they do is cut taxes.
01:59:40.000They talk about immigration, they play to nativist, racialist sympathies.
01:59:46.000They play on racial politics and then once they're in office, they deregulate, they cut taxes, they implement austerity so that we could like compete with China or something.
02:01:17.000If in a hundred years there's still white people in Europe and America's brown and they're brawling with China for the Indo-Pacific, I'm going to move to Europe.
02:01:26.000It will not have mattered whether we balance the budget or not if the country is filled with foreigners.
02:06:14.000The Republican governor of Ohio, DeWine, is term limited out of office in 2026. He completes his term in 26 and cannot run for re-election.
02:06:25.000His lieutenant governor, his second in command, was going to run to succeed the governor in the governor's race.
02:06:32.000That is, until DeWine selected his lieutenant governor to fill J.D. Vance's Senate seat.
02:06:41.000Now, in 2026, it will be an open primary for the Republican nominee in a now R-plus-10 state to run in the governor's race.
02:06:51.000And this is where Vivek Ramaswamy is going to run.
02:06:55.000Now, why are J.D. Vance and Vivek Ramaswamy interested in Ohio?
02:07:01.000Well, after Trump won the election, Anduril, the drone company funded by Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance's mentor, announced that they were opening up a drone factory in Ohio a few weeks ago.
02:07:17.000So, with J.D. Vance as the vice president, And Vivek Ramaswamy as governor of Ohio, they can secure very favorable policies for Anduril as a major defense contractor of the United States military.
02:07:37.000With Elon Musk's people at the Department of Defense, with Vance as the vice president and therefore president of the Senate, and with Vivek as governor of Ohio, they can make business very easy.
02:07:50.000For Palmer Luckey, the head of Vander Hill.
02:09:39.000And all of Trump's donors from Silicon Valley lashed out at the base, including Elon Musk, including David Sachs, Sean McGuire, Mark Andreessen, Sriram Krishnam, many others.
02:09:55.000They lashed out hard against the base and said that the Republican base that supports Trump is racist because they criticize Indian immigration.
02:10:28.000Mark Andreessen is actually from America.
02:10:32.000But all these people who were liberals, they were anti-Trump until a minute ago, many of them immigrants, many of them gay, some of them Jewish.
02:10:43.000They all attacked the Republican base as racist for opposing the H-1Bs.
02:10:48.000But the best speech, the best tweet...
02:10:52.000Out of that whole incident came from Vivek Ramaswamy.
02:11:48.000The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born and first-generation engineers over Native Americans isn't because of an innate American IQ deficit.
02:12:00.000A key part of it comes down to the C word, culture.
02:12:09.000If we're really serious about fixing problems, we must confront the truth.
02:12:15.000He writes, Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long, at least since the 90s.
02:12:24.000That doesn't start in college, it starts young.
02:12:27.000A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math Olympiad champ or the jock over the valedictorian will not produce the best engineers.
02:12:39.000A culture that venerates Corey from Boy Meets World or Zack and Slater over Screech in Saved by the Bell or Stefan over Steve Urkel in Family Matters will not produce the best engineers.
02:12:53.000Fact, I know multiple sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates.
02:13:09.000More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of Friends.
02:15:00.000Trump's election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up, a culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy, excellence over mediocrity, nerdiness over conformity, hard work over laziness.
02:15:16.000That's the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood and just wishing alternative hiring practices into existence.
02:15:48.000When American trade policy has sent factories to Mexico, and by the way, that's all it was.
02:15:56.000NAFTA, the giant sucking sound of factories being sucked across the border to Mexico where there's cheap labor because of the reduced import duties and tariffs, it was literally trade policy, which is what sent the factories overseas or across the border.
02:16:18.000And sending the factories to those countries...
02:16:23.000Where they have a lower standard of living, where they have nothing but labor, no capital but labor, that is the reason why American corporations move their operation across the ocean or across the border.
02:16:37.000And that had a cascading effect that killed all of the cities and towns in the country that relied upon industry.
02:16:46.000Now you have an economy that is only services.
02:17:24.000They said all of the truck drivers who are losing their jobs, all the machinists, all the assembly line workers, well, they need to just learn to code.
02:17:33.000They should start going to night classes.
02:17:37.000That's what Ben Shapiro said, remember, in his debate with Tucker Carlson?
02:17:42.000If your city is dying because the factory left, you need to uproot from the town where your great-grandparents are buried and go move to South Dakota and do fracking.
02:17:53.000Because all you're promised is the adventure of a lifetime.
02:17:56.000That sounds like a pretty shitty adventure to me.
02:18:30.000Sending Americans our peace dividend to the Middle East to die for Israel.
02:18:35.000Sending the factories overseas because of free trade so that the capitalists could make more money.
02:18:41.000Bringing immigrants here to take all the jobs because that's really what they did.
02:18:47.000Those were policies enacted by the government that ruined the quality of life of Americans, that ruined the economic engine of American life.
02:18:56.000And then, when Americans become destitute, Or despair.
02:19:02.000Then when Americans become nihilistic because the country has been diversified and our culture has been destroyed and our God has been killed and our sense of nationhood and pride has been destroyed and Americans check out, then we get lectured by immigrants and Jews that tell us, well, you're just lazy.
02:21:21.000Someone who, because he is a foreigner and in typical Indian fashion is striving beyond his means, has landed himself in this teal network, this fake venture capital network propped up by the CIA. He went to law school and now he thinks that he's going to diagnose all of our problems and tell us how we're going to live our lives now.
02:22:45.000And you still profess pride in your group.
02:22:48.000Why don't you go to India if you're so proud?
02:22:51.000If the Asian tigers are who we should emulate, if that's where competitiveness is taking place, why don't you bring Thomas Jefferson's declaration to India?
02:23:01.000Why don't you bring the Constitution there?
02:23:03.000Why don't you bring your brilliance and eloquence and your good ideas?
02:23:08.000And your Indian kids and your Indian fucking family and your Indian faith and go the fuck back to India.
02:23:15.000And you can share the good news with them.
02:23:41.000It is obviously contrary to MAGA and America First.
02:23:45.000You may disagree with everything I just said about Vivek, but you cannot disagree with the fact that it is contrary to Trumpism.
02:23:53.000Trumpism is one thing, and this is the opposite of that thing.
02:23:58.000Trumpism said, Between the coasts that are flown over by our elites have been forgotten.
02:24:13.000Because it's not glamorous, because movies and TV aren't made there, because financial deals aren't made there, and because they don't have all of this diversity and therefore don't have as much cosmopolitan culture, Trump said the elites have forgotten about those people and acted as though they don't matter and that their concerns aren't real.
02:24:36.000And that their politics should be squelched and censored and basically abrogated over time as the people in those places eventually just die off or go away.
02:24:47.000And Trump said that we should care about those people too.
02:24:51.000Those people have been abused and neglected by globalization policies over the past 30 years that have benefited New York and Los Angeles, but not anybody else.
02:25:03.000They benefited the multinational firms headquartered on the coasts that have sent the jobs overseas or imported the immigrants here but have not benefited and actually hurt the people in the country and that we need a leader that's looking after not just the people on the coast but the people between them as well.
02:25:33.000Differentiating between what Elon said and what Vivek said and correctly identified that Vivek is really more like an enemy, like an adversary.
02:27:02.000It was about fighting globalization and standing up for the natives of the country against the transnationalists, internationalists, foreigners, lobbyists, special interests.
02:27:19.000And now it seems to be about nothing at all.
02:27:23.000Now it seems to be an ad hoc hodgepodge of false promises to appease a political base and real promises to a disparate group of political donors.
02:27:38.000Telling the base mass deportations while telling the donors green cards on diplomas.
02:28:18.000The personal brand of Trumpism is smoothing over the differences between what is being promised to the voters and what is being delivered to the benefactors, to the donors.
02:28:32.000And so instead of Trumpism being defeated in 2024, which I would have been actually okay with, now instead we're seeing it being And now you have Trump endorsing Vivek.
02:28:52.000Ten years ago, Vivek would have been the prime target of Trump.
02:28:56.000Vivek was professing the same kind of ideology as Trump's opponents of Bill Kristol, of Ben Shapiro, of Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, of that political class.
02:29:08.000And now he has Trump's full endorsement.
02:29:10.000And now all his best friends are running the government.
02:29:15.000And it's only when you consider those things do you realize what has actually taken place, which is that Trumpism was hijacked and usurped.
02:29:24.000The energy behind it, the brand loyalty with the voters, it has been hijacked and utilized to advance the same old agenda.
02:30:13.000And as it relates to immigration policy, how we instantiate that is to say that if you have somebody from another country who has a greater understanding of U.S. history than the average American citizen, has a greater commitment to the ideals embodied in the history than the average American citizen, has a greater commitment to the ideals embodied in the history than the average American citizen, is more fluent in the U.S. language or proficient in the
02:30:38.000So therefore can communicate and engage with those ideals and is willing to work harder and embody greater contributions to America than the average citizen, that we should have an immigration policy that selects for that class of immigrants.
02:30:52.000He is saying at once, America is an idea.
02:30:59.000At the same time, he's saying immigrants are better than natives.
02:31:03.000At the same time, he's saying that Indians and Chinese are going to be speaking better English than us, know our history better, embody our values better.
02:33:00.000Marc Andreessen's portfolio of companies at Andreessen Horowitz, it's literally like eBay, Pinterest, PayPal.
02:33:08.000Yeah, Vanderbilt and Carnegie and Rockefeller made the Industrial Revolution, built skyscrapers, built railroads, built ships, built the military that won World War II, but Andreessen Horowitz made Pinterest.
02:33:23.000You can find AI pictures of living room decor.
02:33:30.000It's like a taxi, but the drivers don't have healthcare.
02:33:37.000These are these contributions that the immigrants are bringing to us with their CIA funding, with their CIA money.
02:33:48.000And they think they're better than us.
02:33:50.000The question is, you know, Vivek says he's America first.
02:33:54.000He says, and there's a debate in the America First movement between blood and soil nationalists and people like himself, civic nationalists.
02:34:03.000He says, but in order to determine what America First means, we have to know what an American is.
02:34:38.000He says the crux of the America first debate is between those who think Americans are white and those that think Americans are Jeffersonians of any color.
02:35:18.000The way our hair looks, the way we dress, the way we joke around, the way we express ourselves, our shared history, our shared features and faces, and everything that comes with it, our food, our habits, our sense of humor, our temperament.
02:35:38.000Does a nation have those things in common or is a nation a group of any kinds of people?
02:35:44.000Different colors, different races, different religions, different everything, but they're all just working on math problems.
02:35:51.000They're all just working on engineering problems together in a room.
02:38:46.000It was Trump, you know, an old school like racist billionaire who didn't want all these immigrants here and now it's these startup Silicon Valley yuppies from India who have an affection for India.
02:39:03.000This is the death of the MAGA movement.
02:39:33.000Imagine growing up in your home and your parents telling you, well, we don't claim you or we don't love you because you're not making enough money or something.
02:39:47.000You know, there's this concept that parents love their children unconditionally.
02:39:51.000So a nation should love its people unconditionally and not treat them like assholes.
02:39:58.000That the United States government is going to say, oh, these people are dumb.
02:40:36.000That's some arrogant Indian, some rich Indian whose parents were doctors because they were rich in India, because they were part of a caste system for thousands of years, comes here and can impress people with this knowledge of the revolution and the founding.
02:40:51.000Does not mean he is more American than people that have been here since the time of the founding.
02:41:30.000To go to another country and lecture its native people?
02:41:35.000As like a rich person, you're rich, your parents are rich, you come to a country and lecture its native people and say, they're not really from their own country?
02:41:45.000You need more people like yourself there?
02:41:48.000But that's the audacity these people have.
02:41:51.000And yes, by these people, I mean Indians.
02:41:53.000Yes, that is the absolutely gauche and tactless and senseless temperament of these fucking people.
02:42:29.000The English people that founded the country were not like that.
02:42:34.000The English people, you know, for all of the vet's knowledge of the Constitution, you know, George Washington, the father of this country, Was not an ambitious striver.
02:42:47.000He was, but he never talked about himself.
02:42:52.000He was an ambitious driver, and he desperately wanted greatness, but never betrayed that publicly.
02:44:13.000Biology nerds that started up fake fucking companies to grip venture capital money and then jag off about speech and debate team in public about Thomas Jefferson.
02:47:13.000Kicking out all the Palestinians, he endorses a mineral deal in Ukraine, which obligates us to stay there, endorses 10 million new immigrants with $5 million, endorses Vivek, endorses Musk, Doge.
02:50:34.000Do you think the whole Crenshaw slash Tucker BS is political theater or is it the Peter Thiel faction clashing with what's left of the neocons?
02:51:20.000because he only got one are you Javier Mule's long lost son?
02:51:23.000you lowkey look like him and you both share many characteristics CG blue eyes thick eyebrows short in stature hair color mouth shape I could go on Morningwood sent $5 Ever hear what Pekin, Illinois, is famous for?
02:51:33.000Their high school sports teams were called the Pekin Chinks until 1981. W Pekin?
02:52:56.000Yeah, I'm not really a big fan of Dave Riley, so I'll do a stream just with Vince, but I don't want to do it with Dave.
02:53:03.000So, you know, and I don't have like a big personal beef with him, but a lot of my close friends do, so I just can't really hang with that guy.
02:53:14.000I don't trust him, but yeah, I'll do a stream with Vince for sure.
02:55:14.000I want to live in an empty glass house that's cold.
02:55:19.000And people are like, Nick is like this trad guy.
02:55:24.000Nick is like a trad guy who dreams of sitting there and looking into his wife's eyes and being like, baby, you make me the happiest man in the world.
02:58:08.000And guys like women and guys get married and then they have kids with the women and then they like the kids and they take care of the kids.
02:58:16.000What guy who's really in his bag, what guy who is really in his bag with motion, making deals, making money, doing things, traveling, what guy really wants to be encumbered in that way?
02:58:32.000What guy goes to a hotel room and is in a new city and is making money and is like, you know what I wish I had right now?
02:58:40.000I wish my wife were here with a bunch of kids.
02:58:43.000What guy is out on the weekend at a cool restaurant or with some awesome people and then is like, man, you know what I wish?
02:58:50.000I wish I had a wife waiting for me to get home who would nag me if I don't get home in a reasonable hour.
03:00:58.000You ever notice about these chick flicks?
03:01:01.000I hate the way that men are portrayed in chick flicks and rom-coms because the men are always portrayed in a woman's mind as the subject of women's romantic intrigue.
03:01:25.000When you watch Mamma Mia or Crazy Rich Asians, Or Sex and the City.
03:01:32.000When you watch these movies, the guys are always just like silly, goofy, dancing at these parties, you know, dancing at these elaborate parties.
03:01:44.000They're sort of playing along in these dramas, catering to the whims of women.
03:01:51.000And I feel like that's guys, young guys, young like trad-based guys.
03:01:59.000See themselves through the eyes of women.
03:02:04.000Women see guys a certain way, and trad-based guys are seeing themselves through the eyes of women, and it is emasculating them.
03:02:16.000Because the way that women look at men sort of removes something fundamental that they can never understand, something inaccessible.
03:02:25.000The way that a man Is a master of the universe.
03:02:31.000The way that a man is fascinated with the secrets of the universe, with the various fields of study, with competition, with domination, with conflict, with empire, enterprise.
03:04:02.000A woman's fantasy is to be that woman, the object of the male gaze.
03:04:08.000Because the woman wants to be in a nice kitchen.
03:04:13.000A woman wants to be in a nice kitchen.
03:04:15.000And to make enough money to be in a garden and to be skinny and to have a kid, a daughter, and for a man to have that affection and that desire.
03:04:23.000And men are seeing themselves in that woman's fantasy without the bloodlust.
03:04:32.000And that's what you're doing to me right now.
03:04:34.000That's what you're doing to me right now.
03:04:36.000You see a person who is singularly focused.
03:04:40.000You see a person who is singularly focused, who has given his life.
03:05:42.000They're just not getting that, you know, because guys are still, it's just like the, how would you feel if you hadn't eaten, if you didn't eat breakfast this morning?
03:05:51.000You say to people something like, I'm just not interested in a domestic life.
03:09:42.000Maybe she can't help that, but she can at least take a shower.
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03:09:46.000Do you believe that our state electric grids and energy production should be nationalized/public owned or should they be deregulated and privatized?
03:09:51.000Ebert Roland Group owns my state's power grid and we're getting completely shafted.
03:09:56.000I haven't studied the electric nationalization debate.
03:10:01.000sent five dollars did you see mr based getting arrested and leaving world of t-shirts vulnerable on the street you should collab with joshua block on fresh and fit podcast and red pill him on the jq oh yeah good idea zachariah seed sent five dollars it's a really fucked up irony to think that the only way ukraine can at least ethnically and culturally survive is to basically join the russian federation if they don't they become america's slave demographically collapse or ge replaced by niggs yeah or elio saw sent five dollars do we need hitlerian rape roman groyper sent five dollars the saddest blunder in history was we italians in world war ii we should have never attacked our brothers in greece and we should have made it a moral slash religious crusade of all christians against turkey and a third the third front into Russia blocking trade plus retaking.
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03:13:36.000Greatest city sent $20 been noticing that most trannies are becoming the gender that makes them heterosexual At least the ones that never took steroids or chemotherapy If transgenderism is officially exposed as a type of homosexuality LGBT would conservatives stop criticizing?
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03:16:07.000The current status quo of white genocide, replacement, immigration, et cetera, has happened at the Akwaeic Center or indifference of the billionaire slash elites.
03:16:13.000It's a shame that it's mostly leftists that talk about this and their designs in any depth.
03:25:33.000If Europe wasn't such a fucking idiot, they could have retained a semblance of resource self-sufficiency by France holding on to West Africa, working to keep Ukraine in their sphere and working to retain Greenland, but these nigs are just too soft.
03:27:39.000You know, because I grew up in, I guess I grew up in sort of a bubble in a certain sense.
03:27:43.000You know, because even the white people that I grew up with, it was all my mom's friends were all Italian from the Italian neighborhoods in Chicago.
03:28:25.000And the people that I have the most in common with are the people from like New York.
03:28:30.000Those are the people that I – because New York has similar demographic composition.
03:28:34.000People from like Connecticut, people from New York, people from New Jersey.
03:28:38.000Because they – I get along with them.
03:28:41.000I sort of have an instant rapport with them.
03:28:43.000And I'm not trying to lark, but that is what I grew up with.
03:28:45.000I mean I grew up in like a very loud, boisterous – you go to like a family party or like a get-together or what was like that sort of thing.
03:28:54.000And so I don't really relate as much to even people that are just like right across the border because Indiana has a totally different demographic composition from Illinois.
03:29:11.000and most of Illinois has a different demographic composition than Chicago.
03:29:16.000You know, Illinois is like all Germans and Chicago is all like Italian and Irish.
03:29:23.000And Indiana is all people from the South.
03:29:25.000Indiana is all people that – it's a different migration pattern than Illinois.
03:29:30.000Indiana is a lot of people that migrated from Appalachia actually.
03:29:34.000So it's like funny how there's – you'd think that going to like Springfield, Illinois and then going to like Elkert, Indiana, it's in very close proximity.
03:29:47.000You'd think, oh, like these are all the same people.
03:29:50.000But no, there's a completely different culture in all three, and people in Chicago would have more in common with someone from, like, Connecticut, where it's a lot of Italians and Irish, and it's a similar migration pattern than even someone from, like, Naperville, even, like, Pearl.
03:30:09.000Like, Pearl Davis, she grew up in, like, a little bit further west.
03:31:19.000boogly woogly sent $10 only leftists mostly talk about billionaires I really need to proofread these that's true Tyler Ventura sent $5 I moved to Miami two years ago I love it here but the Hispanic culture shock was huge it feels like South America here they chastise you for not being able to speak Spanish yeah Zachariah Seed sent $10 bro I was on google earth checking how these Irish niggas be living and this looks like some ran down prehistoric shit nigga crying face crying face praying gesture like dame you niggas live like this I thought there would be like one skyscraper, but this shit looks like some Neanderthal settlements from one million because.