America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - Why School Shootings Happen | America First Ep. 92

00:00:01.000 Good evening, everybody.

00:00:02.000 You are watching America First.

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

00:00:08.000 Lots to get into, lots to discuss.

00:00:11.000 Of course, another tragic high school shooting in Kentucky this afternoon.

00:00:16.000 We'll get into that.

00:00:17.000 I think something's going on, folks.

00:00:20.000 I know it's not uncommon on the show, but I think something's happening here.

00:00:24.000 We've seen a lot of school shootings this year or since Donald Trump has gotten elected, and we don't hear about the names.

00:00:31.000 We don't hear about it so much.

00:00:32.000 I think there's a reason for that.

00:00:33.000 We're talking about that.

00:00:35.000 And then, of course, we have to talk about Peter Sturzak and where the 50,000 missing text messages have gone from December 2016 until May 2017.

00:00:48.000 The text messages that the FBI should have been keeping between him and Lisa Page are nowhere to be found.

00:00:53.000 And so we'll talk about that.

00:00:55.000 But before we do some housekeeping things, we have new intro music, and I promised yesterday that I would update the description of the video with a link to the song.

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00:02:38.000 But with that out of the way, another thing that we saw last night, and this is just a brief thing, this is a brief little segment here on Paul Nealon.

00:02:49.000 Now, if you were on Twitter last night, Paul Nealon has been killing it.

00:02:54.000 Paul Nealon has been killing it.

00:02:55.000 And I was skeptical last night.

00:02:57.000 I really was.

00:02:58.000 If you watched the show last night, I expressed some skepticism.

00:03:01.000 There was some constructive criticism.

00:03:03.000 And I have to say, on that subject, I might have been a little bit premature because we saw what Paul Nealon was doing last night.

00:03:11.000 He went after Ben Shapiro, he went after Ali Stuckey, Cassie Dillon, Elliott Hamilton on the question, very controversial, of if Jews go to hell according to the Bible.

00:03:24.000 And whether you think that's true or not, whether you're hardline, fire and brimstone against non Christians, as Paul Nealon seemed to be going last night, this was one of those watershed moments.

00:03:36.000 This was an important moment that you had just about every Israel First, every conservative ink pundit, writer, person involved in this conversation.

00:03:49.000 Doesn't matter what was said, but that you had Ben Shapiro engaging in a conversation of whether or not.

00:03:55.000 Jews go to hell, according to the Bible, is such progress, is such an improvement that this conversation is being had.

00:04:04.000 And many might say, well, Ben Shapiro didn't really address it.

00:04:08.000 It was very snarky, which is his method, I guess.

00:04:12.000 That's his tone. 0.96

00:04:13.000 Very snarky, very bitchy, very juvenile.

00:04:16.000 But that it was addressed, that this is presenting itself in the zeitgeist, in the consciousness of the conservative, is a very profound step forward. 0.78

00:04:26.000 The more that we can draw lines, The more that we can make distinctions between Christians and everybody else, the more that we can make distinctions between Europeans and everybody else, the better.

00:04:40.000 The more we can get that in the consciousness of conservatives, Americans in particular, but conservatives, the more we can use them as an instrument, as a vehicle to further this nationalist message.

00:04:52.000 And so, really solid showing by our guy Paul Nealon the other night.

00:04:57.000 That said, he did get suspended from Twitter for seven days, which is a price to pay.

00:05:02.000 And this is, of course,.

00:05:04.000 A warning of things to come.

00:05:06.000 I mean, this is what happens when you have people pushing the envelope like this.

00:05:10.000 They get deplatformed, and that's the price that you pay.

00:05:15.000 We are on this, what do you call that?

00:05:18.000 We're on this tightrope, I guess you could call it.

00:05:20.000 That's the word for it, right?

00:05:21.000 When they go with the poll between the two things.

00:05:24.000 I mean, that's where we're at here as far right activists.

00:05:27.000 When we're pushing, when we're on the frontier and we're seeing how far we can go, that's the delicate balance.

00:05:33.000 The balance to strike between.

00:05:35.000 The red pill between telling the truth, between saying those edgy things, and of course, maintaining your platform.

00:05:42.000 Having some form of legitimacy, having some form of mainstream appeal, so to speak, through your legitimacy.

00:05:49.000 And so that's the difficult part there.

00:05:52.000 And, you know, Paul Nealon, he's learning the ropes.

00:05:54.000 He's, you know, last year when I was campaigning for him, or two years ago when I was campaigning for him in August of 2016, he was the normie presenting conservative.

00:06:04.000 And there were some things which, which, Alluded to, I think, a little bit more knowledge than maybe there was before, where he said, for example, that Paul Nealon had no soul, I remember, which I got a big kick out of.

00:06:18.000 I mean, it certainly is a gambit, this different direction he's taking this year, and I think it'll play off.

00:06:18.000 And I don't know.

00:06:24.000 But he's learning how it goes.

00:06:25.000 He's learning.

00:06:26.000 It's a trial through fire, and God bless this guy. 0.87

00:06:29.000 He's got balls. 0.97

00:06:30.000 He's got balls. 0.94

00:06:31.000 He's got courage. 0.96

00:06:32.000 He's got integrity.

00:06:33.000 He's honest.

00:06:34.000 He's real.

00:06:36.000 And that's as much as you can ask for.

00:06:38.000 So, We wish him the best.

00:06:40.000 I hope he keeps pushing because this is really good stuff.

00:06:42.000 This is peak 2018.

00:06:44.000 But anyway, on the subject of that topic on Jewish people and Christians, I would encourage everybody, I've recommended this before, but check out the documentary Marching to Zion.

00:06:55.000 If you're interested in that question, and I know many Christians who watch this show, some are a little bit confused about this.

00:07:02.000 Even atheists who watch this show are a little bit confused.

00:07:05.000 Maybe they're a little bit turned off about the fact that Christians are very supportive of Israel, that Jewish people are the chosen people.

00:07:12.000 In the estimation of some Christians, some evangelical Christians, I would encourage everybody to check out that documentary, Marching to Zion.

00:07:20.000 It's about two hours, high production quality, very solid information, very mainstream.

00:07:26.000 And so I just encourage everybody to check that out, Marching to Zion, very informative on this subject, if you're looking for further resources.

00:07:36.000 And also, there's really, you know, I would encourage, of course, everybody to check out the Israel lobby.

00:07:41.000 That's a little bit more.

00:07:43.000 And some other books on the subject.

00:07:45.000 You can check my Debate with Jacob Bull for citations on that.

00:07:48.000 But very good documentary.

00:07:50.000 Now, with that out of the way, we have to get to our news here.

00:07:54.000 The high school shooting in Kentucky, which of course is unfortunate, which of course is a tragic thing.

00:08:01.000 And of course, we are praying for the victims.

00:08:03.000 We support the victims.

00:08:04.000 It's hard to even say that kind of stuff with any kind of earnestness or seriousness because it happens so frequently.

00:08:12.000 And what is the response?

00:08:13.000 Where's the outrage?

00:08:14.000 Where are the people marching about it or upset about it?

00:08:17.000 And this just goes with everything terrorist attacks, shootings.

00:08:21.000 We've just become so desensitized to the modern world.

00:08:24.000 And I will say on the subject of.

00:08:27.000 The desensitization.

00:08:29.000 It's a little bit overblown when people talk about that, particularly with violence, because the civilized world, the modern world, is the anomaly.

00:08:38.000 You know, when we talk about, well, we're so desensitized to violence, nobody cares about violence anymore.

00:08:45.000 We should have righteous indignation about things like terrorist attacks that are preventable, or things like Kate Stinley, where people shouldn't have even been in the country and they're killing people.

00:08:54.000 That you should have righteous indignation about.

00:08:56.000 But when people have these qualms, these like existential, Anxieties about desensitization to violence.

00:09:03.000 I would remind people that this is the anomaly.

00:09:08.000 This is the anomalous period in history.

00:09:11.000 For 2,000 years, no, no, for 5,000 years longer, the norm has been daily violence, has been violence all the time, every day, everywhere, in every country, and affecting you pretty frequently.

00:09:27.000 And so I would say that when people talk about this oversensitization, it's not so much the modern world, it's the modern world.

00:09:33.000 In the way that it is debased and it is perverted in many ways, the way that they stand on the graves of the victims and it turns into a political crusade.

00:09:41.000 But I would say that just the violence in general, violence is sort of the norm.

00:09:47.000 That we are not accommodated with violence, I think, is a testament to how far we've come rather than how far we have not come or how far we've degenerated.

00:09:56.000 But on the subject of the high school shooting in particular, I think this is really important.

00:10:02.000 This is a really important point to drive home.

00:10:05.000 And this story in particular, this was in, where was this in?

00:10:08.000 This was in Kentucky.

00:10:09.000 It was Marshall County High School in Benton, Kentucky.

00:10:14.000 And it was a 15 year old kid who goes into the school at 8 a.m.

00:10:18.000 He starts firing with a handgun, kills two people, wounds 17.

00:10:23.000 And here's why this story is fascinating.

00:10:26.000 This comes off the heels, of course, only a day after another high school shooting at Italy High School in Texas.

00:10:33.000 It serves to illustrate something very.

00:10:36.000 Peculiar about our young people, about our youth, about our culture.

00:10:41.000 If you try and get in the head of a school shooter, and you see these things all the time now, and not just school shootings, but this kind of nihilism, this kind of surreal violence among young people, this surreal disassociation, disconnectedness from the world, and you really try and get in the heads of some of these kids, and here you would imagine, here we were told by Francis Fukuyama in the 1990s after the Cold War that we had reached the end of history.

00:11:10.000 That in the 1990s, as America stood as the most powerful, the most wealthy, the most prosperous country in the world, we wanted for nothing, we had no major adversaries, there was no existential threat or rival.

00:11:24.000 We had reached the end of the game.

00:11:26.000 We had completed the final objective, and now it was game over, and we just get to bask in the fruits of liberal democracy and liberal capitalism.

00:11:35.000 That is what the postulate was by Fukuyama at the end in his book, The End of History and the Last Man.

00:11:42.000 He wrote essentially about how.

00:11:43.000 Now it was a question of how soon would the rest of the world catch up to us?

00:11:48.000 How soon would the rest of the world adopt democracy, adopt liberalism, adopt capitalism?

00:11:54.000 The borders would go away, the conflicts would go away, and we would essentially have reached the final point and we would be good and we would be done.

00:12:01.000 We would be finished.

00:12:02.000 There would be a lot of eating, there would be a lot of technology and race to the stars and all of that, but we were, for all intents and purposes, done with history.

00:12:11.000 And this was the promise of the past 20 years that material wealth, that material goods, prosperity, happiness, Peace, you know, these vaunted progressive and liberal ideals of trying to achieve heaven on earth, these utopian visions of trying to achieve heaven on earth, that once that happened, well, we were good.

00:12:31.000 And yet we see 25 years out, our young people are miserable.

00:12:37.000 And they're not just miserable, they're miserable and they're numb. 0.73

00:12:40.000 And they're so numb that if they're not slamming, you know, drugs into their system, the worst opiates, the worst and most terrible opiates that kill them, that leave them cold and dead and shorten their lives, If they're not doing that, they're shooting up a school, or they're committing suicide, or they're abusing prescription drugs, or on Adderall, or they're on something, or they're pursuing hedonistic pleasure in the form of sex or other things.

00:13:08.000 And it is in stark contrast to the promise.

00:13:10.000 The promise was we get all this stuff, we get all this peace, we have basically this conception of happiness and the liberal and Western premise, this concept, and we'd be set.

00:13:22.000 And yet, our youngest and the ones with the most potential.

00:13:25.000 Are not seeing the fruits of that.

00:13:27.000 And so you get in the head of a 15 year old in Kentucky, for example, and they look ahead in their lives.

00:13:33.000 And the media would have it, or popular culture would have it, that a 15 year old looks forward to many great things.

00:13:39.000 A 15 year old, a rational 15 year old in the concept of the media, is looking forward to a life where they're going to make a lot of money and they're going to have a big family and they're going to have kids.

00:13:52.000 They're going to go through high school, they get to go to prom.

00:13:55.000 They get to go to prom and, hey, buddy, I remember, you know, the dad is thinking, I remember my first prom and I went with your mother and boy, did we hit it off and it was a great time with your friends.

00:14:08.000 And, you know, you'll graduate and graduation will be fun.

00:14:11.000 So many things to experience.

00:14:13.000 You'll go off to college and you'll have the college experience. 0.98

00:14:16.000 You'll get to go with the fraternities, your frat brothers, and you'll be drinking and partying and you'll be having sex with all kinds of exotic babes. 0.99

00:14:25.000 You'll get to go to the Football game, and you get to cheer with the crowd and root for the home team with the fans, and what a great time! 0.99

00:14:33.000 And hey, and then you graduate and you're a professional, you're a serious person.

00:14:37.000 Maybe you settle down, you settle down with that lucky lady from college, huh?

00:14:41.000 And she was majoring in something else, and now you got two incomes, and you're doing pretty well.

00:14:46.000 You're bringing in 300 grand a year, and you're only 30, and you're living in the city, you get to go out maybe in a big, nice house, you're partying with your friends, you're making all kinds of money, and hey.

00:14:58.000 You know, maybe you have a kid, maybe you have a family, you get to see your kids go through it, and then you retire, you get your yacht, and you can retire from life then peacefully.

00:15:08.000 And so, this is the premise of the media.

00:15:10.000 This is what they project onto us.

00:15:12.000 This is the liberal democratic vision for our lives that is laid out for us, young people, Generation Z. I'm speaking as a representative.

00:15:21.000 But then you imagine it from the perspective of the 15 year old, and not the media, not the popular culture, not the popular conception of what happens, not this.

00:15:29.000 Sterilized neoliberal advertisement conception where it's like an all state commercial designed to sell you insurance.

00:15:36.000 So they try and pull at the heartstrings with these nostalgic visions and so forth.

00:15:40.000 But let's get in the head of the actual 15 year old where you're in high school, you're a youngster, and you see the road laid out before you.

00:15:47.000 It's not quite what it would seem in the Allstate commercial and the Blue Cross Blue Shield commercial.

00:15:53.000 Rather, it is a life of expectation of no responsibility, limitless outcomes, no real purpose or meaning.

00:16:02.000 The youngster might see a life where they will grow up, and what happens to them in college?

00:16:08.000 They're slapped with $100,000 in student loan debt.

00:16:12.000 They get out of high school, and there's no jobs.

00:16:15.000 If you're not very smart, if you don't have an aptitude, if you don't have a passion, That you want to rush into college and study?

00:16:21.000 Well, there's no jobs.

00:16:22.000 What are the jobs?

00:16:23.000 You're going to work at McDonald's?

00:16:24.000 You're going to work at Taco Bell, in the words of Stephen Paddock's brother?

00:16:28.000 You're going to work in fast food?

00:16:30.000 You know, that's not really an option.

00:16:31.000 You can't come out of college and be a machinist.

00:16:34.000 You will have to go to college.

00:16:36.000 And you'll have to go to college in order to support yourself or anybody else a family member, you know, a son, a wife, anything like that.

00:16:45.000 And so you have to go to college.

00:16:46.000 You have to take on this tremendous financial burden.

00:16:49.000 So this.

00:16:50.000 Is sitting on your shoulders.

00:16:52.000 Now, you get out of college, and by the way, you have no practical skills.

00:16:55.000 You've been coddled all your life.

00:16:57.000 There's really no practical skill there.

00:16:59.000 Most people aren't working.

00:17:01.000 Most people aren't out there doing.

00:17:03.000 They've been sheltered by helicopter moms, by female elementary, middle, and high school teachers.

00:17:08.000 They've been raised in a feminized culture.

00:17:10.000 And so these men come out of high school, and they're basically man children.

00:17:15.000 And they come out and they come into college and they take on this massive debt.

00:17:18.000 They're forced into something that maybe they don't even like, but something that'll pay the bills.

00:17:23.000 They start out maybe their first year studying something like sports broadcasting, or they come into college studying something like, you know, if you're a liberal, gender studies or, you know, automotive care, you know, something like that, which the trades are actually a better option.

00:17:36.000 But they're forced into college into something like accounting.

00:17:40.000 They're forced into college into being an actuary.

00:17:44.000 And they got out of college and they're paying their student loan debts, paying their student loan debts.

00:17:48.000 It's a constant race against rising taxes, rising expenses.

00:17:53.000 You know, the way that it used to work is.

00:17:55.000 You would have a certain standard of living and you would save money and you would accumulate money and then you could be wealthy.

00:18:00.000 You would have wealth, you would have a little bit of independence.

00:18:03.000 In this day and age, if you get out of college and unscathed by student loan debt and you get a decent job, well, then you get your decent job and the expenses are right there with your income.

00:18:14.000 It's right there.

00:18:15.000 And so it's just a constant race, paycheck to paycheck.

00:18:18.000 Maybe you get a little bit of an upgrade, but then your taxes go up, your expenses go up.

00:18:23.000 And so you're paying and paying this family ideal, this wife and kids, this community thing.

00:18:29.000 It doesn't really materialize.

00:18:30.000 You know, maybe the wife that you meet in school, she's educated, she's focused on career. 0.56

00:18:34.000 Maybe she doesn't want to have kids.

00:18:36.000 If she does have kids, maybe you have kids.

00:18:38.000 And then she decides she's a little bit bored, so she leaves you. 1.00

00:18:40.000 And she takes the kids and she takes half the money even working for.

00:18:43.000 And so these are, you know, this is a pessimistic outlook.

00:18:46.000 This is an ugly outlook.

00:18:48.000 But for many young people, this is the reality that is projected in front of them.

00:18:53.000 It is a life of suffering, it is a life of material and nothing immaterial, nothing spiritual, nothing religious, nothing existential.

00:19:02.000 And this is the life projected in front of them where there's this stress, this work, these rising expectations, and so on and so forth.

00:19:10.000 And on top of that, there's no meaning for it, there's no purpose for the suffering, and there's no backbone for it.

00:19:16.000 There's no community, there's no support from anybody that's really pushing behind them in the way that it used to be.

00:19:23.000 And so I think this is why you get it.

00:19:25.000 You can blame video games, you can blame the violent video games, you can blame homework.

00:19:31.000 You know, they say it's stress in school.

00:19:33.000 Well, stress for schools is at an all time high.

00:19:35.000 You know, and certainly that's a part of it.

00:19:37.000 That's part of the neoliberal kind of crushing weight of the modern world.

00:19:41.000 But deep down, it is this existential, it is a hole in the center of our young people where they are furnished with everything that they could imagine materially.

00:19:52.000 They are furnished with everything they could imagine in terms of, you know, if they're hungry or thirsty or they want, you know, other things.

00:20:00.000 It's all right there for them and they're pretty comfortable and they're pretty okay.

00:20:03.000 But what's missing, what's empty is the why.

00:20:06.000 What's missing is the why are we here?

00:20:08.000 Why are we doing it?

00:20:10.000 Why are we trudging through the, the, Why are we trudging through the trenches, fighting this battle every day?

00:20:19.000 Why are we doing this?

00:20:20.000 Why do we have these stresses and things?

00:20:22.000 For what purpose?

00:20:23.000 To what end?

00:20:24.000 Is it just to do it another day?

00:20:26.000 Is it to be on this treadmill?

00:20:28.000 And I have, if you don't believe me, there are some sources here that I brought up, some really good quotes here from Dostoevsky, who wrote about this in Notes from the Underground.

00:20:39.000 This is a secondhand copy I got from Half Price Books.

00:20:43.000 So it's not looking too hot.

00:20:44.000 It's not like the. 1.00

00:20:45.000 It's not a volume like from a blue blood library. 0.69

00:20:48.000 I didn't pull this from the Richard Spencer collection where it's bound and everything.

00:20:52.000 But Dostoevsky wrote about this.

00:20:54.000 He talked about how, and this is more about what men do more broadly from a philosophical and abstract point of view, as an abstraction.

00:21:02.000 And he was writing about this over a hundred years ago.

00:21:07.000 He wrote, It is just his fantastic dreams, his abject foolishness that he wants to cling on to solely in order that he can convince himself.

00:21:17.000 As if it were absolutely necessary that people are still people and not piano keys on which the laws of nature themselves are playing with their own hands, but are threatening to go on playing to the point when they would no longer be able to want anything beyond the directory.

00:21:33.000 And besides, even in that case, even if he did turn out to be a piano key, if that were proven to him by even the natural sciences and mathematically, he would still not come to his senses and would deliberately do something to contradict it.

00:21:49.000 Simply out of ingratitude, just in order to assert himself.

00:21:52.000 And in a situation where he did not have the means to do it, he would invent chaos and destruction.

00:21:58.000 He would think up various forms of suffering, and my goodness, he'd assert himself.

00:22:04.000 And so, this is what Dostoevsky is describing essentially a world where the course is set, the trajectory is set, all that's left is the execution in the mind of modern man, the youth in particular.

00:22:15.000 All that's left is the execution of a plan that was laid out long ago by their parents or some other institution.

00:22:23.000 Essentially, that man has become a piano key where you will be played, where you go through high school and then you're thrown onto the assembly line in college and then thrown onto the assembly line as a consumer, as a taxpayer, and you root for the football team and you pay your taxes.

00:22:37.000 And every Christmas, you see what's under the tree.

00:22:40.000 But I mean, that's it.

00:22:41.000 It's playing the piano key, it's playing along to the melody.

00:22:44.000 And what our youth are doing is this contradiction, is contradicting it, asserting our will at any cost.

00:22:51.000 And if you can't, if you cannot assert your freedom, if you cannot.

00:22:55.000 Go against the grain.

00:22:56.000 If you're not allowed to, well, then you just tear it all down.

00:22:59.000 You unleash the destruction, the suffering, the chaos, just in order to prove to yourself that you are not on a set course, on this deterministic piano key course.

00:23:10.000 And this was written by Dostoevsky 150 years ago.

00:23:13.000 There's another great quote about this, not by Evola, but it's referenced by Evola in the book Ride the Tiger, another favorite of mine.

00:23:22.000 If you don't know who Evola is, you're not a real conservative.

00:23:26.000 You know, I mean, Allie Stuckey, I see her videos for Conservative Review.

00:23:31.000 I think she does videos for now.

00:23:33.000 She's launching her show soon.

00:23:34.000 And she talks about, oh, I'm a millennial conservative. 0.99

00:23:37.000 It's like, you know, you dopey dummy. 0.99

00:23:39.000 Why? 1.00

00:23:40.000 Because what?

00:23:41.000 Because you watched Fox News, right?

00:23:43.000 Because you read Tucker Collison's book.

00:23:45.000 Because you read Tucker Collison's actually good.

00:23:47.000 Because you read Eric Bolling's book.

00:23:49.000 You read Milton Friedman, Free to Choose.

00:23:51.000 You know, really?

00:23:52.000 You got to read Evela.

00:23:52.000 You got to read this esoteric stuff.

00:23:55.000 Evela said on this question a little bit more than half a century ago, and this is a quote by Andre Breton, who said When the young Andre Breton declared that the simplest surrealist act would be to go out into the street and shoot passerby at random, he was anticipating what happened.

00:24:14.000 More than once after World War II, when some of the younger generations passed from theory to practice.

00:24:21.000 By absurd and destructive actions, they sought to attain the only possible means of existence, after ejecting suicide as the radical solution for the metaphysically abandoned individual.

00:24:32.000 This one's a little bit more wordy.

00:24:34.000 This one's a little bit more jargony.

00:24:36.000 There's some $5 words in there.

00:24:38.000 But essentially, what he's saying is that with the death of God, that was, of course, announced in Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, In terms of the intellectuals who are observing this pattern, when we had achieved wealth, when we had achieved a satisfactory explanation for the world on empirical and material grounds, that we were floating on this rock, which is constituted of atoms, which are material, and there's an explanation for everything.

00:25:04.000 Your unconscious and irrational impulses are explained by neurology or psychiatry or so on and so forth.

00:25:10.000 What Evelyn is saying is that this was figured out a hundred years ago.

00:25:14.000 We figured out a hundred years ago that.

00:25:16.000 We're living in the post God period, the Newtonian God period, who set the world on a course as a clock and let it go.

00:25:24.000 And since we discovered relativity and all these other things, we are living on our own now.

00:25:29.000 And we are living in an absurd and surreal world where we're all here and we're doing these little projects, we're tinkering with these little things for currency to eat.

00:25:38.000 And for what?

00:25:39.000 For these absurd and surreal things that are absurd and surreal in the absence of an explanation, in the absence of God.

00:25:46.000 And so, what he said was that when theory moves into practice, The young are taking theory and turning it into practice after they've rejected suicide and said, you know, the logical conclusion of living in this world of suffering, which is absurd and surreal and has no meaning, that would be the rational conclusion.

00:26:04.000 Well, I'll just go out and let's do something surreal.

00:26:07.000 Let's do something crazy.

00:26:08.000 Let's assert our existence, in the words of Dostoevsky and Evola.

00:26:12.000 And so those are some two, I think, very powerful quotes that illustrate and also kind of chart the historical course of how we got here, how we got to this point. 0.82

00:26:21.000 Why are young people doing these things?

00:26:24.000 Why would this be such an issue?

00:26:26.000 And the shooting is only the most extreme example of it, but I would say rather that the same motivation, the same line of thinking or unthinking, if maybe you think it's unconscious or subconscious, that leads to opiate abuse, that leads to sexual hedonism or other forms of hedonism.

00:26:45.000 This is how you get the youth that we have dissociative, numb, disaffected, disillusioned.

00:26:52.000 That is how we produce these kinds of school shootings.

00:26:54.000 You know, when you look at this, we really have to look at it from that perspective this is a symptom.

00:27:01.000 What is the core issue?

00:27:02.000 How are we going to treat it?

00:27:04.000 The only way, the only way is with God.

00:27:08.000 It's the only way.

00:27:09.000 And this is not the pulpit, this is not sermonizing. 0.58

00:27:13.000 This is simply an autopsy for the American and Western male, for the male youth.

00:27:20.000 It is an autopsy, it is an analysis of the cause and effect of why these things happen. 0.56

00:27:25.000 And if you want to know the answer, It's religion.

00:27:28.000 It's God.

00:27:29.000 Maybe you don't believe in God.

00:27:30.000 Maybe you are not a Christian.

00:27:32.000 Maybe you're skeptical of Christianity.

00:27:34.000 But there is no other satisfying answer for our young people to go on in this world in the absence of that existential meaning.

00:27:44.000 I mean, that's all there is to it.

00:27:46.000 You can watch your Christopher Hitchens, you can watch your Richard Dawkins, and you can be very smug, but I mean, that is how you're going to treat it. 0.80

00:27:52.000 And unless and until we embrace a second religiosity in the country, as Spengler predicted, we will be on the road to ruin. 0.55

00:28:00.000 You'll see a lot more of this, a lot more opiate abuse, a lot more disgusting varieties of hedonism, a lot more. 0.78

00:28:07.000 School shootings and so on and so forth, that you will never get rid of it unless you address that question.

00:28:12.000 And beyond that, I mean, think of how this was allowed to occur.

00:28:16.000 Where were the parents?

00:28:18.000 Where were the parents on this?

00:28:20.000 You have a very troubled kid, obviously, in any one of these cases.

00:28:23.000 You have a very troubled child.

00:28:26.000 And where are the parents?

00:28:27.000 Where are the other family members?

00:28:29.000 Where's the community?

00:28:30.000 Where are the friends?

00:28:31.000 Where are the teachers?

00:28:33.000 You know, we look at it as the individual, and this is the genesis of this behavior.

00:28:37.000 But I think it only illustrates the point further that these things are entirely preventable.

00:28:41.000 50 years ago, maybe you didn't see this so much, and it wasn't for lack of young rebels without a cause with nothing better to do than to cause suffering, but it was because you had the society there.

00:28:53.000 You had the social infrastructure.

00:28:55.000 You had the gang of friends in school who'd say, Hey, Billy, what's going on with you?

00:28:59.000 You've been kind of weird lately.

00:29:00.000 Why aren't you showing up to play ball with us anymore?

00:29:03.000 You'd have the teachers saying, Hey, Billy, you didn't do your homework last night.

00:29:07.000 You haven't been doing your homework.

00:29:09.000 Why don't you stay after class?

00:29:10.000 What's going on, big guy?

00:29:11.000 Is there something going on at home?

00:29:13.000 In church on Sunday, Billy would have to go to confession and something would get out there.

00:29:18.000 You know, I'm having some bad thoughts, Father.

00:29:21.000 What's going on in my head?

00:29:23.000 The parents, where are the parents?

00:29:24.000 Billy, why are you playing with your food?

00:29:26.000 Why aren't you eating?

00:29:27.000 You haven't been eating all week.

00:29:29.000 What's going on with you?

00:29:31.000 You know, but where are all these people?

00:29:33.000 Where are the support mechanisms?

00:29:35.000 And as those things have died off, because God has died off, now the individual is left alone and to commit these things.

00:29:43.000 I mean, those two, I mean, every reason you can imagine how this was allowed to happen at the core of it is an absence of the community, is an absence of God.

00:29:52.000 It's an absence of this why for life, the zest for life.

00:29:56.000 You know, I mean, these days, these days, nobody's going to do that. 0.94

00:29:59.000 I mean, the kids are all sociopaths.

00:30:02.000 The teachers aren't, you know, going to strike up a personal connection because, you know, God forbid it gets too personal or, you know, anything like that, or God forbid it resembles community.

00:30:13.000 The parents have checked out.

00:30:15.000 The family, extended family, has checked out.

00:30:17.000 And that's where we are now.

00:30:19.000 Everybody's just in limbo.

00:30:20.000 Everybody's trying to put the pieces back together of why we're here, why we do what we do.

00:30:26.000 So that's the shooting.

00:30:27.000 A little bit of a dismal thing, but it shouldn't be dismal.

00:30:30.000 This is an opportunity.

00:30:31.000 This is an opportunity to reconnect with our roots, to reconnect not only with our historical roots, with the church and with God, but with God Himself.

00:30:41.000 This is the opportunity to reflect.

00:30:44.000 To repent, to be brought closer, and to investigate these questions ourselves, because Lord knows we're all kept awake at night by these things.

00:30:52.000 I really doubt all these secularists and atheists can really say to themselves that they are content, that they are satisfied.

00:31:00.000 Are they really satisfied?

00:31:02.000 You know, that's the only thing.

00:31:04.000 And this informs my political ideology.

00:31:06.000 This is why I'm a conservative.

00:31:08.000 This is the temporal world.

00:31:11.000 There is only one heaven, there is only one kingdom of God, and it's not here.

00:31:16.000 And so that is why anybody who is looking towards a political ideology, a political leader, a cult of personality, a self help book for the answers, anybody who's looking for political reform as the answer to why my life isn't so good, why they're suffering, it will always be insufficient.

00:31:34.000 This is why I'm not a progressive.

00:31:36.000 You will never get there.

00:31:37.000 Only in the next life do you get there.

00:31:39.000 And we can make things better.

00:31:41.000 We can make things functional.

00:31:42.000 We can make things more natural and more organic.

00:31:45.000 And we can certainly make things more just.

00:31:48.000 But the time for the heavenly, the time for the divine, it's not here.

00:31:52.000 It won't happen here.

00:31:54.000 And I think a lot of the folly that we see today is symptomatic of trying to get there.

00:31:58.000 So, very existential, very spiritual.

00:32:01.000 I like that.

00:32:02.000 I think this is one of those things.

00:32:03.000 This is the question this movement has to answer.

00:32:06.000 This is the make or break moment for this dissident right wing.

00:32:10.000 If they can answer this question, we win.

00:32:13.000 It doesn't matter how we win.

00:32:13.000 We win.

00:32:15.000 You know, you can talk about logistics and tactics and strategy, but if the right can satisfactorily answer this question, We will get there.

00:32:22.000 We will reach the promised land in terms of achieving political power and achieving the reforms that we want because this is the strongest message that can be put out in a barren, modern world that is absent of that kind of immaterial need that all people have.

00:32:42.000 That's the shooting.

00:32:42.000 So there it is.

00:32:43.000 The other thing, which is a little bit less, a lot less gravity on the next story, moving right along, we get into the Peter Sturzok scandal here.

00:32:52.000 And of course, this is a lot less intense.

00:32:54.000 This is a lot less.

00:32:56.000 You know, grandiose in terms of its scope and in terms of how personal it is for many people.

00:33:01.000 But we have another story here, which is a big development.

00:33:04.000 Peter Sturzok, if you recall, he was on Robert Mueller's special counsel team.

00:33:09.000 He had to be reassigned because it was discovered that he had been texting his girlfriend, Lisa Page, some very anti Trump things.

00:33:16.000 And of course, if he was on the special counsel with Robert Mueller investigating the 2016 election and Donald Trump, it is a conflict of interest that he's anti Trump himself, and there's documented evidence for it.

00:33:28.000 So he was reassigned, I believe, in December after the initial text came out.

00:33:33.000 And it just, excuse me, and it just came out today, this afternoon actually, that the FBI is missing 50,000 text messages between Peter Sturzok and Lisa Page from December 2016 until May 2017.

00:33:48.000 So five months of text messages that they don't have.

00:33:52.000 And they say it was because they were using Samsung phones and the Samsung phones didn't gel with the FBI.

00:34:00.000 Technology didn't record them properly or something, which I don't know.

00:34:04.000 I guess if you buy that.

00:34:05.000 But this is a major scandal.

00:34:07.000 And there was also an informant that came forward today and informed congressmen like Trey Gowdy that Sturzok and Page had actually been texting about a secret society in the intelligence community, which convened, or excuse me, the intelligence community, which convened off site away from government grounds to discuss business affairs, how they were going to go after Trump.

00:34:29.000 And so you look at these two developments, and of course, these.

00:34:32.000 Are in the wake of the Inspector General memo, which was presented to Congress on Monday, which has not been released to the public, but which many members of Congress say is pretty revealing about the Democrats, Clinton and Obama in particular.

00:34:46.000 And we have something that is being constructed here, a real case against the Democratic deep state.

00:34:51.000 Because now, after what we saw in December, and I talked about it all in December, and now we've seen today and in the first weeks of January, is a real paper trail.

00:35:02.000 Documented hard evidence of a conspiracy in the intelligence community and in the Democratic Party to take down Donald Trump, to target a political opponent.

00:35:12.000 And it all lies, really, it goes back to the FISA courts, the 702 FISA warrants that were issued by the intelligence community to, or more particularly by the FBI, to Fusion GPS to construct the Trump dossier.

00:35:29.000 And there's more about this in other episodes, but the long and short of it is here, because we're running out of time, we got to get to the super chats, is that this will be the major story of 2018.

00:35:39.000 I was vindicated on immigration, on DACA, and people are saying, Nick, you got to be more humble in victory. 0.99

00:35:45.000 You know, the kind of shit that I get. 0.99

00:35:47.000 When I'm making these predictions, justifies how pretentious I am when I win and how smug I am. 0.99

00:35:53.000 I'm smug for the fact that this cannot be.

00:36:00.000 All right, it looks like we're back here.

00:36:02.000 I don't know what that was.

00:36:03.000 It must have been the Mossad here.

00:36:08.000 I think we're back now.

00:36:09.000 Okay, so the stream has resumed.

00:36:12.000 It's the Mossad, fellas.

00:36:14.000 Once you start talking about Peter Sturzok and the Democrats, they shut you down, right?

00:36:18.000 They, uh, ouvay, shut it down.

00:36:20.000 But, um, Where was I at?

00:36:22.000 Yes, yes, yes, yes.

00:36:23.000 So, right now, what you have is a race between the special counsel to contest the legitimacy of the Trump government and this ad hoc convention of Republicans and investigators to go after them and ward off that, essentially, as the judicial praetorian guard, I suppose.

00:36:42.000 And we'll see what happens.

00:36:43.000 You can see it heating up on the special counsel side because they're trying to get Trump out, they're trying to institute a coup d'etat against the president before.

00:36:52.000 He can find all the corruption and everything.

00:36:54.000 So it'll be interesting to see how it plays out.

00:36:55.000 But I believe we're going to win.

00:36:57.000 So, all these Sessions haters, all these Jeff Sessions haters, and the Trump haters, you're going to be proven spectacularly wrong by late March and early May when the Inspector General report comes out because there is something there and it will be found out. 0.97

00:37:12.000 It will be made public and it will be devastating because not only will we drag these bastards through the mud and hopefully throw some of them in jail, but that'll win us the midterms, baby. 0.83

00:37:22.000 And when we have the midterms, when we get our 60 votes in the Senate, you know, we're at, I think, If you look at the general ballot from Real Clear Politics, we're at about 59 seats if he has a 45% approval rating, and I think that's doable. 0.94

00:37:38.000 If we get this Democrat thing going, we will be talking about a big sweep in 2018, which means, of course, Wall, DACA goes, Amnesty goes, or not Amnesty, but Diversity Visa Lottery, Chain Migration.

00:37:52.000 I mean, we get our wish list if we get a big sweep in 2018. 0.84

00:37:56.000 So it's all looking very optimistic here.

00:37:58.000 But that's the news of the day so far.

00:38:02.000 And let's see our super chats.

00:38:04.000 Wow, it's so funny to me.

00:38:06.000 We were doing so well.

00:38:08.000 Our viewership was so well on the show.

00:38:10.000 It was rising to the highest, to a big zenith here.

00:38:14.000 And then you'd start talking about Peter Sturzok, and boom, gone.

00:38:19.000 You've got to wonder who doesn't want you to hear the show?

00:38:22.000 Who is it?

00:38:24.000 So we'll check out our super chats now, now that we've reached the 45 minute mark, and we'll see what our loyal and cherished fans are saying here on the show tonight.

00:38:36.000 We have Simon Skola who says, Have you ever read any Cormac McCarthy?

00:38:40.000 I have not.

00:38:42.000 I have not.

00:38:43.000 William G with $100 Canadian dollars.

00:38:47.000 Thank you, my dude.

00:38:49.000 And he says, Comp'd.

00:38:50.000 Well, thank you for comping the show.

00:38:53.000 100% Comp'd.

00:38:54.000 I like things Comp'd.

00:38:55.000 You know, I don't work at Taco Bell.

00:38:57.000 Listen, I want sushi.

00:38:59.000 I fly to Japan the next day and I get a Comp'd.

00:39:02.000 That has to be, without a doubt, the best meme of 2017.

00:39:05.000 It was unfortunate that it cost 56 lives to achieve it, but.

00:39:09.000 It was a very good meme, the Stephen Paddock brother meme.

00:39:12.000 It's funny, he was the only one who wasn't a consumer of child pornography.

00:39:17.000 Stephen Paddock and the other brother were both caught with child porn.

00:39:21.000 I mean, whatever the hell that means.

00:39:23.000 But that brother, the good one, the White Knight there, no child porn for him, just comp sushi.

00:39:29.000 But thank you, my dude.

00:39:30.000 Much appreciated for supporting the show. 0.98

00:39:34.000 Ian Weber says I'm declaring that the Big Gulp Mug is not.

00:39:39.000 An America First Media mug.

00:39:40.000 It is the America First mug.

00:39:43.000 It's okay to still use it, fellas.

00:39:44.000 Don't worry.

00:39:45.000 Yeah, we're going to have to start selling these myself, I think, and we'll get these made in America.

00:39:51.000 You know, because they didn't trademark the logo, they didn't do a copyright on this.

00:39:55.000 So maybe I'll start selling these mugs, and I'll start selling them for a little bit more money so we can get them made in America.

00:40:01.000 You know, I didn't want to say this when we were doing the show under America First Media because I didn't want to be divisive and starting drama.

00:40:08.000 But James did handle the distribution on these, and he got them from China, which is.

00:40:14.000 Something I had to explain away.

00:40:16.000 But, you know, the Chad Tallboy mug here, this is an America First mug, not America First Media.

00:40:23.000 And that's, of course, because America First was my brand since February 6th.

00:40:27.000 And I'm thinking about putting together a very good highlight reel of the America First show for our one year anniversary.

00:40:35.000 I believe February 6th is our one year anniversary of doing the show when it started on Right Side Broadcasting Network at 11 o'clock Eastern Time.

00:40:46.000 In the single dorm of my buddy in the Warren Towers of Boston U.

00:40:53.000 So we'll have to do a one year highlight reel.

00:40:55.000 I'm going to put together all kinds of clips and things, and it'll be very fun.

00:40:58.000 It'll be very fun.

00:41:00.000 Jay Dyer mentioned our upcoming debate.

00:41:02.000 Yes, well, Jay Dyer and I will be debating.

00:41:06.000 I don't know what we'll be debating.

00:41:08.000 It's ambiguously Orthodox versus Catholicism, and we don't have a date for it.

00:41:13.000 So I don't know why you're so hasty about announcing it, my guy, but we don't have a date, we don't have a topic.

00:41:19.000 But Jay and I have been emailing back and forth about possibly debating in the last week of January about Orthodox and Catholicism.

00:41:27.000 And I look forward to it.

00:41:29.000 Catholicism in particular and theology is his specialty.

00:41:34.000 So I'm a little bit out of my comfort zone. 0.89

00:41:36.000 I'm stepping out a little bit, and I'm going to take him on.

00:41:39.000 My expectations aren't high, but I think I'll do a good job defending the one true, holy, and apostolic church.

00:41:47.000 But yeah, so I was waiting for a date and a topic to announce it, Jay, but I guess we could talk about it now.

00:41:53.000 Ian Weber, now that the company is dissolved and ties are cut, are you able to admit that traps are gay or do they have your family?

00:42:01.000 Do they have you on drugs? 0.99

00:42:03.000 I always maintained the traps are gay. 0.99

00:42:06.000 I simply said the traps may be less gay than modern women. 1.00

00:42:10.000 You look at modern women and the way they swear, the way they dress, the way they put themselves out there, the way they drink, the way they do drugs, and how offensive and coarse they are. 0.99

00:42:22.000 And I would say that in the modern day, You could make the argument. 0.99

00:42:26.000 I would never make this argument, but it could be made that traps are less gay than certain degenerate modern women. 0.95

00:42:34.000 That is the only qualifier I would say. 0.94

00:42:36.000 When I say traps are gay, I would simply say it could be contested that the modern woman is more of a man than a trap. 0.93

00:42:43.000 That's all. 1.00

00:42:44.000 They're inferior men, you know?

00:42:47.000 Duckhead says press F for R.C. Maxwell.

00:42:50.000 Did he get suspended?

00:42:52.000 He was a big fan of the show.

00:42:54.000 Admittedly, we got off to a rocky start, me and R.C.

00:42:57.000 He challenged me to a debate before the Will Chamberlain thing.

00:43:01.000 Kind of went away after he saw how that went for old Will, who has really let himself go.

00:43:06.000 But then he turned out to watch the show, and so appreciative of that.

00:43:12.000 But that's unfortunate if he got banned.

00:43:14.000 I'm sorry to hear that.

00:43:15.000 Our buddy RC, Ian Weber.

00:43:18.000 By the way, the stream cut off for a second.

00:43:21.000 That's probably why the viewer number dropped.

00:43:22.000 Yeah, I know.

00:43:23.000 I'm saying we were climbing and climbing.

00:43:25.000 We were doing very well.

00:43:26.000 And then they shut us down, and we got killed.

00:43:28.000 You got to wonder why that is.

00:43:30.000 You got to ask yourself why that is.

00:43:33.000 But it looks like those are all of our super chats, which means we could probably jump into the live chat for 10 minutes or so.

00:43:41.000 I can only imagine it's because we have so many contributors now on the maker support.

00:43:45.000 That's probably why we're seeing a dip in the super chats.

00:43:49.000 We'll have to address that.

00:43:50.000 Maybe we'll let maker support contributors do the super chats.

00:43:54.000 Maybe if they send the questions in the meantime, like before the show, we'll look into implementing that for next week.

00:44:01.000 John Shepard Smith, can you say hi to Holly for me from John?

00:44:05.000 Thanks, buddy.

00:44:06.000 Well, hello to Holly from John.

00:44:09.000 That's probably the most romantic way.

00:44:14.000 To say hello to somebody is through the America First program.

00:44:18.000 Aiden, and I'm sorry if that's not the case.

00:44:21.000 Aiden, do atheists go to heaven if they live a mostly virtuous life, or is faith a necessary prerequisite?

00:44:28.000 Faith is a necessary prerequisite, and that's why we're trying to save as many souls as possible.

00:44:36.000 But you know, I mean, in the end, God makes the final judgment.

00:44:39.000 We know things that can contribute, of course, to having your soul saved, but I believe it is with faith.

00:44:45.000 Not with faith alone, not sola fide, but you do have to have faith in God and in Jesus Christ.

00:44:51.000 So it is unfortunate.

00:44:52.000 Jay Dyer, I sent an email earlier for topic and debate.

00:44:56.000 Well, again, we have yet to confirm that, but I will check your email.

00:45:00.000 N, how do you feel about Catharism?

00:45:03.000 I don't know what Catharism is.

00:45:05.000 Let me do a quick Google search just for the hell of it.

00:45:08.000 Let me do a quick Google search just to see what that's all about.

00:45:14.000 Dualist Gnostic Revival Movement.

00:45:17.000 Interesting, interesting story. 0.92

00:45:19.000 I would say that if it's not Catholic, I'm not wild about it.

00:45:23.000 And it looks like they were persecuted by the Catholic Church.

00:45:26.000 So, I mean, there you have it.

00:45:27.000 I am a strong Catholic.

00:45:29.000 I believe in the one holy and apostolic Church.

00:45:35.000 And let's see, let's get back into our live chat here.

00:45:40.000 Speaking of traps, have you seen The Crying Game?

00:45:44.000 Says Simon Skola.

00:45:45.000 I have not.

00:45:46.000 What is The Crying Game about?

00:45:48.000 Is that a movie about traps?

00:45:49.000 Is that an anime?

00:45:51.000 Not totally sure. 1.00

00:45:53.000 Sympathy for agnostics. 1.00

00:45:55.000 No, no sympathy for agnostics. 0.99

00:45:59.000 Sympathy for Protestants, maybe. 0.96

00:46:01.000 Certainly sympathy for Orthodox in the case of Jay. 0.97

00:46:04.000 But no sympathy for agnostics. 1.00

00:46:06.000 No sympathy for the non Christians. 1.00

00:46:11.000 Before his time, possibly. 1.00

00:46:14.000 What do you think of Trump's infrastructure plan?

00:46:16.000 I'm a big fan of it.

00:46:17.000 I'm a big proponent of infrastructure spending.

00:46:21.000 Big fan of it.

00:46:22.000 I think that to be spending our money here.

00:46:25.000 As opposed to overseas in Afghanistan or in Iraq or in the CENTCOM or any of these other departments of the Department of Defense, I think it's a worthy cause.

00:46:36.000 And not only do you have, I'm not a Keynesian, not totally, but this kind of improving our infrastructure, this is one of the tasks of the federal government.

00:46:44.000 This is one of the roles of the federal government in the sense that if you look at China or Japan and how they invest in the infrastructure there, particularly in transportation and telecommunications, this is something that can enhance commerce.

00:46:57.000 So, I wouldn't say that I endorse infrastructure solely for an economic injection because I'm not a Keynesian.

00:47:03.000 But I would say that when you have better infrastructure, when you have better trains and better roads and bridges and better communications technology and things like this, it does lend itself to a more productive economy in terms of capital in the country.

00:47:19.000 Jay said, and it looks like Jay is trying to debate me in the live chat of my show a week before the debate.

00:47:24.000 It's a very interesting tactic.

00:47:26.000 Maybe it'll.

00:47:27.000 Maybe this will play for him.

00:47:29.000 He says, Nick, the Orthodox Church has 220 million and is universal.

00:47:33.000 Well, the Catholic Church has over a billion and goes back 2,000 years.

00:47:38.000 So, I mean, the Catholic Church was the center until the schism in the 11th century.

00:47:45.000 So, you know, again, if you're trying to argue about size or longevity, the Catholic Church has been around for 2,000 years.

00:47:52.000 People recognized the supremacy of the Bishop of Rome since the Time of Jesus Christ. 0.58

00:47:59.000 So if you're trying to argue, oh, well, and I would say that Orthodox is the closest. 0.74

00:48:03.000 It certainly is.

00:48:04.000 And in terms of structure, in terms of apostolic succession, it's the closest.

00:48:09.000 But Jesus Christ told Peter, I pray for you and for your faith.

00:48:14.000 He confirmed that Peter was the head of the church on three separate occasions to match the three doubts.

00:48:21.000 And the bishop of Constantinople does not have this, much less does he have Constantinople itself.

00:48:28.000 Gary Baker.

00:48:30.000 Says, and whoops, I lost it there for a sec. 1.00

00:48:33.000 Gary Baker, why is Cassie Dillon such a prostitute for the Jews? 1.00

00:48:37.000 I don't know. 1.00

00:48:38.000 I really, I couldn't tell you.

00:48:40.000 It is a very confusing phenomenon to me.

00:48:42.000 I think it's because I couldn't tell you.

00:48:44.000 I don't know enough about her, really.

00:48:47.000 I guess she got swept up in it.

00:48:48.000 I guess she got swept up.

00:48:50.000 Ben Shapiro gives her a platform, he makes her feel important.

00:48:53.000 This is somebody who is extremely incompetent as a broadcaster, as a writer. 0.90

00:48:59.000 This is somebody who just is simply not intelligent. 0.97

00:49:02.000 This is somebody who is simply not.

00:49:04.000 Politically savvy.

00:49:05.000 I'm talking about Cassie Dillon. 0.98

00:49:07.000 Somebody who works very hard, no doubt, puts a lot of work and effort into what she does. 0.97

00:49:12.000 I believe that's what I'm led to believe by her very frazzled and frantic appearance all the time.

00:49:18.000 But this is simply not an intelligent or competent or savvy person. 0.76

00:49:22.000 And I imagine Ben Shapiro gives her a little bit of credit, gives her a little bit of attention, and her heart swells, and it leads to these passions which blind her politically, which tends to happen with women. 0.83

00:49:33.000 So if I could speculate, I would say that's what it is.

00:49:37.000 Will Stephen Miller go to heaven?

00:49:38.000 Clearly, our Jew. 0.92

00:49:40.000 Is he ethnically Jewish or is he religious?

00:49:42.000 I'm not sure if he's just ethnically or if he practices Judaism himself.

00:49:46.000 I'm not sure what his religious beliefs are.

00:49:49.000 So I couldn't tell you.

00:49:52.000 Michael Keiss, what is your opinion on Pastor Stephen Anderson?

00:49:56.000 I'm a big fan.

00:49:58.000 Very smart guy, very tough, very courageous. 0.97

00:50:02.000 That said, isn't he like a Baptist or something? 0.83

00:50:04.000 So I don't agree with him theologically, but I think he's a tough and a smart guy.

00:50:09.000 I respect him a lot.

00:50:12.000 And let's see.

00:50:13.000 Let's see, we'll take a couple more and then we'll call in an evening here.

00:50:19.000 Any more comments from our buddy Jay, who says, If Jesus prayed for Peter himself, then Vatican II showed that prayer was ineffectual.

00:50:27.000 You'll have to elaborate on that.

00:50:28.000 You'll have to elaborate on that, my friend.

00:50:31.000 And again, the strategy, Jay, of trying to debate me in the live chat of my show a week out from the debate, this is not indicative of a serious person.

00:50:42.000 So, you know, when I went on, Jay, when I went on your channel and I saw the conspiracy theories about, like, you know, all kinds of wacky Illuminati stuff, and when I watched your content and it was dry as a bone, I said, you know, I'll give this guy a chance, I guess, because people seem to respect his.

00:51:03.000 Being well read and his education and everything, and certainly I did initially.

00:51:07.000 But this is just not, this is simply not good praxis.

00:51:10.000 This is simply not indicative of a serious person.

00:51:13.000 But, you know, maybe I'll give you a chance anyway.

00:51:17.000 And let's see.

00:51:18.000 Another super chat here.

00:51:20.000 What do we got?

00:51:22.000 What do we have?

00:51:23.000 Ian Weber, do you think capitalism is savable and we would be able to restore it to its state where it worked like in the 50s?

00:51:29.000 Or will we need to adopt a more left wing economic system that has worked?

00:51:36.000 I think, excuse me, that you have to define what capitalism is.

00:51:40.000 Are you talking about free trade?

00:51:41.000 Are you talking about the use of markets?

00:51:45.000 Are you talking about the lowering of trade barriers or of economic restrictions?

00:51:50.000 Excuse me, it's tough to say.

00:51:52.000 You could say that Denmark is capitalist.

00:51:56.000 They are a social democracy, and certainly they have socialist elements, but they still do have markets.

00:52:04.000 They have great ease of doing business, they have low regulations, low taxes.

00:52:09.000 A climate that lends itself to competitive markets for private goods.

00:52:14.000 But even China, you could say, is capitalist in some sense.

00:52:17.000 They are state capitalist as opposed to maybe a more market socialist oriented approach.

00:52:23.000 So I would say that capitalism in terms of markets is salvageable and should be salvaged.

00:52:28.000 But the question then becomes what about trade?

00:52:31.000 The question becomes what about some of these other sectors, the social services?

00:52:35.000 The question is also complicated by things like automation, artificial intelligence, which will.

00:52:40.000 Eliminate a lot of the jobs in the country.

00:52:42.000 What happens when scarcity is diminished as a force for people economizing or as a force for a society economizing on its resources?

00:52:51.000 I mean, these all become pertinent questions.

00:52:53.000 I would say that capitalism should be maintained, but it should not be ideological capitalism in the sense of neoliberalism.

00:53:02.000 Neoliberalism is an ideological conviction that the market system, competition, creative destruction should be applied to all facets of society.

00:53:13.000 Which is kind of a perversion of the neoclassical price system, neoclassical price system, which is built on the normative assumption that man is an economic animal, that he is always economizing, he is always sizing up the market and looking to save as much and get the most utility, which I think is a normative assumption and not empirically a good description of how man behaves.

00:53:39.000 And this is very technical language, but that's why I think that capitalism as an ideology, neoliberalism, the ideology should be dropped.

00:53:47.000 The commitment to it is.

00:53:48.000 As anything more than an economic system to orient goods and services must be retired in exchange for something like distributism, aiming for getting people in a position where they have wealth.

00:54:01.000 Jay Dyer, Nick, I thought you would appreciate the money.

00:54:04.000 I meant no offense.

00:54:05.000 I was actually arguing.

00:54:06.000 Okay, okay.

00:54:07.000 You were arguing with people in the comments section.

00:54:08.000 As for Illuminati, Leo XIII has a whole encyclical on this topic.

00:54:13.000 Well, fair enough.

00:54:14.000 Fair enough.

00:54:15.000 I'm sorry I misjudged.

00:54:16.000 Maybe I was a little quick to judge.

00:54:20.000 Some of the protestations in the comments section.

00:54:22.000 Fair enough.

00:54:23.000 If you were arguing with the fans, if you were trying to support the show, then fair enough.

00:54:28.000 Then we'll have our debate next week.

00:54:30.000 I'll get back to you on the email then.

00:54:32.000 Ian Weber, I mean, we will have to change our version of capitalism to become more left wing, or can we keep our right wing version, such as the one in the 50s?

00:54:40.000 Was the one in the 1950s so right wing?

00:54:43.000 What happened in the 1950s?

00:54:44.000 You had a top marginal tax rate of more than 90%.

00:54:48.000 The income tax was in its infancy, it was only 30 years old in the 1950s, a little bit older than 30 years.

00:54:54.000 And although the effective tax rate, top marginal tax rate, was only around 35 to 40%, the top marginal tax rate In terms of the tax code, it was 90%.

00:55:03.000 You also had massive infrastructure spending.

00:55:06.000 You had a massive war in Korea.

00:55:09.000 Capitalism worked insofar as you had all kinds of able bodied men coming back into the workforce, whereas they were at war before.

00:55:18.000 So the question becomes was that a right wing form of capitalism?

00:55:22.000 What is right wing in that sense?

00:55:23.000 I mean, I think by today's standards, the infrastructure spending, the high tax rates, the war would certainly be a left wing Keynesian bent on capitalism.

00:55:33.000 So, I would say that that would probably be more left wing.

00:55:36.000 The right wing version of it would be more similar to the 1980s, Ronald Reagan, which was the predecessor, of course, to NAFTA and the free trade agreements, which was, of course, cutting taxes, deregulating the stock market going crazy, the Federal Reserve instituting a pretty tight monetary policy.

00:55:56.000 I think the way to go forward, the way that will give us economic prosperity, is the right wing version.

00:56:03.000 And certainly you can have some infrastructure spending and you can have.

00:56:07.000 Maybe higher tax rates on the wealthy, maybe.

00:56:10.000 I don't know how effective that would be, but I think that the way forward would be to constrain, I think monetary policy is a big part of it, to constrain how much money we're printing, to constrain how much money we're spending, to keep regulations low, to keep taxes low, and make America competitive economically.

00:56:26.000 You missed William G.'s super chat.

00:56:28.000 Let me go back, and then that will be my last one, and then we're calling it an evening.

00:56:31.000 But very good questions this evening.

00:56:33.000 Very good questions, very good back and forth.

00:56:36.000 William G. I'm not seeing it, but let me go all the way back.

00:56:41.000 I didn't miss William G who said compt.

00:56:44.000 Did he put up a new super chat?

00:56:46.000 Because I'm not seeing it here.

00:56:47.000 I'll have to go in.

00:56:49.000 Let me see.

00:56:51.000 I thought I caught that one at the beginning, but let me go over to this tab here.

00:56:55.000 It'll show me if I missed one or not.

00:57:04.000 Yeah, no, it looks like I got William G. Super Chat.

00:57:08.000 Yeah, I'm not seeing any other one.

00:57:09.000 I'm sorry if I missed it.

00:57:10.000 If you could just tell me what it was, I'll try and peep it there.

00:57:16.000 But it looks like that is all we got here for tonight, folks.

00:57:23.000 I think we are calling it an evening.

00:57:25.000 We're past 8 o'clock here.

00:57:27.000 So we'll call it a night.

00:57:27.000 Remember, on Friday, this Friday is not a call-in show, but the next Friday will be.

00:57:32.000 So Friday will be in the live chat as we are tonight.

00:57:35.000 Taking your questions, getting into it with the unwashed masses. 0.99

00:57:38.000 Be on the lookout for my debate with Jay Dyer, Orthodox versus Catholicism, in some capacity, which should be very interesting. 0.61

00:57:46.000 And meant no offense, I suppose, by my earlier comments.

00:57:49.000 Maybe it was a little quick to bite there.

00:57:52.000 I guess I have to be this week because of everything that's gone on.

00:57:57.000 A little bit jacked up on the tee.

00:58:00.000 But that's going to be it for us tonight.

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Why School Shootings Happen | America First Ep. 92

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